Dreams of Home Unfulfilled (5/31/10, Front Page)
Josh Richman, CCTimes
Great story by Josh about Marine Corporal Claiborne Lavelle Shaw and his sacrifice for all of us.
Perfect for Memorial Day.
California #51 worst state to conduct business (5/24/10, not in CCTimes)
Chief Executive magazine asked 650 CEOs to rank all states (and DC) based on taxation and regulation, quality of workforce and living environment.
The Democratic Party should be proud. We’re not only last, we’re dead last behind DC, which has no businesses outside of lobbyists.
Did the Contra Costa Times mention this? Nope, they’re too busy pushing [...]
AZ Gov goes on the attack (5/23/10, not in CCTimes)
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer uses a sock puppet to slam those who stupidly comment on AZ SB1070 without reading it. Sure wish our governor had her balls.
OTMs crossing into US through Arizona (5/22/10, not in CCTimes)
OTM: Other Than Mexican
Sadly, you won’t see this story in the Contra Costa Times. Note: These crossing occurred during the Bush Administration as well as Obama’s, so it’s not a party issue.
Obama gambles with your money and loses $2.1 billion (5/20/10, not in CCTimes)
The Treasury Dept. announced that Chrysler has paid back only $1.9 billion of the $4 billion Obama and his henchmen “loaned” Chrysler back in 2009. The Treasure also noted that they did not anticipate recovering any more of that $4 billion. Taxpayers are expected to lose as much as $34 billion on the loans to [...]
Bill would ban drilling along coast (5/14/10, Front Page)
Mike Zapler, San Jose Mercury News
Alternate Title: Bill would drive up cost of fuel for average family
Of course, when your editors are liberal there is no concern for struggling working families, only for delivering the party line. What’s ironic is how now newspaper families are starting to struggle.
We at CCTimesWatch will push for lower fuel [...]
Study: Global warming harms lizards (5/13/10, page A10)
Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News
A UC Santa Cruz ecologist ASSUMES global warming is occurring, so he decides to investigate what will happen to lizards when the temperature rises and VOILA, it harms the lizards!
The ecologists even says, “I don’t want to tell my child that we once had a chance to save these lizard, be [...]