New Blog Online

My new blog, Young Insider is now online. Please update your bookmarks. This site will continue to recieve postings for the time being as most blogrolls point here; however, most of the time I will merely post an except and link to the new blog for the full story.

Post-Partisan Perata?

So much for post-partisanship as far as Don Perata is concerned. He can't even listen to dissenting opinions in his own party without retaliation.

So is this how he expects to convince voters to approve term limits "reform" to give him another term?

Union Goes Weekly

As reported by CBS 13 The Sacramento Union will be changing its circlulation to weekly beginning next month. This will allow the paper, to which I am a proud contributor, to provide more news, features, and conservative opinion to the Sacramento region.

My role in the new venture is not certain at this point, however I am looking forward to being a part of the Union's continued expansion and development.

In Defense of Robbie Waters

Full Disclosure: Councilman Waters appointed me to my post on the Sacramento Youth Commission.

City Council member Robbie Waters (pictured here with District Director Pat Clark, another youth commissioner, and myself) has been accused in recent days of illegally spending campaign funds to embellish his business, Pocket Custom Framing. Waters claims he is running a district office inside the store.

Read more

Republican Convention Review

I have spent the bulk of the past two days at the California Republican Party Convention here in Sacramento. While I’ll save most of my observations for a commentary in the Union, here are a few observations:

1. Governor Schwarzenegger was met with a tepid response from the delegates. While he did get a few periods of loud applause, especially when talking about transferring prisoners to out of state without their consent (did the victims consent to having a crime committed against them?), there were long sections of the speech when talking about the recent infrastructure bonds and the health care plan where the only sound that could be heard was the clanking of forks and knives. This clearly was not a “post partisan” crowd; one of the biggest applauses came when the Governor mentioned that as a result of a recent special election, Republicans now control every seat on the Orange Country Board of Supervisors.

Read more observations.

Bee Double Standard on Parade

The hypocrisy of the Bee shines through again in this editorial about Joe Biden’s recent gaffe:

In response to a question from a reporter, Biden called the Illinois Democrat and fellow presidential candidate "the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."

Although Biden's remarks show his unfortunate tendency to open his mouth without engaging his brain, they surely were not intended to offend. But, this being presidential politics and the subject being race, of course they did.

Read more Bee hypocrisy here

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