In our class warfare world no one’s going to shed a tear for a wealthy white golfer like three-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson.
But government isn’t going to deny him his right to live where he wants, either … (at least not yet).
A resident of Rancho Santa Fe, California, Mickelson says major increases in state and federal [...]
Lefty Moving East?
America’s “Failed States”
CALIFORNIA, ILLINOIS BRING GREEK-STYLE FISCAL TRAGEDY TO AMERICA
By Howard Rich || The Eurozone isn’t the only economy reeling from “failed states.” The United States has several of its own – most notably California and Illinois.
According to the CIA’s world factbook, California’s economy is the ninth largest in the world with a gross state product of [...]
Cali’s Prop 8 Drama
A federal appeals court has overturned a U.S. district court ruling that would have temporarily lifted California’s gay marriage ban – just forty-eight hours before wedding licenses for same-sex couples were set to be issued.
With the clock ticking, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday that gay marriages cannot be performed in California [...]
FITS Evening Post: Cali, Etc.
At the end of each day, we invariably wind up with about five or six different Internet windows open – and literally thirty or forty individual web pages starting back at us on our computer. Contained within those screens are dozens of different stories that caught our eye during the day, but for whatever reason [...]
The Begging Governator
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger traveled to Washington D.C. today begging for additional federal bailout money after California voters roundly rejected several “revenue enhancing” measures designed to bridge the state’s $21 billion budget gap.
California, which as we’ve noted in the past is the world’s eighth-largest economy, is not unlike the world’s second largest economy (America) in that [...]
California Is Totally F’d
California’s current budget gap and projected deficit for next year totals a whopping $42 billion – or more that seven times the current size of South Carolina’s entire state budget.
“We are heading toward a financial Armageddon,” said Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. “It’s not a tumor.”
Alright, the last half of that quote was from Kindergarten Cop. Sorry [...]
Runaway Production
California lawmakers pulled the plug on an incentive package designed to keep Hollywood movie-makers from leaving the state to film their flics, setting up a potential showdown with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Schwarzenegger wanted to provide tax incentives to stop what’s called “runaway production,” but the bill was defeated after one Democratic opponent referred to the measure [...]
