Irony illustrated. The recession is taking a toll on union jobs, which are disappearing in California at a faster rate than anywhere else in the country, according to a UCLA study published Monday. In the 12 months ending in June, the union membership rate dropped from 18.3% to 17.6% in California and from 12.4% to [...]

It is almost fitting that the state which is home to the entertainment industry be governed by people who seem to be content with creating illusion rather than dealing with reality. California is on the verge of a monumental financial collapse and Sacramento is filled with blissfully unaware legislators whose only coherent response seems to [...]

Primary season isn’t over yet. In fact, one of our smaller states has a huge GOP throw-down looming on Sept. 14th. Delaware Republicans will go to the polls to see who gets to take a very real shot at filling the seat left open when Joe Biden went off to One Heartbeat Away Land. Christine [...]

via AoSHQ and The Right Scoop SO not the kind of chanting children the Obama faithful enjoy listening to. And that’s what makes it so delicious. Color me delightfully jingoistic.

Congressman Trent Franks’ statement endorsing Pamela Gorman in tomorrow’s Arizona primary: “I have known Pamela Gorman and her family for years and have long admired her work in the Arizona Legislature. Pamela is the type of leader that understands that we don’t only need to fight the liberal Democrats in Congress, but we need to [...]

Welcome to the “put up or shut up” phase of the 2010 election year. For years, we conservatives have experienced a steady dose of buyer’s remorse with seemingly every Republican elected to represent us. Frustration and anger with the Obama/Pelosi/Reid three-headed bureaucratic monster but the seeds of crankiness were sown by a Republican Congress that [...]

A semi-serious recap of Right Online 2010, exploring its value for keeping online activism strong by giving us all some quality face time.

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“Really, it’s not him, it’s you.” Journolist may be gone but the brain-dead mantra generating machine continues its uncritical support of The Lightbringer. Not only do six out of 10 voters “lack faith in the president to make the right decisions for the country,” according to a Post-ABC News poll, but Barack Obama does not [...]

Image is everything Since his impossible schedule prohibits Vice President Joe Biden from making it around to every stimulus spending project across the country, the government has come up with the idea of posting project signs to show your $787 billion of hard-earned future tax money at work. Even if you no longer are at [...]

Last Friday I had the good fortune to interview Pamela Gorman, a congressional candidate from my native Arizona, for PJTV. Gorman is running with nine other Republicans in AZ-03, vying to replace Rep. John Shadegg, who is retiring after serving in Congress since 1994. Gorman has a solid record of fighting tax increases and wasteful [...]