Sunday, October 7th, sitting in for Cyrill Vatomsky's Embassy of the New World Order, on KSCO AM 1080.

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Wednesday, September 26, 2007:

Local Latino Union Hack/Santa Cruz City Councilman is a parody of political correctness and racial identity politics

I'm bemused with Tony Madrigal's adeptness at garnering front page news coverage three times in one year. The past two times have been this month, concerning his racial profiling remarks, and earlier this year, for his lewd comments about women, while on a "ride-a-long" with police...

Tony's allegations of racial profiling in this case fly in the face of some very simple facts: In 2005, there were 7 stabbings "downtown"--which consists of basically two blocks, on Holloween night, a night Mayor Reilly declares to be "a national holiday for Santa Cruz"--scary but true.

Last year, with beefed up security which Madrigal voted against, this year, on account of alleged racial profiling, there were 2 stabbings.

Here are three local front page news stories about Tony from April to September:

Madrigal takes more heat for racial profiling remarks
By SHANNA MCCORD
Sentinel staff writer
September 26, 2007
SANTA CRUZ — The fallout from Councilman Tony Madrigal's remarks about police racial profiling rose to a new level Tuesday when his council colleagues and police officers hit him with a barrage of criticism during a council meeting.
Santa Cruz City Councilman Tony Madrigal said he's been 'vilified' for his racial profiling comments. (Dan Coyro/Sentinel)
"I am so disturbed that comments would be made like that with no evidence attached," Mayor Emily Reilly said to the two dozen officers in attendance. "As your mayor, I want you to know I disassociate myself from those comments"

Read the story

Santa Cruz police demand public apology

from Councilman Madrigal
By Shanna McCord
Sentinel staff writer
September 13, 2007
SANTA CRUZ — City police officers are angry over allegations by Councilman Tony Madrigal that they used skin color as a basis for questioning Latinos last Halloween, and they're demanding a public apology from the councilman.
Read the story

Santa Cruz councilman under fire

for lewd comments about women
By Shanna McCord
Sentinel staff writer
MAY 10, 2007
Read Tony Madrigal's apology and the full report on the violations in PDF Format here.
SANTA CRUZ — City Councilman Tony Madrigal has been found in violation of Santa Cruz's sexual harassment policy, after reportedly making lewd comments about women that included "look at her fat ass, that's great."

Read the story

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Friday, Sept 21, 2007:

It seems clear that the Liberal Left defends freedom of speech ONLY if you're throwing your aspersions at the Right.

Their old 60's mantra of "Question Authority" does not apply to them... Try to question them, and you'll get zapped just like Andrew Meyer.

Check out Paul Criaig Roberts' post of some video clips and commentary about Andrew Meyer, the 21 year old journalism student who got tasered for annoying Senator Kerry during a speech at University of Florida. Kerry, I see, not only posed as a valiant and decorated Vietnam Vet when it suited him, but he apparently is also a poser, as a defender of civil rights. As a student activist, he used our protected freedom of speech to protest the Vietnam War. But for Meyer, he stood by and let this student activist get tasered and then removed. Watch the videos here.

We don't zap and arrest Code Pink gals who somehow sneak into congressional hearings without a pass, and who offend with their courseness and distasteful apprearances.

I'm appauled by anyone on the Left or Right who defends the use of force in this case, with the argument that students shouldn't be disrespectful or disruptive. It's a tyrannical government concept that the ends justify the means. They do not!

And don't buy the spin that Meyer is a class clown, a prankster, a joker, and that he planned this event for personal attention, to justify and trivialize this shocking display of police abuse of power. Apologists rationalize that Meyer had his friends film him. A lot of people use U-Tube to post their protests. And? So he wanted to show Kerry up for not being Left enough! So? And as for being a jokester, so he's got a sense of humor and a bent for entertaining his co-horts and fellow students, regardless, freedom of speech is a basic and fundamental civil right --no matter who you are...whether your party icon is a jackass or an elephant...

I've seen countless examples of students protesting Right leaning or Libertarian speakers, where the speaker is labeled as an extremist right winger, where the speaker is shouted down into silence... But the day it becomes acceptable for people on the Right to defend police abuse of power because they get a sense of retribution against the Left, whoa there sisters and brothers, we've lost our way...We can do better...

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Friday, June 22, 2007:

It's the 2nd year anniversary of the Supreme Court's KELO decision which affirmed that it's ok for our government to steal property from its citizens and give it to rich developers if the government says its for the public's good..

National City's eminent domain authority is due to expire July 18/19, 2007. On the table is a plan to extend that authorization for another 12 years. A community youth athletic center and 600 businesses in National City will remain under threat of eminent domain...
NBC San Diego News Report

OC JUICE BLOG Report

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Statists want to bring back the Fairness Doctrine and muzzle talk radio--They can't stop listeners from having a paradigm shift of perspectives and opinions, and realizing they are freedom lovers, so now they are hell bent on muzzling talkers!

Legislation is being sponsored in Congress by Senator Ernest Hollings, a South Carolina Democrat, and in the House (H.R. 1985) by Bill Hefner, the North Carolina Democrat.

It isn't just Dems who threaten free speech of talk radio. Senator Republican Whip Lott supported reviving a killed immigration bill and decried that talk radio was running American and that "We have to deal with that problem."

Excuse me Senator!

Adam Thierer writes, "the fairness doctrine was overturned by the FCC in 1987. The FCC discarded the rule because, contrary to its purpose, it failed to encourage the discussion of more controversial issues. There were also concerns that it was in violation of First Amendment free speech principles." (more)

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Friday, May 11, 2007, : Gale Kaufman issues a press release response to US Term Limits' Lawsuit against Attorney General Brown, for misleading ballot title and summary of the initiative to weaken term limits. Gale's smarmy remark is a mockery of the public trust.

Kaufman says "The litigation is merit less. The Attorney General is given broad discretion in what to include or not include in writing a title and summary."

"US Term Limits can't expect to have a title and summary that reflect their campaign literature."

Yet in the following comparison of the official title and summary and the proponents' literature, you can see just how brazenly the Attorney General did in fact use the proponents' campaign literature to write the official ballot Title and Summary for Prop .

General Rule:
IP Reduces the total time a member can serve in the California Legislature from 14 to 12 years . . . .

AG Reduces the total amount of time a person may serve in the state legislature from 14 years to 12 years.

Special Exception for Incumbents:
IP To provide a fair and equitable transition to the new reduced term limits, the current members of the Legislature would be able

AG Provides a transition period to allow current members

IP to serve a total of 12 years in the house in which they currently serve, including all previous service in that body.

AG to serve a total of 12 consecutive years in the house in which they are currently serving, regardless of any prior service in another house.

IP = Initiative Proponents’ “Fact Sheet” (created March 8, 2007)
AG = Attorney General’s Title and Summary (issued April 11, 2007)

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Friday mornings! Every Friday at 8 AM, I join Mark Carbonero on 1460 AM KION RADIO where he hosts the Morning Drive, and I present the Sacramento Report

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More on the subject ofNannygate:

Sunday, April 15, 2007

From cell phones to cigarettes, it's a scandal how many laws on the state Legislature's list for 2007 would tell you how to live your life. It will take more than a spoonful of sugar to make these intrusions palatable.

MARK LANDSBAUM

Editorial writer
The Orange County Register
mlandsbaum@ocregister.com

There's this:

The Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

And there's this:

The Declaration of Dependence: "We hold these truths to be generally agreed upon, that all men are regarded not exactly equal (some being more in need than others), that they are permitted by their Government to exercise some rights, but, more importantly, are required by their Government to conform to certain behaviors to achieve freedom from Want, freedom from Responsibility and freedom from Unhappiness."

Our assumptions dictate our conclusions. If we assume people's rights come from government, we logically can conclude it's OK for government to decide everything people must and must not do.Â

But if we assume people's rights are unalienable and God-given (as the Declaration of Independence says), we end up with a far different conclusion. We logically can conclude government may do only what it legitimately is authorized to do (as the Declaration and Constitution say). ( Click here to read more )

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Monday, March 18, 07:

One good reason to say no to politicians to change term limits is their proclivity to consolidate power.

Testimony to their already present power is evidenced by the bounty of gifts they receive from interested parties who depend on their grace and favor.

Aurelio Rojas, Sac Bee reporter, writes about this here: Capitol leaders get lots of love - and gifts - forms show

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Friday, March 9, 07: These past few days the papers around the state seem to have been influenced by some notice or could it be a harmonic convergence? There are three articles in three papers talking about the Nanny Government, Babysitters, Micro-managers!!! It's not just women legislators either. The dim bulb who wants to take away the only indoor light that is kind to a mature lady is a man! So too, the busybody who wants to rid the world of mutts; I know a lot of people who really love their mutts, and I know a lot of people who are mutts too, and they're A-OK!

See the posts below:

Big Sister, Big Brother Anyone?

3-9-2007

I don't know what's up, if it's just some sort of convergence of consciousness, or someone put out a memo itemizing the stupid ideas that have been proposed in the last couple of months in Sacramento, but in the last two days, there are three news articles about law officials who are incompetent at dealing with the matters of un funded government employee pensions, prisons overflowing and felons being released, and California being financially broke and instead want to micro manage us!

Lawmakers in Sacramento busy themselves conceiving laws to regulate us ordinary-mind-our-own-business-citizens to death, to save us from ourselves, and they use our hard-earned money, forcibly expropriated by a shameless burden of taxes, fees and more "fees" for their ridiculous notions, with impunity.

1.Moving Ever Toward the Nanny State
SF Gate Friday March 9, 2007
WHEN REVIEWING the list of 2,760 bills introduced thus far in this legislative session, I am reminded of the old saying, "No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the Legislature is in session." (Mark Twain said that) Link

2. Sacramento baby-sitters
California scolds want to modify your behavior.
03/08/2007 08:59:28 PM PST
It's times like these when we long for the days when serving in the state Legislature was a part-time job. With too much time on its hands, the Democratic majority seems to be whittling wood instead of carving meaningful policy. (Continued)

3. Big mother is watching with new laws in mind
Democratic proposals to regulate behavior draw Republican scorn.
By Nancy Vogel, Times Staff Writer
March 8, 2007
SACRAMENTO — Sacramento — Enjoy fast food? Like to light up while you watch the waves? Forget to sock away money for your kids' education?
Some California lawmakers want to change your ways. They've planted a crop of proposals this year — "nanny" bills, as they're called — that would: (Continued)
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I paid a special visit Thursday, Feb. 1st, to the Morning Drive on 1460 AM KION, because lawmakers in Sacramento were scheduled to vote on Friday, on a bill that would ban parents from spanking their child under four years of age. I'll join Mark to talk about the feline mistress, Assemblywoman Lieber, who thinks being a cat owner makes her the supreme authority on raising all of our children and her proposed bill which would in effect put a cop in every living room.

Call her "Big Sister."

Sometimes the Devil wears Prada, sometimes the devil snatches liberty and subborns parents to a police state, in the name of protecting the children... Ouch! That's a smack on the rear! We haven't heard the end of this story. She's been encouraged by the rage expressed over her idea and intention.

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CALENDAR:

It's called LiNK--a non profit, non-partisan, non-ethnic and non-religious group formed in pursuit of the mission to educate the world about North Korea, and to advocate for human rights, political and religious freedom and humanitarian aid for North Korea presents:

The North Korea Refugee Crisis: Human Right & International Response

Date: February 24, 2007

Time: 3:00 PM

Location: USC, Los Angeles

"Shining a light on the hidden North Korean Refugee Crisis: rare interviews with refugees offer a glimpse into the exploitation, abuse and fear in North Korea and along the Chinese Border."

To learn more or to donate: link.losangeles@gmail.com

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The Path to Liberty: Restoring the American Dream!

Thursday, March 1 - Saturday, March 3, 2007

Sheraton Fisherman's Wharf
2500 Mason Street
San Francisco, CA 94133 USA
415-362-5500

Please Register by February 25, 2007

For your convenience, you may register online or call: (914) 591-7230
This event is free of charge for all friends of liberty.

For further information and assistance please contact Larissa Price, Director of Programs and Seminars
(800) 960-4333 ~ lprice@fee.org
The web address is www.jeffersonclub.org. Go to Events. Or Click here

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January 8, 2007

I worked on Prop 90 last year, to stop the abuse of eminent domain for commercial and private development, and to protect us from regulatory takings where a politician devalues our property by down-zoning it.

The battle was close and we know going in, that we'll be out spent at least 3 to 1. We'll be back and I hope you'll join us... We're a merry band of defenders of our Bill of Rights! If you've got passion for that, hey, here we (we includes you) are!

No radio show for now. I'm up to some new adventures but with the same ideals and principles in mind. I'll keep you posted. Just check back regularly.

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You must Buy this Book!

Abuse of Power: How the Government misuses Eminent Domain by Steven Greenhut

September 4, 2006

This book is powerful, succinct, full of examples and recent cases. It will blow your mind and hopefully, if you have a soul, it will wrench it. First, you'll see clearly, with in the first chapter, how the government does it so readily and easily and they dupe us as a whole into thinking what they're up to is innocuous. Then you'll see how unjust and un-American it is. Then join me in a battle to preserve our fundamental freedoms.

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by Martha Montelongo

The law supposedly separates civilization from the jungle: it protects us from predators. In Putnam County, W. Va., trial lawyer greed has turned that notion on its head, twisting the law to permit predators to prey on the civilized. As a result, the 55,000 residents of this small West Virginia county will lose their only hospital later this month. (more)

I love you!

"You can find anything you want on China's Internet: sex, fashion, business, travel, entertainment, romance. Anything, that is, except democracy, Tiananmen, Taiwan, human rights, Tibet and hundreds of other subjects. Chinese searching the Internet for key, or 'black' words are likely to be arrested, tried and imprisoned for up to 10 years on charges of subversion, revealing state secrets or spreading propaganda injurious to the state.... Some of the world's most famous Internet companies have lined up to show China how to cripple the Web. A partial list includes Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Skype" -- China specialist Jonathan Mirsky writing in the International Herald Tribune.

Back then, the possibility of rebellion was born against the seige of public employee unions and their wholly owned politicians who pressed Californians against the wall and said "Stick -em up! You're money or your safety and mobility?"

What a thrill it was to fight back and win the initial part of the battle with the help and star power of Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Special Election of November 8th was the second major installment of that rebellion, but the message was not clear and the results bare witness. Tom Del Becarro's assessment is insightful and inspiring.(more)

There is real "unseen" political fallout from the failure of leaders to tackle genuine problems, especially if they are members of a party that claims to be skeptical of big government. The easiest thing for people to do in these cynical times is not to vote; even in last year's intensely fought presidential election over 40% of eligible adults stayed away from the polls. "The Bush-Kerry race showed that it's now far more important to motivate people on your side to get to the polls than it is to sway a shrinking group of often indifferent undecided voters," says Michael Barone, a co-author of the Almanac of American Politics. (read it here)

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 1, December 19, 1776

20% of Seniors Flunk High School Graduation Exam

Nearly 100,000 statewide are in jeopardy of not earning diplomas, a report says. They have until June to pass the two-part, two-day test.

(which by the way, if they can pass, only means they're capable of 7th grade math and 10th grade reading. Future workforce for a high tech economy? Education Monopoly people are so mean! They fail, blame Bush and obstruct choices)

By Duke Helfand
Times Staff Writer

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Oct 18, 2005 : The final straw
The White House appears to have been truly blindsided by the vehemently negative response from conservative intellectuals to the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.

Please

Miss Harriet Miers, withdraw...…You'd help Mr. Bush out of a big pickle...

It's too much of President Bush to ask of the American people, including critical-thinking conservatives which includes self described Classical Liberals as I, who base our positions on principles, reason and facts, to accept his nomination on our faith in him and his judgment alone. He is afterall, human and fallible. This is where his community of supporters want to help him out...(more)

The Nov 6th Special Election was a sad chapter to a real political drama that started back in January of 2003

20% of Seniors Flunk High School Graduation Exam

Nearly 100,000 statewide are in jeopardy of not earning diplomas, a report says. They have until June to pass the two-part, two-day test.

(which by the way, if they can pass, only means they're capable of 7th grade math and 10th grade reading. Future workforce for a high tech economy? Education Monopoly people are so mean! They fail, blame Bush and obstruct choices)

By Duke Helfand Times Staff Writer

By Duke Helfand
Times Staff Writer