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Recently speaking with my father, the topic of California's unemployment came up. Trying to estimate the number of unemployed (this was before the official statistics came out), he used this formula: say there are about 30 million residents of California. Approximate that about 20 million are of the working age (18-65), and of those, say that about 15 million choose to work. If the unemployment rate is at 10%, this should equate to somewhere around 1.5 million unemployed. The next day, the news

They say we now live a "post-partisan" world. The phrase implies that in 2009 we have all risen to a practical,solutions-based approach to politics that flies above your gardenvariety partisan rancor. I'm not so sure. If anything it seems like the political killing fields in Sacramentoand Washington, D.C. have grown even fiercer in recent weeks -- ifthat's possible. It seems that hope -- hope that meaningful bi-partisansolutions to the many complicated economic and social problems we facehere

Yesterday, I wrote an article titled "America: Land of the Czar?" which presented my worries that America is indirectly handing over its representative government authority to unelected officials with superior power.  Now, just today, the news from Washington D.C. is that the Senate has blocked the auto bailout package from going through. The response from the treasury department: a blasphemous slap in the face to the American government, its constitution, and its people.  Just in from the Asso

In a great display of bipartisanship, California's 4th congressional district has sent Democrat Charlie Brown, and Republican Tom McClintock to Washington D.C. for Freshman orientation. All joking aside, both candidates have been invited to orientation while the district recounts the votes in a race that was too close to call.  The Sacremento Bee reports: WASHINGTON – Neither candidate has been declared a winner, but both Charlie Brown and Tom McClintock will be in Washington this week to atte

by Anna VigranNational Public RadioMarch 9, 2007 Middle-class families are increasingly feeling the bite of the Alternative Minimum Tax. It was originally meant to target rich tax dodgers. How are families coping with the AMT? Taxes are due April 17 this year, just a few weeks from now. And as Americans calculate what they'll owe, a growing number of them are finding their bill is bigger than they'd expected – courtesy of the alternative minimum tax, or AMT. It's a term that strikes fear in th