For the entire week, the front page of my hometown newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, has been devoted to two major stories: Gov. Arnold Schwarzennegger’s special election initiatives and the opening of the European front in the war between the West and militant Islam.
The Chronicle reporters haven’t yet referred to the growing insurrection in Europe as part of any war. For them, the attackers are out-of-work disaffected “youth.” Nevertheless, it is the stories that surround this moment in California’s history and the French insurrection that also contain a common theme and a related threat.
Even though we in California are in a permanent and worsening fiscal crisis, Schwarzenegger’s entire agenda, which is aimed at fiscal reform More »
It’s weeks like these that make one wonder if Arnold Schwarzenegger wished he stuck to movie stardom and real estate barony rather than trying to save California from itself, wishing instead that he were perhaps lounging on the French Riviera with fellow Europhiles like Johnny Depp and Gweneth Paltrow in salons where the conversations inevitably come around to trashing Bush and those American boorish boobs that voted for him. But instead he’s spending his days being trashed by California’s myriad special interests, fireman, teachers, nurses, cops, public employee unions, city, county, and statewide elected officials, trial lawyers, illegal alien activists and the vast legions of the state’s rental mobs, anarchists, and duped do-gooders.
This is a large list of trashers that he has attracted to himself. But in this same week where the Field poll shows that his four key reform initiatives are all in danger of defeat in California’s special election next Tuesday, More »
