For 10 years—including the boom times banks enjoyed in the first half of this decade—the FDIC was prevented from collecting fees from 95% of financial institutions, which it would have used to further build up its safety net in the event it would someday have to bail out a bunch of stupi...

Council chiefs accuse Government of creating unrealistic hopes it could prevent a repeat of the Baby P tragedy....

The Astute Bloggers make a claim: I have believed from the start that Bush should have nuked Tora Bora in 2001. The GWOT would have ended right then and there. It would have sent the right message: Don't Tread On Me! Instead Bush has has the USA wage a war with one hand behind our back, a war of hal...

So this week, the city of Lakewood, OH, had a meeting to discuss a potential ban on 'pit bulls'.  According to the city records (which I obtained from the city clerk, Mary, who was very helpful) 20 citizens of Lakewood came to share their views of the proposed ordinance. Of...

I Suppose the Race Card is a temping game plan if your embattled campaign is desperate to gain momentum, but its always a good idea to get all of your primary players on the same page before playing it. Last week's failed attempt by Team Johnson to use the Sacramento Branch of the NAACP to divert th...

“Was there any inappropriate behavior on your behalf that the citizens of this city would find concerning with you becoming the mayor of Sacramento?� That question is the closest that this soft interview ever comes to dealing with the teen sex issue. And If your wondering what in the hell that c...

The Pasadena, CA City council has ordered an ordinance to be written that mandates the spay/neuter of all 'pit bulls' and pit bull mixes.   They have  been "studying" such an ordinance since four 'pit bulls" escaped an unsecured yard and attacked several people. The cit...

I just want to set the record straight right now. This is not the "Save-Lodi-I-Hate-Blair-King-propaganda" Blog. A number of you who are running Searches today looking for the hate blog Which the Lodi News Sentinel ran a feature on this morning - happen to be hitting my blog. In your quest to find t...

How did it come to this?  How have we gotten to the point where being honest about how ordinances are working no longer seems like an option?  How have we gotten to a point where we'd rather mislead people than provide an honest, introspective look at the TRUE effectiveness of dog ordinanc...

If you pay for the print edition (like me sometimes) of the Sacramento Bee, This is what 50 hard earned cents will get you: Marcos Breton berating you if you disagree with excessive county spending. And, as a bonus, he also will label you a drunk, uneducated loser in his column. Here’s the quote: ...