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townhall.com - 5/18/2009
Carol Platt Liebau : California is Liberalism's "Canary in the Coal Mine"
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Once, California was known as the “Golden State.” No more. It’s struggling with a fiscal crisis of epic proportions. And voters are so disgusted with the ineptitude and waste of a state legislature dominated by liberal Democrats that they are poised to vote down a $16 billion tax increase and a ...
townhall.com - 5/15/2009
Carol Platt Liebau: Demand an Investigation
— townhall.com — Given Speaker Pelosi's remarkable accusations of being misled both by the CIA and the Bush administration, it... strikes me that a full investigation is in order. And that includes full disclosure of the kind of... (more) Carol Platt Liebau: Demand an Investigation

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Carol Platt Liebau: Liberalism's "Canary in the Coal Mine"
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — My Townhall column notes that the leftism so popular now in Washington, D.C. has been disastrous for California -- which has been nearly destroyed by state government's high-taxing, high-spending efforts to be all things to all people. Let's hope the once "Golden State" isn't the shape of things to come for the entire US once President Obama and the Democrat Congress get done with us.

California: The poster child for dysfunction
Michelle Malkin — ... ) and hostility to businesses, it’s a little late to try to prevent California from becoming “the poster child for dysfunction,” isn’t it? You can ...

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