As goes California Should health insurers be legally required to offer infertility treatment for gay couples? Yes, according to a bill (AB 460) filed in the California legislature by assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco). In fact, refusing to do so should be a crime. Current California law requires group health plans to offer coverage for infertility treatments with the exception of in vitro fertilization (IVF). If such coverage is purchased,
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March 19, 2013
ACORN part duex: ObamaCare opening the door for cronyism, graft and massive fraud [Darleen Click]
As goes California … State officials say they need 20,000 people for the job of signing up millions of Californians for health insurance in the coming months, but a battle is brewing over whether these workers should undergo background checks and fingerprinting. At issue is the level of screening these “assisters” should receive before they handle confidential information about the people they are enrolling this year in the state’s new
December 29, 2012
Oakland, CA, knows its priorities — while 130 homicides to date for 2012, focus to be multi-gender indoctrination of grade-schoolers [Darleen Click]
December 29, 2012
California Supreme Court channels Animal Farm [Darleen Click]
Where Union animals are more equal than others. The California Supreme Court upheld two state laws Thursday that permit labor unions to picket on privately owned property at store entrances. The two state laws, which specifically prevent courts from interfering with peaceful labor pickets on private property, are justified “by the state’s interest in promoting collective bargaining to resolve labor disputes,” Justice Joyce L. Kennard wrote for the court. Other
December 10, 2012
“There are going to be screw-ups. There are going to be bankruptcies. There’ll be indictments and there’ll be deaths. But we’re going to keep going – and nothing’s going to stop me” [Darleen Click]
So says California Gov Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown about solar power … and how he’ll “crush” any opponents, regardless of the corruption, shenanigans and outright fraud of the industry. The promise of clean and cheap solar energy is getting a second look in California, where utilities are required to get a third of their power from renewable power by 2020. But after millions in tax breaks and handouts, the industry’s honeymoon
December 8, 2012
California raises taxes, revenues in free fall … unexpectedly! [Darleen Click]
Wow, who woulda thunk? State Controller John Chiang today released his monthly report covering California’s cash balance, receipts and disbursements in November 2012, showing total revenues were $806.8 million below (-10.8 percent) projections contained in the 2012-13 State budget. “November’s disappointing revenues stand in stark contrast to recent news that California is leading the nation in job growth, has significantly improved its cash liquidity to pay bills, and even long-distressed
November 14, 2012
How Public Employee Unions & Politicians unite against citizens [Darleen Click]
Reuters’ headline reads How a vicious circle of self-interest sank a California city, but as you slog through the debacle of the city of San Bernardino’s ugly descent into bankruptcy you notice the complete absence of one important participant The Taxpayer. “It’s total political chaos,” said John Husing, a former San Bernardino resident and regional economist. “There is no solution. They’ll never fix anything.” Yet on close examination, the city’s
October 24, 2012
Argument against California’s Prop 34 – banning the death penalty [Darleen Click]
Taking the death penalty off the table and replacing it with Life-without-Parole (LWOP) means either clogging up overburdened courts with yet more trials or pleading out known murderers to straight Life sentences. What incentive does a murderer have to skip a trial and plead to LWOP if the death penality is gone? Murderers who know they are, to use an expression, caught dead to rights and know a jury will
October 12, 2012
Democrats Behaving Badly: “Do you wanna get into this?” [Darleen Click]
This was the Joe Isuzu Biden endgame that Ryan just didn’t buy into — Two Los Angeles, California Democrats “debated” last night A Congressional debate between two incumbent Democrats – Brad Sherman and Howard Berman – turned into a loud nose-to-nose shouting match, with Mr. Sherman roughly grabbing Mr. Berman around the shoulder, shouting, “Do you want to get into this?” With shouts of “Oh my god” rising from the
July 31, 2012
California lessons: funds from “millionaire’s tax” for mental illness diverted [Darleen Click]
Keep this in mind for each time Obama and the Left demagogue about the eeeevvviiillleee rich not paying their “fair share.” As state mental health services have crumbled under budget cuts, tens of millions of dollars raised through a tax designed to help the mentally ill have gone to “wellness” programs like horseback riding for teens and yoga classes for city workers. And that’s by design. Voters approved Proposition 63,