Instead, the Schwarzenegger administration has crafted a plan to again take the funds — just in a different way. via Schwarzenegger’s plan to again raid transit funds angers rider advocates — latimes.com.

James Roberts is on paid administrative leave and receives a monthly salary of about $7,274.80. via Suit: Police department, chief covered up officer’s abuse of ex | roberts, suit, police – News – The Orange County Register.

Arnold will be gone next year and I may move this to a more descriptive url, but the information regarding the corruption between politicians and businesses need to be published anywhere we can. Update from Rachel Keeler, Dollars & Sense, May-June 2009 Issue: Over the years, trillions of dollars in both corporate profits and personal [...]

The media portrays California as a high tax state. The numbers show a slightly different picture. Proposition 13′s unintended consequence of lowering corporate tax liabilities has increased the tax burden from the very rich corporations to the struggling workers. Review California Tax Numbers from October 2007 This does require reading a few pages of information, [...]

“But if he was doing the right thing,” Wagner went on, “he wouldn’t need that video, right?” via Go tell it on the mountain: The Edge doesn’t need five homes here — latimes.com. Does Malibu really need another set of mega homes?

“Schwarzenegger is expected to call for deep reductions in already suffering local mass transit programs, renew his push to expand oil drilling off the Santa Barbara coast and appeal to Washington for billions of dollars in federal help” Schwarzenegger to seek federal help for California budget — latimes.com.

Feds Uncover Secret Santa Ring | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source. A little yuletide humor form our friends in law enforcement.

However, by the Bush administration's own standards of success, laid out in the president's speech and the NSC's strategy review, we are no closer to victory now than we were when those documents were drafted. Iraq is not unified, it is only superficially democratic, it cannot govern itself, its security forces cannot provide for the [...]

Stewart: ‘Psycho’ Laura Ingraham recites Holocaust poem. And comparing the latest health care proposal to the Holocaust is absurd, sickening, (insert your comment here). Ask your republican friends how they can be party to this.

Wal-Mart Increases Investment…in Politicians – Democratic Underground. While hiding behind the First Amendment, corporations can effectively silence any conversation about issues through their over whelming use of corporate profits. Which is reason enough to favor higher corporate tax rates – like baseball, corporations could pay a luxury tax to even out the benefits they get [...]