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The Latest Insanity from California: Orange Punch Update

I’m a former resident of Southern California. I like to joke that I left the backward, dysfunctional and corrupt politics and policies of the formerly Golden State for the sunny uplands of Chicago. The joke is becoming less funny the longer I live in the Second City (one year and counting).

But reading Brian Calle at the Orange Punch blog always makes me feel better — or, at least, less sick. As screwed up, bankrupt and corrupt Chicago politics are, at least it’s nominally competent. California is a lost cause.

If you want to feel better about the politics and policies of where you live, get a load of some recent posts by Brian:

First: a piece about police in Costa Mesa who are paid a big bonus simply for wearing their uniforms. That’s right, wearing their work clothes to work.

Second: In San Francisco there is some sanity…over circumcision…where a judge has given a preliminary ruling to remove a ballot initiative from the ballot that would make circumcision illegal for boys under 18 years of age:

Third, some good news: Congressman Tom McClintock weighs in on the debt crisis with a rationale head.

Thanks, Brian. I feel better, already.

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— Jim Lakely

Jim is the the director of communications at The Heartland Institute. Prior to joining Heartland, he was an ink-stained newspaperman for 16 years with many stops in "old media." Jim covered Congress and The White House during the George W. Bush administration for The Washington Times, and worked as a reporter, editorial writer and columnist for newspapers in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and California. He has appeared on the Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, C-Span, and many local and national talk radio shows to talk politics and policy.