Daily Pilot: Assemblyman DeVore on Dr. Phil today on the text message ban

By Chuck DeVore | 10/23/08

THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE: DeVore, Dr. Phil debate ban Politician appears on oft-emotional talk show to discuss state ban on texting while driving. Excerpted from an article by Brianna Baily and Alan Blank. It seems Assemblyman Chuck DeVore can't compete with the down-home truisms of Dr. Phil when it comes to the debate over texting and driving. DeVore made a recent appearance on a pre-taped episode of the Dr. Phil show titled "Killer Texting"... read more »

Cheating to Win Elections

By Chuck DeVore | 10/20/08

Americans are expected to do plenty of things on the honor system, pay income taxes and vote, for instance.  Sadly, as income taxes have increased along with the power of our government to hand out benefits, the incentive to cheat on both taxes and elections has increased too. It is instructive to note that during the debate over the income tax 95 years ago, New York Congressman Sereno Payne-R, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means... read more »

(Almost) Unbelievable - the pro-tax, pro-big government, teachers' union just gave $1 million to oppose traditional marriage

By Chuck DeVore | 10/15/08

(Almost) Unbelievable - the pro-tax, pro-big government, teachers' union just gave $1 million to oppose traditional marriage. In 27 years of political involvement, I've come close to seeing it all.  Today, I think I have. The hyper-liberal California Teachers Association (CTA), ostensibly a group of professionals that is supposed to care about our children's education, has just contributed $1 million against Proposition 8, the traditional... read more »

Compassion or the Constitution? What should guide our judges?

By Chuck DeVore | 10/06/08

The two presidential candidates commented Monday about the kind of Supreme Court justice they might nominate during their term in office.Sen. McCain said he'd nominate someone who would follow a, "...strict interpretation of the Constitution of the United States." That is to be expected in a democratic republic such as the U.S., where both rule of law and separation of powers (the checking of one branch of the government by the other two so one... read more »

About the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street: well, that seemed to work well - NOT!

By Chuck DeVore | 10/06/08

As someone who opposed the ill-starred bailout from start to finish, allow me to observe a few things.  First, the $700 billion of asset buying intervention from the Federal government means next to nothing in a world with capital flows in excess of trillions of dollars a day.  Why else would the U.S. markets be down another 6-8 percent as of this writing, with Asian markets down about 5 percent and European markets down 6-9 percent on... read more »

Irvine's CAIR Kerfuffle: Is CAIR a Terror-Loving Group or Not?

By Chuck DeVore | 09/24/08

An interesting kerfuffle has arisen in my hometown of Irvine over Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and city council candidate, Todd Gallinger, who provides legal immigration counsel to the California Chapter of CAIR.  In a September 23 blog entitled "Choi's Shameful Smear" on the LiberalOC.com liberal Democrat blogger Dan Chmielewski takes Republican Irvine City Councilman Dr. Steven Choi to task for... read more »

Who will bailout the taxpayers?

By Chuck DeVore | 09/22/08

One trillion dollars and counting - about $3,300 in new debt for every person in America - this is the price of bailing out Wall Street, we are told by our leaders.  I'm not buying it.  Since when was it my responsibility to clean up someone else's financial mistakes?  Is it now my job, as a taxpayer, to assume risk in all situations, whether it's to rebuild coastal cities in hurricane-prone areas, pay farmers for crop damage, or... read more »

The coming panic and pandemonium in the Obama camp

By Chuck DeVore | 09/08/08

Is it time for panic and pandemonium?  Shrill attacks and over-the-top anger?  We will soon see, but something tells me that now that Senator Barack Obama has lost over 10 points in the RealClearPolitics.com poll average in less than a week (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html) we may see an all-consuming melt-down on the left.  What was once going to be a pleasant... read more »

FLASH: Republican lawmakers unveil a no-tax budget at Sacramento press conference

By Chuck DeVore | 08/30/08

During a 1:30 PM Sacramento press conference, Republican lawmakers led by Senate Republican Leader Dave Cogdill and Assembly Republican Leader Mike Villines unveiled a no-tax budget that funds education at the same level that Democrats proposed while trimming spending in other areas. The Republican budget was in response to Senate Majority Leader Don Perata's Friday challenge to Senate Republicans to put up their own budget.  The Democrats'... read more »

Spending cap? "No way!" say Democrats, "That might cap spending!"

By Chuck DeVore | 08/17/08

A clearer illustration of the vast gulf separating Republicans from Democrats couldn't be found than Friday's Budget Committee hearing on Assembly Constitutional Amendment (ACA) 19, a bill to limit California state spending to inflation plus population growth.  The purpose of the Republican-drafted bill was to keep the annual rate of spending increases in Sacramento at a steady and predictable pace so that sudden large influxes of revenue... read more »