Matt Kauble

The 1st Amendment and Hate Crimes Policies in Collision

By Matt Kauble | 07/02/08

Sometimes I will throw up an article from someone else to get a conversation started concerning an issue area. The issue area for this article is 1st Amendment Religion and Speech Rights versus the Rights claimed by the Homosexual Activists pushing such things as Homosexual Marriage and Hate Crimes laws.  I see a collision between these two positions coming based on outcomes in Canada, Sweden, New Jersey, New Mexico & Massachusetts... read more »

Is the UNITE HERE union playing hard ball in Cerritos?

By Matt Kauble | 06/30/08

Below is a story picked up from CBS News.  Apparently UNITE HERE is in the process of trying to force card-checks on the employees of Prudential Overall Supply.Company intimidation is not new for Big Labor and while UNITE HERE has neither taken credit for the fire or been linked at this early time to the fire, it is not beyond the realm of possibilities.  For more information on the problem of union sponsored violence go to:... read more »

Could Midwest Floods Be Rapidly Raising Gas Prices?

By Matt Kauble | 06/16/08

As I watched the coverage of the floods in the Midwest a thought crossed my mind. Could the Midwest Floods be the cause for the rapid rise of gas prices at the pump? The following sites point out how crops have been wiped out by the Midwest Flood: -U.S. Midwest floods wipe out crops, raise food priceshttp://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/06/16/iowa-farms.html -Flooding in the American Midwest threatens... read more »

Rep. Richardson failed to disclose loan from strip club owner

By Matt Kauble | 06/16/08

Why does this not surprise me?Rep. Richardson Failed to Disclose Loan from Strip Club OwnerThe latest on the triple-default, single-foreclosure Democratic congresswoman from Long Beach: "Rep. Laura Richardson  initially failed to disclose economic interests -- including a loan from a strip club owner -- when she served on the Long Beach City Council, public records show," the Long Beach Press-Telegram reports.From the Press-Telegram:... read more »

Villaraigosa Lets the Trash Pile Up

By Matt Kauble | 06/16/08

Looks like LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is having some problems with trash dumping that Mayor's Hahn and Riordan did not have.Illegal Dumping Plagues some Los Angeles NeighborhoodsCity crews try to keep up with the garbage and debris, but residents say piles of trash fester for weeks at a time.By Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer June 16, 2008For Alex Rodriguez, the rats and stench are the worst things about the rubbish... read more »

Cerritos at the Crossroads

By Matt Kauble | 05/19/08

This year's city council special election to fill the remaining term of recently retired Councilmember John Crawley's seat and next year's March city council election finds our beloved city at a crossroads.  It is a crossroads other cities in California either have recently faced or will be facing along side of us.  And it will determine the future for the city of Cerritos in the years to come.  Let me explain.Historically the... read more »

We Need a Biblically Based Evangelical Manifesto

By Matt Kauble | 05/13/08

Last week, 77 mostly well meaning Christian leaders some who are and some who claim to be Evangelicals released an "Evangelical Manifesto" that is 90% stuff all Evangelicals would agree with, but that 10% is basically nice sounding left wing mumbo jumbo hidden in there by a few like Jim Wallis who is using this as a tool to try to keep Evangelical Christians from voting, possibly to hamstring John McCain. You see ever since George W. Bush... read more »

Overcoming Obama's Fuzzy Communications

By Matt Kauble | 04/27/08

This morning I listened to the FOX News Sunday Barack Obama interview.  As I listened to Obama's slick answers to Chris Wallace's tough questions, I have come to the conclusion that Republicans cannot run the typical campaign we have run against left wing liberals, primarily because of his communication skills.Here is where I think he is vulnerable...This morning and over the past several months he has campaign against making the Bush... read more »

Review of the April 12th RPLAC Academy

By Matt Kauble | 04/13/08

Yesterday, Saturday April 12th, the Republican Party of Los Angeles County held a candidate school we called the RPLAC Academy. We had it as a one day session where the candidates and campaign staffers who showed up would be educated on how to run various aspects of a campaign as if they were drinking water through a firehose, per the instructions of our Chairwoman Linda Boyd. And for those of us who presented, that we did. Most of the... read more »

Barack's Speech & How He Has Raised New Questions

By Matt Kauble | 03/24/08

It is often the case that when a politician goes into damage control they sometimes raise new questions that did not exist before as well as not answer the questions they had meant to swat down.  Such is what has happened to Barack Obama, in his effort to swat down the issues surrounding his association with his pastor Jeremiah Wright; he failed to answer the main question and unintentionally raised at least two to three more questions in... read more »