56,000 new AIDS cases in US per year

By Ken Mettler | 08/02/08

The Center for Disease Control (CDC), who spends $750 million of taxpayers dollars on AIDS prevention annually, reported today that they have under-reported the number of HIV cases for at least the past 10 years.  Now the figure is 56,000 new cases this year which is a 40% increase over prior estimates.This is an issue that affects all of us, either via our family's health or our pocket books.Roughly 1 million people living in the US are... read more »

PG&E is a Hypocrite

By Ken Mettler | 08/01/08

PG&E is trying to destroy traditional marriage by contributing $250,000 to the No on Prop. 8 campaign.  Why would PG&E do this?  Is it for lofty philosophical ideals or a crass public relations campaign to curry political favor with liberal San Franciscans?  Well, follow the money for the answer.This spending by PG&E, headquartered in San Francisco, emphasizes the value the utility places on its monopoly hold over the... read more »

PG&E Against Traditional Marriage

By Ken Mettler | 07/29/08

Wonder why your electric bill is so high?  PG&E just donated $250,000 against traditional marriage.At a press conference in San Francisco, PG&E announced it will donate $250,000 to the anti-Prop 8 campaign.  It was announced that PG&E "..will become a founding member of the Equality Business Advisory Council...", a homosexual advocacy group.PG&E customers should be outraged that a monopoly utility company is publicly... read more »

Kern Sales Tax Increase For Addicts

By Ken Mettler | 07/22/08

Is the state government on heroin?  Our California legislature is certainly a tax and spend addict.The proposal to increase the local sales tax by another one percent to 8.25%, is due to the state stealing our local tax funds.  Currently, state lawmakers are pilfering money from Kern County and its transportation funds to the tune of $65 million dollars.Kern County will spend $458 million dollars this fiscal year on mandated welfare... read more »

Kern CAO Misled Supervisors

By Ken Mettler | 07/21/08

As a sidebar to the public debate in Kern County regarding the efforts to protect traditional marriage, a request was made of the County Administrative Officer (CAO) Ron Errea to research the costs for conducting civil marriage ceremonies by the County Clerk's office.Strangely, the CAO made an analysis that the County Clerk should not add overhead costs when computing the cost of providing civil marriage ceremonies.  The CAO released this... read more »

Conservative Civil Disobedience

By Ken Mettler | 07/18/08

Our republican government is wary of judicial tyranny.Abraham Lincoln was severely critical of a United States Supreme Court decision which held that Congress had no power to restrict slavery in federal territories and that black persons had no rights which white persons were bound to respect.  Lincoln refused to accept the court's ruling in Dred Scott v. Sanford, (1857), as the last word on the subject.  As he said in his First... read more »