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Day By Day by Chris Muir
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California Supreme Court Watch: Schwarzenegger Submits Three Names
The ASSociated Press has Gov. Schwarzenegger submits three names for Supreme Court seat.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has sent the names of three candidates for his first appointment to the California Supreme Court to a State Bar commission that screens judicial nominees, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday.
The three candidates include two state appeals court justices – Carol Corrigan of San Francisco and Vance Raye of Sacramento – and U.S. District Judge Morrison England of Sacramento, according the Chronicle, which cited an unidentified source who insisted on anonymity because the governor has not made the names public.
The candidate would replace Justice Janice Rogers Brown, who resigned in June after the U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination to a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. Brown was the most conservative member of the California Supreme Court, which now has a 5-1 majority of Republican appointees.
The list of three nominees, all appointed by Republicans, indicates that Schwarzenegger wants to pick a woman or minority to succeed Brown, the only black woman in the court’s history. Corrigan is a woman, and Raye and England are black men.
So….. here they are….
Carol Corrigan of San Francisco.
Vance Raye of Sacramento.
and…..
Morrison England of Sacramento.
All noteworthy judges.
Let the vetting process begin.
Stay Tuned.
Technorati Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Supreme Court, Janice Rogers Brown, Carol Corrigan, Vance Raye, Morrison England
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University Pays Dental Students to Stay Away
The Scotsman has University pays dental students to stay away as funds crisis grows.
A SCOTTISH university is paying dental students £2,000 to delay their training, despite the country’s chronic shortage of NHS dentists.
The action by Dundee University – one of only two dental training centres in Scotland – has prompted a political row, with opposition politicians accusing the government of prolonging a crisis in NHS dentistry.
I know some dental students can be a real pain, but this is ridiculous.
The university has offered 120 school leavers places on its five-year dentistry degree course, but has authorised funding for only 67 first-years.
To avoid being financially penalised for taking on too many students, the dental school is offering the cash incentive to students who are willing to delay taking up their studies for a year.
Earlier this year, the Scottish Executive announced plans to recruit or train an additional 200 dentists by 2008. But the government, through the University Funding Council, has only provided enough cash to take on an additional 16 students at the Glasgow and Dundee dentistry schools this year.
When you get the government involved in central planning for what a free market will do naturally you get dislocations.
Another example of how socialized dental healthcare delivery systems are not good for dentists, dental students or patients.
Technorati Tags: dentistry, dental, socialized dentistry, Dundee University
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Cindy Sheehan Watch: Dueling Protests
The ASSociated Press Tiny Crawford Braces for Dueling Protests.
This one-stoplight town of 700 residents near President Bush’s ranch braced for thousands of visitors Saturday, most in a cross-country caravan for a pro-Bush rally and others to support Cindy Sheehan’s anti-war demonstration.
More than 3,000 people were expected at the school football stadium for a pro-Bush rally, the culmination of the “You don’t speak for me, Cindy!” tour that started last week in California.
It would be the largest counter protest since Sheehan started camping out off the road leading to Bush’s ranch Aug. 6, soon after his Texas vacation began. She vowed to remain unless he talked to her about the war with Iraq that claimed the life of her son Casey and more than 1,870 other U.S. soldiers.
But the good ol’ ASSociated Press fails to mention again and again that the President already met with Cindy Sheehan last year.
Stay Tuned.
Pro-Bush supporters picket in downtown Crawford, Texas, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2005. Thousands of pro-Bush supporters are expected in Crawford to counter the supporters of Cindy Sheehan.Technorati Tags: Cindy Sheehan, President Bush, George Bush, MoveAmericaForward.org, You don’t speak for me, Cindy
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Talk Show Radio Watch: Weaker?
Tim Rutten, of the Los Angeles Times has Talk radio shows’ reception seems to be getting weaker
Talk is cheap — unless it’s political talk on the radio, and then it’s influential.At least it has been.
Now some people think the talk bubble has, if not burst, begun to lose its wind.
Since these days the medium is overwhelmingly and partisanly Republican, those on the blue side of the aisle fervently want this to be true. Those in the red pews argue that talk is, in some ways, a victim of its own success and of an audience whose attention waxes and wanes with the election cycle.
As more than one person interviewed for this column pointed out, Rush Limbaugh can’t really be expected to go on adding stations, because he’s already everywhere.
Still, however you measure these things, broadcasting professionals agree that audiences for political talk shows have declined significantly throughout this year. That’s certainly been true in Los Angeles. This week, the Star Tribune in Minneapolis-St. Paul reported that Limbaugh has lost 43% of his audience there, while Sean Hannity’s has declined by 63%. An executive at the station that airs both programs in the Twin Cities told the paper, “We have really become concerned with what I could call their tight play list of topics revolving around politics.” A Clear Channel programming executive in Northern California, where declines also have occurred, admitted, “We’re not sure yet what’s really going on.”
Regular folks don’t want to hear the rants and raves of politicos and pundits (like Flap) all of the time.
And, frankly, the radio waves are saturated with left and right wing hosts.
Rutten fails to mention the decline in the Los Angeles Times circulation and the decline in newspaper subscriptions nationwide. But, this is a story on a competing media whose decline would bring back advertising dollars to the Times so……..
Read Hugh Hewitt’s take on this story here.
Patterico is looking forward to the Monday radio interview of Hewitt and what Rutten left out.
So, is talk radio weaker?
Perhaps.
But, the internet (radio and print) and the blogopshere are much stronger.
In any case, more widespread dissemination of information and opinion (regardless of the medium) is not a bad thing in a democracy.
Technorati Tags: Los Angeles Times, Tim Rutten, talk radio, Hugh Hewitt, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bear Flag League, California, Election 2006, Politics, Proposition 73, Proposition 74, Proposition 75, Proposition 76, Proposition 77, Proposition 78, Proposition 79, Proposition 80, Special Election 2005
California Special Election Watch: McClintock’s Positions on the Propositions
California State Senator, Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, Flap’s Senator and friend has published his position on the November California Special Election Ballot Propositions. They are at his blog or here at the Pro-Family Townhall of the Capitol Research Institute.
Proposition 73: Parental Notification for Abortion. If parental consent is required for a child to use a tanning booth or get her ears pierced, shouldn’t parents at least be notified if she’s getting an abortion? YES. Whether you’re pro-life or pro-choice, this should be the all-time no-brainer.
Proposition 74: Teacher Tenure. Do parents have a right to expect a higher level of competence before a teacher is granted life-time tenure? YES. This modest measure simply increases the teacher probation period from two years to five years.
Proposition 75: Public Employee Union Dues. Should public employees decide for themselves which candidates they will support with their own money? YES. This measure requires that before a public employee union can take money from that employee for political donations, it has to get the employee’s permission.
Proposition 76: State Spending. Should government live within its means? YES. This measure restores the authority that the governor of California had between 1939 and 1983 to make mid-year spending cuts whenever spending outpaces revenue without having to return to the legislature.Proposition
77: Re-districting. Should voters choose their representatives in legislative districts that are drawn without regard to partisan advantage? YES. The most obvious conflict of interest in government is when politicians choose which voters will get to vote for them by drawing their own legislative district lines. This measure puts a stop to it.
Propositions 78 and 79: Prescription drug discounts. Do you want the same people who run the DMV to run your pharmacy? NO. These are rival measures, one supported by drug companies and the other by liberal activists – both of which purport to lower drug prices. What they really do is assure that one group of patients gets to pay higher prices to provide subsidized prices for others. There’s no such thing as a free Levitra.
Proposition 80. Electricity Regulation. Do you want the same people who run the DMV to run your electricity company? NO. This measure locks in monopoly control of your electricity by the bureaucratized utilities and forbids you from ever being able to shop around for the lowest-priced electricity available.
Tom is RIGHT on all of the Propositions and will make a good running mate with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006.
Now….. if we can get Schwarzenegger to endorse Proposition 75, Paycheck Protection and Proposition 73, Parental Notification.
McClintock’s Lt. Governor website is here.
Technorati Tags: Tom McClintock, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Special Election, Proposition 74, Proposition 75, Proposition 76, Proposition 77, Proposition 78, Proposition 79, Capitol Research Institute, Proposition 73, Proposition 80
Cross-posted to the Bear Flag League Special Election Page