Guy Smith | August 29, 2009
I could get used to this real quick. There is a holy place in the unholy town of Berkeley, California. Smelted in the 1960′s along with several thousand other coffee shops (the American variety, not the Amsterdam kind, though in the 60′s the differences were minor) was The Freight. Its proper name is The Freight [...]
Guy Smith | July 20, 2009
For a state that prides itself upon cultural sensitivity, California’s junior senator certainly seems unburdened by it. In less than a month Senator Barbara Boxer has managed to instigate two controversies through ignorance of cultures or crass assumptions of the same. Not content to merely castigate a soldier for his practiced politeness, this week she [...]
Guy Smith | June 11, 2009
California is quaking once again. In this instance it has nothing to do with plate tectonics. California is like a functional drunk. It sips, then swills, then gulps, then passes out, waking and swearing off the juice until the next time. Government spending is California’s whiskey, and when the lush – also known as the [...]
Guy Smith | May 14, 2009
The end of Washington’s spending spree may soon come thanks to incautious California. The day care center known as the California Legislature has led the State of Disaster to fiscal ruin. So bad is the situation here in the Shaky State that politicians – unable to balance the budget without bankrupting the taxpayers – rigged [...]
Guy Smith | February 11, 2009
Fred Smith (no relation), the founder of Federal Express and the inventor of an entire industry, spoke at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club tonight. George Shultz — a man who held more secretary positions (Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Secretary of State) in the U.S. government than Monica Lewinsky – sat attentively in [...]
