Cali politics

Tom McClintock and his too-close-together eyes weighs in on the CA minimum wage debate with a dishonest article that claims that millions of Californians wouldn't be hired at the entry level. As if all restaurant and service-industry jobs would just vanish in the state. Yep, that extra buck an hour is enough to shut down McDonald's!

This "raising the wage will cause mass employment" canard has been proven false. Here's a good op-ed on the subject by the president of Georgia's AFL-CIO.

I'm also going to have to applaud Governor Schwarzenegger for doing the right thing and endorsing a plan to curb global warming. He's not waiting for the federal government to get their act together and show leadership on this important issue. Of course, Angelides and Westly would be very likely to support the exact same policies, so I don't think this will have any effect on the race in November. But he deserves kudos.