http://www.californiapatriot.org/magazine Home of Berkeley's Conservative Voice Sat, 27 Mar 2010 03:05:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You may vote for as many as you would like! [polldaddy poll=2959313] http://www.californiapatriot.org/magazine/2010/02/february-poll-which-of-these-browns-do-you-prefer/ Amid the clamor of Sen. Brown’s stunning upset in Massachusetts against Martha Coakley, the Supreme Court issued their judgment of the landmark case Citizens United v. FEC. The 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act, better known as McCain-Feingold, was largely overturned, which will likely lead to a radical shift in ... http://www.californiapatriot.org/magazine/2010/02/recent-supreme-court-decision-rules-in-favor-of-freedom-a-closer-look-at-citizens-united-v-fec/ Tragedy struck Haiti on January 12th when a 7.0 MMS earthquake rattled the nation. The quake had an epicenter 16 miles west of the capital Port-au-Prince, its effects spanning 8.1 miles and leading to 52 aftershocks of magnitude of at least 4.5 MMS. Roughly 3.5 million people lived in the ... http://www.californiapatriot.org/magazine/2010/02/tragedy-strikes-haiti-ample-international-aid-helps-country-move-past-emergency-phase/ Governor Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders are counting on the federal government to provide the state with funding to help stave off a massive $19.9 billion budget deficit that may result in significant spending cuts should the money not arrive. The governor made the plea in his annual budget proposal, released ... http://www.californiapatriot.org/magazine/2010/02/schwarzenegger-depends-on-federal-money-to-close-budget-gap-failure-may-result-in-more-cuts-to-state-services/ Republican Scott Brown’s recent victory for the Massachusetts senatorial seat left vacant after Ted Kennedy’s death has excited many conservatives for good reason. After years of being shunned by the American majority, it seems like there may be a light at the end of the tunnel for the Republican Party. ... http://www.californiapatriot.org/magazine/2010/02/conserving-the-republican-party-some-advice-from-a-libertarian/ George Lakoff has a way with words. The UC Berkeley linguistics professor has spent a great deal of his career commenting on the ways that conservatives have used rhetoric to frame the political landscape to their advantage, gaining nationwide attention in the process. Recently, however, the professor has engaged in some ... http://www.californiapatriot.org/magazine/2010/02/why-professor-lakoff-is-wrong-uc-berkeley-linguistics-professor-george-lakoff-sees-%e2%80%9ctwo-thirds-rules%e2%80%9d-as-%e2%80%9cminority-rule%e2%80%9d/ Scott Brown’s victory in the Massachusetts special Senate election caught national attention as a political game-changer. In a state where only 11% of the electorate is Republican, Brown won against Democrat Martha Coakley with a solid margin. Remarkably, Brown did not campaign as a “moderate”, but as a candidate who ... http://www.californiapatriot.org/magazine/2010/02/obamas-agenda-done-in-by-a-nude-model-scott-browns-victory-in-massachusetts/ As UC Berkeley students enjoyed their winter breaks, they may have noticed in their inboxes a curious e-mail from Chancellor Robert Birgeneau. Most probably deleted it without reading. A shame — it was more delightful political analysis from the man who, in a previous mass e-mail, warned that faculty would ... http://www.californiapatriot.org/magazine/2010/02/more-of-the-same-schwarzengger%e2%80%99s-autopilot-folly-governor%e2%80%99s-plan-to-guarantee-uc-funding-is-same-thinking-that-got-us-into-this-mess/ 1. Head Start - No Start? In a recently released study, the Department of Health and Human Services affirmed that the 45-year-old Head Start preschool program has no lasting effects on its students in all of 114 academic and non-academic tests. “These results make it clear that we need to ... http://www.californiapatriot.org/magazine/2010/02/the-minuteman-5/ The Daily Californian’s front-page story on January 25 was on crime in and around the UC Berkeley campus. They report that since a peak in 2006, robberies around the “campus area” had been steadily declining, until this past year, when they started to rise again, according to preliminary data. A ... http://www.californiapatriot.org/magazine/2010/02/students-should-be-free-to-bear-arms-violent-campus-crime-would-be-abated-with-student%e2%80%99s-right-to-carry/