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<title><![CDATA[Brian Calle - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/20537.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Brian Calle]]></description><category domain="20537">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Unions Dominate California Ballot Propositions]]></title>
							<link>http://briancalle.ocregister.com/2012/10/14/unions-dominate-california-ballot-propositions/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Calle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unions representing public workers in California have remarkable success achieving their desired outcomes for California ballot propositions&mdash;call it success by defeat. In some instances unions have outspent adversaries in California&rsquo;s initiative process 8 to 1. This may come...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Public Unions Dig In Against Popular Reforms]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/unions-371520-public-union.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Calle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Instead of embracing the inevitable necessity of reform, however, unions more often are digging in, even resorting to publicity stunts to improve their image instead of addressing the issues.Just prior to the start of the Democratic National Convention this month in Charlotte, N.C.,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Clinton Won a 2nd Term &amp; Obama May Not]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ocregister.com/articles/obama-370759-clinton-president.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Calle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Charlotte, N.C &ndash; . Events at the Democratic National Convention illustrated the party's shift in recent years to the political left. Even former President Bill Clinton, in the minds of many the archetype of the centrist Democrat, used his lengthy speech &ndash; widely hailed as the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Teachers Union a Colossus Outside Class]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/cta-353811-teachers-california.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Calle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It should come as no surprise that a California public employee union would be dubbed the "worst union in America." In the current quarterly edition of City Journal, writer Troy Senik bestows that label on the California Teachers Association, opining that the CTA has not only "betrayed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Court Balance in Play This Election]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/court-351395-supreme-president.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Calle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The stakes in this year's election are higher than normal because the next president may have the unusual opportunity to impact the ideological direction of the Supreme Court, untypical of any one presidential term.During the next presidential term, starting in January 2013, of the nine...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In California, Union Voices Often the Loudest]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/california-345007-state-unions.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Calle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Lobbying, unsurprisingly, is commonplace and aggressive in U.S. state capitals and in Washington, D.C. Special interests and their paid representatives flock to legislators and bureaucrats, seeking favors, like pigs rushing to a full trough. The problem at the state and municipal level...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Not So Welcome in the OC?]]></title>
							<link>http://briancalle.ocregister.com/2012/02/16/obama-not-so-welcome-in-the-oc/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Calle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of protesters lined Pacific Coast Highway Thursday morning to greet President Barack Obama who was visiting Newport Beach for a campaign fundraiser. Most of the attendees awaited the arrival of the president in protest though a number of pro-Obama supporters were sprinkled...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Romney McCain Version 2.0?]]></title>
							<link>http://briancalle.ocregister.com/2012/01/07/is-mitt-romney-john-mccain-version-2-0/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Calle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The endorsement of Mitt Romney&rsquo;s presidential bid by John McCain, the 2008 Republican nominee, was the latest indication that Romney is the GOP establishment&rsquo;s heir apparent.As Romney, who picked up McCain&rsquo;s endorsement last week, appears to be gliding to a comfortable...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Soak the 1% to Save California]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Calle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[California's budget is in a constant state of peril or, perhaps more accurately, a budgetary inferno, because of, as Gov. Jerry Brown accurately noted in his recent Open Letter to the People of California, "years of failing to match spending with tax revenues as budget gimmicks instead...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Education-Industrial Complex Hurts Schoolkids]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/education-325483-rhee-teachers.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Calle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Education Department's National Center for Educational Statistics on Tuesday released what it calls the Nation's Report Card. The compilation of student test scores nationwide reflected a 1 percent improvement by fourth- and eighth-graders in mathematics but essentially no...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Romney What the GOP, U.S. Needs?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/romney-317499-social-security.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Calle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After facing off against seven other GOP presidential hopefuls in another round of debates last week, Mitt Romney has done little more than establish his candidacy as pusillanimous. He sticks to safe, typical campaign rhetoric and falls short of anything even nearing the realm of bold. A...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rick Perry Is the Real Deal]]></title>
							<link>http://orangepunch.ocregister.com/2011/09/07/for-conservatives-rick-perry-is-the-one/49179/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Calle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For those concerned with a philosophically conservative, free market approach to government and economics in the White House perhaps look no further than Texas Governor Rick Perry who at the Republican Presidential Debate, hit the core principles that ought to be most important to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The President vs. the Job Creators]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/business-311881-administration-job.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Calle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Captains of industry have begun, in uncustomary fashion, speaking up against President Barack Obama and his policies &#194;&#150; and the chorus will likely grow louder going into next year's presidential election, perhaps swaying independent voters. The president may dismiss the chorus as the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[$5,600 to Wash Police Motorcycles?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/pay-307605-city-special.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Calle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It pays well to wash your motorcycle if you are a cop in Newport  Beach, where officers who patrol on motor bikes are paid an additional  six hours of overtime every month simply for giving their cycles a wash.  The special compensation equates to, on average, about a 5 percent pay  hike...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Texas the New California?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/texas-305818-california-state.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Calle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A bustling economy, housing at affordable levels and some of the most  aggressive examples of business-friendly public policies in the country  make Texas desirable not only for entrepreneurs and retirees but also  right-leaning voters desperately searching for some hope for a fiscally ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Atlas Shrugged' Movie Could Be a Cult Classic]]></title>
							<link>http://dailycaller.com/2011/04/10/why-the-new-atlas-shrugged-movie-could-become-a-cult-classic/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Calle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Atlas Shrugged: Part 1,&rdquo; the film adaptation of Ayn Rand&rsquo;s  prescient, unabashedly pro-free market capitalism novel, hits theaters  April 15. Its timing could not be better.Though taken from a book written a half-century ago and set in the  year 2016, the movie is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pension Tsunami Has Reached Shoreline]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/states-286165-unions-pension.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Calle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pension expert Marcia Fritz of the California Foundation for Fiscal  Responsibility had it right when she told me last week that states are  "far beyond nibbling around the edges" on pension issues. Concerns over  mounting unfunded public-employee retirement benefits confronting states ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Some Hope, Little Change From Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://orangepunch.ocregister.com/2011/01/25/obama-sotu-some-hope-little-change-and-a-lot-of-hyperbole/40466/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Calle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not that anyone has come to expect exceptional rhetoric worthy of  comparison to Socrates or Aristotle from the modern State of the Union  address, but President Obama&rsquo;s speech to the nation was particularly  flat, high on sparkling trivialities and hyperbole, but at the same time ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[After Bell's Toll: Can California Be Reformed?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ocregister.com/articles/city-261084-local-transparency.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Calle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Calling out the city of Bell's flagrant misuse of taxpayer funds for  enormous salaries for city executives has started a statewide movement  for local cities and municipalities to post all salary information on  their websites.That's good news for those of us concerned with greater...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No City Manager's Worth $800K]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/city-258796-council-bell.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Calle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When a city manager in a tiny, poor southeastern city in Los Angeles  County, where the per capita income is less than half the national  average, is making $800,000 a year, taxpayers should be outraged. When  the police chief of that same city is being paid almost $500,000, local ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Must Preserve Gift of Freedom]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/government-256155-declaration-liberty.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Calle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In rightly celebrating American independence and liberty on the  Fourth, one should also take a moment to reflect and remember the  founders who 234 years ago in the Continental Congress adopted the text  for one of the most consequential documents in human history, the  Declaration of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Meg Whitman Has Big Potential]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/whitman-253077-california-governor.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Calle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Meg Whitman's meteoric rise to the top of the California GOP ticket  should leave Jerry Brown shaking in his sandals, but her candidacy also  ought to cause many of the down-ticket Democratic candidates, including  Sen. Barbara Boxer, some sleepless nights. Whitman has proven she is ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Will Replace Stevens?]]></title>
							<link>http://orangepunch.freedomblogging.com/2010/04/09/left-leaning-justice-stevens-resigns-but-whos-next-on-the-court/22979/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Calle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Justice John Paul Stevens, thought of as one of the left-leaning  members of the United States Supreme Court, Friday announced his  retirement from the highest judicial body in the country. His farewell  to the court is not a surprise and had been speculated about since late  2009 when...]]></description>
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