"Attempted robbery suspect shot in NE Houston"

Houston's ABC News has this story:

The incident happened at a King Foodmart on Homestead near Firnat. From SkyEye 13 HD, a lot of police officers could be seen at the scene, who've cordoned off the area with crime scene tape.
A police spokesperson says a suspect tried to rob the store and an employee inside shot him in the chest. The suspect was rushed to Ben Taub General Hospital and is in surgery. . . .

Thanks to Jeff Yager for the link.

Gun ownership in Japan

Despite the popular conception, guns are not entirely banned in Japan.

Media inconsistency when Clinton and the NRA propose the same policy?

I have real problems with the expensive program of putting uniformed guards in schools.  It is not only expensive, but, since the guards are readily identifiable, they would likely be the first targets in any attack.  Still it is interesting to see how the proposal is greeted by the media depending on who makes it.

One-third of the nation's elementary, middle and high schools reportedly already have armed security on campus. In 2000, President Clinton marked the one-year anniversary of Columbine by proposing a significant expansion of the government's existing "COPS in Schools" program. Now that the National Rifle Association's Mr. LaPierre has made a similar proposal, he is being ridiculed. Why?

Did Clinton's proposal get this reaction from the media in 2000?  Here is a list put together by Alex Pappas at the Daily Caller.

LaPierre as delusional as any dictator. His speech against music videos, hurricanes has the feel of a Castro rant or Mugabe tirade.
— The Huffington Post’s Jason Cherkis (@jasoncherkis) December 21, 2012
In Wayne LaPierre’s defense, tone-deafness is a serious condition that afflicts hundreds of thousands of Americans.
— New York Daily News’ Josh Greenman (@joshgreenman) December 21, 2012
Wayne LaPierre should have just given this speech to an empty chair on a stage
— The Nation’s Jeremy Scahill (@jeremyscahill)December 21, 2012
No two ways about: This is gross, awful, dishonest.
— Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 21, 2012
What is this NRA guy talking about? Blame hurricanes. Blame media. It’s so strange.
— Politico’s Ben White (@morningmoneyben)December 21, 2012
This is nuts.
— Talking Points Memo’s Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) December 21, 2012
If it wasn’t for all the dead children, the #NRApress conference might have been amusing.
— The New York Times’ Jonathan Weisman (@jonathanweisman) December 21, 2012
Stallone movie meets Fidel Castro speech
— Politico’s Alex Burns (@aburnspolitico)December 21, 2012 

See also this.

Today, the same elite media who no doubt send their own kids to private schools that employ armed security, just can't stop howling ridicule at the NRA's idea to give every student in America those same protections. Because the NRA's idea is so appealing, as I write this, the media's going overboard, mocking it as bizarre, crazy, and out of touch. . . . 

So how hard is it to own a gun in Germany?

With the public school shootings in Germany, it might be worth noting how hard it is to legally own a gun in that country.  New registration figures indicate that there are 1.4 million people who legally own guns in the country out of a population of 81.8 million people --- a 1.7 percent rate.  Of course, the illegal rate of gun ownership is presumably quite different.

Obama campaign promise: "I Am Not Going To Take Your Guns Away"

"I just want to be absolutely clear. Alright,  I don't want any misunderstanding when you all go home and you are talking to your buddies.  'He wants to take your guns away.'
I believe in the Second Amendment. I believe in people's lawful right to bear arms. I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won't take your handgun away," President Obama said at a campaign event in Lebanon, Virginia in fall of 2008.

Frank Luntz: Public "insisting" that something be done, but the question is what

From Real Clear Politics:

"I don't think the the NRA is listening. I don't think they understand," Luntz said. "Most Americans would protect Second Amendment rights and yet agree with the idea that not every human being should own a gun, not every gun should be available at any time, anywhere, for anyone - that at gun shows you should not be able to buy something right there and then without any check whatsoever."  

Luntz, referring to the Newtown massacre, also said "the public is asking, if not insisting that something be done so that this does not happen again."

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson resigns over apparent content of emails written under pseudonym

Apparently, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson as well as the Obama administration has not admitted that the reason for her leaving the administration has anything to do with the emails that she sent out using a pseudonym.  What may have caused her concern is not the fact that she sent out these emails using a pseudonym but apparently the content of the emails.  Obama praised Jackson, but did not criticize her in anyway for her email activity.  Her use of these emails would at least seem to break Obama's promise of transparency, and that promise appears to have been further broken by Obama not admitting that the emails served as the reason for her leaving.  From Fox News:

A Washington attorney suing the Obama administration for access to alias emails sent by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson claims that a recent decision by the Justice Department to release thousands of those emails next month contributed to her resigning Thursday.
Jackson, in a brief written statement, said Thursday she is leaving the EPA after four years on the job, for "new challenges, time with my family and new opportunities to make a difference."
The agency did not offer an explanation. But Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said the scrutiny over the alias emails is clearly a factor.
"Life's full of coincidences, but this is too many," he told FoxNews.com. "She had no choice."
Horner and CEI earlier this year had sued the EPA for documents pertaining to Jackson's use of alias email accounts. She was said to operate under the name "Richard Windsor" -- the use of those accounts has since drawn the scrutiny of Republican members of Congress, as well as triggered an audit by the EPA inspector general. . . .

KPCC radio debate: "Do we need more gun laws, or just stronger enforcement of the ones we have?"

My debate from yesterday on KPCC (Southern California Public Radio) with a former California state Senator is available here.

In addition, here is a podcast of my recent appearance on Wall Street Shuffle.

The real cost of the New York newspaper that published the name and address of gun permit holders

Just one of the stories that shows the real harm from posting these names and addresses on the internet.

"I’ve received e-mails from abused women who were under protective order and in hiding and they’re terribly afraid that now their names and addresses are all over the Internet and accessible through that map.”

Obviously there are other costs in that criminals now know who won't be able to defend themselves.

One of the problems with background checks for gun purchases

Before I have written about how virtually all the denials from background checks are false positives and there is also the problem that about 8 percent or so of background checks are anything but "instant," now comes an example of a different type of problem with a state system.

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation's online wait-time clock for background checks tops out at 99 hours and 59 minutes. The Denver Post reports the wait is now more than 100 hours, leaving potential buyers to guess on exact wait times. . . .

Can you image the costs that this imposes on how a gun show operates?  Gun shows are a way that people can buy guns inexpensively for self defense. Making this costly will harm poor 

The lag comes with the Tanner Gun Show set to start this weekend. The show's co-owner Ty Blount says the lag means dealers will either mail a gun to a customer or meet the customer again later once the background check has cleared. . . .

A reminder that criminals are killing criminals.

A 2007 article from USA Today, but something still worth remembering.  Also note that about 90 percent of the murderers also have a criminal record.

In Baltimore, about 91% of murder victims this year had criminal records, up from 74% a decade ago, police reported. . . .
Philadelphia police Capt. Ben Naish says the Baltimore numbers are "shocking." Philadelphia also has seen the number of victims with criminal pasts inch up — to 75% this year from 71% in 2005.
In Milwaukee, local leaders created the homicide commission after a spike in violence led to a 39% increase in murders in 2005. The group compiled statistics on victims' criminal histories for the first time and found that 77% of homicide victims in the past two years had an average of nearly 12 arrests. . . .
In Newark, where three young friends with no apparent links to crime were executed Aug. 4, roughly 85% of victims killed in the first six months of this year had criminal records, on par with the percentage in 2005 but up from 81% last year, police statistics show. . . .

Does anyone think that there will be a multiple victim public shooting in Utah?

Utah teachers taking free classes to carry guns at school.  This is just a small increase in the number of teachers who already have permits in the state.  Again, is there one problem that has occurred with these teachers carrying?  No.  From Fox News.

Classroom teachers could stop school shootings by carrying concealed weapons, say gun-rights advocates who plan to offer the required training Thursday for 200 Utah teachers. 

The Utah Shooting Sports Council said it would waive its $50 fee for concealed-weapons training for the teachers. Instruction featuring plastic guns is set to begin at noon Thursday inside a conference room at Maverick Center, a hockey arena in the Salt Lake City suburb of West Valley. 

It's an idea gaining traction in the aftermath of the Connecticut school shooting. In Ohio, the Buckeye Firearms Association said it was launching a test program in tactical firearms training for 24 teachers initially. . . . 

Educators say Utah legislators left them with no choice but to accept some guns in schools. State law forbids schools, districts or college campuses from trying to impose their own gun restrictions. . . .

Does Obama want to go over the Fiscal Cliff? Some Democrats sure think so

PAT CADDELL: . . . This president is on vacation.  I give you a plan that no one should vote for but here you go.
DOUG SCHOEN: Did you see what he said to Boehner last week? Which is I will go after you in the State of the Union and in the inaugural if you don't come along. Not, 'I have a plan that the American people want.' So, I really think he wants to go over the cliff.
CADDELL: . . . Boehner said, look I have given you $800 billion in taxes, don't I get anything for that, and the president said "no."  He said: "That's Free, that is mine."

From Debra Sanders at the SF Chronicle:

My fear is that some Democrats want to go off the cliff. Back in July, Tax Policy Center co-director William G. Gale wrote that if Congress doesn't act to prevent the "fiscal cliff," Washington wins an extra $2.8 trillion in tax revenue over a decade. It's a Democrat's happiest dream -- huge tax increases without having to vote for huge tax increases.
If America goes and stays off the cliff, Tax Foundation chief economist Will McBride told me, the hit on the gross domestic product would be 9.6 percent, and American wages would fall 7 percent.
To counter any negative effects of going over the cliff, Gale proposed more stimulus spending. . . .

Piers Morgan petition tops 70,000 signatures

While I understand people's anger at Piers Morgan and it might be cathartic, I think that the petition is somewhat counterproductive.

While the petition to deport British CNN anchor Piers Morgan has just topped 70,000 — almost three times the number of signatures needed to require a formal White House response — an alternative petition still has a ways to go. 

The petition to "Keep Piers Morgan in the USA" has a mere 80 signatures, as of 10 a.m. Wednesday. 

Its cause: "We want to keep Piers Morgan in the USA. There are two very good reasons for this," the authors of the petition write. "Firstly, the first amendment. Second and the more important point. No one in the U.K. wants him back." 

"Actually, there is a third," they add. "It will be hilarious to see how loads of angry Americans react." . . .  

Morgan became a lightning rod in the ongoing gun control debate when he spoke out against pro-gun advocates last week. Morgan called Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners for America, "dangerous," "stupid," and "an idiot." The next night, he told John Lott, the author of More Guns, Less Crime that he needed "to stop repeating a blatant lie about what happens in other countries." . . .

But the funniest thing is the British petition by Brits who say that they don't want Piers back in Britain.  From the UK Daily Mail:

First Piers Morgan became the subject of a petition calling for him to be deported from the US for upsetting the gun lobby there.Now a counter-petition has been started, asking for America to keep him – not because he’s popular there but (allegedly) because no one here wants him back.The broadcaster is at the centre of a row after criticising pro-gun campaigners on his nightly US chat show in the wake of the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, in which 20 children and six adults were shot dead. . . . 

Another article in the UK Daily Mail has a similar discussion including a reference to my December 19th appearance on this show:

He called Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners for America, an 'idiot,' 'dangerous' and an 'unbelievably stupid man' after he argued that more guns would cut crime.In another debate on gun controls, an exasperated Mr Morgan shouted downeconomist John Lott, author of More Guns, Less Crime and accused him of 'lying' over gun crime trends in foreign countries including Britain. . . . 

The UK Guardian goes back over the history of even an earlier appearance that I made on Morgan's show:

On 14 December, the day of the primary school shooting, Morgan used his nightly broadcast to lambast the pro-gun lobby, shouting down John Lott, author of More Guns, Less Crime, in an angry exchange. . . .

UPDATE: Now Piers Morgan is threatening to leave the US if we don't change our gun control laws.  Morgan also likes to paint himself as the victim of attacks from gun groups.

In conclusion, I can spare those Americans who want me deported a lot of effort by saying this: If you don’t change your gun laws to at least try to stop this relentless tidal wave of murderous carnage, then you don’t have to worry about deporting me. . . .

UPDATE: James Taranto weighs in.  My only comment is that Piers' behavior went on before December 18th.

On his Dec. 18 show, NewsBusters.org notes, Morgan "rudely and disgracefully tore into guest Larry Pratt, the Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, calling him 'an unbelievably stupid man' who's 'dangerous,' concluding the interview by saying, 'You shame your country.' "
The following night, Morgan switched to a Donahue-style live-audience format, during which he berated guest John Lott, a scholar who has studied gun-control laws and found that they increase rather than reduce violence. When Lott makes that point on the program, as TheRightScoop.com recounts, Morgan "calls Lott a liar and never gives him the chance to even explain. Lott kept trying to explain, but Piers kept interrupting and finally asked him to show respect as they wanted to move on without giving Lott the chance to explain."
Americans treasure our Second Amendment rights, so it's hardly surprising that an attack on them from a foreign national--especially one from the United Kingdom, against whose tyranny the Constitution was initially designed to protect--stirred up some anger. The result, according to the Associated Press: "Tens of thousands of people have signed a petition calling for . . . Morgan to be deported from the U.S."
In response Morgan tweeted: "Ironic U.S. gun rights campaign to deport me for 'attacking 2nd Amendment rights' - is my opinion not protected under 1st Amendment rights?" We tweeted back: "Your opinion is protected, your presence in the U.S. is not." . . . 

NBC's David Gregory defied DC police order not to use large capacity magazine on Meet the Press

From Politico:

NBC was told by the Washington police that it was “not permissible” to show a high-capacity gun magazine on air before Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” according to a statement Wednesday from the cops. 

“NBC contacted [the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department] inquiring if they could utilize a high capacity magazine for their segment,” Gwendolyn Crump, a police spokeswoman, said in an email. “NBC was informed that possession of a high capacity magazine is not permissible and their request was denied. This matter is currently being investigated.” . . . .

Any bets on whether the laws apply equally to David Gregory and the average citizen in DC?

New USA Today Op-ed: Guns in schools can save lives: Disarming law abiding citizens left them sitting ducks

My piece starts this way:

Has anyone noticed that these mass shootings at public schools increased after the 1995 Gun-Free School Zone Act? Passed with good intentions, banning guns would supposedly make schools safer. 

But law abiding citizens, not criminals, obey these bans. Instead of making places safer, disarming law abiding citizens left them sitting ducks. 

Killers go where victims can't defend themselves. In the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting, out of seven theaters showing the Batman movie premiere within 20 minutes of the suspect's apartment, only one banned permitted concealed handguns. The suspect didn't go to the closest nor the largest, but to the one that banned self-defense. Time after time the story is the same. . . .

After my piece being up on the USA Today website for about 28 hours, the vote on my piece looked like this (82 percent agree, 16 percent disagree):

By contrast, the vote on the USA Today editorial board piece looked like this (39 percent agree with them, 59 percent disagree):

USA Today roundtable discussion  that I participated in on guns and mental illness.

Cincinnati, Ohio's Fox 19 TV on Concealed Carry permits and crime

FOX19.com-Cincinnati News, Weather

The piece also talks about how the Portland mall shooting was stopped.

With the budget deficit, the government continues to find things to waste lots of money on, military biofuels

Besides the exorbitant costs, sing less efficient fuel means shorter distances that our military can travel without requiring refueling.

A House-Senate deal on defense legislation omits a GOP-backed plan to thwart military purchases of biofuels.The Senate already had stripped restrictive language from its version of the defense authorization bill last month, making it differ from the House. House and Senate negotiators took cues from the Senate's version.
“There is no limiting language in there. It looks favorable at this point and I commend the administration for the hard line it took,” Michael McAdams, president of the Advanced Biofuels Association, told The Hill on Tuesday.
A House-Senate negotiating group unveiled the compromise bill Tuesday afternoon. House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) said the bill is scheduled for a Thursday House vote, is expected to pass the Senate and will hit President Obama's desk Friday. . . .

"Chinese man rams car into students, injures 13"

From AFP News:

A man in northern China has driven a car carrying a gas canister and firecrackers into a crowd of schoolchildren, injuring 13, state media reported Tuesday.
It follows a wave of recent attacks on children in China, which have prompted authorities to increase security around schools and led to calls for research into the root causes of such violence.
In the latest attack on Monday, the man drove into a crowd of students in Hebei province, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing local police.
The report did not say how old the victims were, though the students at the school they attended would range in age from 11 to 18.
The man was identified as 48-year-old Yin Tiejun, who was described as divorced and without a stable job. . . .

Thanks to Jose A. Diaz Marrero for this link. 

Republicans are apparently "racist" if they elect or appoint a black to office, but they are also racist if they oppose a black democrat

From Jeff Jacoby:

Writing Wednesday in The New York Times, University of Pennsylvania political scientist Adolph Reed Jr.was in a similar froth, slamming Scott because he doesn't think with his skin. "His politics, like those of the archconservative Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, are utterly at odds with the preferences of most black Americans." Scott has no legitimate connection to "mainstream black politics," Reed scoffed. He's just another "cynical token" – one more black Republican elected to Congress from a majority-white district. 

It's an old story by now, this venomous lashing-out at blacks and other minorities who embrace conservative or Republican values. It especially infuriates the Democratic left to see the enthusiasm black conservatives inspire among Republicans. Far from celebrating the fact that minorities can demonstrate appeal across the political spectrum, the left whips out the race card. The rise of black Republican leaders, they say, is just a thin disguise for GOP racism. Yet if Republicans oppose a black Democratic leader, they call that racism too.

Noticiero Telemundo: "Control de armas"

The video of the interview is available here.  My interview starts about 4:35 into the clip.

Alcalde de Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa opina que EEUU necesita una ley federal para lograr el control de armas de asalto. Villaraigosa opina que la sociedad tiene la responsabilidad de no cultivar una cultura de violencia. Desde otras perspectiva, el autor John Lott, escritor del libro 'Más armas, menos violencia', opina que quitarle las armas a los que respetan la ley ocasionaría el efecto contrario. 

Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa believes that America needs a federal law to gain control of assault weapons. Villaraigosa believes that the company has a responsibility to not cultivate a culture of violence. From other perspective, the author John Lott, author of the book 'more weapons, less violence', believes that take weapons off the law-abiding would cause the opposite effect.

Appearance on CNBC's Kudlow Report on Gun-free Zone

The 4 minute and 49 second discussion is available here.

John Lott, author of "More Guns, Less Crime," weighs in on the rush to reduce the number of guns; and CNBC's Mary Thompson reports whether legal action is coming following the deadly Connecticut elementary school shooting.

Another measure of mass shootings over time

One measure of multiple victim public shootings is available here.  Looking at this, my initial reaction is that it doesn't differentiate between gang fights and the type of attacks that have garnered so much attention at Newtown, Columbine, and other places.  This "counted a mass shooting as any murder where four or more people were killed at once."

Fox News has a story available here.
Another Fox News piece on Ron Paul's objection to the NRA proposal on putting police at schools.  I have to agree that I don't see the point of federalizing this.  State should have the right incentive to fix this problem.

A well-written piece on move to let people carry concealed handguns in schools

This article apparently originally appeared in Politico:

Gun rights advocates have suggested armed school staff could have prevented the killing of 20 children in a Connecticut elementary school. Now, lawmakers in Texas, Tennessee, Virginia and Florida are considering arming teachers and allowing concealed weapons on school campuses. All four states have the Brady Center To Prevent Gun Violence’s lowest rating. . . .  

Patterson, who wrote Texas’ original concealed carry law as a state legislator and is running for lieutenant governor in 2014, has long favored allowing concealed weapons in schools. But his idea seem to be gaining steam. Texas Gov. Rick Perry told a Tea Party group this week he wants a law allowing teachers to carry concealed weapons in school. . . .While Texas is the center of the movement, governors in Tennessee and Virginia have also signaled openness to allowing guns on school grounds.
“If people were armed, not just a police officer, but other school officials that were trained and chose to have a weapon, certainly there would be an opportunity to stop an individual trying to get into the school,” Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said on WTOP, a local radio station. . . .
A South Carolina House member introduced legislation there earlier this week. The Florida legislator who wrote the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law and an Arizona gun rights group have also proposed arming trained teachers
“In our zealousness to protect people from harm we’ve created all these gun-free zones and what we’ve inadvertently done is we’ve made them a target,” Florida GOP Rep. Dennis Baxley told the AP. “A helpless target is exactly what a deranged person is looking for where they cannot be stopped.” . . .
In Michigan, it is legal to carry a pistol in schools — as long as the weapon isn’t concealed. Patterson pointed out several school districts in Texas have armed police forces. And Utah, Oregon and New Hampshire already allow concealed carry in schools, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. . . .

Two interviews with Mark Levin on the Newtown, CT school shootings

My next interview with Mark on December 18th is available here.

A partial list of the 206 college campuses that allow students to carry concealed handguns

The National Conference of State Legislatures notes

-- 5 states now have provisions allowing the carrying of concealed weapons on public postsecondary campuses.  These states are Colorado, Mississippi, Oregon, Utah, and Wisconsin. 
-- 23 states the decision to ban or allow concealed carry weapons on campuses is made by each college or university individually: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia.
-- 21 (actually 22 if you include Illinois) states that ban carrying a concealed weapon on a college campus: Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming.

According to Students for Concealed Carry there are 206 colleges that allow this.  Here is a partial list.

1. UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

2. UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY

3. SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY

4. UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY

5. WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY

6. DIXIE STATE COLLEGE OF UTAH

7. COLLEGE OF EASTERN UTAH

8. SNOW COLLEGE

9. SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

10. Southwest Mississippi Community College

11. CENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE

12. CHEMEKETA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

13. CLACKAMAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE

14. CLATSOP COMMUNITY COLLEGE

15. COLUMBIA GORGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

16. KLAMATH COMMUNITY COLLEGE

17. LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

18. LINN-BENTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE

19. MT. HOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE

20. OREGON COAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE

21. PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE

22. ROGUE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

23. SOUTHWESTERN OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE

24. TILLAMOOK BAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE

25. TREASURE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE

26. UMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

27. EASTERN OREGON COLLEGE

28. OREGON HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY

29. OREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

30. OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY

31. PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY

32. SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY 

33. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON

34. UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX

35. WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY

36. EDMONDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE 

37. BATES TECHNICAL COLLEGE

38. SHORELINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

39. UW-EAU CLAIRE

40. UW-GREEN BAY

41. UW-LA CROSSE

42. UW-MADISON

43. UW-MILWAUKEE

44. UW-OSHKOSH

45. UW-PARKSIDE

46. UW-PLATTEVILLE

47. UW-RIVER FALLS

48. UW-STEVENS POINT

49. UW-STOUT

50. UW-SUPERIOR

51. UW-WHITEWATER

52. UW-BARABOO/SAUK COUNTY 

53. UW-BARRON COUNTY 

54. UW-FOND DU LAC

55. UW-FOX VALLEY

56. UW-MANITOWOC

57. UW-MARATHON COUNTY

58. UW-MARINETTE

59. UW-MARSHFIELD/WOOD COUNTY

60. UW-RICHLAND

61. UW-ROCK COUNTY

62. UW-SHEBOYGAN

63. UW-WASHINGTON COUNTY

64. UW-WAUKESHA

65. BLACKHAWK TECHNICAL COLLEGE

66. CHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE

67. FOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE

68. GATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE

69. LAKESHORE TECHNICAL COLLEGE

70. MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE

71. MID-STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE

72. MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE

73. MORAINE PARK TECHNICAL COLLEGE

74. NICOLET AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE

75. NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE

76. NORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE

77. SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE

78. WAUKESHA COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE

79. WESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE

80. WISCONSIN INDIANHEAD TECHNICAL COLLEGE

81. COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY

82. AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE

83. ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

84. COLORADO NORTHWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE

85. COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA

86. COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER

87. FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

88. LAMAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE

89. MORGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE

90. NORTHEASTERN JUNIOR COLLEGE

91. OTERO JUNIOR COLLEGE

92. PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY COLLEGE

93. PUEBLO COMMUNITY COLLEGE

94. RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE

95. TRINIDAD STATE JUNIOR COLLEGE

96. LIBERTY UNIVERSITY

97. EDMONDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE

98. BATES TECHNICAL COLLEGE

99. SHORELINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

100. Alcorn State University

101. Delta State University

102. Jackson State University

103. Mississippi State University

104. Mississippi University for Women

105. Mississippi Valley State University

106. University of Mississippi

107. The University of Southern Mississippi

108. Coahoma Community College

109. Copiah-Lincoln Community College

110. East Central Community College

111. East Mississippi Community College

112. Hinds Community College

113. Holmes Community College

114. Itawamba Community College

115. Jones County Junior College

116. Meridian Community College

117. Mississippi Delta Community College

118. Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

119. Northeast Mississippi Community College

120. Pearl River Community College

California tax increase helping "clear the way" for more government spending

I guess that I thought that the California tax increase was to cut down the deficit.  Now apparently there are plans for more big spending programs.

That could clear the way for an expansive agenda over the next two years, ranging from education and pension to an overhaul of California’s boom-or-bust tax structure. . . .