Jill Stewart is the pre-eminent journalistic truth-teller about California politics. Naturally, she is a free-lancer, who lives column-by-column, without the benefit of s fulltime job for one of the state's newspapers or TV stations. Fortunately, the San Francisco Chronicle has been buying a lot of her columns lately, including today's number, headlined "Victimized by the poor." She methodically lays out the structure of self-interested parties who have ensured that California become a chronically deficit-ridden state, starving its infrastructure of necessary repairs, and lavishly funding all kinds of welfare for the poor, and even the middle class. Although she never uses...