With the latest campaign finance report filings, we are getting a clearer picture of the 2010 California Governor primary on the Democratic side. As Shane Goldmacher of the Sacramento Bee reported:

Attorney General Jerry Brown announced Friday that he raised $3.4 million in 2008 in advance of an expected bid for governor in 2010. That sum leaves Brown, a Democrat, perched above his two declared Democratic rivals, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Lt. Gov. John Garamendi, who each reported raising on the order of $1.1 million last year.

Brown's haul, combined with leftover cash from his 2006 election, leaves him with $4.1 million cash-on-hand, a total that dwarfs the roughly $750,000 available to Garamendi and the $540,000 available to Newsom at year's end.

Yet that doesn't give an accurate picture.

With the latest campaign finance report filings, we are getting a clearer picture of the 2010 California Governor primary on the Democratic side. As Shane Goldmacher of the Sacramento Bee reported:

Attorney General Jerry Brown announced Friday that he raised $3.4 million in 2008 in advance of an expected bid for governor in 2010. That sum leaves Brown, a Democrat, perched above his two declared Democratic rivals, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Lt. Gov. John Garamendi, who each reported raising on the order of $1.1 million last year.

Brown's haul, combined with leftover cash from his 2006 election, leaves him with $4.1 million cash-on-hand, a total that dwarfs the roughly $750,000 available to Garamendi and the $540,000 available to Newsom at year's end.

Yet that doesn't give an accurate picture.

TV and radio personality, Bill O'Reilly, is back-peddling hard from his recent statements that have so revolted Americans -- that calls for him to be fired from his privileged position on the public airwaves are persisting into a second week.

But rather than defend or apologize for his remarks, O'Reilly is desperately lashing out at his critics. He says they are "anti-American."

But Americans are wise to O'Reilly, who is increasingly being described as a "blowhard."

On November 8, 2005 Bill O'Reilly aired a radio broadcast that will live in infamy.

It seems that O'Reilly didn't like it that San Franciscans exercised their constitutional rights and passed a non-binding ballot measure urging high schools and colleges to ban military recruiting on campus. So does he criticize them? Call for a boycott? No. He says that the the American armed forces should not defend San Francisco and that Al Qeada should go ahead and attack.

His named target? The landmark Coit Tower, a monument dedicated to the heroic firefighters who fought to save San Francisco after the great earthquake a century ago.