Don’t bend to calls for a global tax cartel
When all you have is a hammer, everything does indeed look like a nail. This is the best way to describe government officials’ unoriginal and...
Will the tanking stock market doom President Biden and the Democrats?
President Biden’s honeymoon phase with the stock market has officially ended. In President Biden’s first year in office, the benchmark S&P 500 seemed to only...
A ‘disinformation’ board inspired by a dystopian novel
SACRAMENTO – Dystopian fiction always has fascinated me because writers such as Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury based their stories on real-world trends –...
The Supreme Court overturning Roe won’t boost Democrats’ chances in the midterms
In light of the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion indicating that Roe v. Wade is set to be overturned, some Democrats are optimistic that the...
Putting some WD-40 on the U.S. supply chain
Politicians, the Federal Reserve, and Fed and administration apologists like to claim that the inflation we face is caused by supply constraints. This claim goes...
Why is Rob Bonta suing the Postal Service?
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing the United States Postal Service. You’d think after California passed a law requiring the USPS to practically run...
Just say ‘nah’ to student loan forgiveness
There are a lot of things for the president of the United States to focus on. Entertaining student loan forgiveness shouldn’t be one of them....
World of Witchcraft: California’s anti-business campaign clear in the war against Activision
California’s state Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) says it’s committed to creating safe, harassment-free workplaces. Now it’s the department itself that’s doing the...
The news biz and the threat of the lies
Last year, I joined more than a thousand other journalists in filling out a survey from PEN America, the writers’ group, about the impact of...
America, and the world, must do better on resettling refugees
Over 5 million refugees have already left Ukraine, with 3 million offered temporary residence in Poland. Hungary and Romania have accepted over half a million...
‘Disinformation’ and the totalitarian impulse to punish wrongthink
Do you know the story of Galileo and the Inquisition? Born in 1564 in Italy, Galileo was an astronomer and mathematician. “His discoveries with the...
Is California’s population decline a pandemic glitch or start of a new era?
The numbers suggest a major change is underway in California. It would take a Nostradamus to know if that change is real and long lasting...
State’s latest tobacco ‘protections’ are trying to kill us
SACRAMENTO – I consider myself a rational person, someone who is swayed by solid data and persuasive arguments, yet every afternoon after my work is...
California’s K-12 system is in a state of emergency
California’s K-12 system is in a state of emergency. Enrollment is declining, caused by a number of factors including COVID shutdowns, stagnant or declining population...
Will punishing Disney end cronyism in Florida?
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed legislation that strips Walt Disney World of its independent, special district status after the company objected to the state’s...
Unmasking the passengers, and unleashing the Karens
A federal judge struck down the Biden administration’s mandate that masks be worn on planes, trains, buses, and other public transportation, leading to an immediate...
You can have a new showerhead, but you can’t have any new water
You can have a new showerhead, but you can’t have any new water. That’s the policy in California, apparently. The Los Angeles Department of Water...
Race-baiting for tax fairness (or more money for failing governments)
Around this time last month, I was minding my own business doing whatever it is that I do when someone sent along what can generously...
Californians don’t get much bang for billions of bucks
The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association isn’t shy about its mission. Named for the chief architect of California’s Proposition 13 property tax limit, the organization fiercely...
ASU eats UC’s lunch with new downtown LA campus
Out to dinner with friends the other night, the conversation turned to shared college memories. Three of the four of us at the table had...
Let’s put an end to the politics of virtue signaling
SACRAMENTO – Officials in overwhelmingly Democratic California have long used state power to torment businesses they don’t like for a variety of ideological reasons. The...
Why housing doesn’t get built in California
Would you like to know why housing doesn’t get built in California? Because of blithering idiocy. For example, consider a new bill just introduced. Well,...
The U.S. should never turn to tyrants like Maduro for our energy needs
When President Biden announced in early March that the United States would halt Russian oil imports, it was a welcome gesture for those of us...
Widespread support for curbing Big Tech’s power over news and publishing
Thousands of local papers have shuttered their doors in recent years, and those surviving are facing unprecedented challenges in remaining both economically viable and as...