J.S. Scifo is a third-generation Californian who has worked in national and state politics. You can follow him at J.S. Scifo on Substack | Substack and on Twitter @JS_Scifo.
California has become a threat not only to itself but the country at large. Accepted into the Union in 1850, it was exceptional from the beginning, being the only state that was incorporated into the United States without first...
So, the campaign for multiculturalism has reached its final victory: the internecine conflicts of the world’s most violent, war-ridden armpit now embroil the Golden State. The Intifada has gone California. Of course, ethnic strife isn’t how multiculturalism was supposed to...
On Monday, as opponents of abortion marched for life around the state Capitol, numerous news outlets reported that Newsom’s PAC, the Campaign for Democracy, was funding a television advertisement in Alabama warning of the dangers of new state laws to...
Security State. They’re everywhere! I’m not talking about the homeless, or migrants abandoned on the streets of our cities by immigration officials, or even billboards for cannabis. No, I’m talking about the ever-present…security guard. When I was a kid growing...
It has taken me 30 years of reading and thinking about politics and political ideas to reach the conclusion that liberalism is just the first stage of tyranny. The trigger for this revelation is the renewed effort to…once again…eliminate the...
There are two things that stand between Gavin Newsom and the White House: Joe Biden and his own record as governor. There’s not much Newsom can do about the former, but he’s trying hard to correct—at least cosmetically—the errors of...
Last week the Los Angeles Times announced it was laying off 115 news staff, in the middle of labor negotiations no less. While I take no joy in seeing people lose their jobs, a part of me thinks that the demise...