Author: Lloyd Billingsley

Lloyd Billingsley is the author of Sexual Terrorist, about the Golden State Killer, and A Shut and Open Case, about a California murder trial prolonged by Proposition 57 and recent legislation. Lloyd is a fellow with the Independent Institute and his work has appeared in the Daily Caller, City Journal, Orange County Register, Wall Street Journal and many other publications. Bill of Writes: Dispatches from the Political Correctness Battlefield is a collection of his journalism.

Adverse Possession and Squatters Rights

January 23, 2020 3:11 pmJanuary 23, 2020 5:47 pm

In “Natomas Development,” an article in the January N Magazine, Sacramento city councilman Steve Hansen noted “challenges” for the River Oak community working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on levee improvements scheduled to continue for a few more...

From Ruby Ridge to San Francisco

January 21, 2020 6:42 amJanuary 21, 2020 8:53 am

On Sunday night, Fox News ran the second part of their “Scandalous” documentary series on the Ruby Ridge standoff in 1992. The siege, which claimed two innocent lives, took place in northern Idaho, but a California senator played a role...

Crime Journalist Arraigned on Theft, Forgery Charges

January 15, 2020 10:38 amJanuary 15, 2020 10:50 am

Antoinnette Borbon, once a writer for the Davis Vanguard, was arraigned Tuesday in Woodland on counts of grand theft and possessing fictitious instruments, which Yolo County Judge Peter M. Williams said meant “forgery.” It was not the defendant’s first appearance...

How the National Football League Compares to Politics and Government

January 14, 2020 8:07 amJanuary 14, 2020 8:14 am

Performance or promises? Players cannot simply claim they can run 40 yards in 4.4 seconds or complete a standing jump of more than 30 inches. Yet politicians vie to be their party’s candidate based on promises of what they will do...

California Panhandle

January 10, 2020 6:30 amJanuary 10, 2020 8:51 am

At the Walmart in West Sacramento, panhandlers now give way to signature takers for a bond issue backed by Americans for Cures. As one gatherer explained, the non-profit sought $1.5 billion but that turned out to be a lowball figure....

Caltech Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold Retracts Paper: ‘Not Reproducible’

January 8, 2020 6:21 amJanuary 8, 2020 6:22 am

‘Science that touches on political agendas has contributed more than its share of problems to the irreproducibility crisis.’ “I am totally bummed to announce that we have retracted last year’s paper on enzymatic synthesis of beta-lactams.” That was a...

Gov. Gavin’s Go-To Guy

January 7, 2020 7:03 amJanuary 6, 2020 7:42 pm

As Sophia Bollag reports in the Sacramento Bee, “Gov. Gavin Newsom turned at least four times to global consulting firm McKinsey & Co. over the past year when he wanted to bring a private sector perspective to California government.” The...