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.

Sacramento Housing Demolition Crisis

November 19, 2019 8:02 amNovember 19, 2019 8:07 am

As Gov. Gavin Newsom and state leaders grapple with California’s housing crisis, some longtime Sacramento homeowners are bewildered by a government project that would decrease the supply of housing by demolishing their own homes, all of which have been in...

Newsom and the Nineties

November 16, 2019 2:42 amNovember 18, 2019 8:10 am

“America in 2019 is California in the 1990s,” California Governor Gavin Newsom recently told Politico. “The xenophobia, the nativism, the fear of ‘the other.’ Scapegoating. Talking down or past people. The hysteria. And so, we’re not going to put up with that....

Democrats in Deep Schiff

November 13, 2019 8:21 pmNovember 14, 2019 1:43 pm

Intel Committee boss Adam Schiff was explaining how the very survival of the American republic depended on the impeachment hearings that kicked off on Wednesday. Asked when the committee would vote on the ability to address the “whistleblower,” the Burbank,...

No-Show Newsom

November 12, 2019 2:30 amNovember 11, 2019 8:47 pm

Last Thursday, El Dorado County Sheriff John D’Agostini told reporters an illegal alien “murdered my deputy,” Brian Ishmael. As the sheriff also noted, “noticeably absent from my deputy’s funeral on Tuesday, was our governor.” Asked whether Newsom’s absence was a...

Possessing a Firearm While Being an Alien Unlawfully in the United States

November 10, 2019 7:38 amNovember 9, 2019 8:44 pm

Six months after being charged in a triple vehicular homicide and felony DUI, Ismael Huazo-Jardinez is in the news again. As Sam Stanton reports in the Sacramento Bee, a federal probe of illegal weapons has targeted, among others, the “Mexican...

Illegal Alien “Murdered My Deputy”

November 8, 2019 10:22 amNovember 8, 2019 10:24 am

Gov. Newson a no-show at funeral of El Dorado County deputy Brian Ishmael Nearly two weeks after the murder of El Dorado County deputy Brian Ishmael, and after his funeral, it emerged that the officer’s accused killer, Juan Carlos...

‘Destined to Burn’ Because Rural CA Towns Vote Against Taxes to Increase Fire Safety?

November 6, 2019 12:27 pmNovember 6, 2019 12:35 pm

Does Proposition 13 cause firefighters to lose their jobs? “This California firefighter nearly died,” proclaimed the headline of Ryan Sabalow’s Sacramento Bee report on Monday. “Then voters laid him off — in fight for lower taxes.” If they continue...