Tom McClintock, Author at California Globe

Rep. Tom McClintock Calls on President Biden to Fulfill His Promise to Caldor Fire Victims

November 20, 2021 7:50 amNovember 20, 2021 8:02 am

Rep. Tom McClintock sent a letter to President Joe Biden calling upon him to fulfill the promise he made to assist the victims of the Caldor Fire when he visited the scene on September 13, 2021. The Federal Emergency Management...

Congressman McClintock: Who Pays for the Woke?

October 5, 2021 10:30 amOctober 5, 2021 11:05 am

During the Trump Administration, Republicans passed one of the biggest tax cuts in American history and the greatest regulatory relief ever. The result was the biggest economic expansion in our lifetimes. Before the lockdown left took a wrecking ball to...

Sorry, Forest Service: Fire is NOT our Friend

August 4, 2021 4:43 pmAugust 4, 2021 4:53 pm

On July 4th, lightning struck a tree in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in Alpine County, California, igniting a small fire that smoldered for days in a quarter acre of rugged terrain. According to Sheriff Rick Stephens, California’s fire-fighting agency, CalFire,...

Earmarks: A Monumentally Bad Idea

July 1, 2021 10:45 amJuly 2, 2021 3:50 pm

Ever since the Magna Carta, it has been a settled principle of good governance that the power that appropriates public funds should not be the same power that spends them. This principle is at the heart of our Constitution: the...

The Real Cost of ‘Free’ Money: The Inflation Tax

June 3, 2021 10:57 amJune 3, 2021 11:21 am

When the Democrats passed Mr. Biden’s $1.9 trillion spending spree in March, a lot of people got a lot of free money – thousands of dollars in many cases. But the bill is already coming due for that free money,...

The Racist Left

May 18, 2021 3:54 pmMay 18, 2021 4:09 pm

Racism is the practice of according rights and privileges to an individual not based on equality under the law, but rather according to what race that person was born. It is antithetical to every principle our country was founded on,...

CA Congressman Tom McClintock: ‘No Borders, No Country’

March 5, 2021 1:14 pmMarch 5, 2021 2:03 pm

Before the lockdown left took a wrecking ball to our economy last year, we were enjoying one of the greatest expansions of economic opportunity in our lifetimes. Unemployment was at its lowest rate in 50 years, the poverty rate was at its lowest...