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California Doesn’t Have a Wealth Tax… The Wealthy Left Anyway

July 1, 2026 6:00 amJuly 1, 2026 6:01 am

One of my clients moved to Texas two years ago. He’d built a software company over twenty years, sold it, and ended up with a concentrated position in a private fund and a house in Palo Alto worth more than...

California’s Absurd ‘Gay Certification’ Process for Utility Contracts

June 20, 2026 12:00 pmJune 20, 2026 11:18 pm

Recent reporting has pulled back the curtain on yet another California scheme that prioritizes identity over merit in the distribution of public resources. Through the California Public Utilities Commission’s Supplier Diversity Program under General Order 156, large investor-owned utilities face...

The New Caste System: California’s LGBTBE Program Rewards Identity Over Merit

June 20, 2026 6:40 amJune 20, 2026 11:29 pm

I arrived in California in 1990, when the government was functioning and the mood was upbeat. Thirty-five years later I’m still here, watching Sacramento systematically dismantle the institutional infrastructure that made the state worth staying in. The latest example is...

Racial Redistricting: How the Supreme Court Ruling Could Affect California’s Prop 50

May 6, 2026 8:18 amMay 7, 2026 11:12 pm

California’s controversial mid-decade redistricting scheme is on notice: not only did the mapmaker who drew the map publicly state that districts were designed to “bolster” Latino voting strength and to hit specific racial targets, last week’s Supreme Court ruling in...

Exclusive: New Civil Rights Complaint Against UC Berkeley for Discrimination

February 10, 2026 7:23 amFebruary 10, 2026 7:36 am

A new civil rights complaint has just been submitted pursuant to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights discrimination complaint resolution procedures, on behalf of the Equal Protection Project of the Legal Insurrection Foundation, a non-profit that, among...

Californians for Equal Rights Foundation Sues San Francisco to Stop its Reparations Plan

February 7, 2026 9:46 amFebruary 7, 2026 9:46 am

The Californians for Equal Rights Foundation and two co-plaintiffs have filed suit against the City and County of San Francisco and San Francisco Human Rights Commission to stop the unconstitutional reparations fund plan. The Pacific Legal Foundation filed the lawsuit...

Are Parental Rights Making a Comeback — Not if California Leadership Can Stop It

December 26, 2025 3:00 pmDecember 26, 2025 3:00 pm

Judge Benitez’s order restoring parental rights, free speech, and religious conscience is a long-overdue return to sanity — and California’s Democratic leadership is already trying to stop it. On December 22, 2025, a federal judge in California did something that...