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President Trump Targets California’s Overreaching Cap and Trade Program

April 10, 2025 11:35 amApril 10, 2025 12:12 pm

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that targets California’s climate change laws and policies, specifically naming California’s sketchy Cap and Trade program, which ostensibly facilitates greenhouse gas emission reductions. Trump is promoting “all of the above” energy policy,...

LA Times Angles for High-Speed Rail As ‘Jobs’ Program

December 26, 2024 9:40 amDecember 28, 2024 9:23 am

What a train wreck. The Los Angeles Times is touting how California’s high-speed rail project “trains workers and provides thousands of jobs in the Central Valley.” You read that right. They finally admit that it’s just a union jobs program....

Gavin Newsom’s Ongoing Tyranny of California Includes Special Legislative Session

September 19, 2024 9:03 amSeptember 20, 2024 8:32 am

When you think of California in 2024, instead of misty redwoods, golden beaches and snow-covered mountains, visions of homelessness, high crime, high taxes, high gas prices, high housing costs, and illegal border crossings come to mind. Yet Governor Gavin Newsom...

Tax Increase Season

September 6, 2024 7:44 amSeptember 6, 2024 7:44 am

It’s an election year, which means it’s time to talk about tax increases! Yay? In the past few years massive post-pandemic tax revenue increases combined with skyrocketing real estate prices have driven tax receipts ever higher. One might think that...

California Air Resources Board Exempts Itself From Regulations and State Laws

August 2, 2024 2:55 amAugust 2, 2024 2:56 am

This week, Thomas Buckley reported that a slew of new California Air Resources Board (CARB) regulations roll out this year and next, but the government will not have to worry about compliance for its own car and truck fleets. The...

Consequences for Gascon?

June 21, 2024 4:19 pmJune 21, 2024 4:19 pm

Wealthy people tend to be immune to crime – that is, the day-to-day violent kind of crime. While claims involving novel interpretations of the IRS code, a dodgy lawyer, a business manager that may be more interested in taking care...

Gov. Gavin Newsom: How to Destroy California in Less than 10 Years

March 28, 2024 8:08 amMarch 30, 2024 8:07 am

If I was a “progressive” governor and wanted to destabilize and destroy my state, there are certain policies I would impose, and orders I’d make, while insulating myself from my own policies: Create a housing shortage. Cut water off to...