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VMT Housing Tax Buried in Budget Bill Could Add $324,000 Per Home or Apartment

September 8, 2025 7:17 amSeptember 9, 2025 9:26 am

A new Vehicle-Miles Traveled (VMT) housing tax was quietly buried in the recent budget housing bill package in Assembly Bill 130, the bill Newsom signed in June claiming he was reforming CEQA, the Holy Grail of environmental policy, California Environmental...

Ninth Circuit Court Violates its Own Rules; Overturns its 3-Judge Panel’s Decision on LAUSD Covid Vax Mandate

September 6, 2025 8:38 amSeptember 8, 2025 12:13 pm

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just delivered a decision in a multi-year Covid-vaccine mandates case that lowered the bar on legal decisions, violated 120 years of juris prudence, misinterpreted Jacobson v. Massachusetts, a Supreme Court case from 1905 about...

California Democrats Consider Increasing $16 Billion in Annual Taxes and Fees

September 4, 2025 5:12 pmSeptember 5, 2025 10:17 am

The saying, “When you’re in a hole, stop digging” does not seemingly apply to Democrats in the California legislature. Evidently, the solution to the tax-and-spend Democratic supermajority is: “When you’re in a hole, keep digging…and raise taxes.” A report published...

Decades Long Tijuana Sewage Crisis: Real Progress In just 100 days

September 1, 2025 2:52 amDecember 16, 2025 11:41 am

For many years, untreated raw sewage has flowed into Southern California from Mexico and polluted the Tijuana River Valley, causing beaches to close, rendering them unusable. Even with beaches closed, and dangerous pollution issues, the federal government never managed to...

Babylon Bee Gets Last Laugh, Federal Judge Finds CA ‘Deepfake ‘ Law Unconstitutional

August 30, 2025 3:43 pmSeptember 2, 2025 10:49 am

Babylon Bee, a satirical political website, is enjoying a favorable federal court decision in their case challenging Assembly Bill 2839, a “disinformation and deepfake” law passed by the California legislature and signed by Governor Gavin Newsom. The law specifically prohibited...

Governor Newsom Announces Surge in Law Enforcement To Fight Crime

August 28, 2025 2:54 pmAugust 29, 2025 2:05 pm

Governor Gavin Newsom, flanked by law enforcement, announced in today’s press conference that he will be introducing new and expanded crime-fighting efforts by increasing law enforcement teams and operations throughout the state to fight crime in cooperating cities, counties, and...

BREAKING: Assembly Leader Gallagher’s 2-State Solution to California’s Malfeasance

August 27, 2025 10:51 amAugust 28, 2025 12:16 pm

California Assembly Republican Minority Leader James Gallagher (R–East Nicolaus) held a press conference Wednesday to announce a resolution calling for the creation of a new U.S. state made up of 35 inland California counties. This division of California between the...