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California Legislature’s ‘Gut and Amend’ is ‘Bait and Switch’, This Time Trying to Destroy Charter Schools

September 10, 2025 4:32 pmSeptember 10, 2025 5:56 pm

UPDATE below: The “gut and amend” bills in the California Legislature are nothing more than a legislative bait-and-switch. “Gutting and amending” unrelated bills into controversial legislation prevents Californians the time guaranteed by law to review and deliberate. We recently saw...

Bipartisan Group of Congressional Lawmakers Work to Increase ‘Alien Physician’ Jobs in Rural Areas

September 10, 2025 3:41 amSeptember 10, 2025 3:42 am

A bipartisan group of Congress members and Senators, including Republican David Valadao and Democrat Mike Garcia of California, Brad Schneider (D-CO), and Don Bacon (R-NE), as well as Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), and Thom...

Greenberg: San Francisco’s Insanely High Per Capita Spending

September 10, 2025 2:55 amSeptember 10, 2025 2:56 am

It’s hard to believe but our new mayor, Daniel Lurie, who campaigned on accountability as a main talking point, is now proposing a tax, a parcel tax, to be put to the voters next year, to close the gap in...

Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics – the Politics of Crime

September 9, 2025 3:06 pmSeptember 9, 2025 3:50 pm

There have been howls of protests over President Donald Trump taking over the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police, bringing in the national guard and threatening national guard reinforcement to reduce crime in other major U.S. cities such as Chicago and San...

Retroactive v. Prospective Legislation in California

September 9, 2025 2:55 pmSeptember 9, 2025 2:55 pm

In most instances, legislation applies prospectively, meaning after the law has been enacted and takes effect. Nonetheless, there are times when the Legislature desires statutes to be applied retroactively, and sometimes they also specify a prospective application date. The following...

Desperate San Francisco Residents in ‘Drug-Ridden Hellhole’ Sue Democrat Leaders

September 9, 2025 7:00 amOctober 15, 2025 3:46 pm

Tenderloin residents sue SF in effort to stop distribution of harm reduction kits, a headline at ABC7 says about San Francisco Democrats assisting homeless drug addict vagrants living on the city streets with free drug paraphernalia. The Tenderloin district is...

The Sour Grapes of Socialists

September 9, 2025 3:30 amSeptember 9, 2025 6:29 am

John Steinbeck’s classic “The Grapes of Wrath”, published in 1939, got its title from the Battle Hymn of the Republic. The hymn’s line is, “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out...