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How the California FAIR Plan Turned into a Great Pumpkin Nightmare

October 30, 2025 1:32 pmOctober 30, 2025 1:32 pm

The Great Pumpkin’s annual ascent from the sincerest patch is always a spectacle—but the 2025 vintage comes with a non-festive twist: a 35.8% spike in “ride” fares, leaving homeowners clutching their candy bags and wailing, “I got a rock!” (And...

The AWS Outage Just a Glimpse of Potential Cyber Chaos

October 30, 2025 11:12 amOctober 30, 2025 11:12 am

As Cybersecurity Awareness Month comes to a close, it ends having given us all a small glimpse into the potential chaos that awaits us if hackers had their way. A couple of weeks ago, Amazon Web Services suffered a massive...

Phillips 66 and Kinder Morgan Launch Open Season for Western Gateway Pipeline

October 30, 2025 10:14 amOctober 30, 2025 10:14 am

Phillips 66 and Kinder Morgan announced a binding open season this week for the Western Gateway Pipeline, a proposed 1,300-mile system to transport refined petroleum products from Texas refineries to markets in Arizona, Nevada, and California. A binding open season...

Tucker Carlson, the Provocateur

October 30, 2025 9:00 amOctober 30, 2025 12:16 pm

Tucker Carlson’s shift from provocative media personality to a figure openly giving platforms to Holocaust revisionism and coded antisemitic tropes shows a troubling trajectory. His kind of criticisms of Israel, invocation of classic antisemitic cliches (such as Jewish conspiracies and...

Why Newsom’s Gruesome Prop 50 Power Grab Must Be Stopped

October 30, 2025 7:00 amOctober 30, 2025 7:31 am

California is home to 4.2 million small businesses, representing 99.9 percent of all businesses in the state and employing 7 million workers. More than 90 percent of California businesses employ fewer than 10 employees, and 7 percent of the state’s...

If You Don’t Vote, We Can’t Win!

October 30, 2025 3:10 amOctober 30, 2025 3:11 am

One of my favorite movie lines, because it made me think, was in “Chariots of Fire.” Chariots of Fire is a true story, a 1981 film about two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout...

Ringside: Large Scale Desalination Could Transform California

October 30, 2025 2:45 amOctober 30, 2025 2:46 am

Why is it axiomatic among California’s water agencies and policymakers that large scale desalination is inconceivable in California? That certainly isn’t the case in other arid locales. In 2024, an estimated 30 million acre feet of fresh water was produced by desalination...