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Beefed Up IRS Scrutiny of Corporate Jet Travel Will Have Terrible Consequences

July 12, 2024 2:55 amJuly 12, 2024 2:56 am

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has recently declared its intention to conduct more rigorous audits concerning the reported value of corporate CEOs’ travels on company planes. This move comes amid concerns that such trips are being systematically underreported as part...

Ringside: California’s Energy Economy – Challenges and Opportunities

July 12, 2024 2:45 amJuly 12, 2024 2:46 am

Two weeks ago, the first part of this series (Ringside, June 27) provided links to a few of the most useful and authoritative references available on energy use globally and in California: the Statistical Review of World Energy, Lawrence Livermore...

Bi de Leon: President and LA Councilman Following the Same Path?

July 11, 2024 9:33 amJuly 11, 2024 9:33 am

At the Harold Stassen Tavern on the Island of Misfit Pols, former Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez is most likely right now sitting at the end of the bar and slowly and gently and methodically banging her head...

California Price Fixing Minimum Wage Hurts the Young and the Poor

July 11, 2024 9:04 amJuly 11, 2024 5:38 pm

“Workers need a living wage,” is California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stubborn justification for signing the $20 per hour fast-food minimum wage bill into law. “We saw the inequities….We had a responsibility to do more.” Math is hard. Never once has Newsom...

Trump is a Threat to Democracy?

July 11, 2024 2:55 amJuly 11, 2024 2:56 am

Democrats insist Donald Trump threatens American democracy. They fashion themselves as its protectors. Nonsense. It is the Democrat leadership which fears democracy and has threaten it repeatedly over the last few years. An obviously diminished Joe Biden uses the alleged...

Biden Admin Funded ‘Censorship’ Targeting Conservative Media Sites

July 10, 2024 5:00 pmJuly 11, 2024 5:38 pm

Most regular readers of alternate online or conservative media and news are weary of leftist elites forcing their agenda and views on the American people, and are tired of the left talking down to them about what is “real” news. ...

Murder by Policy: New Zealand Tourist Robbed, Murdered by Repeat Offenders

July 10, 2024 11:22 amJuly 10, 2024 5:10 pm

Eight days ago, a tourist from New Zealand was murdered at Fashion Island in Newport Beach. And last year, one of her alleged killers got the plea deal of a lifetime, courtesy of Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon. ...