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The Broken Compass and the Centennial Catastrophe: A Polling Industry that Keeps Promising Outcomes it Cannot Deliver

August 15, 2026 9:00 amAugust 17, 2026 10:41 am

America just threw itself a 250th birthday party, and the polling that came with it reads like a physician’s chart for a patient in trouble. A PBS NewsHour/Marist survey released for the semiquincentennial found that 37 percent of Americans —...

Making Crime in California Illegal Again: Bill to Undermine Prop 36 Blocked Permanently in Senate Appropriations

August 15, 2026 6:00 amAugust 15, 2026 7:35 am

California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 36 in 2024 to restore felony penalties for repeat theft and drug crimes in November 2024. Prop 36 passed by 68%, and passed in every one of California’s 58 counties. Within months of passage of...

Domesticated Game Breeding

August 15, 2026 2:30 amAugust 15, 2026 2:31 am

Fish and Game Code Division 4, Part 1, Chapter 2, Article 1 deals with domesticated game breeding and commercial activities in the State of California. Section 3200 provides that any person engaged in raising or importing, or who keeps in...

Circus Cruelty Prevention Act

August 14, 2026 2:00 pmAugust 14, 2026 2:01 pm

Fish and Game Code Division 3, Chapter 2, Article 5 deals with circus cruelty prevention. Section 2207 names this article as the Circus Cruelty Prevention Act. Section 2208 defines the term “circus.” Section 2209 prohibits a person from sponsoring, conducting,...

Gavin’s High Speed Rail Disaster

August 14, 2026 11:40 amAugust 14, 2026 11:40 am

California’s high-speed rail project has no operational trains and no high-speed track laid on the actual alignment, as of August 2026. Gov. Gavin Newsom has blown $18 billion on California High Speed Rail and the project is about to run...

Socialist Insurance: A Government Insurance Monopoly Doesn’t Make Risk Disappear

August 14, 2026 7:12 amAugust 14, 2026 7:12 am

Three months ago I was traveling the state running for California Insurance Commissioner. I finished a near third out of eleven candidates and first among Republicans. I lost the Primary, but I will never stop caring about insurance. I remain...

Trump Executive Order Reducing Childhood Vaccine Recommendations Addresses State Laws That Conflict

August 14, 2026 6:00 amAugust 14, 2026 6:39 am

On August 10, 2026, President Donald Trump signed an executive order reducing the number of childhood vaccinations for all children. “Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for Americans,” establishes federal “Gold Standard” recommendations that reduced the number of childhood vaccines,...