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Becerra Pitches Power Hour: Free Electricity For the Peasants

August 13, 2026 2:05 pmAugust 13, 2026 2:05 pm

Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Xavier Becerra on Wednesday unveiled his latest campaign gimmick: “Power Hour,” promising up to two hours of “free” electricity each day for millions of California households. In a video posted to social media, Becerra declared, “Listen up:...

Hoping for an Energy-Intensive Future

August 13, 2026 11:00 amAugust 13, 2026 11:01 am

For campaigners of the net zero agenda, “climate action” must come first, even if it means throttling the energy lifelines for billions of the poor. The data say something very different. A sweeping analysis by Kevin Dayaratna and Kat Miller,...

NV Democrats’ Abortion Initiative Puts New Massachusetts Late-Term Law to Shame

August 13, 2026 7:14 amAugust 13, 2026 4:22 pm

Nevada’s Question 6, the “Right to Abortion Initiative” returning to voters this November, goes far beyond constitutionalizing the state’s existing 24-week statute. In fact, it allows abortion through all nine months even on healthy moms with healthy babies. According to...

Wisconsin and Michigan Just Ran the Experiment on Public Polling — and the Instrument Failed Exactly the way it was Built to Fail

August 12, 2026 6:00 pmAugust 12, 2026 6:10 pm

Six days ago, in The Polling Paradox of 2026, I argued that the most-polled midterm in American history had produced the least trustworthy numbers in modern memory, and that public polling had stopped measuring the electorate and started measuring the polling...

RFK Jr Accuses Former HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra of Gutting Fraud Oversight, Enabling Billions in Theft

August 12, 2026 3:07 pmAugust 13, 2026 7:16 am

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a blistering indictment of his predecessor, Xavier Becerra, on Tuesday, accusing the former Biden administration official of systematically dismantling the agency’s program integrity staff and opening the floodgates to massive...

Rigged System: Out-of-State Billionaires Spent Millions Lobbying the Legislature to Lock Out Local Craft Distillers

August 12, 2026 3:00 pmAugust 12, 2026 3:02 pm

Small craft distillers in California are still sounding the alarm on the government-protected distribution monopoly owned by out-of-state billionaires who are locking small producers out of the market, Aaron Bergh, a 10 year veteran of the alcohol industry and owner...

HUD Secretary Scott Turner Puts California’s Homeless Industrial Complex on Notice

August 12, 2026 11:16 amAugust 12, 2026 12:11 pm

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner delivered a blunt message this week: the days of federal taxpayers bankrolling California’s failed and unaccountable homelessness bureaucracy are over. In a video posted to X late Tuesday, Turner declared, “Today, HUD...