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California Legislative Employee Unionization and Lawmaking

August 11, 2022 7:14 amAugust 11, 2022 6:44 am

My memory says it was the last week in August. It was 2:00AM. The California Legislature would adjourn for the year on August 31. The fate of hundreds of bills hung in the balance. In the Legislative Office Building across...

Nation’s Largest Newspaper Chain to Cut Back on Offering Opinion

August 9, 2022 10:00 amAugust 9, 2022 9:56 am

The lead editorial column in a recent San Francisco Chronicle laments that Gannett, the nation’s largest newspaper chain, is moving toward a cutback in their editorial opinions. And those at the Chronicle and other media outlets who thrive to offer...

Woke CEOs Condemn Democracy When the Outcomes Fail Progressive Litmus Tests

August 7, 2022 8:34 amAugust 8, 2022 5:08 pm

It’s a predictable pattern. A state announces that its duly elected conservative legislators enact a law presumably backed by the majority of people who elected them. Immediately, corporations begin wringing their hands over how hard it will be to find...

Our Lives Depend On Water

July 29, 2022 10:40 amJuly 29, 2022 10:58 am

On May 12, 2022, the California Coastal Commission, including Governor Newsom’s appointees, unanimously voted down the plan for construction of a desalination plant at Huntington Beach that would convert Pacific Ocean water into 50 million gallons of freshwater per day,...

Gavin ‘Orchis Hairgelia’ Newsom in 2024?

July 24, 2022 2:30 amJuly 23, 2022 5:46 pm

So Gavin Newsom is running for President (well, kinda maybe, probably pinky swear if he has no other way to save the country from itself possibly). He doesn’t stand a chance, though oddly enough it may not be totally his...

Gov. Gavin Newsom – A Tinhorn Dictatorship

July 6, 2022 3:30 pmJuly 7, 2022 10:13 am

One of the most frightening things I ever saw occurred in April of 2020. Gavin Newsom had just declared a “public health emergency,” seized “emergency” powers, and bureaucrats were running through the city in which I lived in “red-tagging” small...

The Media and Twitter Care about January 6

June 29, 2022 9:10 amJuly 5, 2022 2:22 pm

The chief television critic for The New York Times, James Poniewozik, raved about Tuesday’s edition of the January 6th Committee: “The investigation played like the Watergate hearings as punched up by the writers’ room of 24.” Press play to hear...