Opinion – California Globe

California Lawmakers Can Lower Healthcare Costs

October 2, 2024 3:00 pmOctober 2, 2024 3:01 pm

This week I learned that the House Education and Workforce Committee considered an anti-competitive hospital contracting bill led by California Congresswoman Michelle Steele (CA-45)—the Healthy Competition for Better Care Act—that would massively boost healthcare affordability in the Golden State. The...

Advantage, Vance

October 2, 2024 10:56 amOctober 2, 2024 10:56 am

“I’m a knucklehead at times.” That’s gonna stick. Going into last night’s vice presidential debate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance had been portrayed as “weird,” a policy shifting xenomorph who would be just as comfortable evicting your grandmother to make three...

ABC Debate Misinformation Muzzled with Democrat Spin

September 30, 2024 5:00 pmSeptember 30, 2024 5:01 pm

If Los Angeles Times television reporter Stephen Battaglio is not a paid publicist for ABC News then he is cheating the network out of a salary. Battaglio’s slobbering profile of ABC News journalist Linsey Davis, who co-anchored the presidential debate...

Kamala’s Upbringing Would Have Been Quite Troubling to America’s Founders

September 24, 2024 12:10 pmSeptember 24, 2024 12:15 pm

Barack Hussein Obama infamously pronounced upon winning the election that he planned to “fundamentally transform America.” The statement is inapposite to President Donald Trump’s vision to “make America great again.” We know to which statement Kamala Harris most identifies. The...

The Dumbed-Down Doctor

September 21, 2024 2:45 amSeptember 21, 2024 2:46 am

For a long time since I quit my job as a Sacramento surgeon in 2004, I have pondered Ronald Reagan’s remarkable prophecy from 1961 when he said, “One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people...

Political Pointillism: Step Back and See Everything

September 16, 2024 8:42 amSeptember 16, 2024 8:43 am

If you happen to be at the Art Institute of Chicago, you can see Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. If you are not in Chicago, here’s the painting. Anyway, you’ve seen...

I Grew Up With Soviet Communism; Now as a Trustee I See It Embedded in California’s Ethnic Studies

September 14, 2024 3:30 amSeptember 14, 2024 3:31 am

As a school board member in the Ramona Unified School District in San Diego County, when I read the Santa Ana Liberated Ethnic Studies curriculum for the first time, it brought back childhood memories from growing up in the Soviet...