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Political Malpractice: Reparations Were Designed to Keep Black Voters Loyal to a Party

June 20, 2026 7:45 amJune 20, 2026 7:45 am

Tom Steyer didn’t see it coming. In the late stages of the primary election campaign, the erstwhile billionaire candidate for governor was cornered outside his SUV in a Los Angeles parking lot by a protestor, demanding to know where he...

The New Caste System: California’s LGBTBE Program Rewards Identity Over Merit

June 20, 2026 6:40 amJune 20, 2026 11:29 pm

I arrived in California in 1990, when the government was functioning and the mood was upbeat. Thirty-five years later I’m still here, watching Sacramento systematically dismantle the institutional infrastructure that made the state worth staying in. The latest example is...

California Budget Pumps $350 Million into ‘Immigrant Newcomer’ School Program

June 18, 2026 2:45 pmJune 19, 2026 8:09 am

As California lawmakers grapple with a massive state budget and ongoing fiscal pressures, Assemblymember Matt Haney (D–San Francisco) announced on Thursday that the Legislature’s budget plan includes a $350 million “investment” in the California Newcomer Education and Well-Being Program (CalNEW)....

Strange Fire: The Fires That Don’t Belong

June 18, 2026 12:24 pmJune 18, 2026 12:36 pm

Fire is changing — not just in acreage, but in behavior, heat, speed, and what it consumes. The story we keep being told is true: drought, climate, fuel loads, longer seasons. But none of it fully accounts for what experienced...

Plain Stupid, Plain Evil: Gov Gavin Newsom and his Medi-Cal Healthcare Insurance Plan

June 17, 2026 8:00 amJune 17, 2026 8:01 am

Governor Gavin Newsom and his Medi-Cal healthcare insurance plan is just plain stupid and plain evil. He and it are foolish and callous thieves, killers of the Spirit of healing, destroyers of the confidence and trust between doctors and patients,...

Scripture is ‘Defacing’ the Giants Uniform Says SF Chronicle on Pride Night

June 16, 2026 10:57 amJune 16, 2026 11:09 am

The mainstream San Francisco Chronicle describes Bible verses written on ball caps as “defacing” the San Francisco Giants uniform. Three San Francisco Giants pitchers wrote Bible verses on their LGBT Pride Night caps, and one declined to wear the cap....

Gov. Newsom FOIA: Personal Defense at Public Expense

June 16, 2026 7:00 amJune 16, 2026 7:00 am

Governor Gavin Newsom did it once again – demonstrated that rules are for little people. His office fired up the official state machinery, complete with taxpayer-funded staff, legal pit bull, and fancy letterhead, to file a Freedom of Information Act...