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California’s Long-Awaited Investigation Into the LA Fires Reveals a Shattered Command-and-Intelligence System

October 7, 2026 7:00 amOctober 7, 2026 11:02 am

There is a remarkable contradiction emerging from the official investigation of the January 2025 Los Angeles fires. California has now documented a response system plagued by fractured command, delayed evacuations, conflicting maps, missed intelligence and profound failures of situational awareness....

Does California’s Prop. 45 Apply to Data Centers?

October 6, 2026 2:30 amOctober 6, 2026 2:31 am

Some have claimed that Prop. 45 – which seeks to expedite review of specified types of projects under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) – includes data centers. Is that possible? This is a case of statutory interpretation of a...

White House Puts $49 Trillion Price Tag on DSA Agenda, $355K Per Household

October 5, 2026 9:26 amOctober 5, 2026 9:29 am

A new White House report (see below) scores the Democratic Socialists of America’s flagship agenda at a net fiscal burden of roughly $49 trillion over ten years, about $355,000 per American household, and the price tag lands in the middle...

Why Injunctions Matter: Lessons From the Samsung-Collision Case

October 5, 2026 8:00 amOctober 5, 2026 9:06 am

What is the right to exclude worth if, after a patent owner proves infringement, the infringer can keep using the invention through years of follow on litigation? That question is becoming increasingly important to American startups and research companies. These...

Did the Cold War Ever End? China, Communism and America

October 2, 2026 11:39 amOctober 2, 2026 12:24 pm

Who can forget the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union? Apparently, far too many. Communism has made a comeback, and though our history books say that the United States won the...

The Real AI Cybersecurity Threat Isn’t Intelligence – it’s Authority

October 1, 2026 11:48 amOctober 1, 2026 11:51 am

Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a new kind of employee. It can search documents, draft correspondence, write code, analyze financial data and interact with business applications around the clock. Increasingly, AI systems can do more than answer questions. They can...

Democracy Defenders’ Lawsuit Demands Court Block Trump Pocket Rescission of HUD Funds

September 30, 2026 2:59 pmSeptember 30, 2026 2:59 pm

A coalition of 10 nonprofit housing organizations, represented by Democracy Defenders Action, filed suit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking to block the Trump administration from implementing a pocket rescission of $56.1 million of...