Lessons learned from the pandemic: Truth and risk-imposition
Some time in the future, there will be another pandemic. Here are two very useful things to keep in mind when it happens again. One might think that it was perhaps in the best interest of our country...
View ArticleWe told you so about ill effects of the COVID response
SACRAMENTO – The great conservative thinker William F. Buckley in 1963 wrote that he would rather “live in a society governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than in a...
View ArticlePut the role of insurance commissioner back in the governor’s cabinet
A year after I joined the Orange County Register’s Editorial Board in 1987, the next year voters narrowly approved Proposition 103, 51% to 49%. We met with its author, Consumer Watchdog founder Harvey...
View ArticleLos Angeles’ sloppy, expensive approach to homelessness collides with reality
Yet another hearing was held on Monday in the ongoing dispute between the city of Los Angeles and reality, part of a larger battle between the state of California and reality. Reality, it turns out,...
View ArticleUS Steel-Nippon Steel: A global deal for American prosperity
The Pennsylvania-based U.S. Steel company recently agreed to be purchased by the Tokyo-headquartered publicly traded company Nippon Steel. This deal makes sense to economists. It will encourage other...
View ArticleWhat should we do if there are no good candidates?
There are undoubtedly many of you out there who are frustrated with the presidential candidates that have been presented to us. You might think that neither Trump nor Biden deserve a nomination. What...
View ArticleState is deer in headlights as insurance crisis unfolds
SACRAMENTO – Reading insurance trade magazines isn’t everyone’s idea of a great time, but every Californian should pay attention to the latest news in that arcane world. “State Farm to pull out of...
View ArticleDitch the Select Committee on Happiness and Public Policy Outcomes, and get...
The annual World Happiness Report was released last week, and it shockingly found that the United States failed to rank in the top 20 happiest countries. Perhaps in response, former Assembly Speaker...
View ArticleDouglas Schoen: The United States must confront, not appease, the Iranian regime
The war between Israel and Hamas is about much more than Hamas’ October 7th attack and Israel’s response. It is also about Iran’s role as the key foreign policy challenge facing the United States...
View ArticleMurthy v. Missouri: SCOTUS has the votes to stop federal censors
It did not feel like a very good day for the First Amendment when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in what is likely the most important free speech case in U.S. history. The case is...
View ArticleDan Chang’s campaign for change in the LAUSD
I don’t usually get all that interested in, or involved in, Los Angeles Unified School District board races for seats in the San Fernando Valley, simply because typically there have been other members...
View ArticleAt MSNBC, one man’s election denier is another man’s TV host
MSNBC, the “news” outfit on which the Rev. Al Sharpton has a show, briefly hired former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, at $300,000 per year, to serve as an on-air pundit. Why...
View ArticleAmericans aren’t buying Biden’s spin on the economy
The economy is growing, unemployment is low, wages are up, and inflation is down. However, the American people remain grumpy about the state of the economy. This puzzle was just investigated by four...
View ArticleSusan Shelley: How the people who run California behind the scenes really talk
Once again, a source has provided me with an audio recording of a secret meeting of the people who run California behind the scenes. The group includes 10 environmentalists, 3 teachers, 2 bond...
View ArticleBiden administration oblivious to AB 5’s job-killing lessons as it tries to...
SACRAMENTO – Perhaps I’m old fashioned, but I don’t see a role for government in determining working arrangements beyond some basic rules governing safety and non-discrimination. In a free society with...
View ArticleLarry Wilson: Generation Mope followed by Generation Alpha’s wee ferals
You thought that the Gen Z kids were bad enough. Humorless, entitled, doomsday-focused from the climate change, pandemically ill-educated, socially awkward — they’re scarier in many ways than even...
View ArticleSusan Shelley: The FDA overstepped against ivermectin
The last chapter has now been written in one of the strangest and most disturbing stories of the COVID pandemic era. It’s strange and disturbing because the U.S. government intentionally misled the...
View ArticleShould we have age limits or cognitive tests for politicians?
With recent questions being raised about the mental competence of presidential candidates and congresspeople, it’s worth thinking about what should be done about it or whether we should do anything...
View ArticleDoug McIntyre: Is Trump’s Bible pitch a Hail Mary for money or votes?
What’s he selling this week? More gold sneakers? Trump Steaks? Wine? Trump Cologne? A new casino? Reverse mortgages? No, this time the pitchman-in-chief has set his sights higher, as high as you can...
View ArticleThe League of California Cities’ war on taxpayers
The League of California Cities has always been biased against the interests of taxpayers. This became especially clear during the historic Proposition 13 campaign in 1978 when the League, along with...
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