Attorney General Rob Bonta’s effort to sabotage California’s tech industry
California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s new antitrust attack on Apple resembles in its folly a similar antitrust case California joined 25 years ago. Young readers will shake their heads this even...
View ArticleCalifornia’s income-based utility charge saga began with misuse of the state...
A year ago, California’s three big investor-owned electric power utilities – Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric – proposed new fixed charges on...
View ArticleOutraged Christians are misguided about Transgender Visibility Day and Easter
It looks like some easily bothered Christians were angry or offended about President Joe Biden declaring Transgender Visibility Day during Easter Sunday. Donald Trump on the other hand is out there...
View ArticleCalifornia progressives forced to play defense as state faces huge budget...
A couple of years ago, California’s left-leaning interest groups – those seeking a more expansive array of social and medical services to benefit workers and the state’s large population of low-income...
View ArticleLarry Elder: Leftists love the minimum wage, even though it hurts the people...
On April 1, the new California $20-per-hour minimum wage for fast-food workers went into effect. In signing the bill, California Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected the view that such a wage hike — 25% above...
View ArticleWashington’s ‘job creation’ circus Is hitting the road
In the grand circus of politics, where elephants and donkeys alike perform under the big top, there’s one act that never fails to draw a crowd: the venerable “job creation” routine. Putting people back...
View ArticleCombat disinformation with better norms, not more laws
SACRAMENTO – In a typically unhinged social-media post last month, Donald Trump expressed the desire to jail former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney and the members of the select congressional committee...
View ArticleThe threat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. poses in the 2024 presidential election
Despite some polls showing that the presence of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will hurt former President Donald Trump more than incumbent Joe Biden, it is likely to go the other way, as presidential elections...
View ArticleLarry Wilson: Some Huntington Beach pols want to close the book on the world
Nothing wrong, as such, with the idea of a private as opposed to a public library. Henry Huntington created a rather outstanding private library at his estate in San Marino, and now it’s very much open...
View ArticleSusan Shelley: Sacramento’s latest hit on election integrity
The defenders of “Our Democracy” are at it again. Last September, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state Legislature filed a lawsuit seeking to have a qualified initiative, the Taxpayer Protection and...
View ArticleJon Coupal: ULA tax numbers expose economic ignorance
California would be a far better state if politicians and progressive activists were required to take a course in basic economic principles. If they did, they might not blindly pursue economic policies...
View ArticleIdentity politics now controls much of what California’s Democratic Party does
California voters administered a few lessons to this state’s dominant Democratic Party in 2020 and 2022, but they appear to be forgotten or were never completely heeded. The essence of those lessons,...
View ArticleReparations push in California won’t yield much this year
Try taking an apology to the bank and see what the teller says, or even the bank president. One thing for sure: No apology will directly produce a bank deposit. Thousands of Black Californians knew...
View ArticleBusiness groups and lawmakers battle over ballot measure to limit California...
Californians will be coughing up many billions of dollars this month as they file their federal and state income tax returns and pay the second installment on their property taxes. How much? Annually,...
View ArticleCalifornia audit says results on homelessness are unclear. The numbers tell a...
A duck hunter fires a shotgun in hopes that at least one of its many pellets will strike a fast-moving bird. A deer hunter fires a rifle to send one bullet toward his stationary prey, hoping to score a...
View ArticleDon’t politicians ever learn? The Biden administration wants to crack down on...
The Labor Department just imposed 300 pages of new regulations to reclassify many individual contractors as payroll employees. CNBC claims this could help freelancers “recover lost wages.” That’s just...
View ArticleAmerica’s fiscal ethos: From Alexander Hamilton’s day to our own
Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle recently wrote that the best argument made in favor of limiting the size of the stimulus during the Great Recession — part of a larger conversation about...
View ArticleLarry Elder: The progressive, NPR-listening ‘elite 1%’
Consider this proposition: “Suppose that your favorite candidate loses a close election. However, people on the campaign know that they can win by cheating without being caught. Would you rather have...
View ArticleWhile California politicians skirmish over housing, the shortage keeps growing
The current session of the California Legislature, like all recent sessions, has featured the state’s perpetual conflict over its acute shortage of housing. Gov. Gavin Newsom and most legislators are...
View ArticleHow the Israel-Hamas war will impact the 2024 presidential election
In presidential elections, domestic issues such as the economy are typically the preeminent issue, but with war raging in the Middle East, and U.S. intelligence agencies warning of an “imminent”...
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