Larry Elder: The NFL needs to stop dividing Americans and stick to the...
The NFL has announced that for the fourth year in a row, the so-called black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” will be performed at the Super Bowl. It appears we’ve come full circle since...
View ArticleBlame government for the growing size and price of pickup trucks
SACRAMENTO – One of my favorite economic rules is simple. Whenever a progressive scold blames capitalism or private companies for a “market failure” – i.e., the inefficient or seemingly inexplicable...
View ArticleCalifornia could spend billions to reduce a fraction of water use
Hydrologists measure large amounts of water in acre-feet – an acre of water one-foot deep, or 326,000 gallons. In an average year, 200 million acre-feet of water fall on California as rain or snow. The...
View ArticleHarry Shearer’s almost-lost art of political satire on ‘Le Show’
Forty years ago last fall, I moved into a house so high up in the Altadena hills that it was on the last street before the Angeles National Forest. Among the other things I liked about the place,...
View ArticleDouglas Schoen: The risks of a second Biden term
President Biden’s road to a second term may have become a touch easier on Tuesday night, as Donald Trump largely separated himself from any doubts that Nikki Haley would be the GOP nominee, and despite...
View ArticleSusan Shelley: The seen and the unseen of California’s Senate debate
If there was a Museum of Horrifying Political Mistakes, California’s top-two primary would have its own wing. Possibly its own building. The top-two primary was created by an initiative, Proposition...
View ArticleHow will California overcome high living costs, high poverty and high debt?
As most Californians know from personal experience, their state has an especially high cost of living, particularly for housing. Forbes magazine rates California as having the nation’s third-highest...
View ArticleWhy keep worrying about the national debt? Speculation versus reality
Over the years, I’ve offered many explanations about why the trajectory of the national debt is deeply troubling. At this point, though, my worry isn’t rooted in a dogmatic adherence to the principles...
View ArticleCalifornia Senate Primary: The battle for second place
With U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff solidly ahead of the pack in California’s Senate primary just days before early voting begins, the real battle is for second place, where three candidates – two Democrats and...
View ArticleAcross the country, the GOP pushes intrusive and pointless ‘Nanny State’ bills
SACRAMENTO – One of the basic tenets of American conservatism – at least it has been until the Make America Great Again movement has re-jiggered the Republican Party – is that individuals rather than...
View ArticleAgustina Vergara Cid: Ayn Rand understood what makes America the greatest...
Ayn Rand, born on this day in 1905, is one of the most American people to ever live, despite being Russian born. Rand not only wrote best-selling novels, but also developed an entire philosophical...
View ArticleMarjorie Taylor Greene vs. Alejandro Mayorkas in impeachment slugfest
Here in the hallowed ring of the Olympic Auditorium on South Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, boxing fans, I give you the two contestants in tonight’s main event: Secretary of Homeland Security...
View ArticleRepeal the death tax in the name of true equity in California
Equity, before it took on its current “woke” definition, meant value, as in the accumulated value of ownership in real estate. It still means that. After 30 years of payments for housing, a tenant who...
View ArticleJon Coupal: Assembly Bill 205 blows back on Democrats who voted for it
Democrats in the state legislature have announced the introduction of a bill to repeal part of Assembly Bill 205 from 2022 that requires investor-owned utility companies to charge a monthly fixed rate...
View ArticleDoug McIntyre: Liz Cheney deserves our respect for defending the Constitution
“Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome… Liz Cheney!” Before the words even left my mouth, the crowd at the Redondo Beach Center for the Performing Arts jumped to their feet and cheered as if Taylor...
View ArticleCalifornia continues to constrain the rental housing market — to its detriment.
California lawmakers seem to be caught in a cycle of repeating past mistakes when it comes to interfering in the rental housing market. Despite good intentions to stabilize housing costs and protect...
View ArticleProgressives ditch ‘free speech’ to fight ‘misinformation’
SACRAMENTO – In my column last week, I detailed how GOP lawmakers in several Western states have jettisoned their usual concerns about free speech and have passed laws that require cellphone users to...
View ArticleWhy UC’s ethnic studies mandate is delayed
It was easy this month to understand why the University of California’s long-planned adoption of a high school ethnic studies course requirement for admission is stalled and may never materialize....
View ArticleDoug McIntyre: The Super Bowl brings Americans together and brings out the...
I have no idea who will win the Super Bowl and no particular interest either way. But I will be watching. And so will you. The Super Bowl is the last unifying public event on the American calendar,...
View ArticleTaylor Swift and the Vegas odds: The fix is in
Many among us would be hard-pressed to consider the National Football League a liberal organization, given its long-time association with, well, organized violence, star-spangled cheerleaders, the...
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