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Relevance: 62% Posted on: April 10, 2020
“California this week declared its independence from the federal government’s feeble efforts to fight Covid-19 — and perhaps from a bit more.” So begins a hyper-partisan, slightly unhinged Bloomberg opinion piece. “Governor Gavin Newsom said that he would use the bulk purchasing power of California ‘as a nation-state’ to acquire the…
Relevance: 62% Posted on: August 4, 2019
On August 4, 2010, in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, Judge Vaughn Walker overturned California’s Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage that had passed two years earlier by the state’s voters.
Relevance: 62% Posted on: May 20, 2022
In 2018, Jerry Brown, then California governor, signed a bill requiring corporate boards to include a high percentage of women. Now a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has determined that the state failed to show that “gender-based classification was necessary to boost California’s economy, improve opportunities for women in…
Relevance: 61% Posted on: June 12, 2000
It's all been a big misunderstanding. For some reason, those of us in the term limits movement got the crazy idea that California politicians don't like term limits. How silly of us! Maybe it was the nearly $6 million legislators raised to run ads trashing the 1990 initiative. One could…
Relevance: 61% Posted on: April 22, 2015
Arbitrary governmental pricing of water — as opposed to free-market pricing — provides one major reason why it’s so hard for Californians and others to deal with drought. I’ve talked about it before. And, as before — indeed, as is so often the case when government constricts our freedom to…
Relevance: 60% Posted on: June 17, 2009
The good sense that California voters exhibited at the polls in May has been rewarded with continual attack and derision. Meg Whitman, former eBay CEO and Republican candidate for governor, recently said, “In many ways, the proposition process has worn out its usefulness.” She’s criticizing the initiative, and she’s not…
Relevance: 60% Posted on: July 5, 2022
“Just an accident?” Maybe. But the “accidental” release of the private information of thousands of California gun owners is just the sort of thing that many foes of Second Amendment rights would happily perpetrate. So we can be forgiven if we harbor doubts. On June 27, the California Justice Department’s…
Relevance: 60% Posted on: June 25, 2008
Here's a story about a government board whose members endlessly dish out taxpayer money. And want endless years in power to keep doing so. Recently, members of the Santa Clara water board approved steep salary hikes for two of their staffers, making them the highest-paid for their jobs in all…
Relevance: 60% Posted on: June 28, 2013
You have no right as a voter to defend your interests as a voter. Not in federal court. So decides the Supreme Court in Hollingsworth v. Perry, a case about a controversial California ballot question. The court ruled 5-4 that petitioners “lack standing.” Their interest wasn’t “particularized” enough. Passed in…
Relevance: 60% Posted on: September 19, 2018
“California is the place you oughta be” — or so sang Jerry Scoggins for The Beverly Hillbillies. That may still hold true, if you are an oil millionaire retiring to a pleasant climate. But if you are trying to make your fortune, the direction is outbound. Take, for example, the…