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Relevance: 31% Posted on: April 30, 2014
Could a mighty earthquake dump much of the California coast into the Pacific Ocean? You tell me. But I have a more likely scenario: the state’s perilous public employee pension problems, surging like a tsunami, smashing into the state. Soon. That would be a disaster. State and local governments in…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: April 30, 2020
“I think it’s a shame,” HBO comedian Bill Maher told Dr. David Katz, “that people like you who sound reasonable — maybe it’s not the exact one true opinion you hear somewhere else — has to go on Fox News to say it.” For years, I have told liberal friends…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: July 10, 2018
“A lot of people would like to say this is an immigration issue. It’s really not,” offered Gary Emineth, the head of North Dakotans for Citizen Voting and a candidate for state senator. “It’s really about preserving the right for U.S. citizens, and in our case, North Dakota residents,…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: November 14, 2011
“There’s no such thing as too much power.” That’s the word from Democrat Herb Wesson, former Speaker of the California Assembly. Wesson was defending the Speaker’s awesome control over the purse strings. In a story headlined, “The power of one: Perez controls Assembly with money,” the Sacramento Bee reports: “Assembly…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: December 9, 2020
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s message “couldn’t be simpler,” he offered last week: “It’s time to cancel everything.” Gee whiz, that is simple. The mayor’s order “prohibits public and private gatherings of people from more than one household and states that all businesses in the city that require people to…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: April 24, 2022
A principal in New York was fired for (how shall we say?) a cavalier attitude towards actual teaching and learning. The point, as he saw it, was merely to pass students through — a scam to get tax money into his budget. He was fired, but given a golden parachute.…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: November 29, 2010
What an election year. It’s not just the drubbing dealt to many statist incumbents that warrants a little triumphalism. We can also cheer about ballot measures whose passage means the defeat of very specific attacks on the citizenry. Several local referendums targeted all those ticket-triggering red-light cameras that have been…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: May 22, 2017
On May 22, 1995, in the case U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Arkansas’s congressional term limits law, 5-4, overturning the congressional term limits then the law in 23 states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: May 22, 2018
On May 22, 1995, in the case U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Arkansas’s congressional term limits law, 5-4, overturning the congressional term limits then the law in 23 states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: October 7, 2022
On October 7, 1691, the charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay was issued. Also on a seventh day of the tenth month, King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which closed Indigenous lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements. On October 7, 1792, George…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: October 7, 2023
On October 7, 1691, the charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay was issued. Also on a seventh day of the tenth month, King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which closed Indigenous lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements. On October 7, 1792, George…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: November 28, 2011
Councilman Rick Roelle in Apple Valley, California, says that Wal-Mart “blackmailed the town.” Blackmail is no small matter. So, what did Wal-Mart do, specifically? Wal-Mart worked with citizens of Apple Valley, including supplying money, to gather enough petition signatures to place a measure on the local ballot for voters to…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: January 14, 2011
Local government is hard. In rural areas, it can be like organizing an ongoing bake-sale. In metropolitan areas, it’s more like running a small country. Today’s big metropolitan governments tend to be run by un-term-limited oligarchs, so of course corruption is endemic. When there’s little competition for power and scant…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: December 13, 2010
Why does a fellow who’s the executive director of the Greenlining Institute want to red-line democracy? Recently, in the pages of California’s Capitol Weekly, Orson Aguilar called the state’s initiative process a “monster.” Mr. Aguilar’s main beef is that “huge corporations and business groups” spent “massive” amounts of money, and…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: September 1, 2009
I almost feel sorry for politicians so afraid of angry freedom-loving constituents that they couldn’t even hold a townhall meeting this summer to spout reassuring lies about the Democrats’ medical reform proposals. I say, “almost feel sorry” . . . well, not quite “almost” — Okay, I don’t feel sorry…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: March 21, 2011
On March 15, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez got the boot, with almost nine out of ten county voters (88 percent) agreeing to get rid of him. The Miami Herald calls the event “the largest recall of a local politician in U.S. history.” Brandon Holmes of Citizens in Charge calls it…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: September 23, 2011
Californians’ initiative, referendum and recall process is as hot a topic for debate as ever. That’s apt, for this year marks the process’s 100th anniversary. On October 10, 1911, Californians went to the polls to enact these democratic checks on government after Governor Hiram Johnson persuaded legislators to put them…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: April 8, 2010
The New York Times offers summer internships at $900 per week. From what I’ve gathered, most other editorial and journalistic internships don’t pay nearly that much. Many pay nothing. So why would anyone work for nothing? Well, for experience. Thomas Sowell, in his recent book Applied Economics, tells the story…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: May 10, 2012
What do small businesses worry about the most? I mean, besides serving their customers? Regulation — licensing in particular. At least when rating government, owners of small businesses surveyed by Thumbtack.com indicated that “licensing requirements were nearly twice as important as tax rates in determining their state or city government’s…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: February 2, 2010
Advocates of campaign finance regulation, what George Will calls "speech rationing," say letting corporations -- including non-profit corporations -- spend unlimited money on political speech corrupts democracy. Actually, muzzling speech is what corrupts democracy and the point of it: i.e., to protect our freedoms, including freedom of speech. Protecting these…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: March 19, 2013
There are needs and there are wants. And then there are priorities. A crippled child or a victim of crime has needs, while no doubt some people fervently want a bike path built or a brand new sports arena. That’s where priorities enter the picture. What are the needs, wants,…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: May 12, 2011
We all know that America’s socialized pension system is, barring major reforms, doomed to undergo major default. But Americans should be nervous about their private pension funds and accounts, too. Over at PensionTsunami.com, the folks at California Public Policy Center have their ears to the ground, listening for rumblings of…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: June 27, 2011
Not all votes are democratic, for — as Stalin pointed out — it’s not who votes that counts, but who counts the votes. Same for “town halls” and public discussions: Politicians regularly hold meetings with constituents the main point of which is to make sure that nothing too challenging gets…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: September 12, 2011
A business filed for bankruptcy last week. These have been tough times, so that’s not a shock. What makes the story juicy is that the FBI raided the company’s headquarters two days later. The company? Solyndra, a solar panel manufacturer. A few months earlier, it had been boasting a profitable…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: September 24, 2009
With all that’s going on in Washington, don’t forget: There’s a lot happening on state and local ballots. Consider these recent newsline items from Ballot Box News: Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez is under fire for giving big-ticket raises to favored insiders while calling for steep budget cuts. A day…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: January 2, 2012
To start off this New Year, I admit that I missed some very thrifty actions taken by elected officials in 2011. Though I often commented on California legislators, regrettably, I failed to mention their frugality. Last May, they unequivocally said, “No” to Senate Bill 18, which would have cost $200,000…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: September 29, 2015
According to the experts, any day now a civil war will break out in California. It’s simple deductive reasoning. Droughts cause civil wars and California is having one doozy of a drought. Ergo, there will be a civil war in California. That’s what former Maryland governor and Democratic presidential candidate…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: November 18, 2010
John Tyner, a 31-year-old man hailing from Oceanside, California, not only declined San Diego International Airport’s kind offer of a full-body scan via privacy-invading machine, he also declined a full-body groping via privacy-invading human. Unfortunately for TSA (who would like to make it unfortunate for Tyner as well) he happened…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: October 4, 2011
Most Americans believe our country is headed in the wrong direction. But there remain folks who would like to take us all the way into downtown Wrongville. Two Sundays ago, in my column at Townhall.com, I expressed exasperation at the “prestigious” Think Long Committee’s recommendations to make it much tougher…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: January 27, 2012
More than a million Wisconsinites signed a petition circulated by Democrats to recall Republican Governor Scott Walker. Or, perhaps several folks signed the recall hundreds of thousands of times. It is very likely the former, though one Milwaukee man claimed to have slapped his John Hancock on the petition 80…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: November 27, 2013
We live in strange times. The “nanny state” mentality is ramping up into overdrive just as the War on Drugs hits the rock of enlightened public opinion. And nothing shows this to stranger effect than the contrast between the continuing success of the anti-tobacco movement while marijuana liberalization proceeds apace.…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: October 3, 2023
On October 3, 1919, James M. Buchanan was born. Buchanan would develop the theory of “Public Choice,” and receiving the 1986 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work. His books include Cost and Choice, The Calculus of Consent (with Gordon Tullock), and The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: May 22, 2019
On May 22, 1995, in the case U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Arkansas’s congressional term limits law, 5-4, overturning the congressional term limits then the law in 23 states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: October 25, 2012
A new website, Marijuana Majority, makes an impression by listing famous people who think America’s laws against marijuana are crazy, unjust, or at least not very wise. The site is elegant; it presents a long list. And by offering statements from each celebrity, we get a few ideas beyond the…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: October 13, 2010
Poor Willie Brown. Ever since California slapped term limits on state lawmakers, Brown’s lacked a permanent perch in power. For many, Brown’s 15-year reign as speaker serves as Exhibit A in the case against unlimited terms. Brown himself bragged that he had been the “Ayatollah” of the assembly — though…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: July 14, 2011
Central Falls, Rhode Island, is not a large city. It is a town of under 20,000 people. And its government is broke, facing likely bankruptcy. Municipal bankruptcies are not common. But they might become so. Why? The blame is easy to place: the proverbial gun-under-the-table contracting foisted on small localities…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: May 16, 2011
A Centerville, Virginia, man made news when he agreed to his wife’s demand that he stand at a busy intersection wearing a sign emblazoned “I Cheated: This is My Punishment.” His merciful wife ended the punishment after just a couple hours. In recent years, a few judges have sporadically sought…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: August 4, 2011
California Governor Jerry Brown just vetoed Senate Bill 168, writing, “It doesn’t seem very practical to me to create a system that makes productivity goals a crime.” Senate Bill 168 makes it illegal to pay someone circulating an issue petition based either directly or indirectly on the number of signatures…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: April 7, 2015
Government’s job is to protect our lives and liberties. But how best to accomplish this? Should books be banned? Websites blocked? Diane Feinstein thinks so. Sen. Feinstein (D-California) wants to ban The Anarchist Cookbook from the Internet. The book, which came out in 1971 with lots of radical ideas, including…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: May 23, 2013
Since 1990, the federal government has placed a stranglehold on the forest industry in Oregon and Washington and California in order to save a species of bird, Strix occidentalis caurina, better known as the Northern spotted owl. The program has not been successful, experts tell us, with spotted owls declining…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: October 29, 2014
A few weeks ago, The Washingtonian published a best of/worst of list about Congress. It stands out amongst other “tops” lists because the voting is done by White House staffers. This is what the employees think about their prima donnas. I mean bosses. The most interesting winner appeared near the…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: September 4, 2012
“Social scientists have long tried to determine why some children grow up to be successful adults and others don’t,” fatherhood blogger Kevin Hartnett wrote in the Washington Post. “The causes are hard to untangle.” Really? I think the causes are pretty obvious. Number one being parents. Hartnett’s opinion piece was…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: March 3, 2024
Yes, the “law-made instrumentality lumbers on under all varieties of circumstances at its habitual rate,” with minimal adaptability to new conditions. “By its very nature it is fitted only for average requirements, and inevitably fails under unusual requirements.” Herbert Spencer had it right over a century ago. The latest example?…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: August 30, 2012
by Paul Jacob As we await the Republican and Democratic conventions and the subsequent autumn campaign about the future of the country, it’s a good time to reflect on where we are now. So, where are we? One simple but telling measure of a free country is whether a child…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: October 29, 2021
The In-N-Out Burger restaurant won’t kick out customers who fail to display a “vaccine passport” proving they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19. In-N-Out has restaurants in California and the Southwest. And it has one in San Francisco, where Mayor London Breed has ordered restaurants to enforce the city’s vaccine mandate. Arnie…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: August 5, 2015
A sign of these sorry times for professional journalism: Time magazine runs a dishonest smear against Charles Koch, completely twisting the billionaire’s remarks at a recent meeting of major donors in Orange County, California. “Charles Koch Says US Can Bomb Its Way to $100,000 Salaries,” screamed the headline. The sub-heading…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: February 21, 2012
Venture capitalist Eric X. Li, in an op-ed for the New York Times, “Why China’s Political Model Is Superior,” credits the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre with producing the “stability” that “ushered in a generation of growth and prosperity.” As for America, Li explains that our problem is an “expanded” political…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: June 10, 2017
An outpouring of grassroots, bipartisan opposition to a pending recommendation by the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission caused the commission to table that proposed recommendation concerning citizen-initiated ballot measures — in what may be the last meeting of the commission. The recommendation would have created numerous double standards between constitutional amendments…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: August 26, 2012
This week, over at Townhall, a state-of-our-freedoms address . . . before the conventions, before the elections. Wander over to Townhall.com, then make a beeline back here to check the sources: How “richly subsidized”? See "On our nickel," from 2004 Do union bosses threaten politicians? Yes. A “well-documented” war: See…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: April 9, 2014
Brendan Eich resigned last week as CEO of Mozilla under pressure from gay rights activists upset because six years ago Eich had given a thousand bucks to California’s anti-gay marriage initiative, Prop 8. On Fox News’s Special Report, George Will dubbed the story “redundant evidence that progressives are for diversity…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: January 13, 2016
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: January 13, 2021
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: January 13, 2022
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: September 28, 2020
The headline states that a “USC Professor Who Used Chinese Word That Sounds Like English Slur” was “ ‘Not Dismissed Nor Suspended.’ ” Sure. The professor was “only” removed from the course he was teaching. Greg Patton, who teaches business communication at the University of Southern California, had been telling…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: January 13, 2017
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: January 13, 2018
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: December 5, 2012
Around the country, cities are going ahead with trolley and streetcar projects, as well as light rail. I just returned from Seattle. Capitol Hill was torn apart at huge expense — all to add a streetcar line to cover a stretch where no buses now run. Trains are cool; trolleys…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: October 2, 2012
Washington State has a long history of popular antagonism to political parties. For years, the state enforced an open primary, which meant that Republicans could vote in Democratic primaries and Democrats in Republican primaries. This was very popular, because it led to widespread strategic voting. Well, that’s a euphemism. In…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: July 2, 2019
“Kamala Harris is *not* an American Black. She is half Indian and half Jamaican,” tweeted Ali Alexander, a self-described black American activist, after the California Senator’s presidential debate performance. “I’m so sick of people robbing American Blacks (like myself) of our history.”* On Friday, Donald Trump, Jr., retweeted Alexander’s tweet…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: January 13, 2023
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: January 13, 2024
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: April 25, 2012
North Carolina, like many states, licenses all sorts of businesses activity, especially enterprises related to medicine. That’s why the state’s Board of Dietetics and Nutrition is gearing up to jail a blogger. According to the Carolina Journal Online, Chapter 90, Article 25 of the North Carolina General Statutes makes it…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: February 6, 2013
Oakland, California, serves as home to over a third of a million human inhabitants, but the city has made room for a very different denizen, the gnome. The gnomes began appearing to observant pedestrians as painted figures on pieces of wood screwed onto utility poles. At ground level. The gnomes…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: August 13, 2009
According to Ballotpedia.org, a wiki-based website created by the Citizens in Charge Foundation to track ballot initiatives, referendums and recalls, this year voters have already launched more than twice as many efforts to recall public officials than occurred all of last year. In Flint, Michigan, voters were set to recall…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: September 29, 2010
Two old words, newly relevant: Federalism and nullification. Last Sunday, on Townhall.com, I noted ten state ballot measures to watch. Third on my list was Colorado’s Amendment 63: If swing-state voters in Colorado join Missouri voters, who in August enacted a state measure protecting citizens from being forced to purchase…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: March 21, 2023
This March in San Francisco, hundreds of Tibetans and their supporters rallied to protest the government of China and to commemorate the Tibetan uprising of 1959. “As we are in a free nation,” one of the protesters, Lobsang Chodon, told the Epoch Times, “we have the rights to rally and…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: April 30, 2015
What can we make of the leftist hatred of the Koch brothers, David and his elder brother Charles? For their support of libertarian and Tea Party causes, and a few Republican candidates, the left doesn’t just demonize them, the left singles them out. I suppose a reasonable person could blanch…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: November 10, 2020
In a nation divided over color — red for Republicans and blue for Democrats — voters united around the country to pass and defeat measures at the ballot box. No grayness in the results, as in the presidential election. The returns are black-or-white. Before the election, I highlighted Citizens in…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: August 24, 2015
The over-riding reason to end the War on Drugs is to re-establish the rule of law in this country. From Nixon and Reagan to the present time, America has vastly increased the population of prison inmates, many of them for drug offenses. The “land of the free” shouldn’t boast a…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: September 1, 2015
Last week, I warned of marijuana legalization. Not that I’m against it. But how much will actual freedom be increased? Note: I’m not bemoaning, as one activist friend argued, that “if you can’t toke up and celebrate in public when it passes, it’s not legalization.” One cannot now legally smoke…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: June 28, 2012
Stockton, California, had seen a flurry of new home projects right up till the mortgage market crash. But, boy, did that come to a screeching halt. The crash led to foreclosures, which led to lower revenues from property taxes for the city. And though the city tried some spending cuts,…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: January 27, 2017
A friend, who loves to talk football, sometimes boasts that his team “crushed” the other team, gaining more yards and rolling up more first downs, before dejectedly acknowledging that his team didn’t score as many points as its opponent. They lost. When a Democrat gloats that Donald Trump lost the…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: January 14, 2013
It was the thirteenth day of the century’s thirteenth year, yesterday, and the worst I got was a cold. Meanwhile, the Russian government is trying to stop a triskaidekaphobic panic. Russian media folk have been making much of Apophis, the near-Earth asteroid that will come within spitting distance on a…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: June 25, 2021
Now hold on just a minute. I’m not one of those crazies who thinks the government is nothing better than a den of thieves constantly looking for new ways to steal from us. So don’t accuse me of making such an accusation. Please. But, gee whiz, it sure makes the…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: January 12, 2019
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: January 13, 2020
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: April 25, 2023
The city council of Oakland, California just voted 7-1 to end the town’s pandemic-rationalized moratorium on eviction for nonpayment of rent. But it’s not over yet. The moratorium will linger on until July 15. Three years is supposedly insufficient time for tenants to gird themselves to again honor the contract…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: June 30, 2015
Policemen who perpetrate acts like those I am about to describe should be imprisoned. That’s not an anti-police statement, it’s a pro-law-and-order one. Anybody who vandalizes the property of innocent people and pointlessly terrorizes them, whether flashing a badge as prelude or not, should be arrested, prosecuted, convicted and punished.…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: June 16, 2014
“Incumbents Fear Cantor’s Loss Will Fill Tea Party’s Sails” is the headline. Before a few days ago, GOP establishmentarians felt that they had finally quelled the Tea Party notion that Republicans should be more than 2 to 4 percent different from Democrats on whether the country should suffer a socialist…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: September 24, 2014
Some political opponents win your respect, even if not your agreement. Others … well, not so much. Earlier this week, a publication called Arkansas Business editorialized against Issue 3 on the Natural State’s November ballot, calling it “a freakish hybrid, a gambit to trick voters into expanding term limits for…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: September 27, 2015
According to the experts, any day now a civil war will break out in California. Click on over to Townhall to consider the mother of all attribution errors! Then come back here for context: Politifact: Fact-checking the link between climate change and ISIS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: July 3, 2016
Declarations of . . . regret? Partisans of Big Government will go quite a long ways to defend said modes of governance. See Townhall, this weekend, and then come back here: Washington Post: “Brexit is a reminder that some things just shouldn’t be decided by referendum,” by Emily Badger New Republic: “The…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: June 3, 2014
A young man wrote a manifesto and went on a killing spree. This murderer, Elliot Rodger, ended up taking the lives of six people, seven if you include his own death. (I’ll wait for the coroner’s report to see whether it was self-inflicted or the result of return fire.) The…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: March 20, 2024
Trying to find justice in the justice system is sometimes like panning for gold in a dry river. But what ho, hey, we’ve found some. Victoria Taft points us to “a federal judge who believes in justice” . . . or a reasonable facsimile thereof. Recently, California District Court Judge…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: October 11, 2023
Kindness; generosity; aid — even these need defending from government. In “Performing Charity Is a First Amendment Right,” C. J. Ciaramella writes about the difficulties people have had in feeding the poor in their towns and cities. The problem is not lack of charity — unless you mean the lack…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: November 22, 2015
Government is supposed to defend our rights, including rights to property. Too often, our police departments merely steal. Play criminal themselves. Click on over to Townhall.com for the full story. Come back here for more reading . . . and viewing: Institute for Justice – TAKEN: New Report Finds Civil…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: February 20, 2023
After Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton legally challenged how several states conducted the 2020 election, dozens of lawyers submitted complaints. To the state bar. Their idea: disbar the Republican officeholder for daring to oppose the current Democratic narrative about “election denialism.” The Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel dismissed those initial…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: November 18, 2021
It’s a cliché of politics that the Republican Party is The Party of the Rich while the Democrats serve the Poor and Downtrodden. But were that true, why so many Democratic billionaires? And why is President Biden’s Build Back Better legislation offering the top income quintile a tax cut worth…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: September 9, 2022
The proposed tax was very popular. In San Francisco. It polled at nearly 75 percent in favor. But it possessed a fatal flaw. And worse. The fatal flaw? The numbers didn’t add up. Organizers spent nearly half a million bucks developing and promoting and getting the petition signatures to place…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: October 25, 2016
That grin. That cackle. Please: No more! While there is much to be said against Donald Trump, and I’ve said some of it, the sheer unlikability and . . . distastefulness . . . of Hillary Clinton is . . . precedented. Historically, she reminds me of two past Republican…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: September 26, 2016
In a Townhall.com column last January, I argued that politicians weren’t “stupid,” as Mr. Trump had loudly proclaimed — to few objections. The problem is worse: too many politicians lack honesty and integrity. They’re in the politics biz for their own lucrative ends. Six weeks ago, I declared — again,…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: October 8, 2012
Americans are obviously divided on the current presidential race. We disagree, too, on a whole range of social and economic issues. But we remain firmly united when it comes to one straightforward political reform: term limits. Since 1990, when voters in California, Colorado and Oklahoma passed the first statewide ballot…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: January 18, 2012
Wisconsin Democrats turned in more than a million signatures yesterday to force a recall election for Republican Gov. Scott Walker. That’s far more than the 540,000 signatures required by law. State officials will now check the signatures and, barring tremendous irregularities, will set an election six to ten weeks after…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: November 3, 2015
If Ohioans pass Issue 3 today, the days of pot prohibition will disappear like the smoke from a wild night’s last bong hit. That’s sorta what Nick Gillespie of Reason argued yesterday, anyway. “[I]f marijuana can be legalized in Ohio,” he wrote, “it can — and will be — legalized…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: March 18, 2016
Has the War on Drugs actually, finally, made some progress? Well, yes . . . but, really, no. “Legal marijuana may be doing at least one thing that a decades-long drug war couldn’t,” explains Christopher Ingraham in The Washington Post’s Wonkblog, “taking a bite out of Mexican drug cartels’ profits.” Certainly…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: September 12, 2016
Yesterday, around the country, flags were flown at half-staff, a sad acknowledgement of the atrocities on 9/11/2001. In preparation for the 15th anniversary, students at a California college put up signs, emblazoned with the motto “Never Forget.” At least one faculty member took it upon herself to rip the signage…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: September 23, 2022
After the spectacular failures of the COVID response, “the experts” appear to be on a roll. That is, they are once again not “following the science” but being led by politics, ideology, and the madness of crowds. The big issues right now demonstrating mass folly on a societal level? Aside…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: September 12, 2012
It’s the silly season in politics, that special time when politicians pretend they like us better than the special interests that fund their campaigns. They bombard us with bold and expansive promises of their incredible abilities; they pledge their future fidelity to principle. From bitter experience, oft repeated, we know…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: April 23, 2014
Spring is in the air, and old men’s hearts turn to thoughts of . . . law. Yes, Supreme Court Decision Season has begun. Yesterday, two decisions were handed down. In Schuette v. BAMN, Justice Kennedy “announced” the decision to reverse a previous court’s determination overruling a citizen-initiated constitutional amendment…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: July 2, 2013
This is the season for major Supreme Court decisions, and a fine time to rethink the union’s constitution — and the document, too, which we capitalize: The Constitution of the United States of America. Now is especially propitious, in that recent decisions by the Robed Nine are solidifying a social…