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Relevance: 56% Posted on: July 14, 2012
We’ve discussed the Stockton, California, municipal bankruptcy. It was brought about by a number of factors, but the highlights are (1) lavish and totally unsustainable public employee pay and benefits, and (2) the recession. Here is a detailed explanation from Vice Mayor Kathy Miller: This sort of disaster may be…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: May 31, 1999
Powerbrokers in the media have never liked term limits. Over and over they write that term limits are dead. Of course, the fact that they write about term limits again and again only shows the activity of the movement, and the ridiculousness of their claims. Roll Call, the Capitol Hill…
Relevance: 55% Posted on: August 30, 2012
“Democracy should be for everyone,” says Michelle Romero of the Greenlining Institute. That sounds right. She also argues that “California speaks 200 languages, but our initiative petitions speak only one. We can bring millions of voters fully into our democratic process, and it will only cost about a penny per…
Relevance: 55% Posted on: August 31, 2022
The state government of California spends a lot of money. But how much and on what? That information has, apparently, been a state secret. Until now. For years, a watchdog group called OpenTheBooks.com has been working to discover and disclose government spending in the United States. Its efforts were enabled…
Relevance: 55% Posted on: December 2, 2009
California voters love their state’s process for placing initiatives and referendums on the ballot. Legislators? Most take a much dimmer view. This year they’ve been blaming voters for spending the state into bankruptcy through the initiative. Additionally — and please hold your laughter — they claim that initiatives have tied…
Relevance: 55% Posted on: September 16, 2008
Some politicians are loathe to allow freedom of action even when they’re going out of their way to allow freedom of action. California Attorney General Jerry Brown doesn’t want the federal government to harass patients who use medical marijuana, or to harass those who provide it. To implement this laissez-faire…
Relevance: 55% Posted on: April 4, 2024
Could a barren, charred, devastated landscape be the actual intended goal? In California as in Washington, lawmakers and chief executives apparently have a long list of nice things to destroy and are crossing them off one by one, as if on the payroll of aliens from outer space wanting to…
Relevance: 55% Posted on: July 22, 2015
“The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited (1958), chapter one, p. 12.
Relevance: 54% Posted on: July 6, 2012
California's Democratic legislative majority is anything but lazy. On July 3, when most politicians had long-since left their posts to begin vacationing, California legislators kept their collective nose to the grindstone, busy trying to grind down the right of citizens to petition their government. Again. Last year, California's initiative process…
Relevance: 54% Posted on: August 30, 2016
“Marijuana is only legal for white people, in California,” explains Lynne Lyman of the Drug Policy Alliance. Talking with Zach Weissmueller, on reason.tv, she clarifies the situation regarding California’s currently legal medical marijuana, and why Prop. 64, a ballot measure sponsored by Californians for Responsible Marijuana Reform, is so necessary.…
Relevance: 54% Posted on: September 9, 2009
Could California’s budget crisis be solved by a triumvirate of Internet services, Craigslist, eBay and Twitter? Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is raiding the state’s storage sheds to sell off unneeded items on eBay and Craigslist. His signature on a California fleet car adds, it is estimated, $400 to its auction value.…
Relevance: 54% Posted on: May 6, 2020
Just get rid of it. The “it” is AB-5, the absurd new law attacking California freelancers. And those articulating the good riddance are the “151 Ph.D. Economists and Political Scientists in California” who have signed an open letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom and the state legislature. The lawmakers who…
Relevance: 54% Posted on: January 20, 2020
Eventually, champions of government intervention, of all forms of thwarting independent judgment and killing dreams, find themselves under assault. From the public. And you don’t need an economics degree to grasp why. Initially, an intervention prevents other people from pursuing projects, getting jobs, earning a living. Then, finally, government meddling…
Relevance: 54% Posted on: September 17, 2010
One goal of academic freedom is to protect inquiry from the guardians of orthodoxy, the machinations of those who resent any articulation of an alternate view. Administrators at UCLA don’t seem to be fans of this goal. James Enstrom has been at UCLA for 36 years. He lacks tenure, and…
Relevance: 54% Posted on: June 14, 1999
There's a big difference between "independence" and "arrogance." Our Founders wanted judges to be independent from politics and the other two branches of government. The judiciary could thus protect our freedoms and defend our Constitution against assaults from powerful politicians or even against majorities of the public.But being independent is…
Relevance: 54% Posted on: April 13, 2010
While Washington, DC, steps in to take over responsibility for determining just how much and what kind of medical insurance we should buy, the states march, instead, towards personal responsibility, defending a right to self-medication. More than a dozen states have enacted medical marijuana laws, in defiance of Congress and…
Relevance: 54% Posted on: August 23, 2021
“For weeks, legal scholars have debated whether the recall election of [California] Gov. Gavin Newsom could be found unconstitutional,” The Los Angeles Times reports, “if Newsom failed to realize a ‘no recall’ majority of the ballots cast and was ousted by a candidate who received fewer votes than he did.”…
Relevance: 53% Posted on: March 8, 2024
Republican Representative Kevin Kiley of California has introduced H.J. Resolution 116 to block “the rule submitted by the Department of the Labor relating to ‘Employee or Independent Contractor Classification Under the Fair Labor Standards Act.’ ” 116 is a legislative attempt to thwart legislation by regulators. Labor’s rule is modeled on…
Relevance: 53% Posted on: November 20, 2012
Two court cases come to our attention, courtesy of Cato’s Ilya Shapiro. Both involve the favoring of members of one group over another. The Sixth Circuit ruled that a voter-approved amendment to the Michigan state constitution outlawing racial preferences in college admissions would violate the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection clause.…
Relevance: 53% Posted on: January 13, 2017
It’s neither “iconic” nor “ironic.” “Storm fells one of California’s iconic drive-through tunnel trees, carved 137 years ago,” Travis M. Anderson’s title informs us. Calaveras Big Trees State Park is famous for its hollowed-at-the-trunk Pioneer Cabin Tree, a sequoia you have seen in hundreds of photos. It fell, almost certainly,…