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Relevance: 53% Posted on: October 20, 2009
“Slow, corrupt and expensive is no way to run a state government.” That’s what Pittsburgh Post Gazette columnist Brian O’Neill wrote recently about the Pennsylvania Legislature. The state budget remains unset three months past deadline. O’Neill bemoaned that for the seventh consecutive year “America’s Largest Full-Time State Legislature has been…
Relevance: 53% Posted on: August 16, 2010
Democracy and constitutional rights fit together better than some people think. Most people don’t think of democracy as some hyper-pure system where two wolves and a lamb decide whom to eat for dinner. They envision a constitutional republic that protects fundamental rights while also democratically controlling government’s legitimate decisions and…
Relevance: 53% Posted on: January 5, 2023
What do California and Canada have in common, aside from bone-chilling temperatures? Well, the fact that they’re trying to chill the discourse of doctors. In California, a new law empowers medical boards to punish doctors who spread “misinformation” about COVID-19. The misinformative nature of a stated view about the pandemic…
Relevance: 53% Posted on: April 26, 2014
A man at a forum asks the operative question. Michigan’s ban on racial and gender preferences, upheld this week by the SCOTUS, was passed by voters in 2006 through a citizen initiative led by Jennifer Gratz, now leading the XIV Foundation, and Leon Drolet, a former state legislator and activist.…
Relevance: 53% Posted on: May 25, 2004
Paul Jacob Mention initiative, referendum, and recall to political insiders and you'll hear a one-word rebuttal: California! California politics is almost universally portrayed as, well, a little loony. California stands out from other states of the union, of course, for a host of reasons, from the sheer size and diversity…
Relevance: 53% Posted on: May 27, 2012
California politicians are at it again, as you can see on Townhall this weekend. And come back for the links: LA Times coverage Chuck Woolsy No on 28 Poll stuff Professional Politicians, Crony Capitalists Fleischman US Term Limits
Relevance: 53% Posted on: June 26, 2023
What is the U.S. SupremeCourt thinking by refusing even to listen to arguments about the effects of California’s AB5 law, which effectively outlaws certain kinds of freelancing and gig work, on the right to speak out and petition in California? The case is Mobilize the Message, LLC v. Bona. Plaintiffs…
Relevance: 53% Posted on: June 21, 2011
I’m traveling across California this week to raise awareness about a diaper load of legislation designed to restrict, thwart, inhibit, hamper, obstruct, impede, block and tackle California’s robust system of initiative and referendum. Politicians know they cannot abolish voter initiatives outright. They’d need voter approval. Instead, they seek to rig…
Relevance: 52% Posted on: October 29, 2020
Fighting racism should be at least conceptually easy. The California Assembly referred to Golden State voters Proposition 16, a constitutional amendment that would repeal a previous constitutional amendment voters had authorized in 1996, with Proposition 209. That amendment “stated that discrimination and preferential treatment were prohibited in public employment, public…
Relevance: 52% Posted on: December 8, 2010
The ugliest truth about California’s newest, gimmick-ridden budget, is that it doesn’t address the looming public employee pension issue. Adam Summers, a Reason Foundation policy analyst, gave some figures in the Orange County Register, explaining that these pensions have been “recently pegged at up to roughly $500 billion — roughly…
Relevance: 52% Posted on: April 29, 2019
California’s new top banana is playing politics the old-fashioned way: passing the buck. Last week Governor Gavin Newsom directed the California Energy Commission (CEC) to look into the state’s higher-than-average gasoline prices. “Independent analysis suggests that an unaccounted-for price differential exists in California’s gas prices and that this price differential…
Relevance: 52% Posted on: August 25, 2017
The proper study of mankind is books. Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow (1921), Ch. XXVIII.
Relevance: 52% Posted on: September 25, 2011
by Paul Jacob What fools we were to revolt against King George! Instead of installing a constitutional republic with democratic checks on government, we could have found a wise philosopher king or an enlightened House of Lords to make decisions for us. Instead of embracing universal suffrage and government by…
Relevance: 52% Posted on: March 4, 2024
In 2015, the Hillary Clinton campaign exhibited the hubris for which politicians have been associated since the dawn of civilization. Instead of relying on a strategy of promoting Hillary herself, Clinton insiders plied what they called “Pied Piper candidates,” Republican hopefuls who, they theorized, would shift mainstream candidates further “right,”…
Relevance: 52% Posted on: October 12, 2023
Why doesn’t California Governor Gavin Newsom care about kids? What is it with this “conservative”? Last week, Newsom coldly deployed his veto pen to deny to Golden State public high school students the sex subsidies — in this case, free condoms — that a solid majority of their state legislators…
Relevance: 52% Posted on: October 13, 2020
Expect a tsunami of lawsuits against state and local governments. The lockdowns, mask mandates, and other putative ‘mitigation efforts’ to combat the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 demand a deluge. The latest is Burfitt v. Newsom, filed in Kern County’s Superior Court of the State of California. “The legal complaint,”…
Relevance: 52% Posted on: September 28, 2010
D. Dowd Muska attacks conservatives and libertarians for so strongly supporting voter initiative and referendum. From the august pages of the Hartford Business Journal, he writes that we’re “hopped up on the false notion that elected officials respond not to voters but the dictates of liberal elites.” It all started,…
Relevance: 52% Posted on: October 22, 2009
Money. Politicians like to spend it. People — especially special interests — like to get it. And taxpayers really don’t much like having to pay for all that spending. So our representatives try to procrastinate their balancing of spending and revenue. How? With debt. Hence our yearly unbalanced budgets. At…
Relevance: 51% Posted on: July 25, 2015
“However hard they try, men cannot create a social organism, they can only create an organization. In the process of trying to create an organism they will merely create a totalitarian despotism.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited (1958), chapter three, p. 24.
Relevance: 51% Posted on: February 3, 2014
Why is schooling so expensive? Government makes it so. Take the recent example, in California, of “coder boot camps.” These are “schools” where computer coders receive training. We now learn that the Golden State’s education bureaucrats are cracking down on this unlicensed and unregulated form of learning. Unless they comply,…