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Relevance: 75% Posted on: March 31, 2017
When last we touched upon the strangely over-the-top Californian reaction to the Trump presidency, the secession movement, I took the occasion to bring up the rather less radical separatists in the north. “Already 21 of the 23 northernmost counties,” I wrote, “have made declarations to form the State of Jefferson.”…
Relevance: 75% Posted on: February 4, 2009
The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association is getting a bum rap. The organization is named after fiery tax-cut advocate Howard Jarvis. Jarvis authored Proposition 13, the California tax limitation measure approved in 1978 by a two-to-one margin. In recent months, like everywhere else, California has suffered economically. And now the Howard…
Relevance: 74% Posted on: October 10, 2011
On this day a century ago — October 10, 1911 — California voters stormed to the polls and overwhelmingly enacted a measure establishing a statewide system of initiative and referendum. Through the years, Californians have used the initiative to enact for themselves many reforms their legislators refused to touch —…
Relevance: 73% Posted on: July 26, 2011
California is wild and crazy, fruity and nutty. Not in Hollywood, but in Sacramento. The state’s enormous prison population — so large that the Feds recently ordered California to release overcrowded prisoners — feeds an otherwise expensive prison system, straining the state’s strapped budget. So what did Golden State solons…
Relevance: 73% Posted on: October 22, 2003
One of my listeners wrote back to say, Hey, enough with the stuff about California! Get back to the national scene! I can understand that. After all, if you're in Michigan or Ohio, why would you want to hear about California all the time? I do try to vary the…
Relevance: 73% Posted on: May 25, 2023
The Democratic Party is a victim of its own success. Nowhere can we see that more clearly than in California. Democrats have succeeded by pushing “victimhood,” gaining power by focusing on special groups, declaring them oppressed and offering compensation — though still never comes the day of full escape from…
Relevance: 72% Posted on: August 20, 2020
Is California a failed state? It has an electric grid problem. And a vagrancy problem. Both of which stem from the bizarre ideological blind spots of a political class “benefiting” from the state’s high legislator/citizen ratio, which insulates politicians from feedback. Driving them power mad. And one form of madness…
Relevance: 72% Posted on: September 18, 2003
Hey, I recall those taxes. And the politicians in California will recall them too. Or at least pretend to, until the recall vote on Governor Davis has safely passed. Okay, let me stop punning for a minute and give you the background. Recently I discussed the California recall effort. I…
Relevance: 72% Posted on: August 30, 2023
The abandoned biolab found last December in Reedley, California, was uncovered by local law enforcement — not the Department of Homeland Security, the CDC, the FBI, or any of the federales’ faker’s dozen of intel agencies. But the locals quickly discovered this was not just an unregistered business, or the…
Relevance: 71% Posted on: October 2, 2020
It’s hard to destroy a state. Or rather, the advanced industrial economy of a state. Mud slides, eco-policy-abetted wildfires, exploding taxes and spending and regulations, riots, pandemics — such things go only so far. After the latest holocausts and catastrophes abate (if they do), survivors can still soldier on. Mow…
Relevance: 71% Posted on: September 26, 2023
California is determined to give us the full bleak picture of totalitarianism, American-style. Anticipating proposed SEC regulations, Newsom’s California is set to impose nonsensical mandates for reporting greenhouse gas emissions and “climate-related financial risk” that target companies with annual revenue of $1 billion or more (according to the terms of…
Relevance: 71% Posted on: October 1, 2001
This just in: According to the Los Angeles Times , there's no more back bench in the California Assembly. Apparently they've hauled it away to a garage sale. "New members do not sit meekly and keep quiet while they learn," says the Times . "Even rookies will rebel." Everybody remembers…
Relevance: 71% Posted on: January 23, 2008
It's almost E-Day in California. February 5. Extension Day. â€E-Day†is clunky as monikers go. But that’s appropriate, seeing as how Proposition 93 is such a clunkily devious effort. Prop 93 would double maximum tenure of Assemblymen, increasing it from six years to twelve. And it would boost the tenure…
Relevance: 71% Posted on: September 12, 2008
You might think that there’s nothing a government won’t try. You’d be right. But I was near stupified to learn that the state of California copyrights its laws. And it’s not alone. The state tries to control — through copyright — how you can access its laws, where and how…
Relevance: 70% Posted on: April 2, 2001
Governor Gray Davis of California just wants California taxpayers to know what a swell guy he is. So he's going to send them back some of their own money. But first, he has to collect it from them. Why collect taxes just to send them back to the taxpayers? Why…
Relevance: 70% Posted on: March 27, 2000
It happened. It's hard to believe, but it actually happened. An incumbent was defeated in his party's primary by a challenger. The last time it happened the incumbent was wearing a monitoring bracelet on his ankle so the feds could keep tabs on him. Yes, it is a bit tough…
Relevance: 70% Posted on: October 10, 2003
There is more to an election than just the outcome. The process counts too. The dialogue between candidates and the voters. California voters did a lot more than say "Hasta La Vista" to one governor and "Hola!" to another. For one thing, there was plenty of poetic justice. Schwarzenegger, an…
Relevance: 70% Posted on: June 25, 2001
There's a crisis facing California legislators and they are meeting it head on. Well, not exactly head on, but they're tackling it. Well, they're not quite tackling it, but they're scheming pretty hard to get around it. Think I'm talking about rolling blackouts that terrorize many who depend on electricity…
Relevance: 70% Posted on: February 14, 2008
We won. They lost. I mean the February 5 defeat of Proposition 93 in California. Final tally: 46 percent Yes, 53 percent No. The end game of another huge effort by Golden State politicians, spending $17 million to trash term limits. Most California voters like term limits, like how they…
Relevance: 69% Posted on: September 9, 2021
Golden State labor organizers want to be able to trespass on the property of companies to recruit new workers. But companies don’t want their operations periodically disrupted by trespassers. Typical kind of political disagreement. One party wants its rights to be respected; the other wants to violate those rights. That…