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Relevance: 20% Posted on: February 1, 2023
You must place explosives a certain way when demolishing a building to avoid damaging surrounding structures. But if you just want to destroy, you can forget about such precautions. Could this be the perspective of those demanding national rent control? They forget — or ignore — the destruction of living…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: November 26, 2011
Nothing speaks to the out-of-control nature of government more loudly and clearly than the lavish pension benefits promised to public employees. The extravagance centers on their underfunded nature: The pensions’ benefits are defined — defined high — and underfunded or even unfunded as the employment occurs, leaving many states, metro…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: April 22, 2020
Has dissent about pandemic policy been outlawed? I mean, “for the duration”? Well, no. The Internet displays every possible view of policy and epidemiology, expressed with every possible degree of temperateness or intemperateness. Yet we are indeed seeing signs of indifference to freedom of speech even when that speech cannot…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: July 9, 2021
From the people who brought you “Defund the Police,” prepare yourself for . . . “Throw Billions at the Police!” “The Capitol Police on Monday announced a multi-pronged plan to expand its operations,” journalist Glenn Greenwald informs, highlighting that “the force intends for the first time to create a permanent…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: February 3, 2017
“The Free Speech Movement is dead.” So said the Berkeley College Republicans after violence Wednesday night forced cancelation of a sold-out speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, the Greek-born British author, now a senior editor at Breitbart News. The reference, of course, is to the University of California’s history as a haven…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: December 26, 2018
Students and faculty at the University of Southern California are upset because a popular dean of the Marshall School of Business, James Ellis, has been fired by interim USC President Wanda Austin. Hundreds have rallied in protest and petitioned for his reinstatement. Why the ouster? The administration has offered a…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: December 9, 2019
In ten days, the Democratic Party will hold a presidential debate that, according to the rules established by the Democratic National Committee, includes six qualified candidates all of whom are white. Which is apparently not the right color. “Of course, there is nothing wrong with Democrats selecting a white presidential…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: January 2, 2019
“Negotiations are impossible without trust,” wrote Leon Panetta in a Washington Post op-ed. What with all his experience, Mr. Panetta has some reason to be trusted on his chosen subject, government shutdowns. The California Democrat spent 16 years in the Congress before joining the Clinton Administration as Director of the…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: April 15, 2019
Politicians often dare . . . too much. But what did Rep. Ted Lieu dare to be last week? Candace Owens’ appearance before the House Committee on the Judiciary caused quite a stir. The subject was hate crimes and white nationalism, and she offered a wider perspective: “We’re not talking…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: October 8, 2019
Sen. Kamala Harris successfully bears aloft the banner of Barack Obama. As “a person of color”? Yeah, sure — but mainly by pandering to ignorant ideologues. “Look, women are still not paid equal for equal work in America,” she said recently at a campaign stop. The Daily Wire notes that…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: April 2, 2016
Is this a great country or what? Oh, sure, as Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump puts it, “We are led by very, very stupid people,” but still — the ingenuity of the populace shines through. Sometimes the inhabitants of America find a path around their political potholes. Case in…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: June 23, 2023
The day following Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s “successful” visit to China, wherein the Chinese rulers agreed to start talking to U.S. officials again — well, except on trivial military-to-military stuff like the PLA playing chicken with our fighter jets and naval ships in international waters — President Joe Biden…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: November 9, 2017
“When do we say enough is enough?” asked California Senator Kamala Harris after Devon Patrick Kelley murdered 26 churchgoing Texans in cold blood, last Sunday. “The terrifying fact is that no one is safe so long as Congress chooses to do absolutely nothing in the face of this epidemic,” argued…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: November 30, 2020
“One can squint and see ballot measures as a kind of super-survey of the electorate, with much larger samples and actual stakes,” wrote Sasha Issenberg over the weekend in The Washington Post. “The results then can be interpreted as a pure representation of voter preferences on discrete issues, without the…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: October 15, 2021
Over the weekend, I said goodbye to two friends: Ronn Neff and Mike Gravel. Ronald Nelson Neff passed away September 26th, at age 72, after “a prolonged illness,” wrote his longtime friend, Tom McPherson, at The Last Ditch, a libertarian/anarchist newsletter the two co-founded. Neff, a well-respected editor of numerous…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: June 10, 2022
Decades of wrongheaded policies have eroded San Francisco’s once much-vaunted charm. These policies include onerous burdens on building construction; lax attitudes toward homeless folks’ tent cities and public excretory practices; and a green light for sundry criminal activities, including broad-daylight theft. The green light flashed statewide in 2014, when Californians…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: October 31, 2022
Last Friday, at 2:30-ish in the morning, a man allegedly broke into Paul and Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and attacked 82-year-old Paul Pelosi with a hammer.* The attack fractured Mr. Pelosi’s skull, forcing emergency surgery, but fortunately he’s expected to make a full recovery. Police have arrested David DePape…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: May 22, 2019
Democratic presidential contender and U.S. Senator from California Kamala Harris leaned in to the big lie. Debuting a new proposal to “close the gender pay gap,” she declared that, “In America today, women for the same work, for the equal work, on average make 80 cents on the dollar, black…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: January 28, 2022
In last week’s news conference, President Biden seemed to wave a green light to Vladimir Putin: Russian military forces may make a “minor incursion” into neighboring Ukraine. Was Biden applying to diplomacy, I wondered, the permissive posture so many other Democratic officials have taken, domestically? Crime’s fine, if small enough. …
Relevance: 18% Posted on: May 6, 2019
Late Friday, in the closing hours of Florida’s legislative session, an amendment “was thrown onto the lifeboat of a different, unrelated bill in a last-ditch effort,” reported the Miami Herald, “to limit citizen-driven ballot initiatives.” With poisonous provisions appended, House Bill 5 rushed through both chambers in mere hours with…