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Relevance: 64% Posted on: August 4, 2023
On August 4, 2010, in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, Judge Vaughn Walker overturned California’s Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage that had passed two years earlier by the state’s voters.
Relevance: 64% Posted on: September 22, 2021
“California recall fails,” The Visalla Times Delta explained. As did KSBY, the NBC affiliate in San Luis Obispo. Not to mention The New York Daily News and The Chicago Sun-Times. FiveThirtyEight analyzed “the failed California recall” at length. Even the South China Morning Post proclaimed the apparent democratic malfunction (reprinting…
Relevance: 64% Posted on: February 6, 2023
A judge has given California doctors a reprieve from an anti-medical-speech law produced by lawmakers and Governor Newsom. The judge has blocked the law until a lawsuit challenging it on First Amendment grounds can be resolved. AB 2098 says that it “shall constitute unprofessional conduct” for doctors to spread “false…
Relevance: 64% Posted on: January 30, 2024
Do politicians understand limits? They seem to have this notion that they may limit us every which way . . . with no natural or civilized limit set upon the limits they may impose. Take California lawmaker Scott Wiener. This state senator (District 11-D.) has introduced a bill to force…
Relevance: 63% Posted on: February 26, 2012
It's getting to become more and more popular to bash initiative rights — even when those rights are not very relevant. I hear rumblings in California that the hopeless Republicans, there, are gearing up for more of such nonsense. But beware, folks: This puts you in very dangerous company, amongst…
Relevance: 63% Posted on: November 6, 2009
Initiative rights are under nonstop assault from the political class. Fortunately, most voters know the value of being able to end-run or reverse the bad decisions of lawmakers. And just a few clear-thinking defenders of initiative rights are enough to expose the murky evasions of the politicians and their pals.…
Relevance: 63% Posted on: September 2, 2020
Should Uber and Lyft abandon California? At issue is the anti-freelancer statute AB 5, passed last year in the Golden State, which outlaws independent contractors in many industries. Including the wildly successful ride-sharing business. Horrified, threatened, Uber and Lyft have declared their willingness to suspend operations in California if they…
Relevance: 63% Posted on: February 4, 2020
California, “the U.S. state most synonymous with all varieties of growth — vegetal, technological, and human — is at the precipice of its first-ever population decline,” writes Derek Thompson of The Atlantic. And folks in other states like Texas and Idaho are none too happy. You see, the Californians fleeing…
Relevance: 62% Posted on: March 21, 2008
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger no longer likes term limits. He explained why in an interview with the LA Times. Says Arnold: “[O]riginally I felt very strongly that it was the greatest thing ever done. Because I despised the idea of guys being so locked in and safe in their positions,…
Relevance: 62% Posted on: January 3, 2014
You know that politicians waste money. You guess that they waste a lot of time. But did you know they deliberately waste our time? Transportation scholar Randal O’Toole regales us with the fix that California’s overlords have put themselves in. Merely assuming that dense city living decreases commuting, California’s legislators…
Relevance: 62% Posted on: April 10, 2020
“California this week declared its independence from the federal government’s feeble efforts to fight Covid-19 — and perhaps from a bit more.” So begins a hyper-partisan, slightly unhinged Bloomberg opinion piece. “Governor Gavin Newsom said that he would use the bulk purchasing power of California ‘as a nation-state’ to acquire the…
Relevance: 62% Posted on: August 4, 2019
On August 4, 2010, in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, Judge Vaughn Walker overturned California’s Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage that had passed two years earlier by the state’s voters.
Relevance: 62% Posted on: May 20, 2022
In 2018, Jerry Brown, then California governor, signed a bill requiring corporate boards to include a high percentage of women. Now a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has determined that the state failed to show that “gender-based classification was necessary to boost California’s economy, improve opportunities for women in…
Relevance: 61% Posted on: June 12, 2000
It's all been a big misunderstanding. For some reason, those of us in the term limits movement got the crazy idea that California politicians don't like term limits. How silly of us! Maybe it was the nearly $6 million legislators raised to run ads trashing the 1990 initiative. One could…
Relevance: 61% Posted on: April 22, 2015
Arbitrary governmental pricing of water — as opposed to free-market pricing — provides one major reason why it’s so hard for Californians and others to deal with drought. I’ve talked about it before. And, as before — indeed, as is so often the case when government constricts our freedom to…
Relevance: 60% Posted on: June 17, 2009
The good sense that California voters exhibited at the polls in May has been rewarded with continual attack and derision. Meg Whitman, former eBay CEO and Republican candidate for governor, recently said, “In many ways, the proposition process has worn out its usefulness.” She’s criticizing the initiative, and she’s not…
Relevance: 60% Posted on: July 5, 2022
“Just an accident?” Maybe. But the “accidental” release of the private information of thousands of California gun owners is just the sort of thing that many foes of Second Amendment rights would happily perpetrate. So we can be forgiven if we harbor doubts. On June 27, the California Justice Department’s…
Relevance: 60% Posted on: June 25, 2008
Here's a story about a government board whose members endlessly dish out taxpayer money. And want endless years in power to keep doing so. Recently, members of the Santa Clara water board approved steep salary hikes for two of their staffers, making them the highest-paid for their jobs in all…
Relevance: 60% Posted on: June 28, 2013
You have no right as a voter to defend your interests as a voter. Not in federal court. So decides the Supreme Court in Hollingsworth v. Perry, a case about a controversial California ballot question. The court ruled 5-4 that petitioners “lack standing.” Their interest wasn’t “particularized” enough. Passed in…
Relevance: 60% Posted on: September 19, 2018
“California is the place you oughta be” — or so sang Jerry Scoggins for The Beverly Hillbillies. That may still hold true, if you are an oil millionaire retiring to a pleasant climate. But if you are trying to make your fortune, the direction is outbound. Take, for example, the…