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Relevance: 31% Posted on: April 30, 2014
Could a mighty earthquake dump much of the California coast into the Pacific Ocean? You tell me. But I have a more likely scenario: the state’s perilous public employee pension problems, surging like a tsunami, smashing into the state. Soon. That would be a disaster. State and local governments in…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: April 30, 2020
“I think it’s a shame,” HBO comedian Bill Maher told Dr. David Katz, “that people like you who sound reasonable — maybe it’s not the exact one true opinion you hear somewhere else — has to go on Fox News to say it.” For years, I have told liberal friends…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: July 10, 2018
“A lot of people would like to say this is an immigration issue. It’s really not,” offered Gary Emineth, the head of North Dakotans for Citizen Voting and a candidate for state senator. “It’s really about preserving the right for U.S. citizens, and in our case, North Dakota residents,…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: November 14, 2011
“There’s no such thing as too much power.” That’s the word from Democrat Herb Wesson, former Speaker of the California Assembly. Wesson was defending the Speaker’s awesome control over the purse strings. In a story headlined, “The power of one: Perez controls Assembly with money,” the Sacramento Bee reports: “Assembly…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: December 9, 2020
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s message “couldn’t be simpler,” he offered last week: “It’s time to cancel everything.” Gee whiz, that is simple. The mayor’s order “prohibits public and private gatherings of people from more than one household and states that all businesses in the city that require people to…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: April 24, 2022
A principal in New York was fired for (how shall we say?) a cavalier attitude towards actual teaching and learning. The point, as he saw it, was merely to pass students through — a scam to get tax money into his budget. He was fired, but given a golden parachute.…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: November 29, 2010
What an election year. It’s not just the drubbing dealt to many statist incumbents that warrants a little triumphalism. We can also cheer about ballot measures whose passage means the defeat of very specific attacks on the citizenry. Several local referendums targeted all those ticket-triggering red-light cameras that have been…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: May 22, 2017
On May 22, 1995, in the case U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Arkansas’s congressional term limits law, 5-4, overturning the congressional term limits then the law in 23 states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: May 22, 2018
On May 22, 1995, in the case U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Arkansas’s congressional term limits law, 5-4, overturning the congressional term limits then the law in 23 states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: October 7, 2022
On October 7, 1691, the charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay was issued. Also on a seventh day of the tenth month, King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which closed Indigenous lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements. On October 7, 1792, George…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: October 7, 2023
On October 7, 1691, the charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay was issued. Also on a seventh day of the tenth month, King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which closed Indigenous lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements. On October 7, 1792, George…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: November 28, 2011
Councilman Rick Roelle in Apple Valley, California, says that Wal-Mart “blackmailed the town.” Blackmail is no small matter. So, what did Wal-Mart do, specifically? Wal-Mart worked with citizens of Apple Valley, including supplying money, to gather enough petition signatures to place a measure on the local ballot for voters to…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: January 14, 2011
Local government is hard. In rural areas, it can be like organizing an ongoing bake-sale. In metropolitan areas, it’s more like running a small country. Today’s big metropolitan governments tend to be run by un-term-limited oligarchs, so of course corruption is endemic. When there’s little competition for power and scant…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: December 13, 2010
Why does a fellow who’s the executive director of the Greenlining Institute want to red-line democracy? Recently, in the pages of California’s Capitol Weekly, Orson Aguilar called the state’s initiative process a “monster.” Mr. Aguilar’s main beef is that “huge corporations and business groups” spent “massive” amounts of money, and…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: September 1, 2009
I almost feel sorry for politicians so afraid of angry freedom-loving constituents that they couldn’t even hold a townhall meeting this summer to spout reassuring lies about the Democrats’ medical reform proposals. I say, “almost feel sorry” . . . well, not quite “almost” — Okay, I don’t feel sorry…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: March 21, 2011
On March 15, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez got the boot, with almost nine out of ten county voters (88 percent) agreeing to get rid of him. The Miami Herald calls the event “the largest recall of a local politician in U.S. history.” Brandon Holmes of Citizens in Charge calls it…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: September 23, 2011
Californians’ initiative, referendum and recall process is as hot a topic for debate as ever. That’s apt, for this year marks the process’s 100th anniversary. On October 10, 1911, Californians went to the polls to enact these democratic checks on government after Governor Hiram Johnson persuaded legislators to put them…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: April 8, 2010
The New York Times offers summer internships at $900 per week. From what I’ve gathered, most other editorial and journalistic internships don’t pay nearly that much. Many pay nothing. So why would anyone work for nothing? Well, for experience. Thomas Sowell, in his recent book Applied Economics, tells the story…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: May 10, 2012
What do small businesses worry about the most? I mean, besides serving their customers? Regulation — licensing in particular. At least when rating government, owners of small businesses surveyed by Thumbtack.com indicated that “licensing requirements were nearly twice as important as tax rates in determining their state or city government’s…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: February 2, 2010
Advocates of campaign finance regulation, what George Will calls "speech rationing," say letting corporations -- including non-profit corporations -- spend unlimited money on political speech corrupts democracy. Actually, muzzling speech is what corrupts democracy and the point of it: i.e., to protect our freedoms, including freedom of speech. Protecting these…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: March 19, 2013
There are needs and there are wants. And then there are priorities. A crippled child or a victim of crime has needs, while no doubt some people fervently want a bike path built or a brand new sports arena. That’s where priorities enter the picture. What are the needs, wants,…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: May 12, 2011
We all know that America’s socialized pension system is, barring major reforms, doomed to undergo major default. But Americans should be nervous about their private pension funds and accounts, too. Over at PensionTsunami.com, the folks at California Public Policy Center have their ears to the ground, listening for rumblings of…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: June 27, 2011
Not all votes are democratic, for — as Stalin pointed out — it’s not who votes that counts, but who counts the votes. Same for “town halls” and public discussions: Politicians regularly hold meetings with constituents the main point of which is to make sure that nothing too challenging gets…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: September 12, 2011
A business filed for bankruptcy last week. These have been tough times, so that’s not a shock. What makes the story juicy is that the FBI raided the company’s headquarters two days later. The company? Solyndra, a solar panel manufacturer. A few months earlier, it had been boasting a profitable…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: September 24, 2009
With all that’s going on in Washington, don’t forget: There’s a lot happening on state and local ballots. Consider these recent newsline items from Ballot Box News: Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez is under fire for giving big-ticket raises to favored insiders while calling for steep budget cuts. A day…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: January 2, 2012
To start off this New Year, I admit that I missed some very thrifty actions taken by elected officials in 2011. Though I often commented on California legislators, regrettably, I failed to mention their frugality. Last May, they unequivocally said, “No” to Senate Bill 18, which would have cost $200,000…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: September 29, 2015
According to the experts, any day now a civil war will break out in California. It’s simple deductive reasoning. Droughts cause civil wars and California is having one doozy of a drought. Ergo, there will be a civil war in California. That’s what former Maryland governor and Democratic presidential candidate…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: November 18, 2010
John Tyner, a 31-year-old man hailing from Oceanside, California, not only declined San Diego International Airport’s kind offer of a full-body scan via privacy-invading machine, he also declined a full-body groping via privacy-invading human. Unfortunately for TSA (who would like to make it unfortunate for Tyner as well) he happened…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: October 4, 2011
Most Americans believe our country is headed in the wrong direction. But there remain folks who would like to take us all the way into downtown Wrongville. Two Sundays ago, in my column at Townhall.com, I expressed exasperation at the “prestigious” Think Long Committee’s recommendations to make it much tougher…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: January 27, 2012
More than a million Wisconsinites signed a petition circulated by Democrats to recall Republican Governor Scott Walker. Or, perhaps several folks signed the recall hundreds of thousands of times. It is very likely the former, though one Milwaukee man claimed to have slapped his John Hancock on the petition 80…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: November 27, 2013
We live in strange times. The “nanny state” mentality is ramping up into overdrive just as the War on Drugs hits the rock of enlightened public opinion. And nothing shows this to stranger effect than the contrast between the continuing success of the anti-tobacco movement while marijuana liberalization proceeds apace.…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: October 3, 2023
On October 3, 1919, James M. Buchanan was born. Buchanan would develop the theory of “Public Choice,” and receiving the 1986 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work. His books include Cost and Choice, The Calculus of Consent (with Gordon Tullock), and The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: May 22, 2019
On May 22, 1995, in the case U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Arkansas’s congressional term limits law, 5-4, overturning the congressional term limits then the law in 23 states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: October 25, 2012
A new website, Marijuana Majority, makes an impression by listing famous people who think America’s laws against marijuana are crazy, unjust, or at least not very wise. The site is elegant; it presents a long list. And by offering statements from each celebrity, we get a few ideas beyond the…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: October 13, 2010
Poor Willie Brown. Ever since California slapped term limits on state lawmakers, Brown’s lacked a permanent perch in power. For many, Brown’s 15-year reign as speaker serves as Exhibit A in the case against unlimited terms. Brown himself bragged that he had been the “Ayatollah” of the assembly — though…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: July 14, 2011
Central Falls, Rhode Island, is not a large city. It is a town of under 20,000 people. And its government is broke, facing likely bankruptcy. Municipal bankruptcies are not common. But they might become so. Why? The blame is easy to place: the proverbial gun-under-the-table contracting foisted on small localities…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: May 16, 2011
A Centerville, Virginia, man made news when he agreed to his wife’s demand that he stand at a busy intersection wearing a sign emblazoned “I Cheated: This is My Punishment.” His merciful wife ended the punishment after just a couple hours. In recent years, a few judges have sporadically sought…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: August 4, 2011
California Governor Jerry Brown just vetoed Senate Bill 168, writing, “It doesn’t seem very practical to me to create a system that makes productivity goals a crime.” Senate Bill 168 makes it illegal to pay someone circulating an issue petition based either directly or indirectly on the number of signatures…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: April 7, 2015
Government’s job is to protect our lives and liberties. But how best to accomplish this? Should books be banned? Websites blocked? Diane Feinstein thinks so. Sen. Feinstein (D-California) wants to ban The Anarchist Cookbook from the Internet. The book, which came out in 1971 with lots of radical ideas, including…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: May 23, 2013
Since 1990, the federal government has placed a stranglehold on the forest industry in Oregon and Washington and California in order to save a species of bird, Strix occidentalis caurina, better known as the Northern spotted owl. The program has not been successful, experts tell us, with spotted owls declining…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: October 29, 2014
A few weeks ago, The Washingtonian published a best of/worst of list about Congress. It stands out amongst other “tops” lists because the voting is done by White House staffers. This is what the employees think about their prima donnas. I mean bosses. The most interesting winner appeared near the…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: September 4, 2012
“Social scientists have long tried to determine why some children grow up to be successful adults and others don’t,” fatherhood blogger Kevin Hartnett wrote in the Washington Post. “The causes are hard to untangle.” Really? I think the causes are pretty obvious. Number one being parents. Hartnett’s opinion piece was…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: March 3, 2024
Yes, the “law-made instrumentality lumbers on under all varieties of circumstances at its habitual rate,” with minimal adaptability to new conditions. “By its very nature it is fitted only for average requirements, and inevitably fails under unusual requirements.” Herbert Spencer had it right over a century ago. The latest example?…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: August 30, 2012
by Paul Jacob As we await the Republican and Democratic conventions and the subsequent autumn campaign about the future of the country, it’s a good time to reflect on where we are now. So, where are we? One simple but telling measure of a free country is whether a child…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: October 29, 2021
The In-N-Out Burger restaurant won’t kick out customers who fail to display a “vaccine passport” proving they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19. In-N-Out has restaurants in California and the Southwest. And it has one in San Francisco, where Mayor London Breed has ordered restaurants to enforce the city’s vaccine mandate. Arnie…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: August 5, 2015
A sign of these sorry times for professional journalism: Time magazine runs a dishonest smear against Charles Koch, completely twisting the billionaire’s remarks at a recent meeting of major donors in Orange County, California. “Charles Koch Says US Can Bomb Its Way to $100,000 Salaries,” screamed the headline. The sub-heading…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: February 21, 2012
Venture capitalist Eric X. Li, in an op-ed for the New York Times, “Why China’s Political Model Is Superior,” credits the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre with producing the “stability” that “ushered in a generation of growth and prosperity.” As for America, Li explains that our problem is an “expanded” political…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: June 10, 2017
An outpouring of grassroots, bipartisan opposition to a pending recommendation by the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission caused the commission to table that proposed recommendation concerning citizen-initiated ballot measures — in what may be the last meeting of the commission. The recommendation would have created numerous double standards between constitutional amendments…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: August 26, 2012
This week, over at Townhall, a state-of-our-freedoms address . . . before the conventions, before the elections. Wander over to Townhall.com, then make a beeline back here to check the sources: How “richly subsidized”? See "On our nickel," from 2004 Do union bosses threaten politicians? Yes. A “well-documented” war: See…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: April 9, 2014
Brendan Eich resigned last week as CEO of Mozilla under pressure from gay rights activists upset because six years ago Eich had given a thousand bucks to California’s anti-gay marriage initiative, Prop 8. On Fox News’s Special Report, George Will dubbed the story “redundant evidence that progressives are for diversity…