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Relevance: 67% Posted on: February 1, 2012
Barring drastic action, the Golden State will run out of cash in March. There is no provision in the Constitution for dealing with a bankrupt state. But then, there’s nothing explicit dealing with federal bankruptcy, either. The founding fathers didn’t expect their republic to permanently accumulate debt. Indeed, Thomas Jefferson…
Relevance: 66% Posted on: October 27, 2009
The Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court recently declared the state’s government “dysfunctional.” But Judge Ronald George didn’t bother to tell this to his employers, the people of California. Instead, the judge delivered his speech all the way across the continent, in Massachusetts, at his induction into the American…
Relevance: 65% Posted on: November 3, 2022
They know. They aren’t complete idiots. When enemies of the market routinely try to stop people from earning a living through restrictions like minimum wage laws and arbitrary licensing to thwart such dangerous activities as hair-braiding, few are ignorant of the disastrous consequences. Case in point? The Biden administration is…
Relevance: 64% Posted on: May 5, 2011
In late April, the Institute for Justice won a smashing judicial victory on behalf of the Community Youth Athletic Center, a boxing gym and haven for local kids, as well as for other property owners in the neighborhood. They hope it’s a knockout blow. The California Superior Court ruled that…
Relevance: 64% Posted on: August 4, 2016
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: August 4, 2020
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: August 4, 2017
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: August 4, 2018
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: August 4, 2021
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: August 4, 2022
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: 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…
Relevance: 59% Posted on: September 30, 2015
We live in a time when intelligent people expend vital brain power concocting explanations for war that weigh drought as a more significant cause than . . . previous tyranny and warfare. Yes, the President’s friends and acolytes defend the notion, in all seriousness, that it is unregulated capitalism leading…
Relevance: 59% Posted on: September 3, 2008
Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that it is constitutionally okay for states and towns to grab property for pretty much any reason at all, citizens have been trying to prevent governments from doing so. The track record is spotty. Officials and private interests who like to…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: July 14, 2008
Give Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal credit for doing the right thing sooner rather than later. Jindal acted faster than, say, former Governor Gray Davis of California. In 2003, Davis tripled California's car tax, provoking widespread anger. Finally, Davis agreed it should be repealed . . . but only after voters…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: April 18, 2023
Thanks to renewable-energy mandates and other regulations, California muddles along with crippled power markets in which rolling blackouts are routine when demand for electricity is high and sun and wind are unavailable. Apparently, this and other burdens on energy usage in the Brownout State are insufficient to fully immobilize everybody…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: October 9, 2009
A humungous national debt. Growing state federal government budget deficits. Social Security and Medicare, running out of funds. All very frightening. But look out: The costs of public employee pensions are walloping city and state budgets — pushing a number of California cities into bankruptcy. Though the stock market tumble…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: October 28, 2003
All the usual suspects came out against the California recall campaign. Not only political partisans. But also folks who distrust the democratic process as such especially when it has teeth. I'm going to leave the topic of the California recall real soon, promise. But let me just get in one…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: January 6, 2023
In 2019, California imposed a law to force many independent contractors to become standard employees if they wanted to keep working for erstwhile clients. AB5 threw many gig workers out of work. Many lost all of their clients, who typically could not afford to simply convert contractors from whom they…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: April 16, 2008
Banned! First alcohol prohibition, then other drugs. Now candy. Yes, candy is now banned on many school campuses. Why? Refined sugar is so bad for you it’s wicked. I’m sure you know many of the major bad guys here. Twinkies. Ho Hos. Nestle’s Crunch. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Maybe you…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: October 24, 2003
I guess this is as good a time as any to hawk the virtues of Instant Runoff Voting. If things had gone a bit different in California, IRV would have really come in handy. Out a field of 135 candidates, Arnold Schwarzenegger won the right to succeed the ousted governor…
Relevance: 57% Posted on: July 6, 2018
“Strip away the absurdity,” writes Scott Shackford at Reason, “and it’s essentially a very technical ruling.” Shackford is explaining a bizarre recent judgment of the California Supreme Court. Politicians in Sacramento had, years ago, passed a gun control measure requiring gun manufacturers to “implement microstamping technology that would imprint identifying…
Relevance: 57% Posted on: September 3, 2015
The SFGate.com headline was clear: “State ballot initiative fee raised to $2,000 to prevent mischief.” It just wasn’t accurate. Assembly Bill 1100, introduced by Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell), passed by Democrats in the legislature and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, doesn’t do anything to address “mischief.” Which, incidentally, abounds in…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: March 20, 2015
“Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.” Earl Warren, as speech at Columbia University, January 14, 1954
Relevance: 56% Posted on: June 29, 2016
Romanticism. The yearning for greatness; the need for speed. Efficiency! It’s all there in California’s high-speed rail project — hopes and dreams and a sense of the grandeur of progress. And yet the bullet train project, approved by voters in 2008, is a fiasco. One can blame the voters, I…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: December 11, 2010
In vignette after vignette, this mash-up provides a helpful (and amusing) take on California's pension fiasco: It's not easy thinking about government-enacted pensions, I guess. Everyone wants to retire young and well-off, and no one wants to appear stingy. But there has to be responsibility in how these things are…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: July 7, 2009
All tyrants love unlimited government. But do all advocates of unlimited government love tyranny? Well, recently major fans of big government sure have been blurting out their hysterical hatred for normal democratic disagreement. Take Paul Krugman, New York Times rah-rah boy for humungoid government. He recently referred to opposition to…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: January 27, 2015
Coach Michael Anderson and the girls on his team did too well. At least according to officials at Arroyo Valley High School in San Bernardino, who suspended him for “running up” the 161-2 score. Here we go again. Anderson is, alas, apologetic. But there’s nothing morally wrong with winning —…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: January 11, 2024
Frédéric Bastiat called it “spoliation”; California’s Democratic politicians call it social justice. A bill went into effect last week, offering complete medical coverage to an estimated 700,000 undocumented — illegal — immigrants. The price tag? 3.1 billion dollars. Well, not “price tag”: call it a subsidy tag. California taxpayers will…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: August 9, 2011
William Endicott, former deputy managing editor of The Sacramento Bee, thinks the problem with California legislators is their “Let the people decide” attitude. In a recent op-ed, Mr. Endicott argued that the initiative process allows politicians to shirk their responsibilities, to let decisions be made by voters at the ballot…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: November 13, 2000
This was the year for politicians, or so they thought. The economy is strong. So politicians hoped the time was right to roll back these pesky term limits laws voters had passed. We voters were supposed to be so fat, dumb and happy that we wouldn't care how long politicians…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: July 23, 2001
Seems career politicians have found even more problems with term limits. For instance, if you are a longtime incumbent, term limits don't allow you to pick your successor when you leave office. How terrible. That's what California Assemblyman Bill Leonard tells us. He should know. He's been in power since…