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Find someone who loves you as much as Karen Bass loves illegal immigration
If the IRS Criminal Division ever takes an interest in the L.A. riots, they might...
Trump, Newsom clash over LA protests and federal funding feeds their political interests
The symbiosis of the Trump-Newsom vaudeville act is truly remarkable, each abetting the other’s desire...
Return to Reagan era, except Trump is a 1980s Democrat
When I hear my Republican friends compare Trump to the Reagan era, I half-heartedly agree.
Despite deficit, California legislators float several costly pension bills
When is the greed going to end?
Rafael Perez: Should illegal immigrants be eligible for Medi-Cal?
Newsom began to backtrack on this commitment, proposing an enrollment freeze for illegal immigrants and...
Free up markets to address California’s home insurance crisis
A recent istrative law judge’s decision paved the way for State Farm to significantly increase...
Is ‘Kamala Harris fatigue’ already setting in for California Democrats?
The longer she waits to decide whether her ultimate goal is Sacramento or further east...
Trump’s immigration crackdown blocks tourists and profits
The istration’s display of its power over immigrants is having the effect of scaring away...
Democrats need soul-searching, not market research
Working class voters, especially men, want good jobs, a lower cost of living, the chance...
California Democrats are slow learners on crime and justice
California Democrats are painfully slow learners and are likely to continue falling on their collective...
Can Gavin Newsom be Bill Clinton 2.0?
With their political party directionless, a charismatic, media savvy governor who works to balance progressive...
Katie Porter walked back her criticism of the high-speed rail boondoggle. Why?
Porter needs to take a more antagonistic stance against Arnold’s Folly, including demanding Newsom and...
Capital gains tax: Another hit to homeowners
A new problem is beginning to emerge that will surprise many homeowners when they sell...
Free up markets to solve California’s home insurance crisis
Californians are coming to realize that higher-priced insurance is better than a broken system with...
Kamala Harris is perfectly prepared to make all of the same mistakes
She has no vision for California, the same way she had no vision for the...
Will she or won’t she? Kamala Harris’ next move
Ultimately however, the longer Harris waits to decide her future, the weaker her position likely...
Jon Coupal: Gavin Newsom’s seriously unserious budget proposal
There’s nothing fair about it. They have the party and taxpayers get the hangover.
British speech codes show importance of our Constitution
We don’t need to revisit the Constitution, but to uphold the protections already within it.
Gavin Newsom’s off-the-mark budget numbers undermine his credibility again
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised state budget assumes California will see a sharp decline in projected...
Gov. Newsom spews misinformation about California’s literacy efforts
Unfortunately, Californians will be left cleaning his mess.
Jon Coupal: the Save Proposition 13 Act of 2026
Taxpayers are fighting back.
How many more websites and podcasts will Newsom launch before he does his job?
He’s got websites to build, podcasts to launch and very important out-of-state business to tend...
Freeing farm markets is better than tariffs and welfare
Instead of creating this convoluted, counterproductive policy that mimics a Rube Goldberg farce, the government...
Newsom should’ve paid more attention when Brown was governor
For eight years Gov. Jerry Brown showed his lieutenant governor, Gavin Newsom, how to balance...
Newsom still doesn’t have the guts or ideas to get vagrants off our streets
Better decisions will lead to better outcomes.
Supervisor Desmond’s unfair swipe at Rep. Levin on immigration
Politics is a dirty game where partisans are incentivized to be as uncharitable and hysterical...
Jon Coupal: The lamest excuse for perpetuating the high-speed rail project
The governor and the backers of HSR are willfully ignorant of how their toxic embrace...
California’s Democratic politicians are setting Californians up for tax increases
Every phone in the country should be shrieking an alert over that.
A reasonable, incremental approach to student loan reform
The plan gets more complicated than that and addresses other issues, but the main point...
‘Unleashing’ police means more abuses of everyone’s rights
These Trump actions provide all the wrong incentives—and law-abiding citizens have much more to fear...
Can Steve Hilton flip California Republican?
He’s setting a high standard for the other candidates.
State Bar’s botched exam for new lawyers is California’s latest entry to the hall of shame
Many of the state government’s wrongheaded actions involve abortive efforts to use advanced technology.
The nonsensical fight over Assembly Bill 379
The hysteria over AB 379 just shows neither party has the right ideas for how...
Trump’s first 100 days delivered some libertarian wins, but mostly losses
For every libertarian policy win, Trump is inflicting even bigger anti-libertarian losses on people, markets...
Memo to California’s Democratic lawmakers: Soliciting minors should be a felony
It’s a messy debate that Democrats are unlikely to win in the court of public...
Susan Shelley: Can the enviros keep the lights on?
The Spanish blackout
Did they forget the pension crisis?
If an 8-year-old can learn from his mistakes, why can’t legislators?
Douglas Schoen: Tariffs turn into a political tax on Trump’s approval
Trump’s tariff gamble is now doing considerable political damage.
California lawmakers eye huge pension boosts despite market jitters
One can only hope lawmakers are paying careful attention to the likelihood of recession.
Mass revocations of student visas are bad news for American businesses
America has historically been fertile ground for innovators and ambitious individuals worldwide.
Trump’s trade war is not worth it
President Donald Trump might be the deal-making genius he and his ers claim he is,...
Bernie Sanders and AOC won’t fix Democrats’ identity crisis
Hypocrisy aside, if Sanders and AOC are leading the Democratic Party, Democrats’ electability will get...
Lawmakers know CEQA is a bust, so why won’t they fix it?
It’s been weaponized as a no-growth tool—constraining housing, energy projects, freeways, rail, you name it.
In a win for dictators, State Department rolls back advocacy for international human rights
How do we or anyone else benefit from America ignoring the rights violations of nations...
Sales tax increases slam the middle class in California
It would be a mistake to acquiesce to higher sales taxes without a great deal...
Matt Fleming: Easter reflections in a fallen world
A much higher bar
Politics as usual will not stop Trump’s unconstitutional acts
The sooner we get started with restoring a functioning Republic, the better.
The battle over California’s cap-and-trade slush fund
Only in California does the government pretend a slush fund can stop climate change.
New California poll underscores how disconnected Democratic elites are
Democrats must reorient the party away from the elites’ far-left politics and back to its...
‘Abundance’ is the best way to Trump-proof California
Democrats would have a stronger rebuke to Trumpism if our public services were the national...
Jon Coupal: Proposition 13 protects home equity
Assuming a state decides to retain a property tax at all – and some states...
Trump’s tariffs: What happens when you trust delusional people
It is abundantly clear that President Donald Trump likes to put people of questionable intelligence...
Americans are waking up to the reality of the U.S. immigration system
Hundreds of student visas revoked. Peaceful, long-time residents being deported. People being detained with no...
How badly will taxpayers be fleeced to prop up the 2028 Olympics?
It sure looks like LA28 is trying to throw a big party while shifting massive...
Tariff mania shows why no one person can run an economy
The whole “fair” trade concept is Orwellian.
Free trade is critical to America’s continued prosperity
Trump sees trade deficits as America getting ripped off, which is erroneous.
Cracks begin emerging in the MAGA coalition
Allowing the extreme, MAGA-loyalists to drive the istration’s policies not only risks wrecking the American...
Other states do housing better than California; a new study shows how
It would be tempting to dismiss the Bush Institute’s report as biased because it comes...
Will Trump’s tariff gamble pay off?
It is hard to see how Trump’s voters in Michigan and those in rural areas...
California’s Democratic politicians never hold each other able
Why do Californians have to wait for the feds to investigate bad behavior to get...
Turning San Quentin into Norway isn’t the worst idea
The hulking facility overlooking San Francisco Bay in Marin County is the oldest correctional facility...
California’s tax-hikers are busy dreaming up more ways to take more of your money
Better binge watch your favorite series now before you can’t afford to.
DEI at universities will continue despite feigned compliance with Trump policies
Thus is the folly of Trump’s crusade against DEI at universities.
Trump is setting precedents future Democrats will also abuse. Why doesn’t he care?
As Trump has been demonstrating in his attack on the judicial branch, if all else...
If California bails out LA’s $1 billion budget deficit, beware the slippery slope
City Controller Kenneth Mejia has repeatedly warned Mayor Karen Bass and city council that...
Sacramento consistently fails to consider the long-term consequences
These failures in governance have one thing in common – the absence of serious consideration...
The hateful rhetoric against immigrants is nothing new
If Americans are to avoid past mistakes, they must resist falling prey to tribalistic discourses.
Constitution’s enemies misuse 1798 law to gut due process
Perhaps our government can do the honorable thing now and uphold the principles of due...
It took Trump’s Cabinet two months to confirm their staggering incompetence
Who could have predicted this?
UC abandons its ‘diversity statement’ requirement for faculty
Ill-disguised political loyalty tests are as loathsome today as they were 75 years ago when...
Homeowners beware: How transfer taxes steal your equity
There are very powerful progressive interests which intend to impose transfer taxes at a level...
Susan Shelley: The folly of state energy policy
Ratepayer rip-off
State insurance crisis: Ricardo Lara emerges as an unsung hero
He took political risks to save the state’s insurance market, so I’m singing his praises...
Can Trump secure a peace deal in the Russia-Ukraine war?
To Trump’s credit, he is attempting out-of-the box strategies that former President Biden refused.
Gavin Newsom and Steve Bannon held a competition to see who can articulate less
Perhaps the most infuriating feature of the conversation was Newsom’s brainless nodding at everything Bannon...
Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell agree: Tariffs are a really bad idea
Why couldn’t Donald Trump ignore his campaign promises like a normal president?
Lawsuit: University of California systematically discriminates against Asian American applicants
Representatives of the University of California unequivocally denied the allegations.
Newsom should master governing before podcasting
Instead of articulating a compelling vision that could spark a broad-minded counterpunch to narrow-minded populism,...
Susan Shelley: Medi-Cal under strain after state extends aid to illegal immigrants
The state thought it would cost $2 billion to $4 billion to fund the health...
The United Nations is an enabler of Saudi Arabia’s oppression of women
The Saudis’ and the U.N.’s war on women
Gavin Newsom moves to the center as he auditions for the White House
Ultimately, whether or not Newsom can balance the electoral need to move to the center...
California’s cities and schools face big budget gaps, few options
Therefore the options are either make real spending reductions, which might mean laying off workers...
Tariffs raise prices, spark conflict and impoverish everyone
Back when conservatives championed ideas rather than outsourced their thinking to their leader, they touted...
Trump’s Ukraine policy is a reality check
Recent weeks have provided multiple reasons to worry about how the Trump istration is approaching...
Bibas family murders underscore that negotiating with Hamas is a moral travesty
To prevent another Oct. 7 and to guarantee that no more kids grow up living...
Zelensky’s dilemma is Trump’s shame
It takes a special kind of evil to know that you have the survival of...
Trump is aiming in the right direction, albeit with questionable methods
Going forward, Trump and the istration’s ability to maintain its policy direction while recalibrating their...
Hold on, California, Gov. Newsom is podcasting
This is Gavin Newsom.
The political stakes facing President Trump and Gavin Newsom
Despite the fires being a local event, they have the potential for national implications
Under Trump, the imperial presidency reaches its apogee
In an alternative world where a Harris or Gavin Newsom were president, would you be...
Is it the end of the line for California’s high speed rail project?
California taxpayers will be watching to see if HSR’s special interest ers try to repurpose...
California fails the ‘nation state’ test
A ballot initiative asking Californians if they would like to secede from the United States...
Susan Shelley: California’s fake market in renewables
Batteries only last four hours.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel are the disruptors we need
This whole government is rotten to the core and needs to be shaken up.
DOGE is subjecting the bureaucracy to death by humiliation
I'm just sorry that P.T. Barnum isn't alive to see this.
Kamala Harris could win the governor’s race. But does she want it?
Only former U.S. Rep. Katie Porter – who has declared – would be remotely comparable,...
Susan Shelley: Behind the scenes with those really running California
Another secret meeting
Trump’s case against birthright citizenship could not be worse
It’s clear that if the Supreme Court were to rule in favor of Trump, they...
President Donald Trump has restored freedom of speech in the United States
Lies went all the way around the world, but the truth has its boots on...