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Lloyd Billingsley

Lloyd Billingsley

Lloyd Billingsley is a policy fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, Calif.
by | Sep 26, 2025

Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 627, authored by San Francisco Democrat Scott Wiener, which bans federal…

by | Sep 17, 2025

Calling someone a Nazi, or comparing them to Adolf Hitler, was once the last resort of a person losing an…

by | Sep 12, 2025

California legislators are “reportedly negotiating to hand over hundreds of millions of dollars to Valero Energy Corp. to prevent the…

by | Sep 8, 2025

California Governor Gavin Newsom has been hailing a forthcoming 1,000-page report on “what we did right and what we did…

by | Sep 2, 2025

Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced deployment of “new California Highway Patrol crime suppression teams to work directly with local…

by | Aug 25, 2025

President Trump’s “comprehensive internal review of selected Smithsonian museums and exhibitions,” is raising alarms about censorship, revisionism, and so forth….

by | Aug 20, 2025

As Daniel Flynn shows in his new book, Frank S. Meyer, The Man Who Invented Conservatism, first had to grapple with Communism….

by | Aug 14, 2025

This year, Julie Su, Joe Biden’s pick for secretary of labor, became a resident fellow with Harvard’s Kennedy School, Institute…

by | Aug 8, 2025

Outkick’s Ian Miller finds evidence that the media are “desperately trying to bring Covid panic back.” The Los Angeles Times,…

by | Jul 31, 2025

California’s law requiring background checks to purchase ammunition is unconstitutional, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week. Firearms…

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