Steven Greenhut
Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced that he’s fulfilling his promise to provide universal healthcare to all Californians (and non-Californians, regardless of immigration status) with a $2.7-billion budget proposal to expand state-provided coverage to low-income adults. Progressives, however, believe the boast…
Sacramento Capitalism’s foes can’t make much headway arguing that socialist societies do a better job at providing for the economic and physical needs of the population, so critics are reduced to ferreting out minuscule or made-up problems that capitalist economies…
Sacramento The COVID-19 pandemic has become the go-to excuse for pretty much everything these days, from reduced public services and limited business operations to what have you. My favorite recent example was a vending machine that featured a sign declaring…
“Democracy,” H.L. Mencken wrote, “is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” Every new legislative session offers abundant evidence of the famed Baltimore journalist’s pithy words, but new Democratic…
Sacramento Like rust, California’s initiative process never sleeps. There’s always some new political battle that’s brewing given the state’s permissive rules for qualifying statewide ballot measures, which let deep-pocketed special interests put wide-ranging legislation before the public. Given the signature-gathering…
Sacramento It’s easy to look back at California’s overreaching anti-crime measures from the 1990s and scratch our heads at the tenor of the crime debate in that era. The state passed the toughest three-strikes-and-you’re-out law in the nation, which mandated…
Sacramento — There are so many reasons to oppose the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion Build Back Better legislation, not the least of which centers on the bill’s asinine name. Forget about the moniker’s iffy phrasing. We can’t build a better society…
Sacramento In terms of an understatedly savage insult, it’s hard to top the president’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, for her Twitter rebuttal after reporters have noted the strained relationship between the White House and the Office of the Vice President….
During the coronavirus lockdowns, Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler, a Democrat, used his emergency rulemaking powers to ban the use of credit scores in determining insurance rates. He said the rule was so necessary for preserving the public’s health…
