Steven Greenhut
Sacramento California’s traditional public schools have never done a particularly good job educating poor and minority students for all the obvious reasons that government union-run monopolies do a lousy job providing any service. Nearly 78 percent of California’s public-school students are minorities,…
Sacramento People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) blasted Republican gubernatorial candidate John Cox for the Sacramento launch of his statewide bus tour, which featured a fuzzy and cute companion: a 1,000-pound Kodiak bear named Tag. “Wild animals must…
Sacramento The concept of insurance is a simple one that revolves around pooling risks — and dates back to the 1700s B.C. Under the Code of Hammurabi, Babylonian King Hammurabi instituted an insurance-like system for cargo ships. It was a…
Sacramento Over the weekend, my wife, kids, and I celebrated my mother’s 86th birthday at a restaurant. It was a weird feeling, sitting indoors and doing some of the things we used to do before the stay-at-home orders. Aside from…
Sacramento Four years ago, then-Gov. Jerry Brown announced the end of California’s historically severe drought by lifting various emergency restrictions. “This drought emergency is over, but the next drought could be around the corner,” the governor intoned. “Conservation must remain…
Sacramento Supporters of California’s high-speed rail system are a small and hardy bunch. They fall mainly into the categories of government bureaucrats who administer the project, contractors and consultants who are paid to build the pointless line, and green ideologues…
Sacramento The most damning account of the Democratic administration’s hypocritical approach to the latest immigration fracas comes not from Republicans or conservative news outlets, but from that venerable source of mainstream news, the Associated Press (AP). “Joe Biden’s administration has…
Sacramento California may be the “edge of the world and all of Western civilization,” as the Los Angeles-based rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers sang in their 22-year-old hit, “Californication,” but their most provocative lyrics come later in the…
Sacramento The whole point of the Biden administration’s budget-busting $1.9 trillion stimulus bill is to aid struggling workers after the COVID-19 shutdowns obliterated their earnings. The legislation is also, as CNN described it, “a platform for a generational transformation of…
