This month, The Hill reports, Joe Biden will travel to East Palestine, Ohio, site of a train derailment that spilled toxic chemicals into the community and forcing evacuations. Biden’s visit comes “roughly one year” after the February 3, 2023 incident. As…
A week before the 1980 election, Ronald Reagan closed his debate with President Jimmy Carter with some of the most memorable questions in campaign history: “Are you better off than you were four years ago? Is it easier for you to go…
Gavin Newsom proudly made California the first state to provide no charge Medicaid (called Medi-Cal in Golden State) health insurance to illegal entrants (“illegals”). His plan will cover only adults. Eleven other states also intend to enroll illegals in Medicaid. In contrast to…
Our major cities struggle with increased crime, sprawling homeless encampments, overcrowded jails, sky high taxes, and exploding budget deficits. Yet most government officials ignore the one factor that contributes significantly to each of these problems: the lack of acute psychiatric…
Disturbing news came out yesterday: California Gov. Gavin Newsom held an hour-long meeting last month with representatives of the Council on American–Islamic Relations, or CAIR, a radical Islamist organization that has been vociferously denounced by even Joe Biden’s White House. …
SACRAMENTO — After Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1228, raising the minimum wage for fast-food workers and creating a council to regulate working conditions, the bill’s author issued a typical highfalutin statement. “We did not just raise the minimum…
On Wednesday last, the Federal Reserve committed an act of raw politics. After admitting that high interest rates had failed to bring inflation down to its target of two percent, the Fed announced (albeit through the Delphic fog of bureaucratic…
SACRAMENTO — Those of us who know and love San Francisco have a pretty good idea why the city continues to become less livable as rampant crime and homelessness turn its streets into (literal) cesspools of public disorder. Despite a…
California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office announced Thursday that California faces a $68 billion deficit — the largest in state history. For comparison, that’s bigger than Maryland’s entire budget for fiscal year 2024. California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s efforts to present California as…
It’s increasingly difficult not to conclude that journalists, particularly the political obsessives, are quantitatively feeble-minded. Take the recent forensic food fight on Fox News, charitably described by some as a debate, between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and California’s Gavin Newsom….