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by | Dec 9, 2021

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…

by | Nov 11, 2021

“The quality of the punditry is abysmal.” That’s the title of an excellent letter recently shared with me and submitted to the editor of the Washington Post by George Mason University economics professor Donald Boudreaux. Indeed, newspapers are full of…

by | Feb 8, 2020

President Trump spoke nearly 6,000 words in his State of the Union address on Tuesday. These included “Space Force,” “Advancing Support for Working Families Act,” and “Artemis program.” The terms “debt” and “deficit” never made it past the blue pen….

by | Jun 27, 2019

When I was pregnant with my first child 16 years ago, I asked my doctor how much it would cost to pay for the birth out-of-pocket. He had no clue. The truth of the matter is that in most cases,…

by | Jun 4, 2019

“Medicare for All may sound good,” John Delaney, a former Maryland congressman running for president, told the California Democratic Convention, “but it’s actually not good policy, nor is it good politics.” The crowd booed, lengthily and lustily, as they had…

by | May 15, 2019

Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy might be the cancer cure patients have been waiting for — if only the government would get out of the way. CAR-T therapy is a novel treatment that trains the body’s immune system to…

by | Apr 8, 2019

It pays to shop. But only when the shopper pays does this axiom prove true. When a third party picks up the bill, it does not pay to, as Smokey Robinson’s mama told him, shop around. Grasping this basic truth,…

by | Feb 14, 2019

What Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare-for-all,” former President Obama’s Affordable Care Act and former House Speaker Paul Ryan’s Medicare “premium support” model all have in common is an overemphasis on health insurance coverage — who needs it, who is eligible for…

by | Feb 12, 2019

Donald Trump, weeks after presiding over the longest government shutdown in American history, boasts his highest approval ratings since his administration’s infancy. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, after refusing to budge in negotiations with the president, sees a 75-12…

by and | Feb 1, 2019

Howard Schultz, the chairman emeritus of Starbucks, ponders an independent presidential bid. Democrats dumped cold water, in a trenta-sized cup, on the idea. “Don’t Help Elect Trump, You Egotistical Billionaire F***” one heckler shouted at Schultz, while his online brethren…

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