President Biden often brags how “Bidenomics” is succeeding. Every word he says about the American economy is a lie. We are surrounded by evidence that Bidenomics is a failure. Inflation — having reached 9.7 percent continues to be high and…
The world has been so crazy the past few years that something really wild might have snuck up on us. If you went to sleep in 2010, a mere 13 years ago, and woke up now, you’d see things you…
SACRAMENTO — Years ago, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) warned attendees at a conference about the need to watch out whenever public officials claim to be doing something for the children. She was talking specifically about Los Angeles Unified School District’s eminent-domain…
Why are new cars and trucks with manual transmissions becoming as hard to find as a vehicle without “advanced driver assistance technology”? It’s what the manufacturers want. The latest example is the BMW, which is on the verge of becoming…
After many years of working in the policy world, I have concluded that politics is at most 10 percent about making the world better and safer. The rest is at least 45 percent theater and 45 percent catering to special…
Too many politicians are thespians. When there’s a conflict — as there often is — between appearing to solve problems and actually helping to solve those problems, politicians can almost always be counted on to put appearance over substance. Unfortunately,…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Artificial intelligence is advancing with lightning speed. It’s not unreasonable, then, for most people to wonder whether it’s going to lead to something akin to the movie Terminator (Hint: the Skynet AI system blows up the world) —…
Any parent will tell you that forcing children to eat their spinach is no way to win a household popularity contest. Children don’t care about the long-term benefits of eating healthy food when the alternative is the short-term thrill of…
George McGovern, the Democratic Party’s 1972 presidential nominee, was a liberal icon. During many years in political office, including as a U.S. senator from South Dakota, McGovern successfully championed loads of regulations, taxes, and mandates in the name of the…
