PART ONE: PHONIES AND HYPOCRITES Show me a “pro-choice” demonstrator, and 95 (or more) out of 100, I am looking at someone who: – Opposes allowing parents the free choice to utilize their government school vouchers for their unaborted children…
In February, far-left San Francisco underwent a political shock quite appropriate to a city used to the ground shifting under its feet. But the recall election in which three members of the local school board were blown out of office…
Sacramento If the June 7 top-two primary results are any indication, California continues along its merry path of electing and reelecting progressive Democrats to every statewide office no matter what political crises swirl around the state. All the usual suspects…
Chesa Boudin is, by any reasonable measure, a nut job. Conservatives could not grow a more picture-perfect political villain in a petri dish, even if they tried; Boudin really is that caricaturable. Boudin’s parents were Weather Underground domestic terrorists and,…
San Francisco’s radical progressive district attorney Chesa Boudin, the son of Weather Underground terrorists David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin (both of whom spent decades in prison for participation in violent crimes), and who was raised by Bill Ayers, a founding…
What’s the matter with California? “It’s suffering from San Fransickness,” which is “pathological altruism,” answers Michael Shellenberger, author of the book San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities. Too many homeless people. Too little common sense. Too much magical thinking. Shellenberger…
Many Americans were outraged by recent news that the Biden administration flirted with funding crack pipes as a part of a harm reduction strategy. They would be equally outraged if they knew that a major “charity,” to which millions of…
Sacramento After moving to northern California a dozen years ago, I attended a talk in downtown San Francisco by a candidate for local office and wasn’t too surprised by the progressive blather I was hearing given, well, the location. Then…
November 19th marks the 95th anniversary of the birth of Jeane Kirkpatrick in Duncan, Oklahoma. She was born Jeane Jordan into a family of Democrats in 1926, and she would remain a Democrat until 1985. But her political evolution away from…