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LA city council hikes minimum wage for struggling hotels to $30/hour July 2, 2025
Olivia Murray
California never learns.
No time for word salads? June 27, 2025
Silvio Canto, Jr.
Support for Governor Kamala Harris “wanes” in the Golden State.
Newsom the Napa Nero: Sipping Cabernet While Los Angeles Burns June 23, 2025
Charlton Allen
If the juxtaposition feels jarring, it’s because it is.
John C. Calhoun Redux: Gavin Newsom, Lawfare, and the New Nullification June 18, 2025
Charlton Allen
The progressive left cries “federalism”—but only when it stops Trump.
Breaking Update: Ninth Circuit rebuffs Newsom’s courtroom coup June 20, 2025
Charlton Allen
Yesterday evening, a unanimous Ninth Circuit panel—including a Biden appointee—rebuked Judge Charles Breyer and stayed his overreaching attempt to strip President Trump of command over the California National Guard.
California creates another problem for all of us: Illegal alien CDL drivers stealing semi-truck hauls June 19, 2025
Olivia Murray
What happens in California doesn’t stay in California.
To Where is Knuckleheaded Newsom Planning to Reset His Image? June 16, 2025
Richard Blakley
This man has always been a trainwreck.
Answering communism’s siren call June 13, 2025
James Zumwalt
We narrowly avoided a Vice President Karen Bass—South Koreans weren’t so fortunate.
California secession by the numbers June 11, 2025
Paul C. Binotto
Calls for California to secede from the United States are again being heard from the Left.
In California, with Pelosi and Newsom, it’s déjà vu all over again June 12, 2025
Andrea Widburg
Watching what’s happening in California is like being trapped in a room with the same bad movie playing on an endless loop.
Karen Bass says if ICE raids persist, there will be ‘nobody’ left to nanny the children and mow the lawns June 12, 2025
Olivia Murray
Democrats and their slave labor.
White Lives Don’t Matter June 10, 2025
Erik Gregory and Todd Gregory
The default strategy of constantly defaming whites as racists is meant to dehumanize whites and render them morally unqualified to coexist in society.
Civil War 2.0? June 9, 2025
Kevin Finn
If Democratic leaders are rallying their base to view the protests as a defense of democratic values, it may potentially escalate into more widespread conflicts similar to those that occurred in 2020.
The real insurrection is erupting in LA June 11, 2025
Marina Bejarano
While the January 6th Commission spent years and untold taxpayer dollars branding American citizens as seditionists and strangling Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, the real insurrection was being imported by air, land, and sea.
Lipstick on riots June 11, 2025
Texas Hughes
A sampling of mainstream news shows consistent avoidance of describing riots as riots, violence as violence, vandalism as vandalism, ICE & police as victims of rioter violence, etc.
Of Course It’s Legal: The National Guard Is Doing Its Job—Because Gavin Newsom Wouldn’t June 9, 2025
Charlton Allen
If the violence continues, President Trump has the legal authority to go further.
So Gavin Newsom sued Trump? He’ll lose—and it shouldn’t be close June 10, 2025
Charlton Allen
The law of unintended consequences may be Newsom’s undoing.
The LA Riots Prove that Democrats Need Illegals June 9, 2025
J. Robert Smith
Illegals are declaring that American turf is theirs, and Democrats tacitly support the claim.
The lost city June 9, 2025
Silvio Canto, Jr.
The situation in California is compounded by the total failure of that state to understand its role in maintaining law and order.
Los Angeles belongs to all of us June 9, 2025
Bill Ponton
Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass, and the open border activists are mistaken in believing that the neighborhoods of LA are their own private playground where they can act out their dystopian fantasy of opposing Trump’s deportations.
LA anchor calls riot fire ‘fun’ June 9, 2025
M. Walter
Progressivism is a mental disorder. You will never convince me otherwise.
Taking down civilization May 17, 2025
Richard Jack Rail
California reflects the left’s belief that the systems that free people worked hard to build will magically continue despite statist incompetence and ignorance.
Congress must stop California’s hidden food tax May 16, 2025
Will Coggin
The mandates of Prop 12 have been foisted upon farmers in Iowa, North Carolina, Indiana, and the other 46 states; what happened to those states’ “states rights”?
An ‘only in California’ class war heats up over bike lanes on a major bridge *UPDATE* May 15, 2025
Andrea Widburg
A sop to the leisured and environmental classes has sparked an uprising of workers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
California Democrats are getting what they voted for ‘good and hard’ May 9, 2025
Andrea Widburg
Whether in Northern California or Southern California, people are discovering that the politicians they supported are destroying them.
Time to End the Tyranny of the California Coastal Commission April 29, 2025
Janet Levy
It’s high time this body of unelected bureaucrats, who put politics and junk science above property rights and citizens’ welfare, and even extract bribes, is disbanded.
Golden State lawmaker wants to ‘decriminalize’ welfare fraud April 29, 2025
Olivia Murray
After essentially legalizing the theft of goods valued at $950 or less brought about total societal mayhem, California Democrats are again ready to fail spectacularly.
Background checks for gun barrels coming soon to California? April 29, 2025
Olivia Murray
This is exactly where we said it would go.
The Net Neutrality Hydra: Twice Decapitated, Still Standing April 25, 2025
Leo Goldstein
California’s harsh internet access law shows how states are still controlling information in ways that defy the Constitution at multiple levels.
The jig is up! Newsom busted for blowing state Medicaid dollars on homeless housing April 25, 2025
Olivia Murray
While media pundits and other high-profile Democrats continued to fearmonger on Trump’s plans to “gut” entitlement programs, Gavin Newsom was quietly doing exactly that.
What can we give Denmark for Greenland? April 16, 2025
Noel S. Williams
Greenland’s destiny away from “Denmarkification” and toward Americanization seems to be unfolding inexorably.
For now, California has decided not to make oil companies liable for natural disasters April 11, 2025
Andrea Widburg
The bill originated with State Sen. Scott Wiener, who is considered one of the leading candidates to replace Nancy Pelosi when she leaves the House.
California still hasn’t economically recovered from 2020—but it’s a ‘pandemic hangover’, not Democrat policy! April 3, 2025
Olivia Murray
It couldn’t possibly be the anti-business environment created by state officials....
Land of the Artful Dodgers February 27, 2025
Charlton Allen
Ever heard of “behested payments”? Politicians are perfecting the pay-to-play hustle.
Is California turning the tide on transgenderism? February 13, 2025
Lloyd Billingsley
If California wants to be a true national leader, the state should dump the trans indoctrination that divides students from each other and their own parents.
Fake insurance courtesy of Newsom’s California February 6, 2025
Philip A. Fitzpatrick
California's FAIR state fire insurance plan lives up to Gavin Newsom's reputation for sheer incompetence.
California Democrats Move Toward Secession February 4, 2025
Mike Robertson
West Coast progressives are just that keen to keep their crime, inflation, and dysfunction.
California Dreamin’ January 28, 2025
Kevin Brady
Every day, we learn more about the monumental ineptitude of elected officials in California.
Maybe we can learn.... January 28, 2025
John Woods
Are the catastrophic failures of government in California the catalyst for a progressive awakening?
Without public input, LA mayor Karen Bass decides to hire ‘outside consultant’ to rebuild the Palisades January 28, 2025
Olivia Murray
My prediction? BlackRock. Why? Ukraine.
President Trump getting things done in fire-devastated Los Angeles January 27, 2025
Rajan Laad
Trump displayed common sense, which seems to be uncommon among L.A. authorities.
A Breathtaking First Week January 25, 2025
Clarice Feldman
President Trump gets a thing or two done.
Imaginary birthright January 24, 2025
Bill Ponton
President Trump’s decision to end birthright citizenship is challenged in court, but the whole argument is ludicrous.
As Los Angeles (still) burns January 23, 2025
Bill Ponton
Leftists apparently prefer performance art over practical solutions, and at this point, I have no qualms about giving them over to their desires.
Smoke Clears to Reveal LA’s DEI Follies January 19, 2025
Robyn Dolgin
How many emergency vehicles could have been serviced had Mayor Karen Bass chosen to spare the taxpayers her expenses and used the funds instead for lifesaving services?
Where will the California Democrats go? January 17, 2025
Carl Marchi
With incompetence engulfing Los Angeles, will its supporters stay put? Or, will they take refuge in other states?
Gabby Giffords: LA fires prove ATF is a necessary component of government January 17, 2025
Olivia Murray
Giffords attempts to sell the useless as useful.
Environmental Marxism January 14, 2025
Steve McCann
It is not a coincidence that the current environmental or “green” movement is the driving philosophical force animating the Democrat Party.
Boring is beautiful January 15, 2025
William Choslovsky
When done right, good government is actually beautifully boring.
Epic Failures of Incompetent Leaders January 13, 2025
Eileen Griffin-Ray
The crisis of leadership unfolding in California is not an anomaly. It is part of the American cultural shift that prioritizes “safe spaces” and feelings over reality and functionality.
The Never-To-Be Forgotten 'Newsom Fires' January 14, 2025
Robin M. Itzler
Have you heard of the “Lindsay Snowstorm?” It will soon have a companion story called the “Newsom Fires.”
The Environmentalist War on California January 13, 2025
Gamaliel Isaac
The environment of California is a lot worse as a result of misguided actions by environmentalists to protect the environment.
Are Democrats ever going to learn that a feral government is like wildfire? January 14, 2025
D. Parker
When are true liberals in California going to stop voting for far-left insanity that only puts them in danger?
Wildfires in the Autumn of the Educated Class January 13, 2025
Christopher Chantrill
In the words of the current meme, nothing changes until a “preference cascade,” the moment when “everybody” changes their mind.
‘No water, but look how pretty it is!’ January 14, 2025
Jim Davis
Government needs to get all the nuts and bolts right. Once that’s been accomplished, we can talk about the paint job.
Ideology-Schmideology January 10, 2025
Mark C. Ross
Ideologies are the products of wannabe tyrants also known as social engineers.
California Takes on the Insurance Industry January 12, 2025
Warren Beatty
With the California fires, consumer advocates have redoubled their atacks on the "greedy" insurance companies.
Blue is burning January 12, 2025
Silvio Canto, Jr.
The blue model is burning, whether it's crime in New York City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore or public schools in disarray in Chicago.
Media and Democrats uncover the culprit behind the fires in LA: Donald Trump January 13, 2025
Jack Hellner
Of course the fires are Trump’s fault. Everything is Trump’s fault. Democrats never do anything wrong because they’re political geniuses.
A DEI Green New Deal Hydrogen Bomb January 11, 2025
Clarice Feldman
The people holding elective office have demonstrated indifference and incompetence to the citizens of California.
I got a feelin' called the DEI blues January 10, 2025
Silvio Canto, Jr.
It's been a tough week for DEI.
Gavin Newsom actually does something right for once January 8, 2025
Jack Hellner
Hell has officially frozen over.
Biden’s good news and bad news January 9, 2025
Stu Tarlowe
Biden goes “Lahaina-level tone-deaf” after Los Angeles fires.
As Los Angeles burns January 9, 2025
Bill Ponton
One side understands that fire hydrants failing to deliver the water needed to fight fires is a result of municipal incompetence, the other side engages in a rite of self-flagellation proclaiming that our sacrifice has not been sufficient to placate nature’s god.
A few suggestions for California Republicans January 9, 2025
Terry Paulding
Let’s focus on turning California into a first-world country again.
Maybe California politicians should listen to Trump instead of seeking to Trump-proof the state January 9, 2025
Jack Hellner
What will it take for Californians to fire the Democrats who are working so hard to destroy their state?
California Air Resources Board should be careful what it asks for January 6, 2025
Tom Walton
California's ban of gasoline-powered vehicles would make the air dirtier and forestall important advances in vehicle safety.
California is not only gaining illegal aliens; it’s still losing native Californians January 5, 2025
Andrea Widburg
The reality is that the leftist experiment is a disaster for the former Golden State, and Americans increasingly want nothing to do with it.
Let them wash their clothes at the creek.... January 2, 2025
Silvio Canto, Jr.
All in the name of saving the planet…or so they tell us.
Pennsylvania Amish build a dozen homes for hurricane victims in just two days, outpacing Newsom’s promise from almost two years ago January 1, 2025
Olivia Murray
A stark difference between the public and private sectors.
Democrats beg Buttigieg for last-minute cash infusions before DOGE comes in to end the graft December 25, 2024
Olivia Murray
California politicians screwed their state up, and we’re supposed to foot the bill.
San Diego county officials approve doling out another $2 million so migrants can afford to travel during busy holiday season December 18, 2024
Olivia Murray
And the progressive left quietly abandons the narrative that these people are net positives.
Does Kamala Harris really want to be governor of California? December 16, 2024
Silvio Canto, Jr.
It's a great plan, except that it really isn't.
Gavin Newsom announces plan to renew statewide EV rebates, but moves to exclude Elon Musk’s Tesla December 4, 2024
Olivia Murray
He claims the move is to encourage “rivalry” in the market, but the obvious explanation seems like punishment.
‘Known to the State of California,’ and other idiocy September 16, 2024
Thomas J. Bruno
As California’s Attorney General, Kamala aggressively prosecuted cases that shifted money from corporations to (usually left-leaning) environmental and consumer groups.
The Los Angeles Times blames Republicans for California’s woes September 8, 2024
Andrea Widburg
Ironically enough, the essay is right about some things, but it’s mostly just wrong.
California’s ethnic studies mandate turns virulently antisemitic in Santa Ana September 1, 2024
Andrea Widburg
This was exactly what Jews and other people who opposed the bill predicted would happen, and there currently are no brakes in California to stop it.
Interest free, no down payment home loans for illegals? August 26, 2024
Eric Utter
Americans in many states repeatedly vote for candidates (and ballot propositions) that demonstrably hurt them.
Climate madness is creating a nation of building code scofflaws August 23, 2024
Terry Paulding
Draconian “zero emission” codes in leftist cities are driving people to ignore entirely the old rules that really did improve building safety.
California: Next Stop, Venezuela August 12, 2024
Warren Beatty
Just when you think California didn't have enough foot left to shoot, it pulls out a gun and does it again.
Governor Gavin Newsom dons his ‘taxpayer’ hat to complain about homelessness August 9, 2024
Andrea Widburg
This is the governor under whose watch homelessness in California exploded like never before, just as it did when he was mayor of San Francisco.
Israel’s kibbutz experiments predict that California’s interfering with parents will fail July 30, 2024
Daniel Davies
California’s goal of severing children from their parents is pure Marxism. Israel went through that fire already—and came out wiser.
Proud of yourself, Gavin? California takes the crown for the nation's filthiest beaches June 16, 2024
Monica Showalter
So much for all that 'climate leadership' Newsom likes to tout.
California Sleazin': Gavin Newsom's state illegally billed federal government for illegals' health care costs -audit June 7, 2024
Monica Showalter
We get all the congressional representation. You get all the bills.
Spontaneous (re)combustion: Fire breaks out at a lithium battery storage facility, firefighters contain the blaze, then it sparks itself again May 20, 2024
Olivia Murray
San Diego firefighters must be getting some great overtime pay this year.
Becoming Calcutta: Oakland’s homeless crime crisis compels the city to remove traffic lights from busy intersections May 20, 2024
Olivia Murray
This is why Oakland can’t have nice things.
Slimy Gavin Newscum reneges on promise not to raise taxes to cover his state’s multi-billion dollar deficit May 20, 2024
Olivia Murray
$18 billion in “temporary” tax hikes are fixing to descend on California’s remaining businesses.
New report: California ranks ‘dead last’ in ‘opportunity’ May 20, 2024
Olivia Murray
In other news, water is still wet.
California utility company moves to install solar panels on surface of reservoir May 16, 2024
Olivia Murray
Isn’t that just swell—now these eyesores can blot beautiful bodies of water too, all while leaching toxic compounds directly into the water supply.
EV charging stations become prime target for copper thieves May 16, 2024
Olivia Murray
California should have known better than to compel a transition to electric vehicles while encouraging rampant drug use and crime, because everyone knows that copper wire is a go-to for addicts and thieves.
The United States of California May 1, 2024
Robin M. Itzler
If you want a sense of where unlimited progressive Democrat governance will end, just look at last month’s history in the one-party People’s Republic of California.
Blue state departures hit the coffers hard, so progressive Democrats devise a creative new way to tourniquet the revenue bleed April 24, 2024
Olivia Murray
Voting with your feet and fleeing the policies of the Democrat left? Now, there’s a fine for that.
Gruesome Newsom announces ‘emergency’ bill to license AZ abortionists in California April 22, 2024
Olivia Murray
At this point though, what difference does “regulation” make?
Anybody notice how 'Latinamericanized' California crime is getting? April 18, 2024
Monica Showalter
From gang extortion in San Francisco, to highway robbery in Los Angeles, to cartel shootouts in San Diego, crime is getting a recognizable feel.
‘Genealogy Office’ to establish lineage-based reparations is one step closer to becoming reality in California April 17, 2024
Olivia Murray
In a strange turn of events, this may turn out to be exactly what we need to put the whole “reparations” movement to bed.
They saw the harbor lights April 15, 2024
Silvio Canto, Jr.
If you see people leaping off boats and disappearing into waiting vehicles, be assured that it’s not a studio making a movie; it’s real people boldly entering our country.
Greenies decimated the PNW salmon population with their dam removal scheme, now they want a federal bailout to ‘fix’ things April 12, 2024
Olivia Murray
Oh the joys of living alongside useful idiots with superiority complexes.
Polly Klaas’s killer: In California, justice delayed is justice denied April 5, 2024
Andrea Widburg
Thirty-one years after he killed her, Klaas’s murderer is still hanging around…and seeking to overturn the death penalty hanging over his head.
Was Newsom trying to punish California's fast-food counties with that wage hike, same as his beach lockdowns? April 1, 2024
Monica Showalter
Are Gavin Newsom and his union buddies trying to shut down Southern California's fast food establishments?
The collapse of the California mathematics framework March 28, 2024
W.A. Eliot
What exactly do we know about the ideas the nutty Stanford professor who promotes wokery over actual math?
A week after primaries in California and they still haven't counted all the votes March 12, 2024
Monica Showalter
Count all the votes, the lefties exhorted. And well ...
California to help 'undocumented immigrants' purchase homes? March 9, 2024
Eric Utter
Another kick in the shorts to the citizens.
Go red, blue man February 20, 2024
Silvio Canto, Jr.
The left is baffled about why people are fleeing California.
Another Hugo Chavez-style idea on electricity rates from California's one-party regime November 7, 2023
Monica Showalter
Cash-strapped California has proposed to set electricity rates based on one's income, not one's consumption. What could go wrong?
Schiff doesn't bother to live in California, either November 3, 2023
Monica Showalter
Maryland has three senators already and will probably keep it that way.
California to institute missing child alert system specifically for black youth October 14, 2023
Eric Utter
What about black people under 12, who go missing? Why aren't they covered?
California's Gov. Gavin Newsom calls his state a veritable bastion of parental rights August 18, 2023
Eric Utter
Just don't dare question the school board.
California assembly passes affirmative action in sentencing law July 16, 2023
Monica Showalter
California's assembly passed a law which would require judges to consider the "disparate impact" of sentencing on minority populations when deciding prison terms.
California bill would ban retail employees from trying to stop thieves June 11, 2023
Eric Utter
If SB 553 passes, it would effectively make it a crime…to try to prevent a crime.
In California, it's kill the goats, keep the union hogs happy May 31, 2023
Monica Showalter
A California regulatory absurdity threatens to rid the state of a vital wildfire prevention asset.
California bill would provide ‘free’ condoms to students in grades 7 and up April 1, 2023
Eric Utter
Why is it that the public educational system now seems more concerned with discussing, depicting, and tutoring kids in the ways of sex -- the kinkier the better -- than it is with teaching them about, well, anything else?
Now even Jerry Garcia's pot company is fleeing California January 30, 2023
Monica Showalter
Even the emblem of California 'highness' cannot make a buck in that miserable high-tax state.
California seems to find a new way to chase away residents every day January 23, 2023
Jack Hellner
This time, they've cooked up a new 'wealth tax.'
Too Wet? Too Dry? It's All Climate Change! January 16, 2023
Brian C. Joondeph
Democrats, the left, and the media have an uncanny ability to balance two contradictory propositions in their minds, believing both can occur simultaneously due to the same cause.
Decoding the recent California reparations proposal December 5, 2022
Rajan Laad
How about compensating Native Americans, and Holocaust victims, too?
California’s reparations task force names a staggering dollar amount December 2, 2022
Andrea Widburg
There’s no logical reason for California to make these payments, but it’s in the grip of virtue-signaling madness.
Chinese communists decry California’s commoditization of children December 1, 2022
Olivia Murray
When one of the worst abusers of human rights has the moral high ground (which they do), it’s probably time to reevaluate your position.
From satire to reality, California leads the way on crazy policy October 17, 2022
Dale Lowdermilk
Who knew that an absurd joke from the '80s would make its way into public policy for serious debate just a few decades later?
California resorts to 'abortion tourism' September 19, 2022
Eric Utter
Newsom touts himself as a champion of freedom and rights, but that coudn't be farther from the truth.
California governor buys up out-of-state billboards to encourage baby murder September 17, 2022
Olivia Murray
Abortion really brings out the political sadists.
Greenie paradise California goes on rolling blackouts September 7, 2022
Monica Showalter
Gavin Newsom still says he intends to sell the California greenie energy plan as a model for the nation.
Many Democrats are clearly evil and openly acknowledge their ignorance; why should they be trusted on matters of innocent life? March 31, 2022
Jack Hellner
States trying to pass protections for cold-hearted killers remind us how evil Democrats are, and how they are the least trustworthy crowd in serious matters.
Education in California is a tragic mess September 14, 2021
Patricia McCarthy
Unless those of us who are sick to death of what the left has done to California and American education begin to fight back, we may well be over.
California considering new proposal for math instruction May 8, 2021
Eric Utter
The education department purports to believe that the way math is currently taught leads to unjust outcomes and explains why minorities and women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) fields.
Gavin Newsom's crony capitalism racket February 19, 2021
Monica Showalter
Donate big to Gavin Newsom's favorite pet causes, find yourself winning no-bid contracts.
Trouble for Democrats: Rebellion in the California suburbs December 27, 2020
Monica Showalter
A Covina, California pub owner's desperate bid to stop health inspectors from shutting his establishment down portends big trouble for Democrats.
Exponential: $10,000 GoFundMe for crying California restaurant-owner hits $109K and still counting December 7, 2020
Monica Showalter
People are noticing the bureaucratic hypocrisy and its heavy price to small business, and voting with their wallets.
California's voters beat back looney left's affirmative action Proposition 16 November 4, 2020
Monica Showalter
California was a lost cause in the vote for president, but there was still a little bit of good news...
Time to quit moving the COVID goalposts -San Diego County Supervisor October 2, 2020
Jim Desmond
Authorities in this state have a way out from COVID. No wonder the public doesn't trust them.
The lost common sense of the California Democrat Party September 24, 2020
Jesse Tyler
Moving to normalize sex with children their latest lunacy.
Wildfires in California emitting more CO2 annually than cars September 10, 2020
Brian C. Tomlinson
So much for the greenie narrative, look at the numbers.
Trump should challenge Biden and Harris to denounce California's Proposition 16 September 2, 2020
Allan J. Favish
President Donald Trump should immediately begin using a California ballot proposition as a springboard for making the evil of racial discrimination and preferences a part of his national campaign.
California's Gavin Newsom orders wineries shut, keeps his own open (updated) July 3, 2020
Monica Showalter
Why doesn't he shut his own winery down until all the wineries are permitted to reopen?
Democrats rig California's primary, wonder why turnout is so low March 6, 2020
Monica Showalter
Nobody likes to vote in an election with a pre-ordained result, even with mail-in voting, early voting, ballot-harvesting, and other claimed turnout boosters.
In California, it's better to be a thief January 16, 2020
Don Sucher
In California, thieving is officially okay. No, no, they won't say it is. But it is, nonetheless.
The withering away of the blue: California set to lose a congressional seat December 31, 2019
Monica Showalter
Driving conservatives out only brings more Republican seats to Congress from other states.
California becomes a one-state homelessness machine December 22, 2019
Monica Showalter
All other states are making progress, but progressive California manages all by itself to bring the average down. Federal intervention can't happen soon enough.
California's Gov. Newsom blames Trump for not throwing more money at the homeless problem he created December 21, 2019
Monica Showalter
California's own policies are the problem.
Green Energy Studies: Consulting, or Advertising? November 27, 2019
Norman Rogers
What consultants say about green energy has a lot to do with who their clients are. But that's not always the impression they want to give.
California’s malaise November 3, 2019
Eric Utter
Reagan warned us: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” The formerly Golden State is showing us that this is indeed true.
Silent Kamala: Her state's on fire, swathed in blackouts and she's still tweeting about illegals October 27, 2019
Monica Showalter
Leftists have their priorities...
California legalizes eating roadkill October 17, 2019
Monica Showalter
Always focused on the important things. Chow down and take a bow, lefties.
California passes same-day voter registration, rigging elections even bluer October 10, 2019
Monica Showalter
As if they haven't rigged things in the solid blue state enough? There's no "at some point you've got enough" for these ruling Democrats.
Even the illegals are fleeing California — and half the state's voters want out, too September 28, 2019
Monica Showalter
What's free health care compared to having housing and a job? Even the migrants aren't impressed with the solid blue state's banquet of free stuff compared to its socialist problems. They're fleeing.
Trump gives California a big fat 'no' after state calls for more taxpayer cash to perpetrate homelessness September 21, 2019
Monica Showalter
Someone gave these socialist drunks the intervention they badly needed.
Just as Iowa veers toward the Democrats, California comes to the rescue — for Trump September 17, 2019
Monica Showalter
California has cooked up an innovative new way for Iowa to swing back to Trump, raising chances for the entire U.S. to get More Trump. File under "own goal."
His state falling apart, California's governor Newsom focuses on keeping Trump off the ballot July 31, 2019
Monica Showalter
What is he afraid of?
In California, don't call them 'public servants'; call them 'the government gang' July 11, 2019
Thomas Lifson
Plunder of tax revenues on an unimaginable scale, creating a ruling class of wealthy people, while starving the actual delivery of services to the taxpayers.
Santa Cruz caves to PC Luddites, removing famed mission bell June 20, 2019
Monica Showalter
Anything to destroy a state's unique heritage in the name of a Better World.
Huge new string of criminalities surround California's failed 'motor-voter' system May 17, 2019
Monica Showalter
Now we have a foreign hacking attack into California's vaunted motor-voter registration system that its officials didn't want us to know about.
California descending to Third World status with planned electricity blackouts for up to a week May 13, 2019
Thomas Lifson
The elites who run California like to pretend they have a better way.
Double standard? What's Maxine Waters doing on any congressional committee seat with that slate-mailer op run by her daughter? May 12, 2019
Monica Showalter
The slate-mailer business seems to be going swimmingly for Team Waters.
California's 'green energy' central planners get their hands slapped by San Bernardino County March 2, 2019
Monica Showalter
The tiny desert communities of California decided they didn't want to be Sacramento's dumping ground for "green energy."
Nancy Pelosi's Democrats seek to impose California-style electoral rigging on the rest of America January 25, 2019
Monica Showalter
Can nationwide ballot-harvesting for Democrats be far behind?
Ballot-harvesting gets just a little harder in California, thanks to Judicial Watch January 6, 2019
Monica Showalter
A small and welcome judicial victory in an electorally corrupted state.
California admits it has no idea whether non-citizens voted in last primary January 6, 2019
Monica Showalter
The Sacramento Bee got hold of some internal emails, via the Freedom of Information Act, and found something California officials would rathe not see get out.
Jerry Brown gives rural Californians the middle finger December 31, 2018
Monica Showalter
On the way out, Brown reminds us why he won't be missed.
Ballot-harvesting California muscles to the front of 2020 presidential primaries December 24, 2018
Monica Showalter
The Achilles heel of this move to get first dibs on primary candidates...is ballot-harvesting.
The unspoken fear of Democrats about moving the California primary to March December 24, 2018
Rick Moran
Is California's "diverse" population too liberal for the rest of America?
California's new early primary makes money, not retail politics, the key to picking a presidential nominee December 24, 2018
Thomas Lifson
The Law of Unintended Consequences has only begun to work its magic on the 2020 presidential nomination process, promising endless trouble for the Democrats.
Bienvenidos a Mexico: California's ballot-harvesting, sure enough, is borrowed from Mexico December 22, 2018
Monica Showalter
Real Clear Investigations has a must-read piece on just how bad ballot-harvesting is. Worse still, it's a cultural appropriation: From Mexico.
California takes props as least-educated state, and yes, Democrats like it that way December 20, 2018
Monica Showalter
So many special interests in California have a stake in keeping the state's educational achievement low, very low. Guess what: they've succeeded.
Ballot-harvesting, not just for California anymore... December 6, 2018
Monica Showalter
How does ballot-harvesting nationwide sound? It's coming to a state near you.
After California's ballot harvest: What is to be done? December 5, 2018
Monica Showalter
The ballot-harvesting has got to go. So do a lot of other sneaky little tricks the entrenched Democrats have slipped through. Here is a list.
Ballot-harvesting and the Democrats' phony 'count all the ballots' mantra December 4, 2018
Monica Showalter
Somewhere, Soros is smiling...
The stomach-turning 'ballot-harvesting' that enabled Democrats to walk off with California December 2, 2018
Monica Showalter
Prepare to get real familiar with something called 'ballot-harvesting.'
Questions about stolen elections not going away in California... November 30, 2018
Monica Showalter
Actually, the questions are multiplying.
StarKist, Pelosi, political favors, and political corruption October 20, 2018
Jack Hellner
When I heard that StarKist was being fined $100 million for price-fixing, I thought of Nancy Pelosi...
The piously politically correct blue state that bankrolls Putin October 20, 2018
Monica Showalter
California's CalPERS pension fund is famous for its divestment pullouts, but it's got one little exception in its big sea of political correctness: Bankrolling the Russian state.
Deep blue California makes itself nation's pestilence capital October 20, 2018
Monica Showalter
Is California earning itself a new national distinction as the nation's pestilence capital? What's with typhus, hepatitis, and cholera – and poop patrols – showing up in its largest cities?
Ammar Campa-Najjar: Black September grandson and CAIR's candidate in California October 11, 2018
Monica Showalter
What a dangerous thing it will be if this bounder gets elected to Congress, standing up for CAIR's interests and making his grandpa proud.
Jerry Brown's get-out-of-jail-free card in California October 10, 2018
Monica Showalter
Was Soros behind this new law just signed by Gov. Jerry Brown to let killers (who didn't pull the trigger) out of jail? A whole lot of them are about to come rolling out.
1,500 and counting: California's DMV registers noncitizens to vote October 9, 2018
Monica Showalter
Suddenly, 1,500 more illegally registered voters in California turn up. What a coincidence!
Why California's Republican John Cox looks increasingly likely to win the governorship September 22, 2018
Monica Showalter
In California, GOP's John Cox is campaigning on bread and butter issues, while Democrat Gavin Newsom bloviates about global warming.
California governor's race poll shows Trumpster John Cox closing in on leftist Gavin Newsom September 11, 2018
Monica Showalter
Californians may be thinking twice about whether they really want to pay for a free comprehensive health care ride for all the state's illegals.
23,000 California DMV voter-registration fails, and we're not supposed to worry about illegals voting September 6, 2018
Monica Showalter
Handing out drivers licenses to illegals. Registering all comers to vote through California's motor-voter law. At the DMV, what could go wrong?
Mike Pence is coming to California to campaign for John Cox July 14, 2018
Monica Showalter
This doesn't sound like good news for the Democrats. Look for some electoral surprises in November.
Referendum to split Calif into three states will appear on the November ballot June 13, 2018
Thomas Lifson
A total waste of time, money, and the public's attention span.
Nope, no blue wave in California. GOP actually better poised for gains because of the Trump wave June 6, 2018
Monica Showalter
The Republicans did better than the pundits and spin doctors thought they would in the California race. Some blue wave.
Trump Effect: Endorsement of Cox shifts dynamics of California governor's race to GOP June 1, 2018
Monica Showalter
Hardcore Republican gubernatorial candidate John Cox, who got a coveted Trump endorsement, is now decisively in second place in the polls as a result. Yay, bay-beeee!
Sunday Schadenfreude: California Dems thrash around on their great blue wave May 27, 2018
Monica Showalter
Apparently, there are so many of them running they are cannibalizing each other which jeopardizes their prospects for retaking the House.
California Democrat pushes new law to gut First Amendment April 13, 2018
Peter Barry Chowka
The story seems unbelievable – but sadly, it is all too true
California ignored state's travel ban for NCAA March Madness playoff in Kansas April 3, 2018
Thomas Lifson
Now, that's what I call a principled stand: we'll boycott unless we don't want to.
California suing to prevent 2020 Census from asking about citizenship March 27, 2018
Thomas Lifson
Yesterday, commerce secretary Wilbur Ross announced that the 2020 Census would add a question about citizenship. Shortly thereafter, California attorney general Xavier Becerra announced that he would sue to prevent this.
Jerry Brown’s half-fast ‘bullet train’ front man admits Californians deserve another vote on the project March 18, 2018
Thomas Lifson
They duped voters once with false promises.
One week of California crazy March 4, 2018
Jared Peterson
California water bureaucrats debate how to keep drought hysteria going, hence to proceed with plans for imposing the higher water rates in the wake of last week’s storms that deposited massive amounts of wet snow on the most critical Sierra watersheds.
California's de facto secession January 24, 2018
E.M. Cadwaladr
Functionally, if not by actual open declaration, the state of California has seceded from the union.
Delusional California lawmakers plan to hike state corporate taxes to claw back the money left over by federal corporate tax cut January 19, 2018
Thomas Lifson
The perfect plan to drive the remaining businesses out of California has been hatched by a couple of genius members of the California Legislature.
Why California is the 'poverty capital of America' January 15, 2018
Rick Moran
Subsidizing poverty will only give you more of it, not less.
California Dem pols scrambling in wake of cuts to deductibility of state and local taxes December 25, 2017
Thomas Lifson
You'll never believe the scam being considered to defraud the IRS.
Tesla's rich and subsidized buyers about to get smacked by Trump tax reform November 11, 2017
Monica Showalter
Tesla, the obnoxious green car company whose products are patronized by Hollywood's elites, is about to get a reckoning if the GOP congressional tax bill goes through: no more free stuff.
Majority of California Dems favor restrictions on free speech September 14, 2017
Thomas Lifson
California is a one-party state, with Democrats running everything.
California's presidential nomination power play September 11, 2017
Thomas Lifson
Pulling the Dems even farther to the left.
Socialists create youth shortages in California August 14, 2017
Monica Showalter
Socialism produces shortages wherever it's tried, and it's perfectly evident in California, where coastal cities have managed to chase out young growing families, a new report shows.
NYT: But enough about nuclear incineration threats to Guam. Let's talk about global warming August 12, 2017
Monica Showalter
The New York Times just can't help itself. As Guam faces a nuclear threat from North Korea, the Times thinks it's just the right time to bring up global warming, too.
California set to unleash plague of less qualified lawyers July 15, 2017
Thomas Lifson
How does lowering the standards to pass the bar exam help the public?
California's Judicial Council racial sensitivity bureaucrats dress up as black convicts for office party July 14, 2017
Monica Showalter
Dressing up as black convicts behind bars for an office cubicle party? Because they couldn't pretend to be Black Panthers? What's with these racially sensitive California bureaucrats?
California Dems panic over their tax hike, sue 3 college Republicans for successful recall petition July 8, 2017
Thomas Lifson
Trying to quash a recall election following a huge tax increase and dragging three college kids into court looks really bad, and it will be especially odious when the gas tax increase hits on November 1.
Single payer universal health care plan killed in California June 25, 2017
Thomas Lifson
It was an idea too flaky, even for California, but don’t worry, it will be back.
At Calif state Dem convention, chairman leads crowd in chant, ‘F#*@k Trump,’ with extended middle fingers May 21, 2017
Thomas Lifson
Trump Derangement Syndrome strikes again, as California Democrats brought a level of mass vulgarity to their state convention.
California plans to tax space travel by the mile May 5, 2017
Ed Straker
What do you think California will tax next?
The true cost of California’s minimum wage hikes April 27, 2017
Andrew Solomon
We are subsidizing with our life’s savings the state’s crazy ideas of how the economy is supposed to work.
Calls for rent control increasing across California April 11, 2017
Andrew Solomon
Calls for rent control are heating up across the Golden State, and not just from Silicon Valley, either. This is dangerous.
Calkickout Petition February 1, 2017
Ronald C. Tinnell
People from California can sign the Calexit petition, but what about the rest of us in the other 49 states? From my point of view, we would benefit the most from California leaving the Union.
Let California Go November 27, 2016
Robert Oscar Lopez
Californians seem to understand that despite their huge numbers, they are an ideologically foreign parasite at war with the antibodies of their host country.
Hillary panicking over California primary May 31, 2016
Thomas Lifson
Cancelling events in New Jersey to rush to California and avoid a humiliation at the hands of Sanders.
California insurance commissioner demands ‘carbon shaming’ for insurance companies May 23, 2016
Richard Henry Lee
An ideological war on fossil fuel under the pretense of saving the planet.
It begins: In wake of California $15 minimum wage, garment firms moving out of Los Angeles April 16, 2016
Thomas Lifson
To the surprise of nobody but leftists
California reaches deal for $15 an hour minimum wage March 27, 2016
Thomas Lifson
A triumph for the Democratic Party's alliance of stupidity and venality.
Why California paid sick leave destroys immune systems November 7, 2015
Andrew Solomon
Who knew that free money, or getting paid not to work, would be so popular?
Privileges of the political class (California edition) June 1, 2015
Thomas Lifson
The latest perk for California state senators is a doozy.
Jerry Brown pitches another plan to screw the middle class and especially the wealthy May 25, 2015
Thomas Lifson
So much for equal justice under the law.
Jerry Brown orders mandatory water restrictions in California April 2, 2015
Thomas Lifson
Propaganda, hidden agendas, and government revenue are at the heart of the mandatory water restrictions.
Water Policy Shock Doctrine on the Mojave River December 3, 2014
Sierra Rayne
Substantial overstatement on flow trends.
The Left Avows Its Ungodly Love of Filth October 18, 2014
Stephen Mauzy
In California, of all places, with a dismaying but unsurprising new law.
Shaking Things Up in the Golden State October 11, 2014
Elise Cooper
Will California see a Republican secretary of state?
California winery put out of business for using volunteers September 17, 2014
Thomas Lifson
Congratulations, bureaucrats! You have killed another business for stupid reasons
6.0 earthquake hits Northern California August 24, 2014
Thomas Lifson
Shake, rattle and roll at 3:25 AM.
Toyota to California: 'Don't Mess with Texas' May 7, 2014
Gary Jason
Texas Gov. Rick Perry gave a Rebel yell at the news.
The Panama Canal expansion will make it more difficult for California to compete with Texas May 4, 2014
Silvio Canto, Jr.
We hope that the Democrats in the California legislature are paying attention
Toyota's not leaving California because they want to spend their summers in Texas April 30, 2014
Silvio Canto, Jr.
Toyota’s announcement comes about two months after Occidental Petroleum Corp. disclosed it was moving its headquarters to Houston from Los Angeles.
Toyota moving marketing HQ out of California to Texas April 28, 2014
Thomas Lifson
The exit from high tax/high cost California continues
Covered California Confusion March 31, 2014
Constance Jacobs
The ObamaCare disaster rolls on -- a report form the trenches.
Big political corruption arrest in California March 26, 2014
Thomas Lifson
There are encouraging signs that the very corrupt Democrat political machine in the California state legislature may be finally getting exposed, indicted, and, God willing, destroyed.
A law so stupid California legislature seeks to repeal it two months after it took effect March 9, 2014
Thomas Lifson
State lawmakers have passed a new food safety law that they wish they hadn't.
California legislative stupidity (continued) March 9, 2014
Thomas Lifson
But who cares? It is all about feeling good and self-righteous
Corruption costs Democrats their California supermajority March 3, 2014
Thomas Lifson
Two Democrats down on corruptionm charges
Destroying the GOP: How Immigration Turned California Blue February 25, 2014
John Bennett
The pro-amnesty Republicans should think clearly about what happened to the Golden State.
Another Green Bird-Killer February 14, 2014
Peter Wilson
Gruesome carnage, subsidized with your tax dollars
Hope and Change? Not for Gays February 5, 2014
Janet Tassel
The liberal trope: Murderers, rapists, and other criminals are formed by society and can be helped by psychiatric treatment, but gay men and women are born as homosexuals and can't change.
Twilight of Pelosi? February 5, 2014
Rosslyn Smith
Nancy Pelosi's list of allies in the Democratic Caucus grows ever thinner
California Voters Agree State is Expensive and Lacks Jobs December 14, 2013
Chriss Street
Cali's decline accelerates.
California Republicans Speak Truth to Power December 8, 2013
Sally Zelikovsky
The California GOP has been accused of wholesale fraud -- for putting up an information website on ObamaCare.
Field Poll Shows Californians Abandoning Obama December 4, 2013
Chriss Street
California catches up with the rest of the country.
Obama admits to profiling! December 2, 2013
Thomas Lifson
President Obama publicly claimed he could tell where immigrants are not from America just by looking at their faces, and the media mostly ignored this startling confession of profiling
California high speed rail boondoggle blocked by judge November 26, 2013
Thomas Lifson
A "high speed" rail line that would achieve average speeds no higher than railroads routinely achieved a century ago has hit a serious roadblock
California's Economic Armageddon November 7, 2013
Rose C. Friend
Welfare is the Achilles heel of postmodern politics.
Bloomberg and the Invasion of Colorado November 4, 2013
Derrick Wilburn
The once red state of Colorado is being "Californicated" with the financial support of New York City's billionaire mayor.
Obamacare -- the View from California September 29, 2013
RH Lee
If California's new ObamaCare health-care exchange, 'CoveredCA', is any indication, we're all in for it.
California's anti-gun stupidity on steroids August 10, 2013
Lee DeCovnick
The current California Assembly and Senate are the most moronic collection of corrupt political whores since the Assemblée Législative help inaugurate the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
Janet Napolitano's Nomination for UC President: a Disaster in the Making July 18, 2013
John M. Ellis
She cannot command respect beyond her own circle because she is seen as a narrowly partisan figure, and a polarizing one.
California to Industry: Get Lost June 6, 2013
Adam Sparks
California takes one more step into the abyss.
Barry butches up with comment on California AG April 5, 2013
Thomas Lifson
A strategy in the wake of hoops debacle.
Owen's Already Owin' April 3, 2013
Lee DeCovnick
My niece just had her second child, a beautiful bundle of smiles and soft blond hair, Owen. Yet I harbored a deep, unspoken concern that this country has already set substantial obstacles in front of this innocent boy.
ObamaCare Shell Game Now Apparent February 11, 2013
Deane Waldman
To solve an ObamaCare-created problem -- more insured patients and even fewer doctors -- California will make things worse.
Let Them Eat Caviar November 27, 2012
Michael Curran
Just about when you think the "Let them eat cake" thing could not be "improved" upon, along come some daring Californians (who wouldn't have guessed that?) to upset the bread cart.
The GOP's California Lesson November 26, 2012
Jared Peterson
A second amnesty would merely expedite the Democrats' achievement of their chief goal: bringing to the whole of America the California demographics that brought third world political, economic, and tax conditions to California.
Scenes from Obama's America November 8, 2012
Lee DeCovnick
Tuesday, our country split apart along the dangerous fault lines of class, race, gender, age and faith, and we can already glimpse the consequences.
California's Proposition 32: Ending Union Dominance Of California Politics October 13, 2012
Tom Thurlow
It could be that passing Prop. 32 in California could be the next step in regaining control of America's states from out-of-control unions.
California digs fiscal grave on high speed rail boondoggle July 7, 2012
Lee DeCovnick
Denial, stupidity and a willful disregard for basic economics are fully deployed in adding to California's already astronomical debt service.
Your Money or Your Schools May 14, 2012
Jeffrey Folks
California Governor Jerry Brown playing highwayman to the state's taxpayers.
California Caves to Illegals April 27, 2012
Elise Cooper
It appears that in California, those who are here illegally get the privileges. Rules and laws that legal residents had to abide by have been changed to accommodate those here illegally.
A State of Total Insanity September 2, 2011
Gary Jason
Two recent stories out of California show that what is already the most stupidly governed state is slipping into outright insanity.
California budget circus gets even more bizarre June 17, 2011
Thomas Lifson
The nation's largest state is not only near bankruptcy, its government is doing a fine imitation of a banana republic, complete with a shoving and shouting match on the State Assembly floor
Students suspended for wearing white T-shirts May 31, 2011
Thomas Lifson
Is wearing a plain white T-shirt a sign of membership in a white supremacist group? Apparently so, at least according to a government school principal in Soquel, California