Blue state Republican success stops at the California border
In the 2016 contest for California’s open U.S. Senate seat, state Republicans failed to even get a candidate on the November ballot. State Attorney General Kamala Harris ended up besting Congresswoman...
View ArticleHarvey Weinstein and Hollywood’s secular, liberal indulgences
In the late Middle Ages the Roman Catholic church came under fire by reformers for the sale of “indulgences” to church congregants. Corrupt priests could make a pretty penny by selling these...
View ArticleCalifornia’s gun safety sham
California lawmakers love gun control. Gov. Jerry Brown signed no less than six different bills designed to restrict gun and ammunition sales in the Golden State last year alone, and a number of the...
View ArticleTown halls and the rise of the organic green tea party
Over the last year a number of Republican members of Congress have returned to their districts and been screamed at during town hall meetings over health care reform, tax cuts, the various Russia...
View ArticleJerry Brown and the state Democrats’ legacy is crime and homelessness
There’s not much the state of California does efficiently. If you need to get your license plates in the mail, want your tax refund, or God forbid need Sacramento to fix a clerical error, you need the...
View ArticleTom Steyer banks on impeach Trump rhetoric to take him to power
It has become impossible to turn on the TV lately and not see a commercial featuring billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer pleading for members of Congress to impeach President Trump over a litany of...
View ArticleOne-party rule has created an animal house atmosphere in Sacramento
If you look at a map, the California Capitol is located at the corner of 10th and L Streets in Sacramento. If you look at recent newspaper headlines chronicling all of the reports of sexual harassment...
View ArticleAl Gore’s dark past is an inconvenient truth
It seems like every time you open the morning paper, more powerful men are being accused of groping, raping and generally treating their female colleagues in inappropriate and degrading ways. But it’s...
View ArticleAll of Charles Manson’s ‘family’ of killers should die in prison like him
A couple of Sundays ago, right around bed time, my phone blew up with the news that Charlie Manson had finally rolled a seven. Three things immediately popped into my mind: first, I can finally open up...
View ArticleWhy stealing a car might now be a misdemeanor in California
A staple of the old Oprah Winfrey Show was the prize giveaway at the end of the program, where “Lady O” would shower her audiences with everything from complimentary macaroni and cheese to brand new...
View ArticleBel-Air fire shows danger of enabling homelessness
While Americans in other parts of the country are spending their mornings bundling up, shoveling snow off the driveway and driving down icy roads to the office, those of us fortunate enough to live in...
View ArticleFaux compassion is only worsening homeless crisis
For years California voters have been nothing but compassionate towards the state’s homeless population, repeatedly voting to tax ourselves to provide more resources for affordable housing, mental...
View ArticleInstead of faux compassion for the homeless, here are real solutions
I received an overwhelming response to last week’s “Faux compassion is only worsening homeless crisis” column about the California homeless epidemic. Homeowners, law enforcement and local elected...
View ArticleIn Palm Springs, home is where the art is … and tourists using Airbnb
Cities often have a love/hate relationship with the industries that allow them to exist. Sure, we depend on these businesses for employment, tax dollars and a collective identity, but we also love to...
View ArticleFor Gov. Jerry Brown, it’s check out time at the Hotel California
Everyone knows that at a quarter to 11 a.m. on the last day of your stay is when you need to check out of your hotel. There are a million possibilities why you may not want to leave; you could have hit...
View ArticleIn Pennsylvania special election, all politics is still local
When it came to campaigns and elections, former Speaker of the House Thomas Phillip “Tip” O’Neill religiously subscribed to the philosophy that “all politics is local.” While O’Neill acknowledged that...
View ArticleProsecutors gone wild: San Bernardino County edition
For mid-level politicians to move up the political pecking order in a state the size of California, they sometimes need to ride the wave of a big news event all the way to the front page of the paper....
View ArticleState’s two-headed monster takes on federal supremacy
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Gov. Jerry Brown are contorting themselves into knots — like they’re following some kind of political Kama Sutra — over President Trump’s crackdown on...
View ArticleToo many California Democrats have presidential aspirations; that’s likely to...
Simple economics tells us why cruise ships can charge $15 for sun block, movie theaters can charge $7 for a Coke and hotels can charge $11 for hair spray — they, and they alone, control access to the...
View ArticleIs Paul Ryan’s exit setting him up for a presidential run?
I’ve always believed the best politicians are those who run for office because they actually want to accomplish certain goals, and once they turn their policy proposals into law, they step aside and...
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