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Rejecting the Evidence of Your Eyes and Ears
There’s an adage about crime statistics in progressive political and academic circles that can be summed up as the “perception exceeds reality school.” Put another way, Americans are simply wrong to be afraid of crime in the view of these so-called experts. Recently, the New York Times criticized President Trump ...
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The Slavers Call for Reparations – We Go “On Metaphor Alert” Again, as AU and EU Debate History
This theme appears to be a final realization of the goals outlined in the African Union’s Abuja Proclamation of 1993. At that time, the group (then technically the Organization of African Unity) stated: “What matters is…the responsibility of those states and nations whose economic evolution once depended on slave labor ...
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Denver wisely repeals its minimum parking mandates
Denver wisely repeals its minimum parking mandates By Sal Rodriguez | November 7, 2025 The post-World War II years brought with it many things Americans have taken for granted: economic prosperity, suburban living and minimum parking requirements. Along with the growing prevalence of personal vehicles through the 1950s and 1960s ...
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No need for hysteria over federal cuts to homeless housing
The usually levelheaded CalMatters reported that the expected deep cuts are the “latest blow in a seemingly endless barrage of bad news for the California agencies tasked with fighting homelessness.” The “news has sent counties throughout California into a panic” and they are “bracing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars,” the ...
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After Voters Pass Prop. 50, What Comes Next?
First, despite what President Obama said in Prop. 50 commercials, its passage does not protect the independent redistricting commission in any way. By enacting Prop. 50, voters have done away with the independent commission’s work for the rest of this decade. Remember that California stands to lose two more congressional ...
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California’s Great Gasoline Panic of ‘25
“California’s Refinery Rethink” Politico Pro, Oct. 22 “Newsom Courts Big Oil as Gas Prices Threaten Political Ambition” Bloomberg, Sept. 29 “Faced with looming gasoline shortage, California’s governor backs off oil companies” Le Monde, Oct. 11 “Gas Price Map Shock: Why Gas Is $4.60 in California but $2.60 in Oklahoma?” Autoblog, ...
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Spending Watch
Spending Watch: The Unpleasant Arithmetic of a California Wealth Tax
Spending Watch: The Unpleasant Arithmetic of a California Wealth Tax Wayne Winegarden October 2025 A just proposed initiative to impose a one-time wealth tax on billionaires summarizes why California has fallen from the fourth to the fifth largest economy in the world. State policymakers continually view the private sector as ...
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Western governors try to boost housing as population grows
Western governors try to boost housing as population grows By D. Dowd Muska | October 31, 2025 What do Houston, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Fort Worth, Phoenix, Seattle, San Jose and Las Vegas have in common? U.S. Census Bureau data show that each made the list of the 15 cities ...
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State Lawsuit Latest Effort to Rid State of Plastic Bag Convenience
Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on Oct. 17 that four manufacturers and the state had reached a settlement that will require them to pay more than $1.7 million for allegedly violating a 2014 law that requires carry-out plastic bags in grocers and other retailers to be recyclable. They have also agreed ...
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Corporate home buyers are not ‘plundering’ U.S. neighborhoods
Tucker Carlson, for one, has been for years carping about corporations buying single-family homes. In 2021, when he still had a show on Fox News, Carlson objected to “private-equity firms like BlackRock” buying “entire neighborhoods of single-family homes and turning them into rentals.” His guest that evening was Chronicles Magazine’s Pedro Gonzalez, ...
Rejecting the Evidence of Your Eyes and Ears
There’s an adage about crime statistics in progressive political and academic circles that can be summed up as the “perception exceeds reality school.” Put another way, Americans are simply wrong to be afraid of crime in the view of these so-called experts. Recently, the New York Times criticized President Trump ...
The Slavers Call for Reparations – We Go “On Metaphor Alert” Again, as AU and EU Debate History
This theme appears to be a final realization of the goals outlined in the African Union’s Abuja Proclamation of 1993. At that time, the group (then technically the Organization of African Unity) stated: “What matters is…the responsibility of those states and nations whose economic evolution once depended on slave labor ...
Denver wisely repeals its minimum parking mandates
Denver wisely repeals its minimum parking mandates By Sal Rodriguez | November 7, 2025 The post-World War II years brought with it many things Americans have taken for granted: economic prosperity, suburban living and minimum parking requirements. Along with the growing prevalence of personal vehicles through the 1950s and 1960s ...
No need for hysteria over federal cuts to homeless housing
The usually levelheaded CalMatters reported that the expected deep cuts are the “latest blow in a seemingly endless barrage of bad news for the California agencies tasked with fighting homelessness.” The “news has sent counties throughout California into a panic” and they are “bracing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars,” the ...
After Voters Pass Prop. 50, What Comes Next?
First, despite what President Obama said in Prop. 50 commercials, its passage does not protect the independent redistricting commission in any way. By enacting Prop. 50, voters have done away with the independent commission’s work for the rest of this decade. Remember that California stands to lose two more congressional ...
California’s Great Gasoline Panic of ‘25
“California’s Refinery Rethink” Politico Pro, Oct. 22 “Newsom Courts Big Oil as Gas Prices Threaten Political Ambition” Bloomberg, Sept. 29 “Faced with looming gasoline shortage, California’s governor backs off oil companies” Le Monde, Oct. 11 “Gas Price Map Shock: Why Gas Is $4.60 in California but $2.60 in Oklahoma?” Autoblog, ...
Spending Watch
Spending Watch: The Unpleasant Arithmetic of a California Wealth Tax
Spending Watch: The Unpleasant Arithmetic of a California Wealth Tax Wayne Winegarden October 2025 A just proposed initiative to impose a one-time wealth tax on billionaires summarizes why California has fallen from the fourth to the fifth largest economy in the world. State policymakers continually view the private sector as ...
Western governors try to boost housing as population grows
Western governors try to boost housing as population grows By D. Dowd Muska | October 31, 2025 What do Houston, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Fort Worth, Phoenix, Seattle, San Jose and Las Vegas have in common? U.S. Census Bureau data show that each made the list of the 15 cities ...
State Lawsuit Latest Effort to Rid State of Plastic Bag Convenience
Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on Oct. 17 that four manufacturers and the state had reached a settlement that will require them to pay more than $1.7 million for allegedly violating a 2014 law that requires carry-out plastic bags in grocers and other retailers to be recyclable. They have also agreed ...
Corporate home buyers are not ‘plundering’ U.S. neighborhoods
Tucker Carlson, for one, has been for years carping about corporations buying single-family homes. In 2021, when he still had a show on Fox News, Carlson objected to “private-equity firms like BlackRock” buying “entire neighborhoods of single-family homes and turning them into rentals.” His guest that evening was Chronicles Magazine’s Pedro Gonzalez, ...
