We almost never find ourselves on the same side as celebs, so when “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon, now running for governor of New York, recently railed against taxpayer subsidies for the film industry, we couldn’t help but pop the popcorn. Bashing tax...
I’ve written before about Sacramento’s efforts to try and dictate how people live their lives through over-reaching legislation. On Thursday, we saw that some Sacramento liberals are taking things a step further, telling California’s parents how they should raise their children. Senate Bill 1192, by Sen. Bill...
Rowena Itchon - The Diplomat and the Diva https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCNP3EhlKKM America mourns the Queen of Soul – here’s Aretha Franklin and Condoleezza Rice teaming up at a benefit conference in Philadelphia -- the Diplomat and the Diva. Tim Anaya - Presidential Medal of Freedom Winner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvjCPpsoTN4 Here's a video of...
Just after the New Year began, California lawmakers, sore that the Federal Communications Commission restored a stolen freedom and repealed the Obama-era net neutrality rule, introduced their own net neutrality bill. The California Internet Consumer Protection and Net Neutrality Act was gutted in June, but...
With the mid-term elections now less than 100 days away, the siren-call for single-payer or “Medicare for All” continues. Fifty-one percent of those polled earlier this year by Kaiser support single payer, the highest number ever recorded. But as Seema Verma, Administrator at the Centers...
Open the PDF California lawmakers have had several chances to handcuff payday lenders, and in each instance, they were either unable to, or chose not to. Naturally, some see this as a series of missed opportunities. We understand the reaction. But this is an industry that...
The Sacramento Bee recently ran an article with a rather curious headline – “Fix California roads without the new gas taxes?” Reading the article from our friends at the Bee, they make it seem like funding road repair projects without a tax increase was as foreign...
Rowena Itchon - George Gilder Sneak Peek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWKWbHmWAcY For a sneak preview of George Gilder’s talk “Life After Google” at the PRI luncheon on August 23 in San Francisco, I recommend that you check out his speech at the Blockstack conference in Berlin. I’m going to...
Benjamin Franklin famously said that there are only two things certain in life – death and taxes. In California, you could add a third – hatred of the DMV. Anyone who has ever signed up for a driver’s license or register a vehicle knows just how...
The United States benefits every day from the policy victories won by President Reagan’s administration. Enough time has passed since his tenure in the White House that many fair-minded observers, regardless of their political orientation, recognize that many of the changes he implemented were victories...