LA Fires Show Liberal, Socialist Policies Have Failed—Again

LA Fires Show Liberal, Socialist Policies Have Failed—Again

In 1873, President Ulysses S. Grant tasked Colonel B. S. Alexander from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with assessing California’s water supply. Eventually, some 1,200 dams were built to manage what is both vital for California’s farming and the state’s most elusive resource. However, managing water was only part of the equation that made … Read more

Breaking Ground: West Coast Prosecutors Face Unprecedented 2024 Defeats!

Breaking Ground: West Coast Prosecutors Face Unprecedented 2024 Defeats!

The closing days of the 2024 election focused on the titanic battle for the presidency. However, a set of developments, primarily on the West Coast, may be nearly as important. I am referring to elections for District Attorney in Los Angeles and Alameda Counties in California and Multnomah County, Oregon. In each, a “progressive prosecutor” … Read more

Venezuela-Style Socialism Has Come to California’s Oil Industry

Venezuela-Style Socialism Has Come to California’s Oil Industry

California’s leftist legislature will now have the power to regulate the gasoline sales profits of the state’s oil refiners. Governor Gavin Newsom has just signed a law allowing the California Energy Commission (CEC) to establish a state gross gasoline refining profit margin and impose penalties for surpassing it. Chevron, the state’s biggest oil refiner, criticized … Read more

Will American Motorists Spend Their Hard-Earned Money on Electric Vehicles Without Government Coercion?

Will American Motorists Spend Their Hard-Earned Money on Electric Vehicles Without Government Coercion?

Dan Becker is the director of the Safe Climate Transport Campaign. He hates gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles. In February 2024, he spoke to the Washington Post about a proposal to slow the phase-in of federal regulations requiring manufacturers to produce electric vehicles (EVs). “It will mean more pollution, more sick kids, more global warming, more … Read more

Blasphemous “Drag Nuns” Will Read to Children of “All Ages”

Blasphemous “Drag Nuns” Will Read to Children of “All Ages”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE GUERNEVILLE, Calif.—On June 22, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will be reading to young children at the Guerneville Regional Library. The “sisters” are a group of men who lewdly dress as “nuns” and perform vulgar shows that blasphemously mock Catholics. Some of their activities include portraying homosexual men pole dancing on a … Read more

Property Owners and Consumers Pay the Tab for Climate Alarmism

Property Owners and Consumers Pay the Tab for Climate Alarmism

Middle-class households feel the pinch of rising costs associated with environmental regulations that impose additional taxes and stringent penalties for not towing the “green line.” In Paris, for instance, if a building is old and fails an energy efficiency assessment, it can result in substantial financial burdens. Owners of thermally inefficient homes must conduct an … Read more

When “Social Justice” Becomes the Enemy of Actual Justice—California’s Destructive “Racial Justice Act”

When “Social Justice” Becomes the Enemy of Actual Justice—California’s Destructive “Racial Justice Act”

California’s “Racial Justice Act” threatens to turn the very idea of justice on its head. The Act is a product of the overheated summer of 2020, an indirect result of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis the previous May. Self-Congratulation When he signed the Act, Governor Gavin Newsome’s celebratory press release contained a quotation from the … Read more