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Update: California’s Hospitals

Relevance: 82%      Posted on: January 14, 2024

Last Thursday, in “The S-Word in California,” the subject was the danger posed to the stability of the Golden State’s medical system by the promise to guarantee service to nearly a million new illegal immigrants. https://thisiscommonsense.org/2024/01/11/the-s-word-in-california-2/ But one mechanism of this instability was not brought up, for reasons of space:…

Hidden Taxpayer Treasure

Relevance: 81%      Posted on: August 7, 2012

If I found $54 million I didn’t know I had, I’d be ecstatic. Yet, when California taxpayers discovered $54 million stuck in secret state parks system bank accounts, they were miffed. California parks, constrained by the state’s multi-year budget crunch, were facing closure. Meanwhile, these funds went unreported to the…

Lights Out!

Relevance: 79%      Posted on: May 7, 2001

It makes you wonder: Don't the politicians want California to recover from its energy crisis? A few years ago, California legislators took power grids away from power companies, told them to buy power in an uncontrolled wholesale market, and slapped controls on the prices they could charge consumers. The result:…

Adios, California?

Relevance: 79%      Posted on: February 24, 2017

Californians account for more than one of every ten Americans. For now. Three years ago, an initiative sought to split the mega-state up. Had that measure succeeded, the U.S. Congress would have decided whether to permit the Golden State to become six separate states — with ten more U.S. Senators.…

Serpentine, Indeed

Relevance: 78%      Posted on: July 16, 2010

California, increasingly known for its faults, has a major problem. Its politicians have rocks in their heads. As the state teeters on the brink of insolvency, legislators are considering de-listing the mineral serpentine as the state rock. Sponsored by State Senator Gloria Romero, a Democrat hailing from la la L.A.,…

Core Value for All

Relevance: 78%      Posted on: February 7, 2008

The proliferation of eminent domain abuse is depressing. Fake reforms of eminent domain promoted by fans of that abuse are also depressing. We the people demand positive news on this front. Which I guess means . . . we’ve got to make that news ourselves. As being done in California.…

Christmas in California?

Relevance: 77%      Posted on: May 12, 2021

“Gray Davis was never in a position to play Santa Claus,” said Steve Maviglio, press flack for the former California governor who was recalled by voters in 2003. Maviglio was comparing Davis’ relative misfortune, back then — in not having a pandemic and the resulting economic stimulus — to today’s…

Help Is Not on the Way

Relevance: 76%      Posted on: December 30, 2008

Think twice before you save people about to lose their lives, at least if you live in California. The state supreme court there just ruled that good Samaritans can be held liable if they cause or aggravate an injury while rendering emergency help if that help is not medical. A…

Discrimination, California-Style

Relevance: 76%      Posted on: February 16, 2024

How far will a California lawmaker go to try reverse a validly enacted and also very good citizen initiative? In 1996, California voters passed Proposition 209, the California Civil Rights Initiative, which prohibits the state government from imposing race-based, ethnicity-based, or sex-based preferences. Prop 209 added a section to the…

Dave Rubin

Relevance: 75%      Posted on: December 16, 2021

You guys can have it. Like, we’re ’ceding it to you people, OK? You social justice, lefty, Marxist, communist freaks: you can have California. Have it with all your diversity; and have it with all of your nonsense. And you will destroy it, but have it — but you can’t…