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From Brexit to Calexit

Relevance: 75%      Posted on: March 31, 2017

When last we touched upon the strangely over-the-top Californian reaction to the Trump presidency, the secession movement, I took the occasion to bring up the rather less radical separatists in the north. “Already 21 of the 23 northernmost counties,” I wrote, “have made declarations to form the State of Jefferson.”…

Howard Jarvis Must Be Growling In His Grave

Relevance: 75%      Posted on: February 4, 2009

The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association is getting a bum rap. The organization is named after fiery tax-cut advocate Howard Jarvis. Jarvis authored Proposition 13, the California tax limitation measure approved in 1978 by a two-to-one margin. In recent months, like everywhere else, California has suffered economically. And now the Howard…

Happy 100th, California

Relevance: 74%      Posted on: October 10, 2011

On this day a century ago — October 10, 1911 — California voters stormed to the polls and overwhelmingly enacted a measure establishing a statewide system of initiative and referendum. Through the years, Californians have used the initiative to enact for themselves many reforms their legislators refused to touch —…

Creating a New Crime

Relevance: 73%      Posted on: July 26, 2011

California is wild and crazy, fruity and nutty. Not in Hollywood, but in Sacramento. The state’s enormous prison population — so large that the Feds recently ordered California to release overcrowded prisoners — feeds an otherwise expensive prison system, straining the state’s strapped budget. So what did Golden State solons…

Davis Bad, Recall Good

Relevance: 73%      Posted on: October 22, 2003

One of my listeners wrote back to say, Hey, enough with the stuff about California! Get back to the national scene! I can understand that. After all, if you're in Michigan or Ohio, why would you want to hear about California all the time? I do try to vary the…

Apocalypse California

Relevance: 73%      Posted on: May 25, 2023

The Democratic Party is a victim of its own success. Nowhere can we see that more clearly than in California. Democrats have succeeded by pushing “victimhood,” gaining power by focusing on special groups, declaring them oppressed and offering compensation — though still never comes the day of full escape from…

California Schemin’

Relevance: 72%      Posted on: August 20, 2020

Is California a failed state? It has an electric grid problem. And a vagrancy problem. Both of which stem from the bizarre ideological blind spots of a political class “benefiting” from the state’s high legislator/citizen ratio, which insulates politicians from feedback. Driving them power mad. And one form of madness…

Taxes Recalled

Relevance: 72%      Posted on: September 18, 2003

Hey, I recall those taxes. And the politicians in California will recall them too. Or at least pretend to, until the recall vote on Governor Davis has safely passed. Okay, let me stop punning for a minute and give you the background. Recently I discussed the California recall effort. I…

The Chinese Biolab in California

Relevance: 72%      Posted on: August 30, 2023

The abandoned biolab found last December in Reedley, California, was uncovered by local law enforcement — not the Department of Homeland Security, the CDC, the FBI, or any of the federales’ faker’s dozen of intel agencies. But the locals quickly discovered this was not just an unregistered business, or the…

How Quickly Can California Be Destroyed?

Relevance: 71%      Posted on: October 2, 2020

It’s hard to destroy a state. Or rather, the advanced industrial economy of a state. Mud slides, eco-policy-abetted wildfires, exploding taxes and spending and regulations, riots, pandemics — such things go only so far. After the latest holocausts and catastrophes abate (if they do), survivors can still soldier on. Mow…