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Relevance: 37% Posted on: December 19, 2016
Today the Electoral College meets to elect the 45th President of these United States. But if they fail to cast the required majority for a candidate, the contest goes into the House of Representatives, where each state gets one vote — Wyoming and California equally weighted — and a state’s…
Relevance: 36% Posted on: August 20, 2012
One thrill of my lifetime occurred soon after I helped launch U.S. Term Limits in 1992, when radio commentator Paul Harvey phoned me to fact-check a story he was doing. Harvey, king of radio back then, was a huge fan of term limits. And I was a big fan of…
Relevance: 36% Posted on: August 7, 2017
I’m sure I disagree with most of the policies California Governor Jerry Brown seeks to propose and impose. But let’s give credit where credit is due. He’s right that people should not be treated like criminals when in a burst of celebratory excess they commit the sin of unleashing helium…
Relevance: 36% Posted on: December 29, 2009
Bribery, insider deals, political influence — must this be how we do business? No. Horror stories abound, featuring developers and governments in dark collusion, grabbing stunned innocent persons’ private property. This corrupt, banana-republic way of getting things done hardly serves the public interest. It serves, instead, the dealmakers and the…
Relevance: 36% Posted on: August 25, 2008
How many homes do I own? Just one. That’s all I can afford. But what if I had more money and bought a vacation home or two? Would that somehow make me a bad guy? Not in my book. I don’t hold wealth as a strike against someone. Rather, it’s…
Relevance: 36% Posted on: May 21, 2001
Ed Crane, President of the Cato Institute, tells a story that I love hearing. It's about a career politician and this career politician's career-politician mentality. Seems that in the early '90s Ed was at a conference debating term limits with a California assemblyman named Tom Roos. Crane made what he…
Relevance: 36% Posted on: November 14, 2003
One of my favorite writers is the economist and social thinker Thomas Sowell. Sowell is a professor, but hey, he can think straight. So he's one of those weird hybrids. One thing I like about him is his stand on term limits. Sowell is in favor. I guess it helps…
Relevance: 36% Posted on: February 15, 2008
Rampant abuse of eminent domain by government! I’d be happy to drop the subject . . . which I’ll do just as soon as property rights are universally honored, held sacrosanct. Until then, well, you know what to expect from me. What’s the latest? Harrison Sheppard’s article for California newspapers…
Relevance: 36% Posted on: September 23, 2020
The top federal income tax rate is currently 37 percent. It’s been higher — 94 percent at one point during the Second World War, 91 percent in the 1950s . . . on income above a certain threshold. Back in the 1890s, the federal government briefly taxed income at 2…
Relevance: 36% Posted on: September 17, 2008
You’ve heard of “gateway drugs.” What about “gateway capitalism”? The mayor of Clayton, California, apparently believes that two little girls selling zucchinis and melons by the roadside is the start of something bad. The city cracked down on Katie and Sabrina Lewis’s veggie stand. Mayor Gregg Manning defended the bust,…