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My mother used to tell me I was incapable of having an unexpressed thought, which was her adorable way of saying I talked too much. But Lucy was right. Rarely

I never liked John Fetterman. He was too far to the left, or so I thought. Too weird. Too much of a narcissist who did things the way that he

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, an all-but-certain candidate for president in 2028, jumped at the chance to address a forum of business executives and other A-list figures last week and burnish

California’s public school system, which purports to educate nearly 6 million students ranging from 4-year-olds in transitional kindergarten to near-adults preparing to graduate from high school, is in a world

Within my immediate family, the Trump Derangement Syndrome team outnumbers the MAGAs by an 8-1 ratio. Some on the TDS squad resemble retiring U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi in their passionate

The old legacy media has not just become irrelevant. It doesn’t inform us anymore. It disinforms. Two fresh examples of the mainstream media’s permanent get-Trump bias came this past week,

The California Legislature has a bad habit of writing new law in the moment and paying little or no attention to its potential consequences. While legislative history contains many examples,

Nearly four years ago, on Jan. 18, 2022, I wrote about a frenzy that was sweeping the anti-Trump world. It had to do with a novel theory of the 2020

In the four months since the Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom enacted a new state budget, revenues – primarily from personal income taxes — have outstripped expectations by several billion

The Democrats already have played every dirty political trick they can think of to bring down Donald Trump.  They tried to delegitimize his 2016 victory by claiming he won because

On April 23, 2020, a man poured gasoline around the Illinois state government building in Chicago and set it on fire.  The man, identified as Lawrence Reed, age 44, was

We Californians know, or should know, that while living in this state has many positive aspects, we are paying through the nose for the experience.  A flurry of recent studies

During the past year, I’ve written thousands of words predicting California Gov. Gavin Newsom would not only fail in his lustful quest for the White House, but also would not

Most Californians probably see the Capitol as a place where governors, legislators and other state officials gather to do the public’s business. That’s true, at least superficially. Elected officeholders come

There’s no doubt Jeffrey Epstein thought he was a very, very smart guy. “He always thought he was the smartest person in the room,” said one associate.  Another said Epstein

Last week, I pulled my 24-year-old SUV into a Sacramento gas station for its weekly — more or less— fill-up. It was 14.5 gallons at $4.05, plus the ever-mysterious 9/10

So big whoop. The federal government shutdown that never should have happened is over. One cheer for the Senate. It only took 44 days for Democrats to do what everyone

As I watched the bloodbath in New York last week, all I could think of was the last episode in “Game of Thrones,” when Daenarys sicced her dragons on Kings

Gov. Gavin Newsom still insists he hasn’t decided to run for president in 2028. But after persuading California’s voters to gerrymander the state’s congressional districts to grab more Democratic seats,

The government shutdown lasted 40 days before Senate Democrats abandoned the filibuster that closed offices, left workers without paychecks, threatened supplemental food benefits for millions, saw the beginning of a