Commentary Governments run on money. So of course, the most important thing any government does is pass a budget. For the first time since he became governor four years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom is going to face a tough battle in the run-up to the June 15 constitutional deadline to pass a budget. Up until…
Newsom Faces Tough Budget Battle Ahead
April 19, 2023
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Two-thirds of Californians Want to Know Who’s Funding Environmental Lawsuits
April 19, 2023
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Commentary I was recently introduced to California 100 by Sal Rodriguez, the opinion editor for the Southern California News Group, which includes the Orange County Register. It’s a think tank of sorts and provides the following to describe itself: “California 100 is a transformative statewide initiative focused on inspiring a vision and strategy for California’s next…
America Needs a Transfusion
April 19, 2023
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America needs a transfusion. One third of its population, having lost what Alexis de Tocqueville most admired about America—self-responsibility—should be replaced with new blood. We need people who are entrepreneurial, educated, skilled—qualities that built this great nation. It’s not a joke (except that “transfusion” could be “infusion”). Already, 71 percent of all Silicon Valley workers…
State Department Missing in Action as World Changes Rapidly
Commentary The theme for incoming Secretary of State Antony Blinken in 2021 and the mantra for the entire Biden administration was clear: The adults are back in charge. As the world hurtles toward conflict, as China conducts influence operations in an unrestrained manner, and as former, trusted partners of the United States have seemingly changed…
What They Meant by Essential and Nonessential
April 19, 2023
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Commentary In all my thinking about the lockdown years, I’ve only had time now to think carefully about this strange distinction between essential and nonessential. What did it mean in practice and where did it come from? The edict to divide the workforce came from a previously unknown agency called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security…
2-Year Anniversary of Declining Real Wages for American Workers
Commentary This week marks the two-year anniversary of declining real wages for ordinary American workers due to ongoing high inflation. The latest Consumer Price Index (CPI), released this week, shows prices grew 20 percent faster than wages over the last 12 months. This sad anniversary is the result of President Biden and Congressional Democrats’ reckless spending that has diluted the value…
Why ‘Net Zero’ Is Not a Rational US Energy Policy
April 19, 2023
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Commentary Despite Germany’s last-ditch attempt at realism, the European Union recently approved a 2035 ban on gas-powered cars, moving ahead with its “net zero” emissions agenda. In the United States, the cost of achieving net-zero carbon emissions would be staggering—$50 trillion if the goal is reached by 2050—as would the demand for raw materials, which in most cases would exceed…
The Manipulation of the Public Mind
April 19, 2023
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Commentary In the world of Business Analysis there is a discipline called Process Modelling. Its output would be familiar to most people, consisting of diagrams to show how a business process, like say fulfilling an order, is supposed to work. As a discipline it strives for clarity and simplicity, through a complex syntax and method,…
With Dissent Now Criminalized, Free Speech Faces a Big Chill
Commentary Americans’ right to think and speak freely has for years been under heavy assault. The propagators of political correctness slowly but surely chipped away at open discourse, pressuring dissenters from prevailing ruling class orthodoxy to speak in euphemism and self-censor lest they be branded uncouth if not bigoted. Apparently not content with the results…
Society at Peak Shared Misery
Commentary Once upon a time I worked for the federal government as a postdoctoral researcher at a CDC branch that focuses on occupational safety and health. While I was there, I learned firsthand that the government operated at a level that was grossly inefficient and mind-numbingly bureaucratic. The longer I was there and the more…
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