Like Reagan, Schwarzenegger and Brown, Newsom uses veto pen to rein in spending by California lawmakers
It’s the job of a governor to play adult supervisor and not give adolescent state legislators all the spending money they’d like. Otherwise, they’d break the family bank. All modern California governors have performed this role, often in different ways and frequently with relish.
Republican disarray on the House speakership nothing new
The current kerfuffle in the Republican party’s attempt to select a Speaker of the House to replace Kevin McCarthy brings to mind the ascension and later resignation of Newt Gingrich as Speaker following the Republican Revolution vote of 1994.
The problem Of Totalitarians using our freedoms against us
Like most Americans, I was shocked by the vicious inhumanity that the coward terrorist group Hamas carried out in Israel last weekend. Unfortunately, organized evil is neither unique nor surprising. The Nazis were equally evil across Europe, as were the Japanese at Nanking, Stalin with Ukraine, and Mao with his own people.
Hamas provides a clarifying moment
Do you think that things have clarified somewhat over the last week since the Hamas massacres in Israel? I get the feeling that our beloved leaders are caught, just a little, between a rock and a hard place. They would like to equivocate on the Palestinian Question, but the Hamas atrocities make it just a little more difficult.
California has so many new housing laws. Now let’s put them to use
Could 2023 be the sleeper year for solving California’s housing crisis? Last week Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a whopping 56 bills designed to streamline housing construction and protect tenants.
