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California Nightmare: What to Know About Left’s Next Run at Single-Payer Health Care
The left never quits. California’s “progressive” politicians are once again sponsoring a bill to create “CalCare,” a “single payer” system of state government-run health insurance. While California lawmakers plan to get federal waivers to integrate federal funding for Medicare and other federal programs into the new system, their bill would eliminate virtually all existing private… -
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California Provides Millions in Loans for Illegal Alien Business Owners
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, confirmed that his administration is providing economic relief to businesses in his state that do not otherwise qualify for federal aid, including those owned by illegal aliens. “[W]e always consider those that are documented, those that are undocumented, those that are living in mixed-status families,” Newsom said Friday during… -
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High School Lesson Plans Tell California Students They’re Inherently Privileged If Male, Cisgender, White, Christian
A school district in La Quinta, California, said it is taking “corrective” action over ideological lecture materials that tell high school students they are inherently privileged if they are Christian, straight, or male. Following requests for comment from The Daily Signal, Desert Sands Unified School District public information officer Mary Perry said “the lesson was… -
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‘Wild West’: California Aims to Crack Down on Major Retailers Over Plastic Bag Violations
A California state commission requested that authorities crack down on retailers it accused of skirting plastic bag and pollution laws, Reuters reported. The California Statewide Commission on Recycling Markets and Curbside Recycling alleged that many retail businesses are selling plastic bags that are falsely labeled as being recyclable, according to Reuters. On Dec. 3, the state-appointed commission… -
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No Wonder People, Businesses Are Dumping California
A recent study by the Cato Institute, the libertarian think tank, ranked California 48th out of the 50 states in personal and economic freedom. The study also examines fiscal policy and regulatory policy. For the first time, California’s population decreased last year, resulting in the loss of a congressional seat. In the third quarter of… -
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2 California Teachers Accused of Encouraging Student’s Clandestine Gender Transition
Two teachers in a California school district are accused of coaching a student into coming out as transgender behind the backs of the student’s parents, according to video footage circulating on social media. School staff reportedly changed the student’s name and pronouns and called Child Protective Services when the parents objected to the gender transition,… -
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The Death of California
In “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” Victor Hugo told the tale of Esmerelda, a gypsy dancer falsely accused of attempted murder, set to be hanged by an unjust state. Quasimodo, the titular hunchback, swings down from the cathedral of Notre Dame and saves her, carrying her off while crying “Sanctuary!” In fact, throughout European history,… -
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California Considers Funding Abortion Tourism as Part of Plan to Become ‘Sanctuary’ If Roe Overturned
California is considering funding abortions for out-of-state women as part of a 45-part proposal to expand abortion accessibility if Roe v. Wade is overturned. The California Future of Abortion Council, started by Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, and made up of abortion providers and advocacy groups, published recommendations “to protect, strengthen, and expand abortion care in California” in early December…. -
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EXCLUSIVE: California Forces Transgender ‘Belief System’ on Female Prisoners Housed With Biological Males, Lawsuit Says
A lawsuit filed Wednesday by the Women’s Liberation Front accuses the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation of endangering women by housing biological males in women’s prisons. According to the lawsuit, a biological male sexually assaulted a female prisoner in Central California Women’s Facility after being housed there under state law. The prison’s response to… -
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California Fraudsters Get Rich Off Unemployment Benefits
California has shelled out at least $20 billion in fraudulent unemployment benefits since the beginning of the pandemic, with 11% of all benefits paid in the Golden State. That is more than the 2021 budgets of Delaware, Maine, and Montana combined. The $20 billion given to criminals who fraudulently collected benefits comes out of the more than $178 billion… -
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The California Recall: Enter Snoop Dogg and Barack Obama
At one point, polls showed the odds of recalling California Gov. Gavin Newsom looked 50-50. It was at that point that the scared, embattled governor sent out a mayday call to Hollywood and to Democratic outsiders, including former President Barack Obama. The Hollywood Reporter—three weeks before the date of the recall vote—published a piece with… -
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Reflections on My Failed Campaign to Become California Governor
I want to thank the distributor of my articles, Creators Syndicate, for allowing me to take eight weeks off from writing my weekly column so I could campaign to recall and replace the governor of California. I also want to thank my readers for their patience and willingness to let me pursue that adventure. The… -
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The Real Story of the California Recall
Forget what you hear most pundits saying about last week’s recall election that failed to unseat California Gov. Gavin Newsom. The real story is the slow—but gaining-in-speed—exodus from California to states with lower or no state taxes. This mass exit likely reduced the number of people who might have voted to oust Newsom. Then there’s… -
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Parent Calls Out ‘F— Police,’ ‘F— Amerikkka’ Posters in California High School Classroom
A California high school classroom displayed what an anonymous parent called “disgusting brainwashing of students with taxpayer dollars” over photos that show "F— the Police” and "F— Amerikkka” posters and Pride and Black Lives Matter flags, according to a tip provided to Parents Defending Education. The parent of a student at Alexander Hamilton High School in Los… -
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Newsom Rebounds to Beat Back Recall in California
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday became only the second governor in American history to survive a recall, in an election that President Joe Biden and other visiting national Democrats helped pull out for him in a big way. Newsom, the 40th governor of the nation’s most populous state, easily dodged the same fate as… -
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Energy and Climate Regulations in California Are ‘Green Jim Crow’
For decades, California has been viewed as a vanguard state, a province that leads America on things like entertainment, fashion, and politics. No longer. Instead, California has become a state to be rebuked, a place where a small group of regulators and politicians—with the full backing of the state’s powerful environmental groups—have created “a new… -
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California and the West Burn Again
Another dry, late summer in California, another year in which the state burns and towns get incinerated. Large, out-of-control fires have become a yearly occurrence in the Golden State. The fires may be so bad in 2021 that they run straight through the dry season and up until December, according to the U.S. Forest Service…. -
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Latest Alleged Election Fraud in California May Have Changed Election Outcome
The U.S. Supreme Court said in 2008, when it upheld Indiana’s voter ID law, that “not only is the risk of voter fraud real but that it could affect the outcome of a close election.” It seems we have a perfect example of this in Compton, California, where felony voter fraud charges have been filed… -
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California Governor Takes Kids Out of Summer Camp That Doesn’t Require Masks
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s son was photographed maskless indoors at a summer camp, prompting the Democratic governor to pull his children out of the camp, Fox News reported. “The Newsoms were concerned to see unvaccinated children unmasked indoors at a camp their children began attending yesterday,” the governor’s communications director, Erin Mellon, told Fox News when asked… -
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Blackouts Loom in California as Electricity Prices Are ‘Absolutely Exploding’
Two inexorable energy trends are underway in California: soaring electricity prices and ever-worsening reliability—and both trends bode ill for the state’s low- and middle-income consumers. Last week, the state’s grid operator, the California Independent System Operator, issued a “flex alert” that asked the state’s consumers to reduce their power use “to reduce stress on the grid and avoid power…