Controversy Involving Presidential Debate Commission Previously, and I was There
Donald Trump hinted over the weekend that he may skip a couple of the scheduled presidential debates because they conflict with National Football League games, an effort to diminish the debate’s audience, he claimed. The Commission on Presidential Debates, a non-profit foundation created by the major political parties to put on debates, denied Trump’s charge. However, […]
Rest of World Ignoring Gov. Brown, Calif. on Greenhouse Gases
“We will get it one way or another,” Gov. Jerry Brown told reporters in Philadelphia about spreading California’s climate policies across the world. The quote was in the Los Angeles Times, which reported, “Brown is facing political headwinds to protect California’s cap-and-trade program, the centerpiece of its efforts to battle global warming.” And the paper reported on […]
Protecting Pointless Elections
California is a one-party state. There are few issues on which we disagree. And running for office here is no picnic. So sometimes, only one person runs for an office. This is common enough in local elections that it’s become routine for elections to be cancelled when there’s only one candidate for a city council […]
The Incredible Shrinking Public Co.
Congress claimed it was sticking it to the fat cats 14 years ago when it passed a raft of laws regulating public stocks. But you know how these things work: Exactly the opposite happened. The cats got fatter. The rest of us? We got scrawnier. And those laws continue to hurt us, even here in […]