Missing The Story
No one looks like bigger fools the day after President-elect Trump’s triumph than American’s political reporters, and especially those working for the major California newspapers who completely misread this election. Cocooned in their little world of liberal elitism they completely missed the real anger that was out in the country and that led to Tuesday’s […]
Voters OK with Long Ballot. More Initiatives Coming
California voters once again proved they cherish their role in direct democracy, running through the entire statewide list of 17 measures with no apparent drop off in voting. With 100% of the precincts ‘partially’ reporting according to the Secretary of State’s site, 8.6 million votes were cast for Proposition 51, the school bond, at the head […]
Improbable Demographics Behind Donald Trump’s Shocking Presidential Victory
In an election so ugly and so close, one is reluctant to proclaim winners. But it’s clear that there’s a loser — the very notion of the United States of America. Instead we have populations and geographies that barely seem to belong in the same country, if not on the same planet. The electorate is […]
I Really Am Leaving The Country Post-Election
Now that the election is over, are you leaving the country? If not, you ought to reconsider. I’m not kidding. Yes, a handful of our fellow Californians—prominent citizens from Samuel L. Jackson and Bryan Cranston to Miley Cyrus and Barbra Streisand—proclaimed themselves so disgusted with the sorry state of democracy that they pledged to depart […]
A Few Questions For My Fellow California Voters
I have a few questions for California voters: Californians who voted YES on Proposition 55, can you please explain what your rationale was for voting for an increase in personal income taxes when California already has the highest personal income tax rate in the country? Californians who voted YES on Proposition 57, can you please […]
California Election Postmortem
California voters yesterday lurched even further to the political Left, the state even more out of step with the rest of the country. In a battle of two Democrats for a U.S. Senate seat, Bay Area leftist Attorney General Kamala Harris trounced Orange County moderate Rep. Loretta Sanchez, two to one – a greater margin […]
Jerry Brown Is Our President
We’ll soon have two presidents, and one will live in Sacramento There’s the guy that a plurality of American voters elected Tuesday. He arrives in office as the most unpopular president elect in U.S. history. He’s reviled – and rightly so – by many for his bigotry and belief in all sorts of discredited nosense. […]
Donald Trump’s Victory
Donald Trump pulled it off. He will be the 45th president of the United States. Hillary Clinton had everything going for her or so it seemed—plenty of money, strong organization, a blue-chip veteran staff, a reasonably united Party, decades of campaign experience and the support of a popular president. It was not enough. Trump had […]
Prop. 55: California Voters Extend Highest Income Tax Brackets to Fund Education and Healthcare
California voters on November 8 passed Proposition 55, which is an initiative constitutional amendment which took effect on November 9. This ballot measure was the successful effort to extend the Prop. 30 highest marginal tax rates promoted by Governor Brown and others in 2012 as a “temporary tax” to help stabilize the state’s General Fund. […]
I’m Still Voting at My Local Polling Place, Dammit
I’m old-fashioned. I get four newspapers—the actual paper—delivered to my home every day. I occasionally send letters and pay bills with actual letters, with stamps. And today, I will vote in a polling place in my neighborhood on Election Day. We are told that I’m a dinosaur. But I’m glad to be one. We’re told […]