The GOP’s Court of Last Resort
It’s ironic that the Republican establishment, which has long railed against judicial activism, is increasingly looking at the courts as the last bastion of the GOP “resistance”. There is a logic in the determination of President Trump and the Republican leadership to make over the nation’s courts. But their dogged pursuit of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court is likely to exact […]
Why Trophy Wives Should Vote Yes on Prop 5
I’m happily married. But if I weren’t, I might start looking to marry someone age 55 or older. Because Prop 5 creates new financial incentives to be married to someone in that age bracket. The initiative is particularly good for trophy wives and, let’s be fair here, trophy husbands.
An Important Local Vote for New Housing
Time was when you could almost always count on a daily metropolitan newspaper in California siding with environmentalists and other opponents of a proposed new development because of purported impacts it would have on the community or just because the local government wasn’t in favor of it. But, now in the face of a bona […]
Just How Much Money Might CalPERS Have to Collect in an Economic Downturn?
When evaluating the financial challenges facing California’s state and local public employee pension funds, a compelling question to consider is when, exactly when, will these funds financially collapse? That is, of course, an impossible question to answer. CalPERS, for example, manages hundreds of billions in assets, which means that long before it literally runs out […]