2020 Election Fireworks will be provided by Ballot Propositions

Ballot questions, not candidate races, are destined to dominate voters’ interest in California’s November 2020 elections. Candidate races are very predictable at this time in the state. Democrats have a huge registered voter advantage and are likely to sweep away any challenges to their current dominance, while the presidential preference race in the Golden State […]

Is California the Center of the World?

The Center of the World is in California. But California isn’t the center of the world. This paradox explains how California became so central to the culture and economy of Planet Earth. Since our state is in the middle of nowhere, on the dry edge of a lightly populated continent, Californians have always had to […]

California following New York’s Energy Policies Will Lead to Blackouts

According to the book, Human Tide by Paul Morland the world’s population between Year 1 to 1700 was static; then went to 600 million by 1800, and by the late 1920s populations exploded in the U.S., U.K., Europe and Asia. Current global population is approximately 7.6 billion people, and we can thank the exploration, production […]

New DNA tool helps identify murder victims and elusive killers and rapists

They’re neighbors. Church leaders. Business executives. They’re also murders and rapists who share a common bond in addition to their horrific crimes: they were all identified with a cutting-edge new tool called investigative genetic genealogy, or IGG. IGG itself is not new – it’s what millions of genealogists, family historians and adoptees worldwide use to […]