Don’t be fooled by the kabuki lawsuit against President Trump’s wall just filed by Attorney General Xavier Becerra and 15 other Democratic attorneys general. Both sides want the same result, for Trump to prevail at the Supreme Court, as surely he will. This lawsuit and Trump’s wall both are sops to each party’s political base. […]
Shades of the past. Kamala Harris is setting up the Democrats to repeat history and lose a perfectly winnable election. In a throwaway line in her first television interview Harris called for ridding 180 million Americans of the private health insurance they find perfectly acceptable. With such careless chatter, Donald Trump will chew her up […]
California Republicans remain in denial about the role of President Trump in their worst shellacking in history. The party’s national committeeman Shawn Steel blames Democratic money, organization, mobilization, demographics, registration, but specifically “not President Trump.” But an actual look at the final results shows that this disaster was Trump, all Trump and nothing but Trump. […]
It is hard to find a Democrat who did poorly this year in California, but the state’s senior Senator, Dianne Feinstein, was one. Not only did she have a mediocre re-election, winning by just 54 percent against a weak fellow Democrat, but she is receiving some blame for the poor Democratic showing in November in […]
President Trump would like to ban birthright citizenship – that is, a person’s right to citizenship by virtue of birth in the United States – via an executive order. But he cannot do so thanks to a man named Wong Kim Ark, who was born nearly a century and half ago in San Francisco. Wong […]
“Lock her up,” shout the mobs at Trump rallies. Only it is no longer Hillary Clinton they want to lock up, now it is Sen. Dianne Feinstein, with whom they are furious over the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation. But after November, it may be Democrats who are mad at Feinstein, because she may well have destroyed […]
Is there a real race for governor after all? You would not know it given coverage of the race, of which there has been practically none, nor the campaigning pace of the leading contender, Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. But in fact, early fall polling does show some evidence that the race may actually be […]
The Kavanaugh controversy is like Murder on the Orient Express: everyone involved is guilty of turning Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court into a fiasco. And no one is more guilty than Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Her conduct in this mess should be enough to deny her another term in the U.S. Senate, but […]
In 1972, the Democratic Party, following its excruciating close loss in 1968, nominated Sen. George McGovern for president, thereby giving Richard Nixon, a president they detested, a 49-state sweep. Today’s Democrats seem set on the same disastrous path for 2020, this time being helped along by a California hedge fund billionaire named Tom Steyer. Thanks […]
Secretary of State Alex Padilla is barking up the wrong tree when it comes to election cyber security. Last month he went after House Republicans for refusing to provide extra federal money to “further protect and modernize our nation’s election infrastructure. Protecting the integrity of our elections and ensuring confidence in our elections should never […]
