Recalling the Recall (Which Should be Recalled)

Arnold Schwarzenegger rose to power in 2003, just months after Democratic Governor Gray Davis won reelection in 2002. Davis had tripled the state's car tax, and the state legislature had signed into law a provision which would permit illegal immigrants to...

Book Booker for Bad Leadership: Lonegan for US Senate

A strange tale of proportions, both large and small, has emerged in New Jersey. Newark mayor Cory Booker once decided to live for one week on food stamps, just to show that people in poverty are struggling to get by, and that the government is not giving them enough...

Hermosa Beach Measure B: One Bad Idea

  First, they came for the Styrofoam. Then they came for the cigarettes: they said that no one should be able to smoke in a public place. And the nanny-state micromanaging in Hermosa Beach has not stopped there. Now busybodies want to close down the night life of...

Shame on You, George Miller

Unlike Peter Stark, the snarky Congressman from Alameda who routinely insulted constituents and despised the Constitution, George Miller survived the incumbent shellacking of 2012, which witnessed a number of compromised or corrupted Democratic incumbents swept from...