Higher Education

University of California strike is massive example of how Golden State problems are warning to rest of nation

Once again, California is showing us the future — and it’s wracked with labor strife, high prices, government bloat and abject failure. And nowhere is this more apparent than in California’s government education system. Some 48,000 unionized graduate student workers at 10 University of California campuses went on strike three weeks ago, demanding “significantly higher wages, expanded childcare...

December 1, 2022

Economy

Did California’s $25B Budget Deficit Just Tank Gavin Newsom’s Presidential Dreams?

Days after a less-than-disastrous midterm, an unpopular President Joe Biden announced that he intends to run for reelection in 2024. Democrats face a weak and aged bench — though one Democrat who might play Ted Kennedy to Biden’s Jimmy Carter, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, just saw his narrow path to the White House become even...

November 22, 2022

Foreign Policy

China is preparing for war, not saving the planet

At the G-20 meeting in Indonesia on Monday, President Joe Biden met with the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping. But while Biden focused on climate change, the Chinese have been cloaking their preparations for war as a green energy push. Rather than follow up on his mostly tough rhetoric on China over the past...

November 17, 2022

Election Integrity

Panicky Texas Democrats Beg Biden DOJ To Interfere In The Midterms

President Joe Biden’s border policies have led to monthly records of illegal immigrants crossing our southern border and being shipped, most often by the federal government, to different cities across the nation. In fact, some 2.2 million people have taken advantage of Biden’s aversion to enforcing immigration law, meaning the nation is on track to see close...

November 3, 2022

Criminal Justice

Democrats soft on crime and midterms give Americans a chance to choose safety

How did crime re-emerge as a major concern for voters? According to a Fox News poll of registered voters conducted Oct. 9-12, 89% of voters are “extremely” or “very” concerned about inflation and higher prices while 79% say the same about crime, the number two concern. We know that in the tumultuous summer of 2020, “Defund the...

October 26, 2022

Economy

California Shows What Happens When Nobody Checks The Administrative State: Everything Burns Down

In California, the embarrassing disconnect between the state’s whole-of-government approach in the fight against climate change versus the smoking reality of spectacular failure is seen where it counts: in the real world. A Wall Street Journal editorial on Oct. 23 cited a University of California study finding that California’s 2020 wildfire emissions “were two times higher than...

October 26, 2022

Energy & Environment

Biden Shamelessly Depletes Our Strategic Petroleum Reserve To Buy Midterm Votes For Democrats

Gasoline prices will soar after the Democrats’ midterm shellacking. Why? Power. For many politicians, as well as parties, the point of power is power. Biden campaigned against American oil and gas, saying he would “end fossil fuels” with no more pipelines and “no more drilling on federal lands, no more drilling, including offshore, no ability...

October 19, 2022

Energy & Environment

Biden’s war on American energy will take its toll on Democrats in November

President Joe Biden’s war on American energy started the day he took office on Jan. 20, 2021 and hasn’t let up since. Voters pay the price. In the last 12 months, Biden’s policies have pushed prices higher by 8.3 percent; gasoline is up almost 26 percent, and food up 11.4 percent. America went from energy dominance under...

October 11, 2022

Immigration

Why Democrats’ illegal immigration views will haunt them in November

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and former Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke faced off Friday, September 30 for a one hour televised debate in the Rio Grande Valley—the epicenter of America’s illegal immigration crisis under President Joe Biden. It was no surprise that illegal immigration was the debate’s foremost topic. And the way the issue played...

October 5, 2022

Immigration

Biden’s border crisis: What’s the president’s real plan and his ultimate endgame?

What is the Biden administration’s official policy and endgame on the border and immigration? Simply put: overwhelm America with millions of illegal immigrants and force Republicans to the table to agree to grant citizenship to millions of people here illegally while promising to secure the border. Of course, Biden won’t admit that. Instead, we’re left...

October 3, 2022

Immigration

Biden’s border crisis is out of control. Here’s how local law enforcement can fight back

I just got back from another fact-finding trip to our disintegrating southern border, this time in Arizona where I was part of a group that met with scores of elected sheriffs at the Southwest Border Sheriff’s Coalition conference. What I discovered was terrifying. With Biden and Congress refusing to act to secure the border, what can be...

September 22, 2022

Taxes & Spending

No, Texans Don’t Pay More Taxes than Californians

Dredging up old, questionable data to score some election year points, Democrats and their allies in the media are now claiming that Texans pay more in taxes than do Californians—which is surely news to the thousands of families who have fled the Golden State for the Lone Star State (and its lower taxes) in recent...

September 12, 2022