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End of Session Bills Could Mean Less Freedom for California

For many generations California was the land of promise, where people could earn fortunes, freely express themselves, and live easily with minimal interference from authorities. It was a well-deserved image. But the dream is now a mirage. California has become the central office of restrictions, obstructions, and coercion. According to ...
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Labor Day and the End of Work

Heading into the Labor Day weekend, we thought we would take a contrarian view of the holiday by reviewing Forbes columnist John Tamny’s new book, The End of Work.  Last year, we interviewed him on our podcast on his previous book, Who Needs the Fed? No Fed? No jobs?  Is ...
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What We’re Watching – What Will You Bid?

Play everyone’s favorite game show “What Will You Bid?” to learn about the broken competitive bidding process for providing durable medical equipment to Medicare patients. Read the new study by PRI’s Wayne Winegarden to learn about free-market reforms to fix this broken process.
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Other Countries are Abandoning Basic Income – Will Stockton Learn from These Failures?

During her recent campaign swing through California, Democratic socialist Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez visited the asparagus capital of America to meet with Mayor Michael Tubbs and explore ways to take a local universal basic income plan nationwide. “We talked about the similarities between her district and Stockton, about increasing opportunity, and basic ...
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Shouldn’t Californians Have More Choices in Health Care Insurance? Lawmakers Don’t Think So

The Trump administration recently announced a regulatory change that “proposes to expand the availability of short-term, limited-duration health insurance by allowing consumers to buy plans providing coverage for any period of less than 12 months, rather than the current (Obamacare) maximum period of less than three months.” Naturally, California lawmakers ...
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Sex and the City and Subsidies

We almost never find ourselves on the same side as celebs, so when “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon, now running for governor of New York, recently railed against taxpayer subsidies for the film industry, we couldn’t help but pop the popcorn.  Bashing tax subsidies is especially titillating news ...
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Parents Don’t Need Sacramento to Make Their Kids’ Food Choices

I’ve written before about Sacramento’s efforts to try and dictate how people live their lives through over-reaching legislation. On Thursday, we saw that some Sacramento liberals are taking things a step further, telling California’s parents how they should raise their children. Senate Bill 1192, by Sen. Bill Monning, D-Santa Cruz, ...
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What We’re Watching – Remembering the Queen of Soul

Rowena Itchon – The Diplomat and the Diva America mourns the Queen of Soul – here’s Aretha Franklin and Condoleezza Rice teaming up at a benefit conference in Philadelphia — the Diplomat and the Diva. Tim Anaya – Presidential Medal of Freedom Winner Here’s a video of President Bush showing ...
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Sacramento’s Urge To ‘Police’ The Internet Is A Foolish Gesture

Just after the New Year began, California lawmakers, sore that the Federal Communications Commission restored a stolen freedom and repealed the Obama-era net neutrality rule, introduced their own net neutrality bill. The California Internet Consumer Protection and Net Neutrality Act was gutted in June, but it has returned, as ugly ...
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An Update on Single-Payer

With the mid-term elections now less than 100 days away, the siren-call for single-payer or “Medicare for All” continues.  Fifty-one percent of those polled earlier this year by Kaiser support single payer, the highest number ever recorded.   But as Seema Verma, Administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, ...
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End of Session Bills Could Mean Less Freedom for California

For many generations California was the land of promise, where people could earn fortunes, freely express themselves, and live easily with minimal interference from authorities. It was a well-deserved image. But the dream is now a mirage. California has become the central office of restrictions, obstructions, and coercion. According to ...
Blog

Labor Day and the End of Work

Heading into the Labor Day weekend, we thought we would take a contrarian view of the holiday by reviewing Forbes columnist John Tamny’s new book, The End of Work.  Last year, we interviewed him on our podcast on his previous book, Who Needs the Fed? No Fed? No jobs?  Is ...
Blog

What We’re Watching – What Will You Bid?

Play everyone’s favorite game show “What Will You Bid?” to learn about the broken competitive bidding process for providing durable medical equipment to Medicare patients. Read the new study by PRI’s Wayne Winegarden to learn about free-market reforms to fix this broken process.
Blog

Other Countries are Abandoning Basic Income – Will Stockton Learn from These Failures?

During her recent campaign swing through California, Democratic socialist Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez visited the asparagus capital of America to meet with Mayor Michael Tubbs and explore ways to take a local universal basic income plan nationwide. “We talked about the similarities between her district and Stockton, about increasing opportunity, and basic ...
Blog

Shouldn’t Californians Have More Choices in Health Care Insurance? Lawmakers Don’t Think So

The Trump administration recently announced a regulatory change that “proposes to expand the availability of short-term, limited-duration health insurance by allowing consumers to buy plans providing coverage for any period of less than 12 months, rather than the current (Obamacare) maximum period of less than three months.” Naturally, California lawmakers ...
Blog

Sex and the City and Subsidies

We almost never find ourselves on the same side as celebs, so when “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon, now running for governor of New York, recently railed against taxpayer subsidies for the film industry, we couldn’t help but pop the popcorn.  Bashing tax subsidies is especially titillating news ...
Blog

Parents Don’t Need Sacramento to Make Their Kids’ Food Choices

I’ve written before about Sacramento’s efforts to try and dictate how people live their lives through over-reaching legislation. On Thursday, we saw that some Sacramento liberals are taking things a step further, telling California’s parents how they should raise their children. Senate Bill 1192, by Sen. Bill Monning, D-Santa Cruz, ...
Blog

What We’re Watching – Remembering the Queen of Soul

Rowena Itchon – The Diplomat and the Diva America mourns the Queen of Soul – here’s Aretha Franklin and Condoleezza Rice teaming up at a benefit conference in Philadelphia — the Diplomat and the Diva. Tim Anaya – Presidential Medal of Freedom Winner Here’s a video of President Bush showing ...
Blog

Sacramento’s Urge To ‘Police’ The Internet Is A Foolish Gesture

Just after the New Year began, California lawmakers, sore that the Federal Communications Commission restored a stolen freedom and repealed the Obama-era net neutrality rule, introduced their own net neutrality bill. The California Internet Consumer Protection and Net Neutrality Act was gutted in June, but it has returned, as ugly ...
Blog

An Update on Single-Payer

With the mid-term elections now less than 100 days away, the siren-call for single-payer or “Medicare for All” continues.  Fifty-one percent of those polled earlier this year by Kaiser support single payer, the highest number ever recorded.   But as Seema Verma, Administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, ...
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