Commentary
Commentary
Why House Republican Budget Cuts Should Start With Health Insurance Subsidies
Last night, House Republicans passed a critical budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year that calls for $2 trillion in spending cuts over 10 years to get America’s fiscal house in order and address our $35 trillion national debt. Congress should start by addressing one of the economy’s biggest pain ...
Commentary
RFK Jr. Can Breathe New Life Into HHS
Speaking to agency staffers last week, newly installed Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., insisted that “nothing is off limits” in his fight against chronic disease. It’s an encouraging message. HHS is in desperate need of modernization. Read the entire op-ed in Newsmax.
California
Read the latest about California's ineffective government homelessness programs
A Website About Being Transparent That Isn’t
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has launched a new initiative – accountability.ca.gov – which it characterizes as “bring(ing) together thousands of locally reported data points to provide a clear picture of local communities’ work on California’s most pressing issues, including homelessness.” In case your stomach is full after eating that word ...
Business & Economics
Robust Tech Company Investment Show The Folly Of Trump’s Tariffs
On February 24th, Apple announced that, over the next four years, the company will invest $500 billion into U.S. advanced manufacturing and high-tech initiatives such as artificial intelligence and silicon engineering. Additionally, the company expects to hire 20,000 people over this time frame. These investments will make important contributions to ...
Commentary
Stop the Medicaid provider tax grift
House Republicans are calling for $1.5 trillion in spending cuts next year. Medicaid, the joint federal-state health plan established in 1965 to provide publicly funded health coverage to the poor and disabled, is reportedly where they’ll find much of that money. Eliminating so-called “provider taxes,” which allow states to game ...
Commentary
Give students a chance, revive the parent trigger law
Just over a decade ago, parents and students trapped in failing schools had a way out, known as the Parent Empowerment Law. Unfortunately, the law was murdered in the dark and has been almost entirely forgotten. Read the entire op-ed.
Commentary
After landslide victory, will Sacramento fund Prop. 36 enforcement? First signs say no.
In November 2024, California’s ten-year long experiment with Proposition 47 ended as voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 36. Its passage came as a result of voter despair over tens of thousands of drug overdose deaths, rampant and increasing crime, increasing homelessness, and a profound decline in the quality of life in ...
Commentary
President Trump Unleashes a New Energy Future Benefiting Americans
On January 20, the U.S. Department of Energy ended the Biden Administration’s misguided pause on processing new Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export applications. This is great news. The Biden policy never made sense and unwisely inhibited efforts to export more LNG, particularly to our EU trading partners. Read the entire ...
Commentary
Time to Administer DOGE to Medicare, Medicaid
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is setting its sights on fraud and abuse within Medicare and Medicaid. It’s about time. The two government programs have been cesspools of malfeasance, incompetence, and duplicity for too long. And the cost of all this corruption and waste has grown at a ...
California
The vanishing electric vehicle advantage
The theory is that though upfront costs are higher, EV “refueling” holds a major advantage of electric vehicles over their gas-powered counterparts. EVs do not require gasoline, which California has taxed and regulated into oblivion, sending prices soaring; instead they rely on electricity that costs less. But those savings are ...
Why House Republican Budget Cuts Should Start With Health Insurance Subsidies
Last night, House Republicans passed a critical budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year that calls for $2 trillion in spending cuts over 10 years to get America’s fiscal house in order and address our $35 trillion national debt. Congress should start by addressing one of the economy’s biggest pain ...
RFK Jr. Can Breathe New Life Into HHS
Speaking to agency staffers last week, newly installed Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., insisted that “nothing is off limits” in his fight against chronic disease. It’s an encouraging message. HHS is in desperate need of modernization. Read the entire op-ed in Newsmax.
Read the latest about California's ineffective government homelessness programs
A Website About Being Transparent That Isn’t
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has launched a new initiative – accountability.ca.gov – which it characterizes as “bring(ing) together thousands of locally reported data points to provide a clear picture of local communities’ work on California’s most pressing issues, including homelessness.” In case your stomach is full after eating that word ...
Robust Tech Company Investment Show The Folly Of Trump’s Tariffs
On February 24th, Apple announced that, over the next four years, the company will invest $500 billion into U.S. advanced manufacturing and high-tech initiatives such as artificial intelligence and silicon engineering. Additionally, the company expects to hire 20,000 people over this time frame. These investments will make important contributions to ...
Stop the Medicaid provider tax grift
House Republicans are calling for $1.5 trillion in spending cuts next year. Medicaid, the joint federal-state health plan established in 1965 to provide publicly funded health coverage to the poor and disabled, is reportedly where they’ll find much of that money. Eliminating so-called “provider taxes,” which allow states to game ...
Give students a chance, revive the parent trigger law
Just over a decade ago, parents and students trapped in failing schools had a way out, known as the Parent Empowerment Law. Unfortunately, the law was murdered in the dark and has been almost entirely forgotten. Read the entire op-ed.
After landslide victory, will Sacramento fund Prop. 36 enforcement? First signs say no.
In November 2024, California’s ten-year long experiment with Proposition 47 ended as voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 36. Its passage came as a result of voter despair over tens of thousands of drug overdose deaths, rampant and increasing crime, increasing homelessness, and a profound decline in the quality of life in ...
President Trump Unleashes a New Energy Future Benefiting Americans
On January 20, the U.S. Department of Energy ended the Biden Administration’s misguided pause on processing new Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export applications. This is great news. The Biden policy never made sense and unwisely inhibited efforts to export more LNG, particularly to our EU trading partners. Read the entire ...
Time to Administer DOGE to Medicare, Medicaid
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is setting its sights on fraud and abuse within Medicare and Medicaid. It’s about time. The two government programs have been cesspools of malfeasance, incompetence, and duplicity for too long. And the cost of all this corruption and waste has grown at a ...
The vanishing electric vehicle advantage
The theory is that though upfront costs are higher, EV “refueling” holds a major advantage of electric vehicles over their gas-powered counterparts. EVs do not require gasoline, which California has taxed and regulated into oblivion, sending prices soaring; instead they rely on electricity that costs less. But those savings are ...
