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Mayor Garcetti’s Homeless Policy is Destroying Los Angeles
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is arguably the most incompetent, destructive, negligent, no good, irresponsible mayor in American history. And he’s got plenty of competition, especially now. San Francisco’s London Breed, Ted Wheeler in Portland, Bill DeBlasio in New York City. Blue City mayors bent on destroying civilization are plentiful, but Eric Garcetti is the […]
Biden Team Fears Rocky Transition
Joe Biden’s transition team had no illusions about the chaos they were inheriting from President Donald Trump. They expected a disorganized government and mismanaged agencies, many of them hollowed out and ignored over the past four years. Hours before they assume office, however, there is a fear among Biden’s team that the roadblocks they encountered […]
Vaccine Chaos: Californians Scramble For Shots Amid Mixed Messaging
The chaos and confusion many Californians experienced this week in their search for a COVID-19 vaccine only intensified today as Gov. Gavin Newsom revealed that the state would not receive an additional supply of doses it was counting on to accelerate vaccination. Newsom said he, like other governors, expected about 50 million doses to be […]
Election Integrity Still Matters
This is neither a column about “Stop the Steal” or “there was no fraud.” At this point, whether there was a sufficient level of fraud to affect the outcome of the 2020 presidential election is a moot point. Nonetheless there were, and continue to be, legitimate concerns about election integrity in the United States. If […]
Anti-Business Policies Are Driving Flagship Firms Out of California
It’s hard to say the word “innovation” and not think of California. Technology has paced the state’s growth in everything from agriculture and oil to housing, entertainment, and aerospace. California has always been the harbinger of the American future, the promise of ever-greater economic and social progress. Yet increasingly, many of today’s innovators are fleeing […]
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Life on the American River
…the colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky, are also on the faces, of people going by,I see friends shaking hands, saying how do you do, they’re really saying, I love you…– What a Wonderful World, sang by Louis Armstrong in 1967 The American River runs through the heart of Sacramento, from the bedroom […]
‘Hidden Truths Stripped From the National Dialogue’ – The president’s power over foreign policy
From the book “Hidden Truths Stripped From the National Dialogue” by Bruce Herschensohn MOST OFTEN REPORTED AND TAUGHT: “IT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL FOR THE PRESIDENT TO KEEP NATIONAL SECURITY SECRETS FROM THE CONGRESS” THE TRUTH: THE SUPREME COURT WROTE DIFFERENTLY The most pertinent excerpts follow from the decision of United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation in […]
Why Libertarians Are Unwitting Enablers of Socialism
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves […]
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10 million views?! Happy New Year from California Political Review!!
As 2020 closes the editors at California Political Review wish all our readers a Happy New Year! We are so pleased to report that early this December our service at CPR achieved a major milestone and surpassed 10 million total Page views all time since we started publication in late 2011! We have also published […]
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Big Basin Redwoods park, heavily damaged by fire, will stay closed for at least a year
California’s oldest state park will stay closed for at least a year to protect the public as the state takes a cautious approach to reopening the beloved forested enclave that was badly burned in a recent wildfire. Big Basin Redwoods State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains suffered extensive damage from the CZU Lightning Complex fires, […]
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Federalist Society under fire after John Eastman speaks before Capitol riot
A progressive group is urging corporations to stop contributing to the Federalist Society after one of the conservative legal organization’s leaders was featured at last week’s rally that preceded the deadly riot on Capitol Hill. Demand Justice told CNBC that it wants corporations to stop giving to the Federalist Society after member John Eastman, a […]
Biden to offer legal status to 11 million immigrants
When the U.S. Senate passed an immigration reform bill in 2013, farmworkers Francisca Aguilar and her husband, Ruben Cohetzaltitla, got excited at the prospect of attaining citizenship. But their hope faded as the legislation never materialized. “What could we do?” said Aguilar, 37. Now the couple are awaiting answers from the new president. Hours ahead […]
Vaccine Short Even As Seniors Become Eligible
Severe limits in the supply of COVID-19 vaccine will restrict how many older residents of Los Angeles County get vaccinated in the coming days and weeks, public health officials said Tuesday. Officials said residents ages 65 or older could begin scheduling appointments on Tuesday to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, but slots were limited to about 50,000 this […]
Newsom’s virus updates go from clear to muddled
In his last news briefing of 2020, one of more than 100 held since the COVID-19 pandemic exploded in March, Gov. Gavin Newsom looked seriously into the camera and assured Californians that public schools could reopen as soon as February. The pressure to return to in-classroom learning had been intensifying for months, and Newsom’s “California Safe […]
Golden State Ideas Inspire Biden
After four years of being relentlessly targeted by a Republican president who worked overtime to bait, punish and marginalize California and everything it represents, the state is suddenly center stage again in Washington’s policy arena. California is emerging as the de facto policy think tank of the Biden-Harris administration and of a Congress soon to be under Democratic control. That’s rekindling […]
