Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin used the motto, "Land to the peasants, peace to the nations, bread to the starving." Sounds good, right?
To understand socialism, one needn't fixate on its most-horrifying elements-gulags and executions. Think about the simple stuff. Like aspirin.
Unlike lawmakers, who are usually are fairly forthright about their goals and intent, the justices have left Californians befuddled with several recent rulings.
Reformers always have a new scheme to take "the money out of politics," but it usually just makes the government larger and campaign spending increase.
Government officials want as much revenue as possible so it can spend it with wild abandon. There will never be enough to satisfy them.
Specifics remain sparse, but universal healthcare will surely increase demand for medical services, and California's already low on nurses.
Government planners do not understand markets, so they promote overly pricey projects that fail to meet our real-world transportation needs.
A well-intentioned plan is one of the worst ideas in the governor's new budget given the real-world effect it will have on California students.
California's fiscal foundation is built on rock, says Gov. Gavin Newsom, but it's really more like sand.
All this anger about immigration (and a lack of sympathy for the poor people coming here) is not only cruel, but politically foolish.
Making sense of the complicated and contradictory legacy of California Gov. Jerry Brown.
New Luddites have used the courts and the legislative process to throw that figurative wrench in the machine.
Winning candidates need to offer practical approaches that are appropriate for the offices they are seeking. Jeff Hewitt did exactly that.
Thanks to an anti-Trump wave that crashed across California in the midterm elections, Democrats will now have legislative supermajorities.
Conservatives and moderates don't agree on much, but they do agree on this: The state GOP is dead in the water and needs a new strategy to revive itself.
Censorship is when government limits speech, and tech firms are not monopolies. They are successful private businesses; others are free to compete with them.
By careening towards populism, the GOP handed over to the Democrats modern, growing, diverse and prosperous suburbs such as Orange County.
In California, new lawsuits aim to make unions respect the Supreme Court's authority.
One union official told The Sacramento Bee that "education should not be a competitive endeavor." Because competition never improved anything, right?
The winner gets to decide how much Californians will pay for property and casualty insurance.
Voters shouldn't be asked to make decisions about how much space a chicken needs in its cage.
The new laws bring us closer to the state of affairs that existed before 2006, when a state Supreme Court decision slammed the door on police accountability.
Brown wasn't exactly a secret libertarian, but libertarians might end up missing him.
Gov. Jerry Brown rolls back stupid restrictions on homemade foods, sidewalk vending, and craft distilleries.
It was the end of the world...until it wasn't.
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. That goes double in California.
Lawsuit says California pension agency withholds crucial data.
The Republican lawmaker is accused of misusing campaign dollars for for personal expenses including a trip to Italy, massive bar tabs and video games.
Bail reform is a good idea, but California lawmakers turned it into one hot mess.
The Republican Party should take a more forceful and public stand on behalf of freedom and opportunity for all.
California citizens must now meet and confer with union bosses before qualifying any compensation-related initiatives for the ballot.
Currently, sheriffs-who have an official, vested interest in officer-involved shootings-make the final cause-of-death determinations.
Police union's law firm will pay $600K to a former mayor of Costa Mesa who says police used a "playbook" of nasty tactics to target him.
The Borat comedian's new "Kinder Guardian" videos put lawmakers in cringe-worthy light.
San Bernardino County investigator called Rep. Maxine Waters "a loud-mouthed c#nt" and mocked the victim of a police shooting. The DA appears unconcerned.
Unfortunately, California's Sunset Review process rarely leads to the sunset of anything.
Yearning for the days when interrupting your debate opponent was considered the height of incivility.
The president's trade policy makes as much sense as Canadian Bacon, the farcical 1995 film about a trumped up war against Canada.
State Sen. Josh Newman cast a deciding vote in favor of a much-maligned and dramatic increase in gasoline taxes. He was promptly shown the door.
All over the country, Departments of Motor Vehicles seem impervious to change or improvement.
Could a Republican win a governors' race in deep blue California? Here's how John Cox plans to try, now that he's earned the shot.
But he's leaving office without really addressing the state's massive public retirement problem.
Now it's clear that gutting the state's old tax agency was bad for taxpayers.
For all his obvious flaws, Brown governed the state like an adult. What comes next is likely to be worse.
San Francisco is facing a housing crisis, but overturning current limits on rent-controlled apartments threaten to make the problem worse, not better.
It's time for conservatives to recognize that efforts to reform police departments are as necessary as efforts to reform our public schools.
If Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom wins in November, will he punish charters for their efforts?
Given the pension funds' fiscal condition, it's hard to understand any serious opposition to these modest measures. But don't hold your breath.
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