Tag Archives: California
Feinstein’s Senate Replacement Assures Chaotic 2024 Bid
During Dianne Feinstein’s 20 years in the U.S. Senate, I lived in California and wrote [...]
Educated, High-Earning Californians Pack Up, Seek Greener Pastures
After decades of dramatic population increases, California’s residency totals have stabilized, although not in the [...]
For Los Angeles Unified $18 Billion Won’t Save District
In what is certain to be financial history’s worst-ever return on investment, the Los Angeles [...]
Newsom? DNC Better Look before Leaping
Despite Washington, D.C.’s August heat and humidity – perfect vacation weather – the nation’s capital [...]
Nation’s Most Endangered River Provides Water to 40 Million Residents
At a June 14 Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee meeting, environmentalists warned that [...]
Bone-Dry Western States Can’t Cope with Population Surges
The grisly discovery of human remains at the bottom of Lake Mead is a grim [...]
California Considers Giving Law Enforcement Jobs to Illegal Immigrants – Really!
When the subject is California and the state’s extreme politics, nothing ever surprises. But even [...]
Recall Calif. Gov. Newsom, Part VI
Facebook has two pages that are, unsurprisingly, picking up a host of new followers: “Leaving [...]
Feds Announce Positive Changes for U.S. Tech Workers
Relief for U.S. tech workers who have been unfairly displaced by craven employers came late [...]
America’s West Coast is on Fire
The forests and chaparral of California, Oregon and Washington are on fire. Our Brilliant-in-Dogma governors [...]
Overpopulation Sparks Calif. Wildfires
California is once again in the news. As always, bad news puts the state’s latest [...]
California Mounts Recall of Gov. Newsom
Californians – or at least some Californians – are fighting back against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s [...]
Top Priority: Protect The Productive Class
The next few weeks will tell whether the United States is a serious nation that’s [...]
Heavyweights Prepare to Duke it Out on Immigration: Trump v. Sanctuary State California
In his State of the Union address, President Trump made clear his disgust with sanctuary [...]
Unraveling California’s Quick, but Complete Demise
Through incredibly good fortune, I’ve been unable to watch the tedious impeachment trial. I’m traveling [...]
Elitist Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom Ignores Crisis in his Sacramento Backyard
I recently returned to my Pittsburgh home from a trip to Sacramento. I went reluctantly. [...]
California Off the Rails, State a Disaster Zone
When former California Gov. Jerry Brown announced his ill-conceived, ill-fated high-speed train that no one [...]
Continued Immigration Hard on Existing Immigrants, Native-Born Alike
A case can be made that those who suffer the most from never-ending immigration are [...]
Overpopulated, Income-Unequal California Finds Solution: More Immigration!
Only a few of us are still around – native-born Californians who lived in the [...]
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to DC: California Democrats Shake Things Up
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; [...]
California Dystopia: No Man’s Farmland
Those of us who live in California and oppose illegal immigration are often met with [...]
Feeling the Bern in Ventura, California
On a sunny Thursday afternoon presidential candidate Bernie Sanders gave a spirited speech to over [...]
Increased Taxation and Centralized Authority are NOT the answer to homelessness
Both the Los Angeles City Council and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors are considering measures [...]
In America, Rape is Considered Non-Judicial Punishment
The other week, a sandwich salesman plead guilty to paying under-aged prostitutes for sex. The internet [...]
CFPUP’s Weekly News Wrap Up for the Week Ending April 11, 2015
Here is another installment of our Weekly News Wrap Up (WNWU) for the week ending [...]