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Will severe school lunch policies eventually cost Dems? Maybe
The news this week that UC San Francisco had “unveiled a repository of sugar science, designed to collect the evidence against sweetened foods and disseminate that information to the public — and persuade people to boot fructose and most other
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Gordon Tullock, RIP
The great economist Gordon Tullock died recently at age 92. He is most associated with Public Choice Economics. Under it, economists look at government bureaucrats, not as disinterested, omniscient parties trying to keep things going by enforcing the rule of
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Solar crash ramped up CA natural gas power
Yesterday a problem struck California’s electricity system that wasn’t supposed to happen until at least 2015. Freak low-lying clouds at about 3 p.m. cut temperatures to only 68 degrees in Los Angeles and 64 in San Francisco, about 6
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VIDEO: Steve Forbes: The Immigration Debacle
Immigration reform is possible, but nobody in Washington trusts anyone to enforce existing laws, much less hard-fought reforms. Steve Forbes joins Brian Calle to explain why immigration reform is doomed.
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Suddenly, buzz is back for Brown 2016
In just a handful of weeks, speculation has returned, and hype has built, around the idea of a Jerry Brown candidacy for president. From one perspective, he has succeeded so much in California politics that he has disqualified himself. As the soon-to-be
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VIDEO: A libertarian solution to our illegal immigration crisis
Is the crisis in illegal immigration the product of the government’s failure to properly handle legal immigration? The CATO Institute’s John Allison joins Brian Calle to discuss the right ways to reform our country’s immigration system.
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‘Net neutrality’ = double-nickel
President Obama’s “net neutrality” scheme was branded “Obamacare for the Internet” by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., a 2016 presidential hopeful. A better analogy is the double-nickle, the 55 mph speed limit President Nixon imposed on the country in 1974, just
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Can Gov. Brown pluck federal $ for bullet train?
Successful politicians never accept defeat. So it’s not surprising — but still a little startling — that Gov. Jerry Brown is not dumping his high-speed rail project in the junk yard after the Nov. 4 victories of its Republican opponents. He
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Higher tuition hikes — for what purpose?
Last week, on a post-election panel presented by Capitol Weekly, I raised the issue of potential tax increases being contemplated by public unions and other groups in the next election and said that one of the reasons more revenue
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Modest-seeming CalSTRS pension estimate lacks key context
The California Teachers Association and the California Federation of Teachers do a good job of promoting the narrative that state teacher pensions are very modest at best. It’s true that there aren’t the same type of outrageous stories that we see in
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