If Biden steps aside, could Gavin Newsom challenge Kamala Harris? • Realpolitik and old U.S.-Saudi diplomatic ties
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Friday, September 1, 2023

As COVID cases rise, let’s not repeat mistakes of past COVID policies

We should – as individuals, businesses and governments – learn the right lessons from the previous attempt to protect public health rather than repeat the past policies.

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If Biden steps aside, could Gavin Newsom challenge Kamala Harris?

Douglas Schoen goes over the data.

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Realpolitik and old U.S.-Saudi diplomatic ties

Nation-states can bloviate all they like in their diplomatic rhetoric about the importance and even joys of long-term friendship with key allies, but in the end it all comes down to strategic relationships — and to money.

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Flip-flopping League of California Cities is pushing outright lies to get more of your money

There is little to explain the League’s 180-degree flip-flop as to the two-thirds vote requirement other than a realization that local governments could now have easier access to the wallets of taxpayers.

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Thomas Elias: Most Californians support density, but maybe anti-density measure will gain steam

Despite those findings, often showing 60 percent or more in favor, the rebellion against those laws has a decent chance of success.

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Susan Shelley: Public health officials must be accountable for their freedom-robbing ‘recommendations’

We need televised public hearings at which officials answer questions directly posed by scientists such as Bhattacharya who were censored and silenced, and right about everything.

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Outsider candidates like Vivek Ramaswamy and RFK Jr. show the age of old-school politics is over

If your name isn’t Donald J. Trump, the winning formula is to embrace America’s new media landscape and use it to your advantage.

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Santa Ana law will destroy city’s rental market

Sorry, but politicians cannot simply change the laws of economics by fiat.

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Convicted criminal Dave Min should drop out of Orange County congressional race

Sen. Dave Min, D-Irvine, has been sentenced to three years probation after pleading no contest to driving under the influence.

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Trump-Biden contest and the claim one isn’t ‘nice’: Letters

Re “Can’t we do better than Trump, Biden?” (Aug. 27): I hope we can. But, as usual, the best person for the job is never on the ballot, and Trump/Biden are the choices we have. Stossel’s column is typically balanced. I agree, Trump is simply mean … “and humiliates people.” Many say he’s not nice. But if you want “nice” don’t go to the White House. Go to Disneyland, or better yet church. When meeting with Putin, or Xi Ping or Kim Jong-un I want the guy on my side to be the strongest, toughest, meanest guy in the […]

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