Trump and Musk are upending a broken status quo • Under Trump, the imperial presidency reaches its apogee
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Sunday, February 16, 2025

OC voters want sound investments, not HR drama

If something is working, and the memory of the 1994 nightmare remains green, why take a chance on a risky change?

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Trump and Musk are upending a broken status quo

In the coming months, we’ll probably learn a lot more about how so many people in government jobs were able to buy so many mansions.

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Under Trump, the imperial presidency reaches its apogee

In an alternative world where a Harris or Gavin Newsom were president, would you be comfortable with this kind of imperial presidency?

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Why California keeps burning: How misguided insurance policies fuel wildfire risk

With the fuel load still looming, before rebuilding, Californians should insist that policymakers allow insurers to establish risk mitigation systems proven to prevent urban conflagrations.

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Musk bid for OpenAI exposes hypocrisy of business model

n a court filing Wednesday, lawyers for Elon Musk said that he would withdraw his consortium’s eye-popping bid of $94.7 billion for Sam Altman’s OpenAI if its board of directors would agree to retain its status as a charity, rather than go ahead with a planned, potentially lucrative conversion to for-profit status.

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Is it the end of the line for California’s high speed rail project?

California taxpayers will be watching to see if HSR’s special interest supporters try to repurpose other state funds to keep the high-speed rail project on life support.

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Larry Wilson: Putting the wisdom of U.S. foreign aid into the wood chipper

We’re taking away this incredibly valuable arrow in our quiver.

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Newsom to business owners: Shut up!

California Policy Center will go to court to kill SB 399.

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The upside, risks and limits of DOGE

America’s debt crisis is no longer a distant concern; it’s an immediate threat with immediate consequences. Some politicians — perhaps realizing that it’s become more difficult to ignore the problem and avoid repercussions — are turning to executive action.

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California’s aging population will test whether its demography is destiny

Not having enough workers may be one destiny of California’s demographic change.

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