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Why are Public Bureaucrats Issuing Mask Mandates Again?

May 1, 2022 10:19 amMay 16, 2022 10:50 am

This story has been updated to add comment from BART Board member Debora Allen. Only 4 days after U.S. District Judge Kathryn Mizelle’s ruling that the Centers for Disease Control does not have the authority to issue a mask mandate...

Is The Left/Right Paradigm Dead?

April 30, 2022 8:24 amApril 30, 2022 9:09 am

What has been for some time a shorthand to describe general political leanings no longer applies in the current political climate, and will not in the future. Left and right lay on a linear graph built upon a certain common...

How to Influence Democrats in Power: ‘Talk Democrat’

April 28, 2022 6:30 amApril 28, 2022 6:36 am

It is no wonder that Republicans and Democrats sometimes do not see eye to eye; they speak different languages. A word that means one thing to a Republican may carry an entirely different meaning to a Democrat. So the reality...

Twitter’s Board of Toddlers Would Rather Collapse Company than Sell to Elon Musk

April 21, 2022 10:34 amApril 21, 2022 10:45 am

“Twitter’s board of directors gathered this week to sign what sounds like a suicide pact,” attorney Jonathan Turley wrote at the Hill in an article appropriately titled “Twitter faces the ‘nightmare’ of being forced into free speech. “It unanimously voted...

The Growing Parent Revolution is a Resilient Army

April 18, 2022 12:30 pmApril 26, 2022 12:25 pm

California parents watched for the past two years as the poor leadership in the California public schools system failed students academically, socially, mentally and emotionally. Parents were forced to work from home or quit their jobs in 2020 while the...

Can Gavin Newsom Save California from ‘1984’?

April 12, 2022 2:11 pmApril 12, 2022 10:14 am

In his podcast the other day Joe Rogan was interviewing the writer David Mamet, who had just flown into Austin to appear on Rogan’s show. “I’m happy to be in back in the United States,” joked the Pulitzer Prize-winning author...

Disney’s Problems are Not Going Away

April 12, 2022 8:00 amApril 13, 2022 1:16 pm

The problems surrounding The Walt Disney Company over the last two months is a cultural battle that is not dying down. While news cycles are typified these days by day-long rage bait articles that titillate the ears of both extremes...