6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (469+ words) A Pompeii resident looking out his window at Mount Vesuvius on August 24, A.D. 79 would have noticed something was amiss from the black smoke emanating out the top. He might have fled the city before it got destroyed, salvaging what he could....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (110+ words) The U.S. is still a first world country. But it is one that a significant number of its own citizens desperately want to drag down to Third World conditions. The real fight, though, is philosophical. Cicero is explicitly opposed to “Housing…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (167+ words) There is no need to recap every paragraph of the unsigned opinion. The decision and its immediate consequences are already clear. What is more useful is the question the commentary keeps skipping: why did the Democratic Party take this legal…...

1+ mon, 21+ hour ago   (471+ words) A criminal-justice system cannot be judged solely by how rarely it exercises its authority. A central concern of the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter movements was the loss of black lives, particularly deaths involving the police. Yet California entered…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (144+ words) Proposition 39 is a fairly modest proposal placed on the ballot through signature-gathering. Per the Legislative Analyst’s Office, it “requires voters to present government-issued identification” when voting in person. “When voting by mail, Proposition 39 requires voters to provide the last four…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (144+ words) There are indeed examples of companies that misrepresent their products as having been recycled. But, as Shireman added, that can be addressed through a transparent system that includes third-party audits. Unfortunately, California officials often target entire industries rather than the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (42+ words) READ MORE from Steven Greenhut: What’s Next for California’s Battered Insurance Markets? Democrats on Affordability: Oh, Never Mind Republicans Learn Wrong Lessons From LA Steven Greenhut is Western region director for the R Street Institute. Write to him at [email…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (345+ words) When the alleged victims are conservative women, or when the accused belong to the “right” political party, the Left’s proclaimed solidarity vanishes, replaced by silence, excuses, and even cover-ups. This hypocrisy is a fundamental aspect of a movement that prioritizes…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (521+ words) The University of California at Berkeley, the flagship UC campus, is “joining forces with Nancy Pelosi, the first female speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, to launch a new, nonpartisan institute dedicated to strengthening American democracy and advancing solutions…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (608+ words) Add Trump’s removal of Venezuelan socialist president Maduro, and the domination of his successor, and the hemisphere is looking a lot more traditionalist Christian. The game is certainly on between Trump and probable next Mayor of Washington, D.C. Janeese Lewis…...