John Seiler: According to the Declaration if Independence, America consists of "Free and Independent States"; 13 originally, 50 today. Except that the centralized tyranny in Washington, D.C. owns 45.3 percent of the land in California. That's better than the 84.5 percent in Utah or the 69.1 pe...

John Seiler: I'd rather walk that drive a hybrid car. After bourbon, the internal combustion engine is mankind's greatest invention. All talk of oil "shortages" and too much "pollution" is just socialist blather used to destroy our freedoms. But some folks like hybrids. Soon they could be payi...

John Seiler: Putting its investment projections slightly more in line with reality, yesterday CalSTRS downgraded its fund forecast. According to its own announcement, "The governing board of the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) today adopted a new set of actuarial assumption...

Steven Greenhut: Here's a great story by LA Weekly that highlights the incompetence of government planners: "As they tout a posh redo of the Tom Bradley International Terminal meant to reposition LAX as a travel hub for the new millennium, Los Angeles leaders are creating a potentially hobbling obst...

John Seiler: I've been arguing for a couple of years that the pension problem in California is so bad that the state will have to cut existing pensions. Is that supposedly banned by the California Constitution? It doesn't matter. Constitutions can be changed. Actuarial realities cannot. Such ...

Katy Grimes: Four days ago, more than 300 Occupy protestors were arrested after breaking into Oakland's City Hall. Demonstrators burned a U.S. flag, threw rocks and bottles at police, and tore down fencing at the convention center, and then tried to 'occupy' it. Does anyone still believe that...