June 17, 2013 By Steven Greenhut Most Americans who pay any attention to politics believe the nation’s great chasm is between “Red State” Republicans and “Blue State” Democrats. While the nation’s two major parties have their differences, the real divide is and always has been betw...
Steven GreenhutNSA scandal reveals real liberty loversMonday, June 17th, 2013Reinflating debate about suburbiaMonday, June 10th, 2013 June 10, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- After the housing bubble burst a few years ago, sending real estate prices through the floor in many places, some influential academics and urban planners celebrated the supposed demise of something they had always derided: the suburbs. In thei... Addicted to scare tacticsMonday, June 3rd, 2013June 3, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- "As many as 100,000 crack babies are born every year," reported the Los Angeles Times in an overheated 1990 article echoing the results of a Department of Health and Human Services study. The feds were calling for a massive influx of tax dollars to... IRS: the heart of big governmentMonday, May 27th, 2013May 27, 2013 By Steven Greenhut It’s hard to believe, but the current tax scandal will eventually fade away just as all Washington, D.C. scandals run their course. It’s easier to believe that the IRS will remain a loathsome and abusive agency, subject perhaps to some reforms and personnel ... Obama scandals reveal true govt.Monday, May 20th, 2013May 20, 2013 By Steven Greenhut The Obama administration has gotten itself into a fix between its contradictory stories about the Benghazi incident, reports of the IRS targeting conservative groups, and the Justice Department’s grabbing of phone records from AP reporters. There are few thing... Freedom safer than regulationsMonday, May 13th, 2013May 13, 103 By Steven Greenhut California and Texas officials have been having an ongoing tit-for-tat over which of the nation’s two mega-states is the better place to live and do business -- something that has become a proxy issue for the broader philosophical debate over the proper size an... Homeless bill hurts more than helpsMonday, May 6th, 2013May 6, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- The Homeless Bill of Rights, the name applied to a bill that recently soared through the California Assembly's Judiciary Committee on a 7-2 vote, is the latest in a long line of legislation that has grabbed national attention for its sheer outlandis... Perks pose risk to all of usMonday, April 22nd, 2013April 22, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- The horrific Boston bombings have led to irrational calls for more security cameras and more police officers, with some Democrats absurdly using this tragedy to argue for halting the slight sequester-mandated cuts in federal spending growth. N... Water plan threatens taxpayers, environmentSunday, April 14th, 2013 April 14, 2013 By Steven Greenhut In Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov,” a priest recalls the words of a man who confessed: “The more I love mankind in general, the less I love people in particular.” We can all think of people like that --- folks of varied political persuasions wh... Has California been saved?Monday, April 8th, 2013April 8, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- Ever since California’s voters approved the Prop. 30 sales- and income-tax increase on the November ballot, liberal commentators have been gloating about the resurgence of the Golden State after many years of predicted doom and gloom. Their evid... |