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Gavin Newsom GAVIN NEWSOM New California law requires employers to include salary range in job postings Gavin Newsom asked if he ever talks to Kimberly Guilfoyle: ‘Nope, not lately’ Webb: Democrats weaponize power MORE(GAVIN NEWSOM) wants to bring the California model nationwide. The Golden State governor is likely preparing a bid for the White House in 2024 if President Biden doesn’t run. Assuming Biden and Donald Trump choose not to run (or are beaten in primaries), the result likely will be a battle between Newsom and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The election would present voters with a choice: Will the...

You thought you turned the thermostat down. In the Texas late summer heat, it keeps getting warmer inside. No matter how much you fiddle with the temperature, you cannot control the climate in your house. When winter comes, those with “smart thermostats” could find themselves without the means to do the same. A combination of smart devices, utility control, unreliable “green” energy, and poor planning will mean a retread of Soviet-style shortages and rationing. For those who need the energy at the hottest and coldest times of the year, the effects will be critical. And as difficult as this summer...

Joe Biden JOE BIDEN House votes to raise debt ceiling On The Money — House kicks debt ceiling standoff to December Overnight Health Care — Presented by The National Council for Mental Wellbeing — Progressives: Medicare benefit expansions 'not negotiable' MORE has had a rough few months. Polling has his approval falling below 40 percent and Friday’s jobs report won’t do anything to prop it up. The Afghanistan catastrophe, COVID-19 deaths surpassing those during Donald Trump’s tenure, and the increasing crisis at the southern border all will be secondary compared to the coming recession. Unlike many other economic events, this...

Imagine waking up the morning after the election this November with an unclear result. Suppose that Donald Trump fails to capture the popular vote by a wider margin than he did in 2016 and loses several states he carried that year. With a slim majority in states like Florida and Pennsylvania, he could still garner 270 votes from the Electoral College. But would Democrats accept such an outcome? There is a substantial chance that legislatures in blue states could effectively overturn the results of the election through a means available in the Constitution. This “nuclear option,” as I call it,...

Just a year before David Berkowitz started his infamous crime spree, and two years before the carnage of looting and broken glass of the blackout of 1977, New York City stood at the edge of an abyss. It faced bankruptcy and spiking crime. When you stepped off the plane in 1975 at Laguardia Airport, you were greeted with a pamphlet emblazoned with a skull and bold letters that said “Welcome to Fear City.” The survival guide offered stark advice on how to hide your property, how to avoid violence and robberies, and most of all, “until things change, stay away...

The coronavirus exposed a debilitating and growing disease inherent in the management of many state capitals. Blue states, run with years of reckless spending and unbalanced taxation, now must swallow the bitter pill of three options: Slash spending, declare bankruptcy, or beg for trillions in federal bailouts. As the economic damage of the virus becomes more apparent, a defining political debate of 2021 will be how Congress and the White House will react. By the beginning of 2020, several left-leaning states were already in severe fiscal trouble after years of racking up unfunded pension liabilities and bloated public payrolls. Despite...

Something rare just happened. A young person who doesn't follow the liberal orthodoxy defeated a major liberal news outlet. Two, in fact. How did these things happen following hours and hours of blistering news coverage? The case of Nicholas Sandmann and the resulting legal battle is one that scholars will be reading about and studying for decades. It might also be one that news organizations rue for even longer. I wrote about the topic on my legal blog and discussed some of the major cases of precedent prior to this one. While the government is restricted by law and precedent...

A combination of the coronavirus pandemic, economic uncertainty, and social unrest is prompting waves of Americans to move from large cities and permanently relocate to more sparsely populated areas. The trend has been accelerated by technology and shifting attitudes that make it easier than ever to work remotely. Residents of all ages and incomes are moving in record numbers to suburban areas and small towns. A perfect storm of factors makes the decision to leave major cities like New York very obvious. The dense nature of urban living and the lack of proper local government planning led to the coronavirus...

Whites tend to vote Republican, while nonwhites tend to vote Democrat. This proved true in the 2016 election, when Trump carried white voters by 20 percent, while Hillary Clinton won 74 percent of nonwhite voters. With the number of Latinos living in the United States nearly doubling since 2000, it is not difficult to see why Texas could soon follow California, Colorado, and Nevada into the Democratic camp in the next 20 years. Using the 2000 census and the 2010 census along with 2018 data, the electoral reality becomes more clear. The population of those under 18 will be majority...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced this month that the state faces a surprise hole in its budget to the tune of $2.3 billion. The legacy Democrat failed to add that the deficit was caused by oppressive policies that have gutted the population and wealth of New York. Instead, Cuomo conveniently blamed President Trump and the Republican tax cuts for the shortfall. While the new cap on the state and local tax deduction has likely prompted some of the high earners in New York to pack up and move to low tax jurisdictions, it is not tax reform causing the...

How many headlines have you read about the government shutdown over the last month? Considering that most of our lives have not really been affected and that federal employees will be receiving back pay, is it possible that the shutdown is not the disaster pundits declare it to be? The minimal effects on our lives shows that our government is already far too bloated and serves as a reminder that the recipients of our tax dollars enjoy benefits well beyond the average American. Removed from the market forces at play in the rest of the country, federal employees and politicians...

House Democrats have a plethora of initiatives in the new Congress. One of the top priorities for the Congressional Black Caucus and incoming Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters is corporate boardroom diversity. Waters proposed creating a House subcommittee on diversity and inclusion that would force companies to quantify their board members by race and gender. By targeting publicly traded companies, this creates a vacuum that would ultimately harm employees of all racial and economic backgrounds, especially the further down the chain you go. The government should foster diversity through individual success, not through federal coercion. You can hear it...

Chicago has won a legal battle allowing its wasteful “amusement tax” to be levied on everyday people. Residents who enjoy gaming will now have to pay a 9 percent tax for streaming services they buy through Playstation. They also have to pay this 9 percent tax on other streaming services for entertainment like Netflix, Spotify, and Hulu. The amusement tax is one of multiple examples of government using its ability to pick the pockets of the populace to select winners and losers in the market while paying its bills with money that citizens often do not realize they are spending....

If there’s one thing that the left is consistently poor at, it’s managing expectations. Since President Trump’s inauguration, his opponents hung their fortunes on the idea of a massive blue wave to sweep away congressional Republicans in the midterms. Instead, we saw a modest Democratic gain in the House of Representatives and a strong Republican gain in the Senate. Democrats lost crucial races where they ran candidates too far left to carry moderate or conservative districts; it was moderate Democrats who had the best shots, while most of the hardcore leftists lost race after race Tuesday. The left believed that...

Florida is ground zero in next week’s midterm elections, with critical Senate and governor’s races on razor-thin margins. The result, and that of Florida’s electoral future, could ultimately be decided by the state’s exploding Puerto Rican population, a group that tends to vote overwhelmingly in favor of Democrats. Years of economic mismanagement created a seemingly unsolvable crisis in Puerto Rico. Today, the U.S. territory faces more than $74 billion in bond debt and an additional $49 billion in unfunded pension liabilities. Simultaneously, 10 percent of the population is unemployed while nearly 40 percent rely on food stamps. The workforce participation...

Planning to vote in November? Ambivalent about the two parties? Well, if you’re concerned about wealthy individuals moving their money offshore to prevent paying income taxes — and forcing you to pay more — then you have just one choice: Vote for Republicans. The same goes if you’re concerned about the middle and working classes being burdened by new taxes and deficit spending. Remember, any plan that talks about taxing the rich means that the dollars will come out of your pocket. Yes, Republicans are the only party whose policies will prevent billions of dollars from being patriated overseas to...

Time and again, with very few exceptions, Republicans in Congress have disappointed their own base and handed Democrats the initiative at every turn. Their constant folding will cost Republicans everything and gain them nothing from the voters, who handed the party its first unified control of Capitol Hill and the White House since 2005. The tax law and confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch aside, the Republican leadership in Congress has left its core voters confused over what is the exact advantage of voting for its party. Sure, it keeps the Democrats from some levers of control. But ultimately,...

Welcome to the effort to recall Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom. Newsom and Governor Jerry Brown have been involved in a series of debilitating actions against the Constitution of California and the United States and have waged a war against the working people of the state. Newsom is pushing an effort to undermine the few gun rights left for California residents. California’s already obscene gun laws are the strictest in the country. Now it will get a whole lot worse. California’s efforts have nearly destroyed the in-state gun industry and the rights of citizens to carry. It’s time for the people...

Reviewing the figures of the counties remaining to be counted, it appears that Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders will narrowly eke out Hillary Clinton at tonight's Iowa caucuses. The precincts left to be counted seem to heavily favor Sanders and offer him victory tonight. As of 11:06 there are just 9.6% of caucuses left to be counted, with Sanders behind by 0.2%. The counties still out for the count appear to be heavily assisting Sanders, with his total to soon overtake Clinton's. Politico has some of the final results here. In Blackhawk County with 13% left to count: B. Sanders 53.6%...

California’s Lt .Governor, Gavin Newsom, has perhaps the most useless and unimportant job in Sacramento but that has not stopped attorney Alan Beck from launching a recall campaign against Newsom. Beck, who started practicing the law in 2011, claims that Newsom and California Governor Jerry Brown have been involved in a “series of debilitating actions against the Constitution of California and the United States and have waged a war against the working people of the state.” Beck, who lives in San Diego, is also mad because “Newsom is pushing an effort to undermine the few gun rights left for California...