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Fire Sale: $300 Million San Francisco Office Tower, Mostly Empty. Open to Offers.350 California Street was worth $300 million four years ago. It might sell for 80% less now, brokers say, in a market where office vacancy rates have soared. Before the pandemic, San Francisco’s California Street was home to some of the world’s most valuable commercial real estate. The corridor runs through the heart of the city’s financial district and is lined with offices for banks and other companies that help fuel the global tech economy. One building, a 22-story glass and stone tower at 350 California Street, was...

Having lived in Baltimore for 13 years and working now as host of a daily radio show on WBAL, the biggest station in the state, I’ve seen first hand the destruction of the past week, and the past few years. Having grown up in Detroit, I’ve seen what lies further down the road my city is traveling, and it’s not pretty. A who’s who of Maryland Democratic Party politics turned out for the funeral of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old Baltimore man who died from a severed spinal cord injury that apparently occurred while in police custody. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake...

To set up the video at the end of this article, I need to take you back to February 23, 2009  when Arizona State Senator Jonathan Paton (R-Tusgon) invited law enforcement officials to the Capital for a hearing.  Paton asked the officers to describe how bad the border violence has become in Arizona.  What the Senate Judiciary Committee learned was that Pima and Cochise counties were seeing an alarming increase of more and more "Rape Trees".  These are memorials, if you will, that are left behind by Mexican drug cartel members, and illegal male immigrants who have raped illegal...

The argument liberals use most often to justify socialist programs is that they want to help those who are disadvantaged. And it's important to remember that this refers to their definition of "disadvantaged" - a specific criteria they've determined to explain why a certain person or group of people is unable to enjoy the same right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as the majority. These individuals are in need of special federally mandated privileges to make up for this embedded shortcoming and wipe away hundreds of years of unfairness. And as far as I'm concerned, there is...

Your Guide To The Liberal View Of Foreign Policy & Defending America Most conservatives are absolutely baffled by the liberal perspective on foreign policy and defending America. That's because many of the left's positions seem totally counterintuitive....well, for Americans. Their views would make perfect sense if say an Iranian mullah or Iraqi insurgent held them. But, that's neither here nor there, since the goal of this column is to explain how the left looks at foreign policy, not why. So, imagine yourself to be a liberal. I know that'll be quite difficult for many of you, but just pretend you're...