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Telling a Tale of San Francisco’s Decline
John Sexton writes at HotAir.com about one couple’s sad San Francisco saga. There were more that 150,000 catalytic converter thefts in 2022, a 2% increase from the previous year. The…
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public university in the Davis, California area; part of the University of California system
Education
Universities Enlist Students As Mask Police
Spencer Lindquist writes for the Federalist about a disappointing development within American universities involving face masks. How much would you have to be paid to commit social suicide? What if…
Health Care
Your tax dollars at work: Soda label edition
Elizabeth Harrington of the Washington Free Beacon details a new campaign to nudge people away from consuming soft drinks. The National Institutes of Health is spending over $150,000 to study…
Elections & Public Integrity
The Clinton albatross remains
Diana Stancy Correll of the Washington Examiner reports that former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton does not plan to exit the public stage gracefully. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton…
Liberty
“If the community of scholars can span regimes as diverse as China, India, and Iran, surely it can make room for North Carolina.”
That’s my favorite line from a new Bloomberg piece by Virginia Postrel. In it, she takes California to task for its ill-conceived ban on travel to states with politically incorrect bathroom policies. If you’re…
Liberty
All about thermostats
Programmable thermostats are all the rage. One problem though: Many people that have them don’t know how to use them. The Washington Post reports about a University of California, Davis…
Energy
Barron’s Epstein finds good reasons to give thanks this year
Gene Epstein of Barron’s devotes his latest “Economic Beat” column to some key reasons he’s thankful as 2014 winds down. I also give thanks for an oil price that fell…
Liberty
Kudlow offers an interesting perspective on the man who beat Cantor
Larry Kudlow‘s latest column posted at The Daily Caller urges Republican congressional candidate David Brat to apply his free-market economics to the most high-profile issue in his recent primary win…
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Zakaria knows about the Head Start study, ignores its implications
Unlike the Obama administration, TIME columnist Fareed Zakaria isn’t trying to hide the results of a government study documenting the lack of long-term benefits associated with Head Start. Rather than…
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Re: More Edwards Hypocrisy
I think that Johnny boy is getting a raw deal here. The people who really should be criticized are those at UC Davis that were willing to fork over 55…
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More Edwards Hypocrisy
The San Francisco Chronicle’s politics blog is highlighting a 2006 speech former North Carolina Senator John Edwards gave at the University of California-Davis to discuss poverty. Edwards was paid $55,000…
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Poverty talk is expensive
John “Two Americas” Edwards’ political tin ear keeps biting him in the behind. First there was the 28,000-square-foot house. Then came the $400 haircut. Then there was the assertion that…