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Sunday, June 29, 2025

Social Security and Medicare clocks tick to depletion

As President Donald Trump and Congress fumble through his One Big Beautiful Bill on the budget for fiscal year 2025-26, they have been ignoring the mastodon in the room: Social Security and Medicare are heading into depletion.

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LAO study on theft offers few answers

Few political issues energize the public more than ones involving public safety for obvious reasons.

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Newsom’s taxpayer-funded towel guys are really bad at their jobs

Maybe that’s too much introspection for towel guys, but it’s a question they should ask themselves at some point.

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Jon Coupal: Assembly Bill 84 is an assault on taxpayers and students

Lawmakers who care about fiscal responsibility and educational freedom should vote no.

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California budget deal cooks the books again to hide big ‘structural’ deficit

Were a private corporation to cook its books like the state government does, its executives could wind up in jail for fraud.

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Social Security and Medicare’s trustees have spoken. Will pols listen before the cuts hit?

Both programs are barreling straight toward insolvency.

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America’s most lawless agency: ICE is the prototype for tyranny

And the agents of this domestic war? Masked thugs. Unmarked vans. Raids. Roundups.

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Susan Shelley: The outlaws of California

Enjoy the rest of the movie

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Larry Wilson: Moscow’s Pussy Riot and the Police State everywhere

The condemned man represents the symmetrical, inverted figure of the king

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The cost of state inaction—the future of California’s water supply

Water conflicts are inevitable in dry California, but such conflicts with deteriorating ecosystems and climate conditions will be far more expensive and frustrating without state leadership and facilitation.

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