Contributor: Congress may finally touch the third rail of American politics
Its representatives may finally seize the dreaded “third rail” of American politics. When Social Security and Medicare trust funds run…
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Contributor: What's behind these crazy new estate tax proposals?
When the government grows to dominate larger and larger portions of the economy and when politicians refuse to be accountable…
AI windfall helps California reduce projected $3 billion budget deficit
SACRAMENT- California and its state-funded programs are heading into a period of volatile fiscal uncertainty, driven largely by events in…
Trump's resentment against California could lead to the next important oil spill
For a coastal community of California, an oil spill has devastating and lasting consequences. These catastrophes kill tourism and local…
FTC alleges that the group fraudulently turned the Taylor Swift seats in Ticketmaster
The Federal Trade Commission accused a dark group of flood tickets with false accounts to buy and resell tickets for…
Letters to the editor: Expand the NVIDIA agreement to share income with other industries
August 13, 2025 8 am pt To the editor: If President Trump feels comfortable by extracting 15% of NVIDIA's income…
Column: the 'mission pump made' rate is just that
On May 1, 2003, George W. Bush announced: “The important combat operations in Iraq have ended.” He was standing under…
The government has a 'debt addiction', not an expense addiction
To the editor: Rugy Veronique contributing writer states that the federal government has an “spending addiction” that is causing economic…
Review of 'The Motorician': revisited
It was the beginning of the 1980s when the residents of a neighborhood in Pasadena noticed something wrong in the…
Blame tax cuts for the expansion of the deficit by the Republican Party
To the editor: Virtually all comments on the “a great Big Beautiful bill” that approved the camera notes of the…