Category Archives: CA

CA as Outlier – Pt. 2

The indispensable Joel Kotkin looks at the California model, its questionable long term feasibility, and what it would mean to see “California as Alt-America”: According to the most recent Social Science Research Council report, the state overall suffers the greatest levels of … Continue reading

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CA as Outlier – Pt. 1

In Investors Business Daily, John Merline puts HRC’s popular into perspective: Democrats who are having trouble getting out of the first stage of grief — denial — aren’t being helped by the fact that, now that all the votes are … Continue reading

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Calexico: The Future of the U.S., Pt. II

From Fox News Latino (sigh…): SAN DIEGO (AP) –  The U.S. Justice Department issued a scathing review Wednesday of a small town’s police practices in a big drug and immigrant smuggling corridor on California’s border with Mexico, finding a lack … Continue reading

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CA: 40% of Driver’s Licenses in 2015 Went to Illegals

From the State That is the Future of America: The passage of California’s Assembly Bill 60 allowed undocumented immigrants to pursue driver’s licenses beginning on January 2 of 2015. In the next year, 830,000 people applied for licensing under the … Continue reading

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The Laws of Gravity

Things aren’t going too well for the CEO Dude who decided he would just, like, raise everyone’s pay to, like, a minimum of $70,000: The Seattle CEO who reaped a publicity bonanza when he boosted the salaries of his employees … Continue reading

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Calexico: The Future of the U.S.

The more that American cities and towns become Mexican-dominant, the more those American cities and towns will resemble Mexico. Mexicans have very different ideas of what ‘government’ is and does, and what ‘la policia’ is and does. The appropriately named … Continue reading

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L.A.: Homeless Camps

I’ve long believed that L.A. — all the glorious consequences of its ‘vibrant’ multiculturalism — represents the future of America, and the future of America will increasingly resemble Rio de Janeiro, that is, gated communities surrounded by sh*t and mayhem. … Continue reading

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Kotkin: “What Will Our Latino Future Look Like?”

In “What Will Our Latino Future Look Like?”, demographer Joel Kotkin (who is not a conservative, it should be noted, and who is also a CA native) takes a hard look at illegal immigration and its impact on CA’s trajectory: … Continue reading

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CA Looks to Ban Confederate Flag

In the ‘as-goes-CA-so-goes-the-nation‘ dept: CULLMAN, Ala. — California is looking to bar the “Stars and Bars.” A bill sits on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk to ban California from displaying or selling the Confederate flag or objects with images of it. … Continue reading

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Gov. Jerry Brown to Mexican Illegals: ‘You’re All Welcome in California’

It’s at the top of Drudge and its pure surrealism is worth repeating here: On Monday evening, California Governor Jerry Brown said all Mexicans, including illegal immigrants, are welcome in California. According to the Los Angeles Times, while introducing Mexican … Continue reading

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