California Dreaming Californians for the last several decades have dreamed of making their State an American Utopia. And California’s governments accordingly have taken actions intended to help its citizens realize those Utopian dreams. The steps taken by government action and ballot-box referenda have shaped...
The Faithless Electors of America's Electoral College Americans have been complaining about the compromises that went into creation of the Electoral College for centuries … almost since the first days of the Republic. An editorial headline in the August 30th New York Times captured the...
Laws, Regulations … and Conservative Values Bret Stephens wrote an editorial in the New York Times on July 26th that addressed concerns he has with something he termed “conservative nationalism,” which he defined as nationalism cloaked in the mantle of conservatism. In the editorial, Stephens...
It’s Congress’s Fault America’s Constitutional system provides for a sharing of power among the three branches of Federal government: the executive (the President); the legislative (Congress); and the judicial (the courts and, ultimately, the Supreme Court). Each branch has the primary responsibility for a...
Insider Trading Everyone’s doing it …, right? Of course not. Everyone knows that it’s against the law to trade on inside information … right? And that stealing mis-appropriating material, nonpublic information for personal gain will get you into deep legal trouble … right? Everyone...
Government Regulation Is government regulation good for America … or bad for America? The answer, of course, is that sometimes it’s good and sometimes it’s bad. How can you tell the difference? The goal of regulation is to both ensure public safety and create a clearly-defined set of operational...
