Rip Van Moonbeam Awakens And It’s Still 1980

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  August 24th at 11:22 PM  | 

I confess: on some level, I like Jerry Brown. He’s one of those guys – like Pat Moynihan, Paul Tsongas or Bill Bradley – who really, truly and honestly believes in the goals of liberalism, yet is periodically honest enough to be blunt about its failures in the real world. He even studied to be a priest, way back when. One can argue, as Steven | Read More »

Gov. Brown’s Office to Conservative Californians: Leave the State!

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  July 11th at 09:30 PM  | 

So, a member of the Riverside County Board of Supervisors – Jeff Stone, a Republican – has proposed splitting the state of California, with San Diego and the largely rural, Republican-leaning south east of the state becoming “South California,” and LA remaining with the liberal coast and northern part of the state. You can follow the link to the LA Times for the map of | Read More »