Will Swaim is the CEO of the California Policy Center and, with David L. Bahnsen, a co-host of National Review’s Radio Free California podcast.
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Did the New York Times Just End Scott Wiener?
State Senator Scott Wiener is angling for Nancy Pelosi’s seat — but a NYT.
State Senator Scott Wiener is angling for Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat but a New York Times magazine investigation links Wiener’s 2022 “Safer Streets for All Act” to a boom in the sex-trafficking of children in California. In other news: Newsom matches Trump in the theatrical use of National Guardsmen, the Los Angeles school teacher who called for armed resistance to immigration enforcement, the “Wealth Tax” makes a California comeback, and how I Love Lucy changed television and the world. Bonus: Lance Christensen discusses some 800 bills now turned into law, as Gavin Newsom force-feeds Californians already choking on regulation. Music by Metalachi.
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Show Notes:
- Can Anyone Rescue the Trafficked Girls of L.A.’s Figueroa Street?
- Newsom Says Trump Is ‘Rigging the Election’ With Federal Poll Monitors
- Inside the Tech CEO Campaign to Stop Trump From Sending Troops to San Francisco
- National Guard troops, deployed by Newsom, arrive at LA Regional Food Bank amid government shutdown
- The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012 The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012
- Los Angeles teacher says ICE agents are 'not the only ones with guns' following shooting of federal agent
- Should billionaires pay more? California unions want voters to decide
- The Force awakens in San Jose
- Cash payments to unhoused people likely won't end homelessness, but recipients spent wisely, California study says
- Phillips 66, Kinder plan first-ever California-bound fuel pipeline
Bill-O-Rama with Lance Christensen:
- SB 414 (Ashby) – Regulating charter schools to death (cf AB 84, Muratsuchi) – VETOED
- SB 848 (Perez) – Stop passing the trash teachers bill from the Senate Ed Chair – SIGNED
- AB 1454 (Rivas) – Holding school districts accountable for literacy scores now that AB 1454 (Rivas) passed
- AB 1370 (Patterson) – NDA prohibitions for the legislature (Zavala interview) – SIGNED
- SB 237 (Grayson) – Allowing more oil drilling in CA – SIGNED
- AB 1207 (Irwin) – Continuing cap and tax program – SIGNED
- Is cap and tax slowly dying to accommodate need for massive increase in electrical production to provide for more AI, datacenter capacity? (CalMatter's piece)
- AB 628: A Costly New Mandate For California Landlords – SIGNED
- AB 1264 that eliminated ultra processed foods for kids, but is still gung-ho on sterilizing and mutilating them (Gov press release) – SIGNED
David L. Bahnsen is the managing partner of a wealth-management firm and a frequent writer and public commentator on matters of economics, faith and work, and markets.




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