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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Episode 265: Ladies and Gents, Pro-Smoking Advocate Rob Reiner!
Why do Rob Reiner and the California Teachers Association love smoking?
Flying solo, Will speeds through the longest runlist ever and interviews two guests — author Robert Loewen ('Lioness of Leiden') and Philip K. Howard ('Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions'). In other notes, Newsom got bad state financial news Wednesday and responded with a tweet about Marjorie Taylor Greene. There’s record snow on the ground, but there’ll be drought restrictions by summer. California’s House Republicans are right on Ukraine. Why do Rob Reiner and the California Teachers Association love smoking? AG Rob Bonta says California’s gravest threat may be resort fees. The Wiener Watch is back. Music by Metalachi.
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Show notes:
- California storms left behind a ‘generational snowpack.’ What that means.
- How California can solve the Colorado water deficit
- Graham: Biden visit to Ukraine sends ‘right signal’ at ‘right time’
- House Foreign Affairs Chair McCaul leads GOP delegation to Kyiv
- US Congressman Issa says transfer of aircraft, long-range artillery to Ukraine is inevitable
- Born in 2007 or later? This California bill would bar you from ever buying a tobacco product
- Hezbollah cell funded by cigarette smuggling operation
- Attorney General Bonta announces three arrests in $7 million tobacco excise tax fraud scheme
- Bonta’s filing in cigarette-smuggling case
- National terrorist financial risk assessment (2015)
- Bonta on resort fees
- Keep breaking the law: Your government needs the money
- Excise taxes and fees on wireless services increase again in 2022
- Will California protect gay marriage in its constitution?
- Gov. Gavin Newsom asks feds to investigate California’s soaring natural gas bills
- What caused California’s natural gas winter price spike?
- New study exposes $4.5 billion in hidden state taxes on California utility bills
- Long Beach marina projects could be jeopardized once bill limiting oil production goes into effect
- California lawmakers to talk oil profit penalty — months after Newsom called special session
- Robert Loewen: "The Lioness of Leiden"
- Philip K. Howard: "Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions"
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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