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The Little Picture: Now in paperback and Kindle versions

The Little Picture: Now in paperback and Kindle versions

After years of blogging about the wrongheadedness of local governments, I’m happy to announce that it’s been expanded into a good-sized ebook and paperback that are now available from Amazon. To find it, just click here. You can get a generous preview by clicking Look Inside just above the book cover image.  And if you buy the book, a review would be greatly appreciated. (You can buy either, but…

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ENDORSEMENT FOR LAUREN CAMARDA

ENDORSEMENT FOR LAUREN CAMARDA

LAUREN CAMARDA For several years, my wife and I tried to sell a challenging property – a 20 acre horse farm with a manufactured home – without putting it on the mls. We tried this approach because we were worried that our boarders would leave when they learned the property was for sale.   Then we chose a new firm, Engel + Volkers, because of the size of their international network, and the…

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Free Ebook: With tools, templates, and techniques that help you beat Progressives at their own game.

Free Ebook: With tools, templates, and techniques that help you beat Progressives at their own game.

Recently, a friend said, “Democrats fight like cage fighters. Republicans fight like we’re playing ping-pong. It’s time we decide to win.” That’s the whole point of this interactive Ebook that I’m offering free this Saturday – Monday, October 16 – 18.  If you have a problem with any government mandate, issue, or wannabe dictator, this guide gives you effective ways to fight back. To get the book,…

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The Little Picture: Now available as an ebook or paperback. Buy it now, preview it here, or share the preview with your friends.

The Little Picture: Now available as an ebook or paperback. Buy it now, preview it here, or share the preview with your friends.

Talk about a big introduction: WordPress won’t let me shrink my book cover, so I guess they also think it’s a big deal. The ebook and paperback are available on Amazon, and below the cover picture, there are links to buy it, read a good-sized preview right here, or share the preview with friends who might be interested. And if you buy the book, a review would be greatly appreciated. If we want to…

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Indio, CA: Unofficial study reveals no systemic racism

Indio, CA: Unofficial study reveals no systemic racism

Study detail: Area of focus. The other day, I realized that Riverside County has moved into the Red Tier, so the bars and restaurants that have survived this 15-month lockdown can finally invite customers back inside. This was excellent news, since my wife and I have refused to hide under the bed through this pandemic. Instead, we have had patio dinners in 105 degree heat while being soaked by…

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Years of love to create; seconds of hate to destroy.

58 straight days of rioting and destruction??? That was 59 days too many.

What having pride in your craft looks like.

What having pride in nothing looks like.

Whether the tools of Antifa and BLM are spray paint, rocks, power saws, or gas cans, do the practitioners of destruction in Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and New York think they are morally superior to the people who made the things they destroy? We live in times that whipsaw between physically…

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Years of love to create; seconds of hate to destroy.

Years of love to create; seconds of hate to destroy.

What having pride in your craft looks like. What having pride in nothing looks like.

Whether the tools of Antifa and BLM are spray paint, rocks, power saws, or gas cans, do the practitioners of destruction in Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and New York think they are morally superior to the people who made the things they destroy? We live in times that whipsaw between physically…

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Defund the police? Former Harvard Professor says it could cost thousands of black lives.

Defund the police? Former Harvard Professor says it could cost thousands of black lives.

Dr, Roland G. Fryer.

At age 30, Harvard University Professor Roland G. Fryer was the youngest African-American professor to receive tenure from Harvard. Recently, the 43-year old economics professor has claimed that defunding the police could cause thousands of deaths. According to student newspaper called The College Fix, Professor Fryer recently published a working research paper called Policin…

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America now has 49.997 states: The CHAZ, formerly part of Seattle, secedes from Union.

America now has 49.997 states: The CHAZ, formerly part of Seattle, secedes from Union.

The CHAZ, in quieter days.

Looting is so yesterday. When you smash a whole block of store windows and pick their inventory cleaner than buzzards stripping roadkill, you’re pretty much done, because the owners aren’t likely to restock the stores for you. So on Monday night, June 8, protestors on Capitol Hill, Seattle, came up with a more sustainable plan. Just take the entire hood: Stores, houses,…

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Sonoma County Sheriff does the right thing for almost 72 hours, then rejoins herd of liberals

Sonoma County Sheriff does the right thing for almost 72 hours, then rejoins herd of liberals

Yesterday, I published a post congratulating Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick for taking a principled stand, and refusing to arrest people who violated Sonoma County’s unclear and often arbitrary Bat Flu orders. The story: On Friday May 29, Essick issued a statement that said “I’m not following this f–king health order, and my original statement that we’re done on June 1 stands until Dr. Mase is…

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Sonoma County Sheriff does the right thing; infuriates every office-holding Democrat in County.

Sonoma County Sheriff does the right thing; infuriates every office-holding Democrat in County.

I almost never have an opportunity to congratulate an elected official in far-left Sonoma County CA, but my hat is off to County Sheriff Mark Essick. (more…)

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New York Mayor's wife continues meteoric failure to the top

New York Mayor’s wife continues meteoric failure to the top

In 2014, I wrote that Chirlaine McCray, wife of newly elected New York Mayor Bill De Blasio, despite having received zero percent of the vote, began to exercise an outsized influence on New York City politics. Since then, her responsibilities, failures, and subsequent promotions have become increasingly larger. Her most recent promotion gives a person with no medical, or statistical background a…

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Bat Flu Feature of Riverside County mobile app encourages Americans to fink out their neighbors

When your government advises you to stay safe, that's common sense. When they encourage you to snitch anonymously on your neighbors, that's something else.

You’re just a few clicks away from snitching on your neighbors.

In a polarized America, what could divide us more even further? Unfortunately, Riverside County CA has created a fresh way.  In a press release dated April 10, they announced they have added a feature to their mobile app to report violations of COVID-19 related state and county public health orders.  They call it the COVID-19…

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Bat Flu Feature of Riverside County mobile app encourages Americans to fink out their neighbors

You’re just a few clicks away from snitching on your neighbors.

In a polarized America, what could divide us more even further? Unfortunately, Riverside County CA has created a fresh way.  In a press release dated April 10, they announced they have added a feature to their mobile app to report violations of COVID-19 related state and county public health orders.  They call it the COVID-19…

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Farmington, NM decides traffic-choking street remodel is more important than COVID-19 public health order.

Like most places in America, there are things you can’t do in Farmington, NM for a while: Enjoy dinner at your favorite restaurant. Go to the movies. See your dentist. Work out at your gym. Have an IPA at Three Rivers Brewery. Or get a haircut. (more…)

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A novel way to build business: Fine owners of empty storefronts.

A novel way to build business: Fine owners of empty storefronts.

Fewer regulations. Lower permit fees. Faster permit approvals. A talented workforce. These are a few of the reasons businesses gravitate to one city over another. They are also the key reasons why in the past eleven years, over 13,000 California businesses have left the state for friendlier destinations in Nevada, Texas, and beyond. (more…)

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San Francisco has no felons

There's no way that San Francisco could sit back and let Berkeley win the Newspeak Award.

There used to be hundreds, probably thousands of them. Felons who were out there, still uncaught. And felons who had done their time, and were back on the streets, looking to get a decent job, or slipping back into their own habits.

But now, because of a unanimous resolution passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in July, there are no felons. They’ve been magically replaced by…

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