LAUSD Officials Say They’ll Deport Unvaccinated Students to One of the District’s Poorest Performing Schools
LAUSD Officials Say They’ll Deport Unvaccinated Students to One of the District’s Poorest Performing Schools
Editor’s Note: A day after this commentary appeared, Los Angeles Unified announced it will consider postponing until Fall 2022 its decision to force unvaccinated students into the demonstrably failed City of Angels program. Engaged parents made this happen. Special thanks to UTLAuncensored, Reopen Schools, and other ParentUnion.com allies. News that a mother has accused Los...
By Will Swaim
Sacramento’s Surprise Reaction to the California School Boards Association Appeal for Police Help
Sacramento’s Surprise Reaction to the California School Boards Association Appeal for Police Help
California’s school board officials say “nothing in recent memory could have prepared” them for the danger they face as parents “lash out on a variety of topics, most notably opposition to state mandates and local COVID-19 mitigation measures.” That was the substance of a September 29 letter in which California School Boards Association (CSBA) CEO Vernon M....
By Will Swaim
Radio Free California Podcast Episode 201: Newsom’s Cabo Controversy
Radio Free California Podcast Episode 201: Newsom’s Cabo Controversy
French Laundry, the Getty Wedding, and now a family vacation in a Mexican resort remind us that our governor is auditorily challenged where political tone is involved. Eric Swalwell wants you vaccinated to protect his kids. Progressives threaten Feinstein over the filibuster. Dem’s federal budget includes tax breaks for government unions. Times are tough, but...
By Will Swaim
Listen: Radio Free California Podcast Episode 200: Mobbery in San Francisco
Listen: Radio Free California Podcast Episode 200: Mobbery in San Francisco
Mobs of thieves rob Bay Area stores, but California’s conservative counties are peaceful. Merrick Garland is still pushing the “terrorist parents” narrative. Liberals say Ivy Getty’s Hunger Games-style San Francisco wedding is evidence we need a wealth tax. The House that Kobe Built has a new name. David and Will weigh in on Gavin Newsom...
By Will Swaim
Radio Free California Episode 199: A Fast-Food Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Radio Free California Episode 199: A Fast-Food Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Assembly member Lorena Gonzalez, author of the infamous A.B. 5, is at it again, this time with an effort to unionize fast-food workers by extraordinary means. AG Rob Bonta threatens to bring down the house. CalPERS says it’ll have to accept greater risk to fully fund generous government-union retirements. Gavin Newsom extends his emergency authority...
By Will Swaim
Listen: National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast Episode 198: French Laundry 2: The Getty Afterparty!
Listen: National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast Episode 198: French Laundry 2: The Getty Afterparty!
Irony alert: Governor Gavin Newsom canceled his flight to Glasgow’s climate meet-up and then appeared at the lavish San Francisco wedding of oil-heiress Ivy Getty — and then magically makes natural gas “carbon neutral.” Sean Penn finds himself in the crosshairs of the National Labor Relations Board. Surveying epiphenomena of this sort, the city of...
By Will Swaim
Listen: Radio Free California Episode 197: ‘Punching the Golden Goose in the Mouth’
Listen: Radio Free California Episode 197: ‘Punching the Golden Goose in the Mouth’
San Francisco finds new and interesting ways to kill people and opportunities. Xavier Becerra takes California’s most lethal drug policies national on the Joe Biden Medicine Show. Your hosts also compare the Newsom recall with Glenn Youngkin’s big win in Virginia and consider Inglewood High School’s 106-0 football victory over Morningside. Music by Metalachi. Listen...
By Will Swaim
Normal parents fought Merrick Garland and saved America in just 18 days. In California, the battle continues
Normal parents fought Merrick Garland and saved America in just 18 days. In California, the battle continues
On October 4, Attorney General Merrick Garland directed the FBI to investigate parents of school-age kids who object to school closures, mask mandates, vaccine mandates, the teaching of critical race theory, and a new law that deprives parents of information about medical treatments recommended for school-age kids. Garland spied with his beady eyes a “disturbing...
By Will Swaim
Listen: Episode 195: Profiles in (Executive) Courage
Listen: Episode 195: Profiles in (Executive) Courage
Netflix execs handle/mishandle an employee walkout over the streaming service’s latest Chappelle special. In-N-Out tells San Francisco no, its employees won’t play the role of “vaccination police.” Elon Musk says he moved Tesla HQ to Texas in part because of Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez’s tweet in which she swore at him. President Biden shows how little...
By Will Swaim
Listen: Episode 194: Mind If We Smoke?
Listen: Episode 194: Mind If We Smoke?
National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast Episode 194 “Government mismanagement of California’s forests is making Americans everywhere sick. San Francisco is killing its black residents. Gavin Newsom makes mail-in ballots permanent, hands over Manhattan Beach property he says was stolen from its black owners in 1924, signs off on ethnic studies requirements for high schoolers,...
By Will Swaim
Listen: Episode 193: Oil, Academic Toil, and FBI Trouble
Listen: Episode 193: Oil, Academic Toil, and FBI Trouble
The Southern California oil spill reveals the immediate need to drill on land. U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland pours gasoline on the fire of public debate around masks, vaccines, and racial reckoning in the nation’s public schools. L.A. will require vaccination proof for all indoor spaces. A UCLA business prof suspended for “racism” fights back....
By Will Swaim
Listen: Episode 192: Gavin Newsom’s Theater of Pain
Listen: Episode 192: Gavin Newsom’s Theater of Pain
Latest episode of the Radio Free California podcast is out! Governor Newsom uses communities incinerated by wildfire to promote climate-change policies that will do little to mitigate the impact of decades of bad forest management, and then says he’ll make California a destination for abortion tourists. And we’ve got questions — like what does Assemblywoman...
By Will Swaim
Listen: Radio Free California Ep. 191
Listen: Radio Free California Ep. 191
Latest episode of the Radio Free California podcast is out! San Francisco mayor London Breed says she had to dance maskless in a nightclub, and blames the “fun police” for documenting the moment. How Newsom explains his recall win. L.A. County kills oil drilling (to kill working-class jobs). California liquor licenses remain a prerogative of...
By Will Swaim
Listen: Triumph of the Swill
Listen: Triumph of the Swill
Latest episode of the Radio Free California podcast is out! In this week’s episode of National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast, CPC’s Will Swaim and David Bahnsen discuss why there are reasons to remain hopeful following Governor Gavin Newsom’s win in the September 14 recall election, as well as some lessons learned. In other news, they...
By Will Swaim