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
How Many People Have Left California Unions?
How Many People Have Left California Unions?
Some 300,000 Californians have stopped paying membership dues or fees to California’s government unions since 2018, the year the Supreme Court of the United States, in Janus v. AFSCME, ended mandatory union membership requirements for state and local government workers. The 20 percent drop in membership has allowed California workers to keep approximately $240 million...
By Will Swaim
Listen: Their own private Idaho
Listen: Their own private Idaho
New episode of Radio Free California is out! In this week’s episode of National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast, CPC’s Will Swaim and David Bahnsen discuss the downside to letting California’s conservative counties join Idaho, and Kamala Harris’ clumsy message to Central Americans that set the Left off. They also dive into California’s latest COVID...
By Will Swaim
The California Union Exodus
The California Union Exodus
Anybody with eyeballs is pretty thrilled to read the news out of California: one of the state’s most powerful government unions is getting out of politics. Richard Brown, incoming president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), won election last week on a promise to end the union’s political spending, to cut member dues, and...
By Will Swaim
Listen: The dodransbicentennial edition
Listen: The dodransbicentennial edition
New episode of the Radio Free California podcast is out! The latest episode of National Review’s Radio Free California podcast, featuring CPC’s Will Swaim and David Bahnsen, is out! This week, they discuss how the Golden Gate Bridge got its name 175 years ago, chat about a big-name-politician who might throw her hat into the...
By Will Swaim
Listen: Radio Free California
Listen: Radio Free California
New episode of the Radio Free California Podcast is out! California Policy Center’s own Will Swaim and David Bahnsen are at it again with their latest episode of National Review’s Radio Free California podcast. In this week’s episode, they discuss a barnyard metaphor used by a Santa Clara County official to describe the tawdry relationship...
By Will Swaim
Listen: The non-racist math and science episode
Listen: The non-racist math and science episode
New episode of National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast is out The latest episode of National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast is out, featuring California Policy Center’s Will Swaim and David Bahnsen. This week, they discuss the California Department of Education’s pronouncement that math is racist in its ongoing race to the bottom. In other...
By Will Swaim