These days, California is bleeding residents, and the exodus shows no sign of abating.
Crabtree and McFatter track the myriad causes:
spiraling lawlessness,
soaring costs,
blackouts and brownouts,
collapsing infrastructure,
crippling regulations,
ever-escalating taxes,
pervasive corruption, and a
failing court system...
In 2023, 28 percent of all the homeless people in America were in California, even though the state has only 12 percent of the national population.
Crabtree and McFatter cite figures showing that violent crime has spun out of control under Newsom’s watch. In 2022, homicides jumped by 33.9 percent and aggravated assaults by 25.3 percent.
Retail thefts skyrocketed to the point that many stores simply closed up and moved away...
A Biden-appointed federal judge who recently imposed nationwide restrictions on how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents can make arrests is poised to potentially release hundreds of illegal aliens arrested by federal agents in the Chicago area.
This is what the Norwegians found recently to their great alarm and sudden consternation when they took delivery of some Chinese-manufactured electric buses, made by the Yutong company.
A security check uncovered something they hadn't been expecting...
"The Democrats selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump. The 'unnamed victim' referenced in these emails is the late Virginia Giuffre, who repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and 'couldn’t have been friendlier' to her in their limited interactions."
One of the most revealing — and frightening — reactions came from an unidentified Muslim man who interpreted Mamdani’s triumph as nothing less than divine approval for Islam’s ultimate conquest of America. In the video below, he told supporters:
One in eight incoming students, meaning they’ve already been accepted into one of the most prestigious university systems in California, needs remedial math.
Of those, a full quarter of them could not correctly answer the question: 7 + 2 = ___ + 6
It gets worse when it comes to literacy. About 20% of incoming students were not writing at an acceptable college level and needed remediation.
