National Review's Radio Free California Podcast

National Review's Radio Free California Podcast

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  • Episode 341: One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Landed in a Tent on the Street

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    • Democrats Eager to Prop Up Kamala Harris as Biden Teeters
    • Unburdened by what has been: The case for Kamala Harris
    • CNN: Calling Kamala Harris a ‘DEI hire’ is what bigotry looks like
    • Will the Grants Pass ruling on homelessness spur smaller cities to shoo people into L.A.?
    • State Sen. John Moorlach’s history of homelessness in California
    • TIMELINE: FBI political corruption investigation involving Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, Duong family
    • Rob Bonta’s on-again, off-again ties to the Duongs
    • Sam Bankman-Fried’s Campaign Spending Spree Was a Family Affair
    • The latest sign that California is a fiscal basket case
    • ‘Read My Lips: I Lied’
    • Three Los Angeles County Men, Including Third Striker, Charged with Special Circumstances Murder of 69-Year-old New Zealand Woman During Fashion Island Robbery
    1 hr 14 min
  • Episode 340: Chevron Deference & California’s Regulatory Ottoman Empire

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    • St. Junípero Serra statue targeted by protests in 2020 is now settled in a new home
    • USC prof cleared
    • Natalie Bowles in the Free Press
    • Gavin Newsom had sex with his best friend’s wife, who allegedly ‘showed up passed out’ outside Newsom’s door
    • List of California state agencies
    • Justices uphold laws targeting homelessness with criminal penalties
    • Governor Newsom statement on Supreme Court’s homeless encampments decision
    • SF City Attorney issues statement on U.S. Supreme Court decision in Grants Pass
    • Mayor London N. Breed on the Supreme Court Decision in Grants Pass
    • Mayor Bass slams Supreme Court ruling allowing failed homeless policies across the nation 
    • Rob Bonta’s on-again, off-again ties to the Duongs
    1 hr 17 min
  • Episode 338: Fear of the White Black Studies Scholar

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    • Measure to restrict tax increases cannot appear on November ballot, California Supreme Court rules
    • Jerry West, Lakers legend and architect of ‘Showtime’ era, dies at 86
    • Willie Mays, San Francisco Giants legend and MLB all-time great, is dead
    • ‘California wins big’ with Biden’s new immigration policy shielding undocumented spouses
    • Less than half approve of Newsom, the California legislature, and their own legislators
    • A major disinformation research team's future is uncertain after political attacks
    • UC Berkeley firebomb suspect, 34, lives with parents, has PhD
    • ‘End Slavery in California Act’ clears key hurdle
    1 hr 13 min
  • Episode 336: Unleash the Hounds

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    • US VP Harris welcomes rescue of hostages, mourns innocent lives lost in Gaza
    • Harris blasts Rep. Byron Donalds for comments on Black families under Jim Crow
    • Judge halts UC academic workers’ strike, citing ‘damage to students’
    • A year after Newsom called for constitutional amendment on gun safety, no other states have joined him
    • Sacramento’s tax rebate giveaway two years ago is coming home to roost
    • Newsom’s charter school funding proposal could strip millions from 5 Bay Area counties
    • California lawmakers in standoff with Gavin Newsom over $400M loan to keep Diablo Canyon open
    • Southern Poverty Law Center labels conservative California organization a ‘hate group’
    • It’s time for corporate America to ditch the Southern Poverty Law Center
    • Celebrity chef vows to never open another business in California until they ‘fix things’
    • California GOP lawmakers boycott after Republican booted for ‘pedophile protector’ comment
    • Gov. Newsom, Democratic leaders are trying to negotiate Prop 47 reform off the November ballot
    • America’s most corrupt governor (Rep. Kevin Kiley on X)
    • Will in NR: A California campus brings anti-Israel activism to Its Jewish Studies program
    56 min
  • Special Episode: The Year of Living Dangerously Stupid [335]

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    • Mari Barke congressional testimony on the impact of illegal immigration on public education
    • Politico’s Carla Marinucci endorses Rep. Robert Garcia (D–Long Beach) on Fauci testimony
    • Back to schools: Orange County’s board of education recommendations on school reopenings during Covid
    • Hiltzik: Inside Orange County’s bizarre school-reopening vote
    1 hr 8 min
  • Episode 334: Unstrange Bedfellowness

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    • Solar project to destroy thousands of Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert
    • Rubio’s Coastal Grill, citing rising business costs, abruptly shuts down 48 restaurants in California
    • California lawmakers unveil budget rejecting Gavin Newsom spending cuts. Here’s their plan
    • New bill in California legislature would allow undocumented college students to work on campus
    • Senator Portantino, lawmakers & arts advocates rally for arts funding
    • State Senate approves Min’s voter ID protections
    • Big expansion of UC strike over pro-Palestinian protests: Irvine, San Diego, Santa Barbara next
    • Denied again: UC fails a second time to get court order to stop academic workers’ strike
    52 min
  • Episode 333: She Is the Eggman

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    • ‘He was Mr. San Diego’: Basketball icon Bill Walton remembered for his generosity, philanthropy, civic pride
    • Local non-profit discusses Bill Walton's involvement on trying to curb homelessness crisis
    • Eric Abbenante on Walton on X
    • S.F. removes controversial ‘Appeal to Heaven’ flag from Civic Center Plaza, saying it has been co-opted
    • Lifeguard who took down Pride flags at beach sues L.A. County over religious discrimination
    • UC Irvine soothes pro-Hamas critics by hiring two of them 
    • ‘Genocide’: Oct 27 letter from UCI’s anti-Israel Jewish scholars
    • Jewish Studies’ scholars say Jewish Studies MUST demand a ceasefire 
    • Pro-Palestinian protesters shut down Sacramento Memorial Day service
    • California academic workers strike in support of pro-Palestinian protests
    • Newsom administration releases plan that could speed up California insurance price increases
    • California’s $25-an-hour minimum-wage boomerang
    • Gavin Newsom is ‘just a prick,’ Andrew Cuomo is a ‘complete jacka–,’ New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu declares
    • Alabama AG Marshall leads 19-state lawsuit against California & others threatening energy system
    • CalPERS to vote against ExxonMobil directors at shareholder meeting
    • California launching pilot program to charge drivers for miles driven

    Lance Christensen:  Teachers union kneecaps Newsom

    • Gavin Newsom and teachers union resolve their budget beef
    • Measure to restrict the rights of trans youth fails to qualify for California ballot
    • AB 1955: Eliminate parent notification in schools
    • Gov. Newsom, school groups settle funding fight, with some more money coming as IOUs
    • Democrat California senator blasts party over pedophile jail sentence fight: ‘I’m done with us’

    Hank Muddmann of Turning to the Right: Open season oil

    • As oil revenue disappears, Long Beach may pursue new tax to help balance its budget 
    • Will living near an oil well in California give you cancer?
    • The oil tax still in the ground
    2 hr 2 min
  • Episode 332: Gavin Newsom Doesn’t Care about Black People

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    Show Notes:

    • Another surprising reason Joe Biden should now step aside
    • Daily Show brutally roasts Kamala Harris word salads by introducing her ‘holistic advisor’: ‘A process I call speaking without thinking'
    • Sonoma State president retires after being placed on leave for supporting anti-Israel boycott
    • UC Santa Cruz academic workers stage strike over UC protest response
    • WSJ: Gavin Newsom says no new taxes
    • State Assembly passes bill apologizing for California's role in supporting slavery
    • California’s looming crime catastrophe
    • Legislative audit committee unanimously passes review of state worker return-to-office mandate
    • Gavin Newsom confronted at press conference about missing $24bn spent on tackling homelessness
    • S.F. program gives homeless people free booze. Here’s why the city says it’s helpful
    • Long Beach health officials to screen 175 people for tuberculosis amid outbreak
    • Lawmakers just quietly killed a bill to keep your PG&E bill in check. They better have a backup plan

    Lance Christensen: Teachers launch budget fight with Newsom

    • Teachers criticize Newsom's budget proposal, say it would 'wreak havoc on funding for our schools'
    • California district agrees to pay $360K to teacher who refused to use students’ preferred pronouns
    • Following ADF lawsuit, CA library changes policy, allows women's sports discussion
    • Kern Board of Education approves policy on appropriate books in classrooms, parents can now file complaints
    • As Black college enrollment lags, study suggests strengthening communities

    Brian T. Allen: California art

    • The old California missions: Force for good or evil?
    • Impressionism’s rebels, from Paris to California: Light, light, and more light
    • Moving past paint in California art
    2 hr 38 min

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A show about the perilous state of the Golden State—and what that means for you, wherever you live. California is the hothouse lab of the Left, the nation-state creating the statist policies, art, and…

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