National Review's Radio Free California Podcast

National Review's Radio Free California Podcast

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  • Episode 331: Newsom Fiddles in Rome, California Burns

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    Show Notes:

    • San Francisco’s Committee of Vigilance rises again (May 14, 1856)
    • When Newsom flies to Italy, a little-known nonprofit will foot the bill. Here’s what to know
    • California university president put on leave for ‘insubordination’ after meeting Gaza protesters’ demands
    • Police clear UC Irvine camp, make arrests after protesters occupy science building
    • ‘Maximize chaos.’ UC academic workers authorize strike, alleging rights violated during protests
    • University of California official says system has $32 billion in holdings targeted by protesters
    • California’s population is increasing
    • Tech jobs leaving California
    • Joint Legislative Audit committee votes 13-0 to audit Newsom administration’s return to office mandate for state workers
    43 min
  • Episode 330: Singing That Killers of the Flowers Tune

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    • The “Mexican” holiday began and continues in earnest – in a small California mountain town
    • Jane Fonda Day declared in LA County; she pushes for action on climate crisis
    • Lookout Santa Cruz, digital site with a backstory, wins Pulitzer for breaking news
    • Column: MAGA loves Gaza protests on campus. Here’s why
    • After violent night at UCLA, classes canceled, UC president launches investigation into response
    • Speaking of pro-Hamas protests
    • Rob Bonta saves Indigenous People from mayhem
    • DB on Fox Business
    • Michelle Steel grills Julie Su on California’s EDD meltdown
    • Crapo, Cassidy Demand Transparency on DOL’s New Policy Forgiving Julie Su for Losing $32 Billion to Unemployment Insurance Fraud

    Lance Christensen talks with Jonathan Zachreson and Scott Davison on California’s Protect Kids ballot initiative 

    • Protect Kids CA website
    • Courtroom News Service: California judge agrees to second look at language in proposed transgender initiative
    • Washington Free Beacon: California Parents Sue AG for Undermining Petition That Bans Sex Change Surgeries for Minors
    • KRCR: Gender identity initiative renaming rejected: legal appeal anticipated
    1 hr 26 min
  • Episode 329: Central Valley of the Dolls

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    • Thieves snatch Rep. Adam Schiff’s luggage in S.F. He gives dinner speech without a suit
    • New charges for protester charged with threatening Bakersfield council members, staff
    • UTLA May Day Celebration
    • Newsom celebrates storage milestone but confirms blackouts are not over yet
    • In killing this bill, California Democrats proved they’re lap dogs for Gov. Newsom 
    • Planned Parenthood Northern California workers unionize with SEIU Local 1021
    • Wonderful Nurseries workers hit UFW with charges detailing fraudulent union campaign, illegal discrimination
    • Prima Wawona collapse shines harsh light on private-equity owner
    • How a migrant farmworker built generational wealth, penny by penny

    Pacific Legal Foundation’s Jack Brown on reparations

    • New lawsuit filed in San Diego over race-based housing program
    • California occupational licensing bill picks winners and losers based on their race
    1 hr 13 min
  • Episode 328: How California Became ‘The Home of the Homeless’

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    Show Notes:

    • David L. Bahnsen Truist Shareholder Meeting Presentation Video
    • The complicated legacy of César Chávez
    • Dozens of pro-Palestine protesters arrested at USC following demonstrations
    • Cal Poly Humboldt closed through the weekend as protests continue
    • Secret Service agent assigned to Kamala Harris hospitalized after exhibiting "distressing behavior," officials say
    • Biden administration finalizes controversial minimum staffing mandate at nursing homes
    • Supreme Court divided on homelessness case that will affect California encampment policy
    • Reversing California’s decline
    • The California progressives trying to cancel affordable housing
    • Santa Monica approves $1 million per unit homeless housing project 
    • WATCH: The California progressives trying to cancel affordable housing
    • New bill aims to help Arizonans get abortion care in California
    • Calif. carmaker Fisker, once worth $2.9 billion, warns of looming bankruptcy
    • Tesla lays off more than 3,300 California workers, mostly in Bay Area
    • Clovis schools now more LGBTQ+ tolerant, union says. Here are the latest changes
    • This California school district passed a ‘forced outing’ policy. Now it’s backing down
    59 min
  • Episode 327: Run, O. J., Run!

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    Foundations of Freedom: The Importance of America's Constitutional Pillars
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    Show Notes:

    • Google fires employees over anti-Israel office sit-Ins
    • ‘Please leave!’ A Jewish UC Berkeley dean confronts pro-Palestinian activist at his home
    • Provost announces valedictorian won’t speak at graduation in May
    • A student sent a swastika to a Jewish lawmaker’s daughter. The response led to his new bill
    • Good riddance, O. J. Simpson
    • Becerra weighs exit from Biden administration for California gubernatorial bid
    • California is giving up to $150,000 to help first-time homebuyers
    • California’s ‘anti-literacy’ teachers’ union opposes science of reading bill, critics say

    Ed Ring’s Department of Water & Power:

    • High Speed Rail
    • Offshore wind
    • CO2 sequestration
    • The Delta Tunnel
    1 hr 30 min
  • Episode 326: Gavin Newsom Gets Hit by His Own Pitch

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    Show Notes:

    • 19 Pomona College protesters arrested after storming, occupying president’s office
    • Gavin Newsom says baseball saved him. But the legend of his career doesn’t always match the reality
    • 2022: ICYMI: California Poised to Become World’s 4th Biggest Economy
    • India could soon replace California as the world’s fifth largest economy, report says
    • Newsom wonders how Fox News will spin March jobs report
    • Unemployment Rates for States
    • Gavin Newsom pays $16 an hour
    • California progressives forced to play defense as state faces huge budget deficits
    • SB 1446: Grocery establishment and retail drug establishment employees: self-service checkout and technologies affecting essential job functions.
    • AB 2751: Employer communications during nonworking hours.
    • AB 2319: Asm. Lori D. Wilson (D-Suisun) 
    • California regulator takes income-based electric bills off the table
    • Edward Duplex
    1 hr 15 min
  • Episode 325: Julie Su Helps Julie Su

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    Show Notes

    • Dr. Greg Bahnsen and work
    • Stalled Labor pick Julie Su lets herself off the hook for California’s missing billions
    • California Sen. Laphonza Butler boasts ‘win’ for crime victims fund despite less money for the state
    • California lawmaker wants to end exclusive control over ticket sales
    • Sacramento to become a sanctuary city for transgender people
    • Berkeley settles lawsuit to repeal gas ban, in final blow to dozens of California measures
    • Ex-Caltrain employee, contractor charged with building secret homes at train stations

    Chris Bray on Community Choice Aggregation

    • California Democrats are Building a Giant Political Slush Fund
    • Looking Under the Hood: What Is Community Choice Aggregation Meant to Do?
    1 hr 33 min
  • Episode 324: How to Kill Business without Really Trying

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    Show Notes:

    • Before Jackie, Paige dueled Feller in league ahead of its time
    • Governor Newsom’s open letter to California’s Muslim, Palestinian American, and Arab American communities
    • Yerba Buena Center to reopen exhibition following pro-Palestine protests 
    • Christian group is ‘luring’ students with free pizza at lunch, Clovis parents say
    • Attorney General Bonta files lawsuit against Apple: Smartphone monopolization has stifled innovation, resulted In higher prices for consumers
    • CalPERS strongly opposes ballot measure that could kill pension funding
    • Gov. Newsom’s silly arguments against the Taxpayer Protection Act don’t stick
    • California’s unemployment rate rises to the highest level in the U.S.
    • State could derail BNSF’s $1.5 billion Barstow International Gateway, potential benefits
    • Neil Young ends Spotify boycott . . . because money
    1 hr 5 min
  • Episode 323: California Dems Discover Trump’s Virtues

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    Show Notes:

    • March 19: St. Joseph’s Day and the miracle of the return of the swallows to Capistrano
    • Will’s conversation with Mike “Dirty Jobs” Rowe
    • 'Find the Votes': Newsom scrounging for Democrat mail-in ballots to pass signature tax increase
    • California’s latest audited financials reveal a serious problem
    • California’s deficit: Bring your alibis
    • Katie Porter regrets calling primary election rigged. ‘I wish I had chosen a different word’
    • Inside California’s progressive “Dark Money” machine: How Democrats move union donations 
    • The harmful consequences of COVID-era school closures will be with us for years to come
    • Lawmakers want to help California be happy
    • Chino Valley revamps parental notification policy; LGBTQ+ allies fear legal escalation
    1 hr 7 min

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