State-Local Issues

Bambi Is an Insurance Company Actuarial Liability

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My dad, Tom, always had a theory that automobile insurance companies would eventually destroy deer hunting. Not because they hated hunters or because a shadowy cabal of claims adjusters met beneath Lansing every full moon, but because Dad understood basic economics: deer hit cars, insurance companies pay for cars, and insurance companies don’t enjoy paying for cars. To a hunter, a big Michigan whitetail is November tradition. To an insurance actuary, he’s a hood, grille, radiator, two airbags and a rental vehicle standing beside the highway eating grass. Dad didn’t need a conspiracy theory. He understood something far more powerful—incentives. Eventually, somebody was going to put Bambi into MS Excel.

Where Are the Watchdogs? The Media’s Deafening Silence on Government Fraud

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Where are the watchdogs? I have been asking myself that question for months. It is a story every American needs to hear, yet legacy media outlets have decided you don’t need to know.

Subsisting Behind Enemy Lines In Dirty Blue WA, OR, Tale #112: Among Most Expensive States To “Live Comfortably,” Study Finds

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Subsisting Behind Enemy Lines In Dirty Blue WA, OR, Tale #112: Among Most Expensive States To “Live Comfortably,” Study Finds

Are you getting tired of Dems suddenly concerned about “affordability” now that Biden is out of office and Trump 47 is in? The same Democrats and media talking heads did not care when the Biden Regime intentionally created 21 percent inflation, pushing many Americans into poverty.

Michigan Adds Another Felony Because You Used an iPhone

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I learned something while sitting on a Michigan jury that sent me down one hell of a rabbit hole: Michigan can separately criminalize using a computer to commit a crime. In 2026, when your phone, truck, watch, bank, doorbell and possibly your toaster are computers, that starts sounding suspiciously like an enhancement for breathing oxygen while committing a crime.

Dad’s Permanent Trailer Plate Has Entered the Surveillance State

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Dad thought “permanent trailer plate” meant permanent. Government apparently meant, “until you buy another trailer, peasant.” For generations, recycling an old trailer plate was the kind of technically-wrong rural economics nobody noticed unless a cop had an actual reason to look. Today, cameras, databases, and algorithms potentially can notice—and remember—things no human officer ever would have bothered with.

That raises a bigger question than Dad’s Great Trailer Plate Crime Spree: **When technology makes it possible for government to notice nearly everything, should it?**

DEMANDS for FBI to re-interview California candidate amid CORRUPTION case

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California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton joins ‘Sunday Morning Futures’ to discuss state economic policies and request a federal investigation into his opponent Xavier Becerra.

Visiting Behind Enemy Lines, Tale #103: Three Pennsylvanians Toured Portland, Called It A “****hole”

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Three tourists from Reading & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, spent a week on the West Coast, coming home to declare that Portland is a “shithole.” “Why do these people shit where they eat?” Jack asked his granddad who responded “Democrats!” 

574 Governments, Zero Consensus

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The myth that America would magically function better with more political parties ignores one stubborn fact: more factions don’t automatically create more agreement. Look at the 574 federally recognized tribal governments. They don’t speak with one voice—and they shouldn’t be expected to. The 2022 renaming of 643 geographic features proved that even within Native communities, history, language, and culture are far more complex than Washington’s one-size-fits-all solutions. Diversity of opinion is a strength, but pretending there’s only one “correct” voice is politics masquerading as consensus.

Can Socialists Actually Learn Anything?

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I raised, in our after-Mass Bible study group — contrary to some Protestant claims, Catholics actually do read the Bible! — a theological question: can God, who is omniscient, learn? My question was inspired by this: God, being all powerful, cannot be hurt, but by taking human form, Jesus suffered the agony of the crucifixion, …

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Water Wars Were Supposed to Be Here by Now. AI May Have Other Plans.

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Twenty years ago, military planners and policy experts warned that the wars of the future would be fought over water. The wars never came—at least not in the way we expected. Today, however, a new competitor is entering the fight for one of humanity’s most precious resources: artificial intelligence. As massive data centers consume vast amounts of power and cooling water, rivers, lakes, and aquifers are becoming strategic assets once again. The future battle for water may not involve tanks and soldiers, but corporations, regulators, and communities struggling to determine who gets access to the fuel that powers the digital age. Perhaps the water warriors of the early 2000s weren’t wrong. They were simply ahead of their time.

Washington’s Million Dollar Income Tax Deduction Was Designed To Be Deleted

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Washington's Million Dollar Income Tax Deduction Was Designed To Be Deleted

The greedy Democrats and Communists who own WA State want to confiscate 9.9% of income from EVERY earner, retiree and business, regardless their level of income. Their power madness has reached the “we will never, never, never cut spending so we must, must, must take more money from the earners” stage.

Homeowners Living Behind Enemy Lines In Dying Portland, Tale #97: Keeping Homeless Industrial Complex Funded

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Homeowners Living Behind Enemy Lines In Dying Portland, Tale #97: Keeping Homeless Industrial Complex Funded

When Portland officials finally arrived last December, they punished the homeowner instead of removing those who were illegally camping just on the other side of his hedge, the only thing that protected him and his children from the homeless hordes, loud noises, disgusting behavior.

Living Behind Enemy Lines With BLM-Seattle’s Head Terrorist, Tale #93: Katrina Marie Johnson

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Living Behind Enemy Lines With BLM-Seattle's Head Terrorist, Tale #93: Katrina Marie Johnson

Meet Katrina M. Johnson, the woman who organized 4 months of rioting in Seattle in 2020 which slaughtered 2 innocent black teens. That cost Seattle taxpayers $30,500,000 in restitution to their families. Then, Dem governor appointed her to the Criminal Justice Training Commission to choose who can be sheriff.