Links for 5–15-23

😮 California’s $32 billion deficit

The Golden State? Newsom admits that California deficit is now roughly $32 billion. From: Jonathan Turley. The longer term question is how to reverse the exodus of high-income citizens, escaping rising tax and crime rates.

California reparations committee calls for ending cash bail and the prosecution of low-level crimes. From: Epoch Times/Zero Hedge. 🎯 A move to spread San Francisco-type crime and squalor to every city in the state.

EPA bureaucrats attempt to upend energy industry, ignoring SCOTUS decision that says they can’t. From: The Federalist. The new rules come after the Supreme Court struck down the agency’s unilateral rule-making authority to reshape the power grid.

⭐️ Who is better at raising your child, you or the state? From: Brownstone Institute. If the state protects children from their parents, parents have to protect their children from the state.

Four tipping points – is the left and its power collapsing? From: AMAC. A backlash to liberal extremism may only now be beginning thanks to a few events that have exposed the corrupt game the left is playing and could lead to a downstream effect throughout American society.

The unconstitutional myth of DOJ independence. From: American Spectator. Even the Right adheres to the DOJ independence fallacy.

🚗 Our Bourbons: electric vehicles are elitist vehicles. From: Eric Peters Autos. There isn’t a single EV available in this country that costs less than $40,000 that can go more than about 250 miles on a charge.

Is Donald Trump a werewolf? From: The Unherd. It’s no exaggeration to say that there are plenty of people who would gladly see Donald Trump broken on the wheel, beheaded, and burnt at the stake if they thought they could get away with it.

😬 A bit of excessive force? Man shot 9 times by cops making wellness check. From: Daily Mail. Shocking video of state thugs pouring 50 rounds into a car because an occupant was having a suicidal episode and in possession of a shotgun.

Are the wheels coming off Google's ROBOT CARS? SF is being used as a test track for driverless vehicles — but as they bring mayhem to the city’s streets. From: Daily Mail.

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