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Government Thinks You are Fat and Stupid
Governments continue the perpetual war in Oceania, Eastasia, or Eurasia—for us, tobacco, plastics, and soda—in order to keep the people distracted and to justify their own jobs. It seems that every election cycle, another major city floats a soda tax as a do-good measure to improve public health. I saw it almost happen in New
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July – December 2018: We are Growing
Here is a quick highlight reel of what that the LPSF has accomplished in the second half of 2018. Looking at all this together, it’s clear that we are growing fast and accomplishing quite a lot with little resources. I’m very proud of the work that we’ve done and the progress we are making. THANK
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Looking Back
This will be my final regular article for the LPSF Newsletter, and for a change, I’m going to go with a normal title and not one of my eclectic ones that often had folks scratching their heads. I have voted with my feet and moved to New Hampshire to be part of the Free State
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Book Review: “Liberal Fascism” by Jonah Goldberg
The full title of this book is Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. It’s an inflammatory title, not helped by the lurid red book jacket highlighting a bright yellow smiley face with a Hitler mustache drawn on it. If an Internet troll who decided to
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Giving and Taking
It’s Giving Week, where people come together to celebrate the spirit of giving. It is truly inspiring and humbling to see our fellow man donate their time and money to support causes that they believe in. We come together as a community and show how much we care about each other, and our compassion is
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Post-Election Blues
We have been through two intense election cycles in 2018, neither of which produced good results for liberty in San Francisco or California. Facing the ballot results can be discouraging, to say the least. Measures that we have devoted many days of work to oppose passed with ease and candidates that we spent our free
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Throwing the Baby Out with the Bath Water
Why do government bureaucrats often throw common sense out the window with inflexible, illogical rules? A perfect example comes from Southern California where the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), which is the second largest in the nation, has started enforcing a policy it’s had for years but has largely been ignoring. Now that enforcement
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Small Steps Toward Justice
In September, Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 1793, Cannabis convictions: resentencing. The bill amends Prop 64 (2016), the Adult Use of Marijuana Act and requires the state to erase or reduce prior sentences for marijuana possession. Assemblymember Rob Bonta, who sponsored the bill, stated “Long after paying their debt to society, people shouldn’t continue to
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How Millions of Voters Delude Themselves and Undermine Democracy
It’s kind of amazing that something so central to many of the issues we see and read and hear about in the news every day, something on which billions of dollars and countless hours of scheming by political “professionals” are expended every year, continues to be so widely misunderstood. Yes, that description can be
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November 2018 Ballot Recommendations
These are our recommendations for the local + state measures on the November ballot. Have questions about our recommendations? Email ballot@LPSF.org. A B C D E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO YES YES – NO NO NO NO John