We don’t need to change the Constitution. We need to follow it By Andrea Seastrand
We don’t need to change the Constitution. We need to follow it By Andrea Seastrand September 30, 2017 7:17 PM The United States has one of the longest-lasting constitutions in the world. That’s a testament to the foresight and knowledge of our Founding Fathers, who...
State-run health system would be a disaster
By Andrea Seastrand • Political satirist P.J. O'Rourke once quipped, “If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.” Let’s hope we never have to find out. Unfortunately, a bill making its way...
California’s liberal Legislature voted for communism
By Andrea Seastrand • No political philosophy has done more worldwide damage than communism. Since the Bolshevik revolution 100 years ago, the legacy of communism has been tens of millions of people executed, tortured, starved, imprisoned, worked to death...
Make a phone call, go to jail?
By Andrea Seastrand • At the same time that tens of thousands of criminals are receiving reduced sentences and being transferred from state prisons to county jails or onto our streets, an 86-year-old Atascadero widow might be thrown behind bars...
Stop assaulting conservative speech on college campuses
By Andrea Seastrand • Of all of the rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, none is more important than the right to free speech. That importance is signified by the fact that it appears in the first of the 10 amendments, and before freedom...
Californians can finally celebrate Tax Freedom Day — a week after most other states
By Andrea Seastrand • Happy Tax Freedom Day — a day that should be a national holiday. Coined by the Tax Foundation, it’s the day we’ve finally earned enough to pay our federal, state and local taxes, and begin working for ourselves and our families. Nationally it...
‘Safe Haven’ schools put illegal immigrants ahead of safety
By Andrea Seastrand • When State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson sent a letter to school districts urging them to declare their schools “safe havens,” you might assume he focused on things like providing more security officers and cameras, along...
Be careful, Californians – or you might wake up in the People’s Republic of Taxifornia
By Andrea Seastrand • It sounds crazy, but Californians could wake up a few years from now to find themselves no longer living in the United States, but instead in the People’s Republic of Taxifornia. Or perhaps our left coast workers’ paradise will be called the...
Pension tsunami about to hit San Luis Obispo
By Andrea Seastrand • There are three warning signs of a tsunami, according to the American Geosciences Institute: severe ground shaking from local earthquakes, water receding from the coast and a roaring sound similar to a train or jet aircraft. A pension tsunami is...
Our highways need improving. But it shouldn’t take new taxes to do it.
By Andrea Seastrand • Look out, Sacramento politicians are coming for your wallet once again. Gov. Jerry Brown and many state legislators want to raise gas taxes and vehicle license fees by billions of dollars to pay for transportation repairs and improvements. And...