Columnist.
I know you've been busy binging the exciting coverage of the Democrat National Convention. But have you heard the latest bit of horrible news from the once golden state of California?
It's the opening of fire season in California. But the biggest threat to the people of the state right now is Gov. Gavin Newsom and his shifting rules about closing businesses and schools to fight the coronavirus.
I'm happy to report I haven't heard Nancy Pelosi's name in five days. I haven't heard President Trump accused of being responsible for 159,000 COVID-19 deaths since last week. And I don't even know if Portland was burned to the sidewalks last weekend by its permanent mob of "peaceful protestors." I'm not in Heaven. I'm in Newport Beach in a rented house by the sea.
It takes strong and responsible leaders to defend their citizens from violence and destruction.
Biden is obviously cognitively impaired, he's morphed into a Bernie Sanders lefty and he's been making wrong decisions about race and foreign policy for half a century in Washington. Yet his boosters and protectors in the liberal media would have us believe that if he's elected president America's serious problems will miraculously disappear.
Despite evidence from Germany and elsewhere in Europe that children are virtually immune to COVID-19 and rarely if ever spread the virus to adults, some teachers and administrators say they want to skip school this fall because they're worried about the health of "their" kids.
The other day I mentioned to my son Cameron something I heard the great economist Thomas Sowell say. Sowell had reminded the Black Lives Matter protestors who were indiscriminately toppling statues and defacing monuments around the country that a lot of white people were instrumental in ending slavery.
There was even more yelling and screaming than usual in Washington this week. I'm not talking about the "peaceful" demonstrators in Lafayette Park, who were putting ropes and chains on the statue of Andrew Jackson and trying to pull it down. I'm talking about in Congress, where there's always a lot brave yelling and screaming about "We gotta' do something about this" and "We gotta' solve that."
While everyone is demanding that police departments fix themselves, shouldn't somebody be saying to the black population and its leaders, "Hey, wait a minute. What are you doing to reduce violent crime in your own communities?"
Getting rid of the police. Now there's a brilliant, progressive way to improve the criminal justice system.
OK, protesters, we get it. You were angry, sickened and sad about the cold-blooded killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Who do you know who wasn't?
I feel terribly sorry for the hundred thousand Americans who've lost their lives to the coronavirus. I also feel sorry for all the small business owners in the country who have become innocent victims of the government's mishandled war on COVID-19.
Don't tell the people in charge, but my friend's wife is a member of the L.A. resistance. She's been regularly going out into the underground economy to get her hair done.
The disease experts and the panic-pushing media initially scared the pants off California's 40 million people with their predictions about the death toll of the coronavirus pandemic.
A month ago I said it will be the public that makes the decision to reopen America, not the government. It took too long, but that's exactly what has happened.
California was well down the road to becoming a Bernie Sanders-model socialist state when the coronavirus crisis came along.
Out here in sprawling Los Angeles, where half of the state's 1,512 COVID-19 deaths have occurred, things are getting goofier and scarier all the time.
Here in California, the coronavirus apocalypse we were warned to expect never happened.
What's the use of living in sunny L.A.? It's bad enough that it has been raining for what seems like months. Now I have a mayor, Eric Garcetti, telling me I'm not even allowed to go out of my house on Easter weekend.
It's lucky I'm being such a good American and sheltering at home.
