HS-to-college athletics advisor and freshman baseball coach. Blessed by a 40-year career in sports journalism — 38 w/the LA Times … when it was worth reading.

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Oh, Hillary. Hillary, Hillary. You ignorant slut. As the Senior Military Aide to President Bill Clinton, YOU’RE military aide — the officer who carried the nuclear football in and out of the White House every single day — I saw the “people’s house” up close alongside you. @HillaryClinton Spare us the sanctimonious lectures. And turn on your replies, coward. When you and Bill left in January 2001, your staff ransacked the place. Remember? “W” keys ripped off every keyboard. Phone lines cut. Desk drawers glued shut. Obscene voicemails and vulgar graffiti left behind. Presidential seals and silverware stolen. Furniture damaged. The GAO confirmed the vandalism and theft. It wasn’t “transition friction” — it was a disgrace. You trashed the People’s House on your way out the door and now you’re clutching pearls over Trump? I remember, Hillary. I was there. Remember? The hypocrisy is Olympic-level, Ms. Clinton. And you know it! You of ALL people know it! The American people have long memories. Especially this one! Me! We remember who actually looted the place.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Shut up and color.
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Yeah buddy! And the cassette even played afterward!
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Hmmmm… politicians afraid of an audit. Wonder why. Hey, @kennethmejiaLA, if LA’s political hierarchy wants to tie your hands, maybe you should instead run for mayor next time!
LA Controller Kenneth Mejia said he was supposed to audit the missing homeless $. Because he was going to do an honest audit, Dems took the job away from him & hired an outside firm that doesn’t even do audits, then pd them millions for false results.
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Don’t worry about Elon becoming rich with his own money. Worry about politicians becoming rich with your money.
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Hello Senator.... This November it will be 50 years since you were first elected to Congress, so we want to be the first to say . "Happy 50th Anniversary of drawing a taxpayer funded salary." That is quite an achievement. In fact - you are 2nd longest-still serving member in Congress. It has been a long time since you held a private sector job. AND yes 50 years ago - in 1976 (it was America's Bicentennial that year) - people still punched clocks back then. The world has changed a lot. During your 50 years in Congress - you watched as the creators and inventors and producers changed the world, creating trillions in new wealth, millions of new jobs and dramatically raising living standards for everyone rich and poor alike. And for 50 years you have voted to raise taxes and regulate and oversee every move of the private sector. You have never created or invented or produced. Just taxed and regulated and outraged. But thank you for using the platform the "TRILLIONAIRE class" has provided to the entire world for free to tell us all how disgusted you are. We would never know otherwise.
Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. While working people struggle to get by, the billionaire class is becoming the TRILLIONAIRE class. It's disgusting. I'm fighting to tax the rich so we stop rewarding trading stocks over punching clocks.
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This clip of Charles Payne during Obama's second term is really incredible. Well done Charles. In 2010 Obama put the federal government directly in charge of lending money to students. Eliminating private lending made the loans much easier to get, but they were not less expensive. Before Obama took office, outstanding student debt was less than $100 billion. By 2015, outstanding student debt was approximately $800 billion and almost a third of the borrowers were in default. Of course the price of college continued to soar the entire time. This is the best part. Payne predicted that someday the politicians would be promising to forgive student debt as a way to buy votes. He was spot on. There are people like Ro Khanna on this site right now arguing that Elon Musk should be paying down the student debt when it's a problem that politicians created.
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To answer one of her questions: it makes ZERO sense.
On election night in Los Angeles County, I pulled every statewide race directly from the California Secretary of State’s official results page. Same ballots. Same voters. Same night. The governor’s race the most important, most advertised race on the entire ballot received roughly 100,000 fewer total votes than the controller and secretary of state races. On the same physical ballot. The exact numbers from the official SOS website: •Governor total votes: 796,467 •Controller total votes: 901,756 •Secretary of State total votes: 889,586 That means 105,289 more people voted for state controller than voted for governor. And 93,119 more people voted for secretary of state than voted for governor. Do you know what the state controller does? Most people don’t. It is one of the most obscure offices on the ballot. Yet it got more votes than the race that determines who runs the largest state in America for the next four years. All Republican governor candidates combined on election night: 222,712 votes Republican controller candidate (Herb Morgan): 302,552 votes Republican secretary of state candidate (Don Wagner): 291,650 votes That means roughly 70,000 to 80,000 people voted Republican in the controller and secretary of state races but did not cast a Republican vote for governor on the same ballot. These are not different ballots. These are not different voters. This is one piece of paper. Governor is at the TOP. Controller and secretary of state are further DOWN. People don’t undervote on the top ballot. They undervote on the bottom ballot. How does this make any sense? What am I missing people who are smarter than me?
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All I saw was “Slimy, greasy lowlife” and I knew the post was referring to @CAgovernor.
He is a sociopath and he cares about nothing. I interviewed him and have no idea who he is. I can’t say that about anyone else. The question is why is that attractive to people
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This seems on point, with receipts (all over social media) on these claims. So what’s the counterpoint? That government supervision (federal if local isn’t doing it)— or at least required ID — would scare legitimate voters away? Is that the best argument against?
Im sorry but President Trump is absolutely correct. The way California conducts their elections is a legitimate, credible threat to democracy: 1. Ballot harvesting is LEGAL, meaning 3rd parties are allowed to deliver thousands of completed ballots themselves with ZERO supervision or timeline. 2. There is ZERO requirement to show ANY type of ID when one comes to vote. 3. There are thousands of UNATTENDED drop boxes for ballots. There are DOZENS of examples of them being lit on fire, stolen, or bombarded with fake ballots. 4. The homeless are regularly paid to vote. The are given illegitimate addresses and coached through the process. 5. About 13 million of the approximately 16 million votes cast in 2024 were cast using vote-by-mail ballots. However, mail-in ballots are sent to every registered voter, whether you request them or not. California almost never updates their voting rolls, so ballots are REGULARLY sent to people who no longer live in the state, wrong address, or different person. My building alone had half a dozen such cases. 6. India had 660 million voters last election and counted the vote in one day. California has about 16 million and counting takes at least 30 days. This is a national embarrassment.
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Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921. They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year. Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move. They lost them for two reasons. The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs. In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack. Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet. That fight dragged on for years. The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois. Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting. So now it's all gone. The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything. Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize. Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up. But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works. Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team. And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago. Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes. Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team." There it is. "Billionaire-owned." That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line. Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it. Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return." When you run things this badly, you sell what's left. They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect. Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check. But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires." Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in. Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster. Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.
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I get it. This is ridiculous. But you still gotta live in Texas.
Woman who moved from California to Texas with her husband in 2022 compared their costs of living in both states, and the differences are eye-opening: California Home: $1.8 million Texas Home: $1.15 million California Electric Bill: $511/month Texas Electric Bill: $346/month California Water Bill: $448/month Texas Water Bill: $140/month California Gas Bill: $175/month Texas Gas Bill: $239/month California Car Registration: $830/year Texas Car Registration: $75/year California Gas Price: $5.89/gallon Texas Gas Price: $3.49/gallon California Property Tax: $22,000/year Texas Property Tax: $19,000/year And because Texas has no state income tax, they estimate they’re saving about $50,000 per year compared to what they were paying in California. For them, the move has resulted in significantly lower overall living expenses and a much larger financial cushion each year.
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If true, this has to be investigated.
Red flag… 🚩🚩🚩 39.3% vote in… Karen Bass had 117,579 Spencer Pratt had 86,323 42.4% vote in… Karen Bass 130,429 Spencer Pratt 86,323 Virtually every candidate received votes except for Spencer Pratt. Impossible.
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🚨 THIS IS DISGUSTING. What we’re watching in California is election corruption in plain sight. NBC just admitted it: “They’d need a flood of ballots coming in the wee hours of the morning to lift both Dems above (R) Steve Hilton.” While Florida and Texas had clear results on election night, California drags it out with mysterious late-night ballot dumps. This isn’t democracy. This is how a corrupt one-party state cheats to stay in power. Enough. If Republicans like John Thune actually fought back and demanded real election integrity reforms — paper ballots, same-day counting, voter ID, no more hidden mail-ins — we could stop this. Californians deserve better. Steve Hilton is fighting for real change. Share if you’re tired of the games. #StopTheStealCA #HiltonForGovernor #ElectionIntegrityNow
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Gavin Newsom yesterday: Can you believe what Trump has done to gas prices? He doesn’t even care that Americans are struggling. Also Gavin Newsom yesterday: Don’t forget California gas taxes go up yet again in July.
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It is difficult to imagine an American who has been a greater parasite on the public coffers than @BernieSanders. He has contributed NOTHING to the United States other than decades of cantankerous and sullen envy-fuelled anger at those who create.
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BIG ‼️ Steve Hilton announces he has drafted his first Executive Order for Day 1 of he wins the California Governor Race He says Day 1 Gavin Newsom will be under investigation for all the money that’s gone missing and lost to fraud lThis is establishing a California taxpayer fraud strike force. This will make sure that we investigate and prosecute the billions and billions and billions of dollars of fraud, theft of taxpayer money that has occurred over the last few years, including investigating Gavin Newsom” But it doesn’t stop there, these people will also be under investigation - Rob Bonta: Current Attorney General - Malia Cohen: Current State Controller Here’s 5 of the worst examples of stolen money in California - $32.6 billion in California EDD unemployment fraud during the pandemic - $24 billion spent on homelessness programs with little results and horrible tracking - $146 billion estimated lost to Medi-Cal fraud and improper payments - $50 million homelessness funding fraud scheme in Los Angeles - $23 million stolen by a South LA nonprofit executive from homeless services funds
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‼️California New “Mileage-Based Road Tax” that would charge drivers up to 2 cents per mile per vehicle, regardless of gas or electric.⛽️⚡️ ⚠️For the average driver logging 15,000 miles per year, this would mean about $300 extra per car, every year.💰 👀Supporters say the plan offsets declining gas tax revenue as EV adoption grows, while critics warn it would raise the cost of living for working families and commuters and introduce privacy concerns tied to mileage tracking.
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Progressives call them "homeless encampments," but they are open-air drug scenes. Ask the homeless themselves what their lives are like, and they will tell you it's about feeding their fentanyl & meth addictions and being victims of violence by other addicts and dealers.
Expensive housing, not drug addiction, causes most homelessness, say Democrats. It’s a lie. Addiction & mental illness are why people live on sidewalks. Progressives deny this reality to justify their pro-drug policies, which enable and trap addicts. @galexybrane
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Pull the plug
Well, today, the California High-Speed Rail Authority Board of Directors is scheduled to vote on the 2026 business plan. We don’t need a vote. We need to pull the plug on this costly government project. ICYMI: The Sacramento Bee published my Op-ed about the high-speed rail. Click on the link to read why the project needs to go. via: @sacbee_news Link to the read the Op-ed: shorturl.at/xG7WW #caleg
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Multiple vote-by-mail ballots just got torched inside a ballot box in Los Angeles… two days before the California primaries. Election officials found the burned mess, filed a police report, and now they’re investigating a second vandalized voting center. Real convenient timing, huh? This is exactly why sane people have been screaming about the massive risks of mass mail-in voting. TIME TO END MAIL IN BALLOTS!
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