ICYMI - Highlights From Last Week - And some video of the Vice President (& Fam) at Disneyland!
It’s been quite a week. Here’s your chance to maybe circle back on some stories we ran this week. Along with a few other fun tid-bits!
Vice President Vance and his family found one place in Southern California where they have walls and unauthorized entry is not allowed. They went to Disneyland yesterday! Here they are strolling through Tomorrowland, complete with grows of Secret Service and Disney Security folks (spectators said his entourage was around 50 people!). Someone caught them walking in Adventureland, just after getting off of Big Thunder Mountain. And here is the VEEP and fam floating along on Tiana’s Bayou Adventure Ride. (If you’re obsessing another spectator caught them getting off the ride. I wouldn’t look for any photos of them waiting in any lines…
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Okay, the week that was on the “So, Does It Matter?” Substack!
A week ago Friday President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill into law. After having time to think about it, I take the time in this analysis to share what I think is the best part about the law. Hint: It’s not the tax cuts, nor the spending on fighting against illegal immigration…
Rent Control has been a disaster for California. In this column I walk you through six different ways that this centralized price control measure, coming primarily out the State Capitol, actually hurts the very people it is intended to help. And makes our housing crisis in California even worse.
Reparations For Descends of American Slaves? Here in California, we have a group of progressives (who love using wealth-redistribution as a “tool” like good Marxists) who have decided that somehow, in this state that never had slavery, that we need to have laws on the books to grant special privileges to the descendants of American slaves. It’s a bad policy idea. And it’s likely not constitutional. And is it real or a political game?
California Patriot: Julie Hamill! Every week we profile a California Conservative Patriot — someone who is making a true difference for the cause of liberty a freedom here in very blue state. Very pleased to share with you the profile of attorney and school board member Julie Hamill. She’s amazing — and when you read this, I’m sure you will agree!
Tucker Carlson’s Big Oops! I have a lot of respect for Tucker Carlson. But admitted less than I did at the start of the week. He made a decision to interview the “President” of Iran, who is the bitch for the Supreme Leader - who has called Jews a “cancer” and for the end of Israel. I lay out my opinion pretty strongly here.
This ICYMI highlights less than half of what ran on my Substack this week alone. I had two great posts on Gavin Newsom’s campaign trip to South Carolina! If you have total FOMO you can go to the main page, and from there pick out whatever you want to read, going all of the way back to our launch!
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ONE GREAT VIDEO - Having returned a great, long family vacation, it’s taking me a while to get back in the groove. But I did post up on video commentary. Below I go through the dynamics surrounding the U.S. Department of Education ordering the California Department of Education, and the CIF, to stop allowing boys to play in girls competitive sports. After two weeks, they responded…. Check it out. And then below the video, is what happened later in the week on this issue.
And here is the rest of the story. Lawsuit time!
A few more things…
Some good news — when you travel through an airport you can now be almost as cool as the people who pay for TSA Pre-Check. I hope you like your Keloggs Cereal to be chocolate, like all of the time. If that’s not alarming, how about the death of parties? If all of this worries you, well you can have a long, in depth chat about it with your Tesla!
Have a great Sunday!
Jon
P.S. Yes, illegal entry is a CRIMINAL violation of U.S. law.