{"id":12658,"date":"2020-10-10T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12658"},"modified":"2020-10-09T00:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T07:43:00","slug":"californias-illogical-reparations-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/californias-illogical-reparations-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s Illogical Reparations Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>California\u2019s state legislature just passed, and Governor Gavin Newsom signed, Assembly Bill 3121 to explore providing reparations to California\u2019s African-American population \u2014 155 years after the abolition of slavery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently, when California\u2019s one-party government cannot find solutions to current existential crises, it turns to divisive issues that have little to do with the safety and well-being of its 40 million citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>California has the highest gas taxes in the nation, even as its ossified state highways remain clogged and dangerous. Why, then, does Sacramento kept pouring billions of dollars into the now-calcified high-speed-rail project?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When fires raged, killed dozens, polluted the air for months, consumed thousands of structures, and scorched 4 million acres of forest, the governor reacted by thundering about global warming. But Newsom was mostly mute about state and federal green policies that discouraged the removal of millions of dead and drought-stricken trees, which provided the kindling for the infernos.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/10\/californias-illogical-reparations-bill\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review California\u2019s state legislature just passed, and Governor Gavin Newsom signed, Assembly Bill 3121 to explore providing reparations to California\u2019s African-American population \u2014 155 years after the abolition of slavery. Apparently, when California\u2019s one-party government cannot find solutions to current existential crises, it turns to divisive issues that have little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3ia","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11690,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/californias-rendezvous-with-reality\/","url_meta":{"origin":12658,"position":0},"title":"California\u2019s Rendezvous With Reality","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 28, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Californians brag that their state is the world\u2019s fifth-largest economy. 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Something premodern and apocalyptic like this was not supposed to have happened\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Water&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Water","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/water\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/gettyimages-OrvilleDam-500x281.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9839,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/california-goes-confederate\/","url_meta":{"origin":12658,"position":2},"title":"California Goes Confederate","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review Threatening secession is far from the only thing that the Golden State has in common with the Old South. Over 60 percent of California voters went for Hillary Clinton \u2014 a margin of more than 4 million votes over Donald Trump. 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He argues that when examining California voter registration data at the county level, the polarization along party lines and the partisanship in the state are not as deep as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Democrats&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Democrats","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/democrats\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9549,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/lessons-from-the-highway-of-death\/","url_meta":{"origin":12658,"position":4},"title":"Lessons From the Highway of Death","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"By Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Town Hall California State Route 99 is the north-south highway that cuts through the great Central Valley. And it has changed little since the mid-1960s. A half-century ago, when the state population was about 18 million -- not nearly 40 million as it is today\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Immigration&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Immigration","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/immigration\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Lessons From the Highway of Death","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.townhall.com\/townhall\/reu\/ha\/2012\/279\/3bc46d6e-5de1-4b7b-a216-49aefb5e5ea1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12279,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/coronavirus-the-california-herd\/","url_meta":{"origin":12658,"position":5},"title":"Coronavirus: The California Herd","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 2, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The\u00a0bluest state\u2019s public officials have been warning for weeks that California will be overwhelmed, given federal-government unpreparedness and the purported inefficacy of the local, state, and federal governments. 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