Sal Rodriguez

1 week ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Sal Rodriguez

Assembly Bill 379 is bad legislation. More on that in a bit. But it’s gained credibility thanks solely to the ineptitude of Democratic leadership in handling the bill and the fallout from the debate over it.

1 week ago | ocregister.com | Sal Rodriguez

Trump’s first 100 days delivered some libertarian wins, but mostly losses

1 week ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Sal Rodriguez

“Well, in the last year, I’ve been indicted by the government on 91 different things so if I wasn’t a libertarian before, I sure as hell am a libertarian now,”  declared then-candidate Donald Trump at the Libertarian Party’s national convention. Political candidates say all manner of things to get elected, but Trump’s  explicit pandering to libertarians was an unusual if welcome move for many in the libertarian movement. Still, talk is talk. How has Trump done  from a libertarian perspective?

1 week ago | pacificresearch.org | Sal Rodriguez

Two years ago, voters approved Initiative 135, which created the Seattle Social Housing Developer. Supporters of Initiative 135 the Seattle Social Housing Developer would be “a new, powerful tool to counter” the city’s housing crisis by empowering a governmental entity to develop and acquire properties for housing. Explained the House our Neighbors! campaign at the time, “Social Housing is publicly owned forever, permanently affordable, and creates cross-class communities and resident leadership.

2 weeks ago | pacificresearch.org | Sal Rodriguez |Kerry Jackson |Marc Joffe

Join Manhattan Institute fellow andWall Street Journal columnist Jason Rileyfor a live PRI webinar discussing his new book,The Affirmative Action Myth (Basic Books),in conversation with Lance Izumi,senior director of PRI’s Center for Education. In , Jason L. Riley details the neglected history of black achievement without government intervention. Using empirical data, Riley shows how black families lifted themselves out of poverty prior to the racial preference policies of the 1960s and 1970s.