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California’s crime spree and Gov. Gavin Newsom

Written on 14 Aug, 2025 in Featured, Opinion | 2 comments

OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL While Gov. Gavin Newsom is closing one prison after another in California, criminal activity has not abated in our state for a myriad of reasons. In the City of Santa Barbara, at their recent annual Old... (Continue reading)

A long list of undesirables – elected, blind and otherwise

Written on 30 Jul, 2025 in Featured, Opinion | 21 comments

OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL Do you remember in the 1977 film “Star Wars” when Obi-Wan Kenobi described the infamous saloon as a “wretched hive of scum and villainy”? Is that not an apt description of the former convicts arrested at... (Continue reading)

Local politicians ignore the marijuana industry’s ugly underbelly

Written on 21 Jul, 2025 in Featured, Opinion | 7 comments

OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL As the saying goes, our elected officials are entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. Pretty much every single south Santa Barbara County politico including supervisors Roy Lee, Joan Hartman and Laura Capps,... (Continue reading)

Immigration extremes, demography, and the Inability to change

Written on 12 Jul, 2025 in Featured, Opinion | 20 comments

OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL The left in America has always frustrated any attempt to reform our immigration system by way of their demands for amnesty, read that full citizenship rights, for all illegal aliens. They would want us to believe... (Continue reading)

California’s doom loop versus original no kings movement

Written on 4 Jul, 2025 in Featured, Opinion | 11 comments

OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL I have written previously about California’s war on energy which is destroying our economy. Yet, the war on energy is but one facet of the war on our liberties and freedoms. I sat in on a... (Continue reading)

Destroying California’s energy sector, part two

Written on 28 Jun, 2025 in Featured, Opinion | 6 comments

OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL California has made a complete and total costly mess of our energy sectors. Please consider sharing part one and this part two overview because too few people understand the magnitude of the incompetence that is serving... (Continue reading)

Destroying California’s economy one energy sector at a itme

Written on 21 Jun, 2025 in Featured, Opinion | 18 comments

OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL The Diablo Nuclear Power Plant in Avila Beach generates some 10% of California’s electricity supply without generating any greenhouse gases. It represents $1 billion in annual economic contributions to our region including a $226 million payroll.... (Continue reading)

Who will save the planet from Laura Capps and friends?

Written on 6 Jun, 2025 in Featured, Opinion | 14 comments

OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL The environmental movement reminds of the true-life story of a man who killed both of his parents and then sought to appeal to the sympathy of people by claiming the status of an orphan. Enviros today,... (Continue reading)

Happy Easter Sunday

Written on 18 Apr, 2025 in Featured, Opinion | 12 comments

OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL Most Americans don’t correctly understand the phrase in the Declaration of Independence having to do with the pursuit of happiness. The best interpretation of the meaning of the phrase in that era comes from the Massachusetts... (Continue reading)

Nefarious purposes and stupid ideas galore

Written on 11 Apr, 2025 in Featured, Opinion | 16 comments

OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL Thanks to DOGE, we know that the Biden administration, as well as previous administrations, were spending billions via the U.S. Agency for International Development program for nefarious purposes and stupid ideas. Then, there was the  Environmental... (Continue reading)