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![Something has to break. Something has to break.](https://www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Financial_Wellness_Tax_Refunds_05641-1.jpg?w=132)
![Zuckerberg’s and Chan’s relentless attack on California taxpayers is difficult to understand. Zuckerberg’s and Chan’s relentless attack on California taxpayers is difficult to understand.](https://www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/OCR-Z-META-ELEX.jpg?w=132)
Jon Coupal: Good Zuck, Bad Zuck
Zuckerberg’s and Chan’s relentless attack on California taxpayers is difficult to understand.
![While this interview alone likely did very little to sway voters, it also did nothing to harm what has, to this point, been a successful strategy. While this interview alone likely did very little to sway voters, it also did nothing to harm what has, to this point, been a successful strategy.](https://www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/AP24222623648749.jpg?w=132)
Douglas Schoen: Harris’ CNN interview did little to sway voters, but she did a good job
While this interview alone likely did very little to sway voters, it also did nothing...
![The unending legal attacks The unending legal attacks](https://www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sut-z-trump-documents-1.jpg?w=132)
Susan Shelley: Jack Smith’s case against Trump is still an overreach
The unending legal attacks
![Meanwhile, I’m singing 1960s protester Phil Ochs’ ballad, “I Ain’t Marching Anymore.” Meanwhile, I’m singing 1960s protester Phil Ochs’ ballad, “I Ain’t Marching Anymore.”](https://www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/OCR-L-LBDRONE-0706-PB-11.jpg?w=126)
Trading places on war and peace is nothing new for Democrats and Republicans
Meanwhile, I’m singing 1960s protester Phil Ochs’ ballad, “I Ain’t Marching Anymore.”
![I give you the state of the male-run world. I give you the state of the male-run world.](https://www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/AP24061861271778.jpg?w=132)
Larry Wilson: Two of the three North American leaders may soon be women
I give you the state of the male-run world.
![We already have a spending problem. We already have a spending problem.](https://www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Pictures-of-the-Week-Global-Photo-Gallery-2.jpg?w=132)
Matt Fleming: Harris’s worst economic idea is taxing unrealized gains
We already have a spending problem.
![Our state is hardly an exemplar of good governance and its political weirdness is best left on the periphery Our state is hardly an exemplar of good governance and its political weirdness is best left on the periphery](https://www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/AP18047848371651.jpg?w=126)
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Steven Greenhut: Why, yes, let’s put California policies in the national spotlight
Our state is hardly an exemplar of good governance and its political weirdness is best left on the periphery
![Harris will not be obliged to do much with Prop. 36, and might be wise to avoid it altogether as a party-splitting hazard, even though that would leave her open to criticism for ducking the issue. Harris will not be obliged to do much with Prop. 36, and might be wise to avoid it altogether as a party-splitting hazard, even though that would leave her open to criticism for ducking the issue.](https://www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/SUT-Z-DNCa1-AP24236108350440_1bcd71-1.jpg?w=132)
Don’t expect Kamala Harris to be involved in Prop. 47-Prop. 36 debate
Harris will not be obliged to do much with Prop. 36, and might be wise...
![Democrats are embracing freedom and love of country as their campaign message. Democrats are embracing freedom and love of country as their campaign message.](https://www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/OCR-L-DNCDELEGATES-0821-1.jpg?w=132)
What to make of the Harris campaign’s embrace of ‘freedom’
Democrats are embracing freedom and love of country as their campaign message.