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California's Green New Scam Could Cost You $20,000
Fox News | May 7, 2025 | Wayne Winegarden & Kerry Jackson

California has long fancied itself a beacon of environmental progress, a state willing to lead the charge in combating global warming.

But the reality is that this pursuit of a “green” future is coming at a staggering cost to California consumers and businesses, a cost that’s becoming increasingly unsustainable.
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Free Healthcare For Non-Citizens: A Bad Idea That Costs Too Much
Right By The Bay | Wayne Winegarden & Nikhil Agarwal | May 7, 2025

As we noted in an earlier Spending Watch piece, growing economic volatility will likely cause revenue growth to be much weaker than expected for the upcoming FY2025-26 budget. It is, consequently, fiscally irresponsible for the Governor and Legislature to be considering any new government programs – the focus should be on imposing strict spending control.

Given this context, Assembly Bill 4 (AB 4) is disconcerting. If passed, AB4 would extend health insurance coverage to all undocumented immigrants.
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China Is Preparing To Go To War In Space
Gordon Chang Report | Gordon Chang | May 4, 2025

On April 24, a Long March 2F rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China and carried the three taikonauts of the Shenzhou-20 mission to the Tiangong space station. There, they replaced the Shenzhou-19 crew and now are scheduled to remain in orbit for six months. Shenzhou-20 is the ninth crewed mission to China’s three-module, T-shaped outpost, which was fully assembled in October 2022 and is now about 20% the size of the International Space Station.

China plans to expand and keep Tiangong in orbit for at least a decade. NASA, on the other hand, expects to deorbit the ISS, as the five-partner space laboratory is known, at around the end of 2030. When the largest space station in history comes down, China will have the only crewed outpost in orbit.
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