National Review Online The Democratic party portrays itself as the defender of the little guy, righteously battling corporate America and other powerful villains. Its appeals used to have a wide resonance, even among some members of my own family. But underneath the rhetoric and media spin, the Democratic party has emerged today as a vociferous protector of three entrenched and powerful groups -- Big Business, Big Government (specifically, public-employee unions), and the radical Left -- that pu...
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Along with California congressmen Jeff Denham and Kevin McCarthy, I sent a letter today to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack seeking the immediate re-opening of the Central Valley Meat Company meat-processing plant in Hanford, California. The Department of Agriculture recently suspended all operations at the plant after a video surfaced purporting to show plant workers mistreating livestock. Citing the idling of hundreds of workers at the plant, the regional economic damage resulting from it...
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Our jobs are under attack. Rural mountain communities are once again in the cross-hairs of liberal politicians and regulators. Having already devastated California’s mining and timber industries with laws and regulations limiting access to public lands, environmental radicals have moved full speed into a new round of limitations that impact recreational use of our National Parks. They want to eliminate the backcountry horsemen, the only means left by which many Americans, including those with di...
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Over the past several weeks, there has been a steady rant against the San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act, including an editorial by this paper ("Wading into the water war," June 19). Unfortunately these opinions disregard basic facts and are helping to perpetuate the phony and disingenuous arguments of liberals who have suggested HR1837 would somehow destroy the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta ecosystem. The delta is in decline and more species are threatened or endangered today than wh...
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Congressman Devin Nunes today announced that he will be speaking at the Tea Party Patriots’ march in Sacramento on Friday – an event expected to draw more than 30,000. “The theme of this march is “eco-regulation” and, more specifically, how radical environmentalists are contributing to the destruction of our way of life. As the Representative of an area under siege by laws and regulations written by environmentalists and their allies in government, I am particularly aware of the hardship this mo...
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