Hector And Mike Experience - Common Sense In An Uncommon World

Republicans used to be the masters of mail ballots, but then came Donald Trump. Across the nation, as voting by mail (absentee) expanded, President Trump talked about mail fraud and voting machine manipulation and insisted that Republicans cast their ballots in person, not via absentee. On November 8, Election Day, Californians experienced severe rain throughout the state. How many voters fell ill...

Before the election, Hector and Mike wondered if Fetterman in PA would be the unforced error that costs the Democrats the Senate. But when the votes were counted, Fetterman was a Senator-elect, and the Red Wave mania turned out to be a Red-Wave illusion. Will GOP learn from its many mistakes or resort to the circular firing squad? The political pilgrimage to Georgia begins with every political ope...

Georgia was ground zero in 2021 when the MLB All-Star game was moved from Atlanta to Colorado because of election integrity laws passed by the Georgia Legislature. Even the President and Vice President got involved calling it “Jim Crow 2.0” and saying it would “suppress the vote.” On Tuesday, Georgia voters will decide with their feet and their vote by going to the polls and voting. Right now, Geo...

Rather than begging foreign nations to increase oil production and lower their price, President Biden should just call up Gavin Newsom and have him sign the 1,200 oil permits that are collecting dust on his desk. There is no need to negotiate with countries who hate us and have purposely decreased oil production to side with Russia which is the Vice Chair of OPEC. We should become energy independe...

US Senate candidate John Fetterman could have stepped down after his stroke and let the Democrats select another candidate. His argument would have made common sense - life-changing event, need to take care of his health and be there for his family, politics can wait. But instead, he let his ego overtake his common sense. Will it cost the Democrats a seat they thought they would win, and will it r...

Hector and Mike take a close look at Proposition 1 which would put in the state constitution the right to an abortion. But can a ballot measure that is only 37 words actually protect a woman's right to choose, or does it open the legal Pandora's box that puts the decision back in the hands of judges and lawyers?

Hector and Mike look at the various races around the country and the fight for the U.S. Senate, and answer the question will  a Republican Red Wave reach California or crash short of the Golden State?

Gavin Newsom is in Montana, running ads in Florida while running for Governor of California - the clear message to Kamala is that Newsom and his team don't believe she will make it out of the primary in 2024 if Biden doesn't run. Gavin Newsom television ad in Florida, discusses the freedom and independence in California? But how much freedom do we really have? California has become a give-away sta...

Hector and Mike talk about a piece of legislation that got out of committee. State Senator Melissa Melendez tweeted this: "Today the Senate Health Committee passed SB 1446, which says everyone has a legal right to housing and gives them the right to sue if they don't get it.” SB 1446, or as we call it, “The Trail Lawyers Full Employment Act” is exactly the kind of legislation that makes California...

California Democrats love to boast about how California is #1. The problem is when Dems yell “we’re number one,” it usually means a pile of number 2 for California taxpayers. On Friday, April 19, California Democrats in the Legislature will refuse to hear and fail to report any legislation that would temporarily repeal the gas tax and give taxpayers some much needed relief. Not only won’t there be...

he election is seven months away, but Gavin Newsom is already playing the Trump card on GOP endorsed Governor candidate State Brian Dahle. In a zoom meeting with campaign volunteers, Alexei Koseff (CALMatters reporter) wrote on Twitter that Gov. Newsom accused Brian of supporting the January 6 attack and not acknowledging Biden as president: "This guy is Trump through and through.” This line of at...

The California Republican Party held its spring convention in Anaheim this past week, and it featured Congressman Kevin McCarthy. The path to a Republican House comes through California, and the Minority Leader took the opportunity to raise the roof at the GOP Convention. The hope of the party faithful is that next time Kevin addresses the State GOP Convention, it will as Speaker of the House. Mik...

High gas prices, inflation, and a flip-flop foreign policy agenda are causing more anxiety for millions of Americans as they get ready to vote in a few weeks. The GDP cratered in the first quarter of the 2022 to go along with the highest inflation in the last 40 years. How bad are President Biden's numbers? Just 26% of Hispanic and 41% of youth voters approve of the job Biden is doing. And America...

Crime is up in California, yet Sacramento politicians still don’t want to increase the penalties on criminals. They continue to support the early release of prisoners. This past week they voted to continue allowing convicted criminals who sell children for sex to get out of custody before their full sentence is complete. They voted to make the human trafficking of minors a non-serious and non-viol...

In this episode, Hector and Mike discuss the slap - Where paper beats Rock. What if Taylor Swift had slapped Kayne West? Would the reaction have been the same? Hector brings up the funny Don Rickles and Frank Sinatra story. We look at Joe Biden’s talking points on his latest budget - full of new taxes. What’s the truth of these new taxes helping out Americans? What good does being the climate lead...

State Senator Brian Dahle has thrown his hat in the ring to take on Gavin Newsom for the Governorship of California. Dahle is from Lassen County and currently represents the northeast part of California. A “David versus Goliath” challenge. Here are some quick facts on Dahle from ABC 10 News: He was born Sep. 20, 1965 in Redding. He lives in Bieber, Calif., with his wife Megan Dahle. He has three c...

Milltown Mel, a groundhog who has for years offered his weather predictions on Groundhog Day, has died. Rest in Peace, Mel. Groundhog Gavin: Talking about groundhog day, Gavin Newsom gets caught again not wearing his mask as he continues to defend his mandates. When confronted by reporters, Gavin responded that he was “very judicious” and took off his mask out of respect to Magic Johnson. I doubt...

After 28 years on the Supreme Court, Justice Stephen Breyer will step down at the end of the current term. Joe Biden and the rest of the Democrat Party are looking for Breyer's replacement. One name that has popped up as a potential nominee is California Justice Leondra Kruger. Kruger, appointed to California's Supreme Court by Gov. Jerry Brown in 2014, is widely known in Washington legal circles,...

Joe Biden says that if you support voter id, you are racist, yet I have to show id and my vaccination card to enter a restaurant in LA. Even in Mexico, they have voter id. Biden has polarized the right and alienated the people in the middle and some Democrats. This type of intolerance is not what many expected from the Biden/Harris administration - the people who voted for them expected a more mod...

A New Year but the same rookie mistakes by VP Kamala Harris. In an interview with Administration-friendly MSNBC VP Harris came across as out of touch, told people to “GO Google,” lacked basic facts of the Administration’s  own program, and somehow ended up giving props to the work of the Trump Administration. Last night, Vice President Kamala Harris sat down with MSNBC reporter Craig Melvin t...

While antibody levels eventually wane, some people lose them in a few months. Mike discusses his 4th vaccine. With record snow and water, Governor Newsom's administration institutes water fines. Where is all that water going? Why is it being flushed into the ocean? Denmark launched a children's TV show about a man with a giant penis. This penis helps walk dogs, can be used as a pogo stick, and eve...

Thanks to Lanhee Chen ( ChenForCalifornia.com ) for pointing out the State Controller’s Financial Information System for California (FI$Cal) accounting system that has been in the works for 18 years, at the cost of $1 billion, and it is still not completed. 18 years and more delays. As @Lanheechen pointed out: “It took 7 years to land on the moon after JFK’s moon speech and 4 yrs to build the Gold...

Hector and Mike look at a bonehead move by the Internal Revenue Service requiring thieves to list all the stolen property on their 2021 taxes forms. At first, many reporters and communications experts thought it was fake news, but it is real. https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article256887637.html Hector and Mike also provide an update on the new CDC isolation/quarantine requi...

As Mike sits in his home, drinking hot chocolate, Hector is out on the beach for some relaxation. In this episode, Hector and Mike look at who is getting candy canes or coal - Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Gavin Newsom, etc. We hope you had a wonderful and safe Christmas.

The Hilda and Jesse restaurant in San Francisco asked three uniform officers to leave because some employees were uncomfortable because they were armed. Then they went online to brag about it, saying that their restaurant was a “safe place.” Here is where the hypocrisy kicks in: Once the online firestorm erupted, the owners, Rachel Sillcocks and Kristina Liedags Compton, apologized, saying, “We ho...