L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise | Animals Are Property
By L. Neil Smith Last Friday I watched an episode of _The X-Files_ in which innocent zoo animals were being abducted — apparently by benign, superior UFOsies (the ones who mutilate cattle and stick huge needles in women’s bellies) — to save them from a despicable mankind responsible for the erasure of thousands of […]
L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise | Bernie Sanders Wants You Dead
By L. Neil Smith Sometime in the late 1950s, when I was ten or twelve years old, there was a program on the radio called “What We Must Know About Communism”, apparently an audio treatment of a book of the same name by Harry and Bonaro Overstreet, covering the entire subject from Hegelian dialecticism […]
Investors Entitled to Federal Preferential Tax Treatment Available on Certain Oxnard Land
Oxnard, California – Investors may be eligible for additional federal tax benefits if they invest in certain properties within the City of Oxnard. Three communities in Oxnard have recently been designated Qualified Opportunity Zones under the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. They include: Rose Park, located within the boundaries of 101 Freeway (North); Oxnard City […]
2 Malibu property owners fined $5.1 million for blocking access to public beach
LOS ANGELES — For decades, patient some Malibu property owners have made it hard for the public to reach public beaches. This week, check the California Coastal Commission fined two of those property owners more than $5.1 million for denying surfers, sand castle builders, kite flyers, sun bathers, yoga enthusiasts and other beachgoers access to […]
Threat to Property Owners — Immediate Action Requested!
THE THREAT TO PROPERTY OWNERS: Senate Bill 1298 (SB 1298) (State Senator Bob Hertzberg, D—Los Angeles) seeks to undermine Proposition 218’s requirement that stormwater assessments must be approved by property owners via a mailed ballot election. Hertzberg’s legislation would make it easier to raise your property taxes. ACTION REQUEST: Contact State Senator Bob Hertzberg (the author of SB […]
California Approves Use of Transfer Upon Death Deed
In California, where property values are high, the cost to probate an estate for the transfer of a home is costly. As such, savvy homeowners take action to avoid such costs via trusts or via property ownership which includes a right of survivorship. Thanks to the Assembly Bill 139, which becomes effective on January 1, […]
Abolish the Second Amendment: We Don’t Need It–Part 2
[Despite his critics, order Servando still thinks that the Second Amendment must be abolished. You will find his first article on the subject HERE] In his famous 1929 painting The Treachery of Images, Belgian Surrealist painter Rene Magritte depicted a very realistic pipe, but added the paradoxical caption, “This is not a pipe.” Magritte’s point […]
