[This is an article that first appeared at the launch of the new website, Breitbart California.]

“Maybe we can start again, in the new rich land—in California, where the fruit grows. We’ll start over.”

– John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

America is the greatest nation on Earth—and California, by virtue of its population, wealth and natural resources, its greatest state. With its natural beauty—from the hard rock coast of North California to its redwood forests, from the Napa Valley to the San Francisco Bay, from Malibu to Newport Beach, from Dana Point to La Jolla—it is inconceivable that God did not foreordain that Californians would wake every morning with gratitude in their hearts for the great good fortune of living in such a wonderful place. READ MORE…