
Cornell Law School professor William A. Jacobson, who also founded the highly respected Legal Insurrection blog, has addressed the question of Ted Cruz’s eligibility for the presidency, along with several other candidates.
by Joel B. Pollak7 Jan 2016, 6:31 AM PST0

His mother was a U.S. citizen at the time of his birth, though his father was not. Under U.S. law at the time, he was automatically a U.S. citizen. And according to the most widely-accepted interpretation of the U.S. Constitution’s “natural-born citizen” requirement, the populist, conservative leader is also eligible to run for President of the United States.
by Joel B. Pollak7 Jan 2016, 5:18 AM PST0

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump attacked his main internal rival, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), on Tuesday, noting that Cruz’s Canadian birth could be “very precarious” for Republicans: “Republicans are going to have to ask themselves the question: ‘Do we want a candidate who could be tied up in court for two years?’”
by Joel B. Pollak6 Jan 2016, 7:24 AM PST0

North Korea’s claim to have detonated a hydrogen bomb on Wednesday may cause major new problems for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
by Joel B. Pollak6 Jan 2016, 6:44 AM PST0

A new Field Poll released Tuesday shows that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and businessman Donald Trump lead among Republican primary voters in California by a wide margin, with Cruz at 25% and Trump at 23%, a statistical tie.
by Joel B. Pollak5 Jan 2016, 7:06 AM PST0

Liberal geographer Joel Kotkin has compared Jerry Brown to 20th century fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini due to his interventionist policies on climate change.
by Joel B. Pollak3 Jan 2016, 4:30 AM PST0

The White House has confirmed that President Barack Obama may visit Cuba in 2016–and says it is looking for ways to let the Cuban “revolution” interpret human rights norms in ways that allow it to retain power.
by Joel B. Pollak3 Jan 2016, 12:16 AM PST0

With the dawn of 2016, there is hope that the long presidency of George W. Bush will finally be over.
by Joel B. Pollak1 Jan 2016, 12:01 AM PST0

Los Angeles Times “Black Twitter” correspondent Dexter Thomas has a New Year’s resolution for white people: dump Donald Trump.
by Joel B. Pollak31 Dec 2015, 5:54 AM PST0

The revelation Tuesday by Adam Entrous and Danny Yadron of the Wall Street Journal that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conversations with congressional leaders represents the latest–and worst–partisan abuse of power by the Obama administration.
by Joel B. Pollak29 Dec 2015, 9:11 PM PST0

Tashfeen Malik, the terrorist who killed 14 people on Dec. 2 in San Bernardino with her American-born husband Syed Farook, told U.S. immigration officials that she was pregnant when she applied for a K-1 fiancée visa in 2014.
by Joel B. Pollak29 Dec 2015, 5:05 AM PST0

A prominent California newspaper that backed Obamacare is now sounding the alarm about doctor shortages.
by Joel B. Pollak28 Dec 2015, 6:01 AM PST0

The forecasts were right: New York is officially warmer than Los Angeles on Christmas Day, thanks to El Niño.
by Joel B. Pollak25 Dec 2015, 6:10 AM PST0

On Wednesday, a Contra Costa County judge refused to reduce bail for a Richmond man who is facing hate crime charges and who the media have described as a “Donald Trump supporter” on the basis of his Facebook posts–even though he also admired Hillary Clinton.
by Joel B. Pollak24 Dec 2015, 5:17 AM PST0

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is trying to raise money for 2016 House races with its own version of Donald Trump’s infamous “Make America Great Again” hat.
by Joel B. Pollak23 Dec 2015, 2:12 PM PST0

Talk of the Nation host Neal Conan was discussing the recent passing of Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to be nominated for Vice President.
by Joel B. Pollak23 Dec 2015, 12:33 PM PST0

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is being condemned–or praised–for saying this week that Hillary Clinton “got schlonged” by Barack Obama in 2008. To Democrats and the media, Trump had used an inexcusably vulgar penis reference to humiliate Clinton: this was a new “war on women.”
by Joel B. Pollak23 Dec 2015, 6:35 AM PST0

The Wall Street Journal’s Bret Stephens called Donald Trump’s supporters “vulgarians” in September, and attacked both Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in a new rant Tuesday.
by Joel B. Pollak22 Dec 2015, 10:06 AM PST0

The mainstream media are reporting that a Bay Area man who allegedly planned to bomb a California mosque was a Donald Trump supporter–though he also explicitly supported Hillary Clinton.
by Joel B. Pollak21 Dec 2015, 10:05 PM PST0

Republican frontrunner Donald J. Trump has a massive lead in national polls. But it may be even bigger than it seems, because while most major polls are conducted by telephone, his lead in online polls is even bigger.
by Joel B. Pollak21 Dec 2015, 3:28 PM PST0

Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig says that the Democratic Party presidential primary is ignoring the issues of crony capitalism and campaign finance reform. “It is really astonishing…that we have not yet had a question that addresses the crony capitalism problem” in the Democratic debates, Lessig said Monday morning.
by Joel B. Pollak21 Dec 2015, 6:01 AM PST0

President Barack Obama’s 2012 amnesty for “Dreamers”–illegal aliens who entered the United States as children–likely created the conditions under which one of the San Bernardino terrorists could enter the country.
by Joel B. Pollak20 Dec 2015, 12:49 PM PST0

The family of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook was able to attend his funeral last week, and showed up on Saturday at the apartment he shared with wife and fellow terrorist Tashfeen Malik to collect their belongings.
by Joel B. Pollak20 Dec 2015, 11:46 AM PST0

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is coming under withering criticism from conservatives for passing a massive new budget that funds the government through next September–and avoids a government “shutdown.”
by Joel B. Pollak20 Dec 2015, 10:07 AM PST0

Billionaire Tom Steyer launched into a profanity-laced rant when interviewed by the Sacramento Business Journal about his plans for the state.
by Joel B. Pollak20 Dec 2015, 5:21 AM PST0