Rep. Julia Brownley (D-CA), one of the most vulnerable Democrats in the 2014 midterm elections, has blamed “MEN” (original caps) for the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Monday. The majority held that the federal government violated the
The California Heritage Musuem, located in Santa Monica, features several rooms of artifacts from the state’s early days, as well as new work from local artists. And now, it also houses an exhibit devoted to an Internet meme: Awkward Family
In May, San Francisco introduced the “Hook-up Truck,” providing intimate space for couples on the go. Now, the city is welcoming the “Lava Mae,” a public shower on a bus, aimed at the city’s large homeless population. San Francisco has
July 1 marks the 20th anniversary of the passing of the 7th Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Schneerson was a uniquely charismatic and visionary leader, who pushed back against the postwar trends of secularism and disenchantment and presented religious Judaism
State Senator Ted Gaines, who represents parts of Northern California, will turn the tables on Texas Gov. Rick Perry this week when he visits Texas to recruit companies to invest in the Golden State. Gov. Perry has become notorious for
Life on Sunday will be slower–and more tense–than usual, as Mexico faces the Netherlands in the FIFA World Cup round of 16 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific time on Sunday. The match will take place at Fortaleza, in northeast Brazil, and
(6:30 a.m.) For the past 24 hours, I have been on the move. Early Thursday morning, a colleague picked me up at home and we drove south to Anaheim on the I-405 and CA-22. We caught Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner to
SAN FRANCISCO — Hundreds gathered at the Fairmont Hotel on Thursday evening to hear lawyers David Boies and Ted Olson discuss their new book, Reedeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality. Boies, a Democrat, and Olson, a Republican, sued
When my Breitbart California colleague Adelle Nazarian and I met Texas Gov. Rick Perry at the magnificent La Valencia hotel in tony La Jolla, he looked more like a venture capital executive than a governor. He was dressed in shirtsleeves
Justice Antonin Scalia concurred with the majority on the Supreme Court in the unanimous decision to strike down President Barack Obama’s “recess” appointments to the National Labor Relations Board in NLRB v. Noel Canning. However, he wrote that the majority’s
Victims of Iranian-sponsored terror attacks are using a new legal tactic to win justice, and fight back: seizing Iranian domain names through U.S. courts. The sixty victims, who are collectively owed $1.2 billion in damages by terror-sponsoring countries, filed a
Republican moderate Neel Kashkari begins his gubernatorial challenge to incumbent Democrat Jerry Brown 20 points behind in the latest Field Poll, released Wednesday morning. While Kashkari appears to have cemented his support among Republicans, Brown leads Kashkari among almost every
Politico’s James Hohmann has released his list of “takeaways” from Tuesday’s primaries, among which is the claim that Eric Cantor’s loss in Virginia earlier this month is “an outlier” in 2014. Leaving out Tea Party victories in places like Nebraska, or
The San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade has banned military recruiters from participating in the 44th annual event this weekend, the most iconic of its kind in the world, due to the National Guard’s policy against transgendered service members, and in
I’m not particularly aggrieved by Thad Cochran’s victory in the Senate runoff in Mississippi over challenger Chris McDaniel. Cochran’s tactics–ginning up fear among black Democrats by exploiting false accusations of racism against the Tea Party–may be nasty, and they certainly
A new Field Poll released Tuesday shows that 50% of registered voters in California approve of President Barack Obama’s job performance, while only 39% disapprove. However, there a striking divergence between the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas on
SANTA MONICA — A dozen Israeli tech startups pitched investors and fellow entrepreneurs in Santa Monica Monday evening, highlighting a diverse range of new innovations. From a better mousetrap (literally), to cybersecurity tools that detect and defuse flash mobs, the
News reports are flying about airstrikes by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) inside Syria, the most serious response by Israel to cross-border violence in the past several years. The IDF response came after an Israeli teenager was killed by an
A small fire at Disneyland on Sunday that was visible throughout the Anaheim theme park and for “miles around” frightened many tourists, according to a report by CBS News’ Los Angeles affiliate. What u don’t want to see when you’re
Fouad Ajami, who was a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and one of the most passionate critics of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy in the Middle East, passed away Sunday after a battle with cancer. The 68-year-old Ajami had
The fact that former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) lost his primary last week largely because of his support for immigration reform before–and this is crucial!–securing the country’s borders has failed to dampen the enthusiasm of reform advocates. The
California’s economy may be struggling overall, but the beach communities of Los Angeles are enjoying a major boom, thanks in part to the proliferation of new startup companies in the corridor from El Segundo north to Santa Monica, nicknamed “Silicon
On Thursday, June 19th, I rode every single bus in the “Big Blue Bus” system run by the City of Santa Monica, California. That’s 18 individual bus lines (a nineteenth, which serves Santa Monica College, has closed for the summer). I
On Thursday, June 19th, I rode every single bus in the “Big Blue Bus” system run by the City of Santa Monica, California. That’s 18 individual bus lines (a nineteenth, which serves Santa Monica College, has closed for the summer). I
