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One Republican candidate for California attorney general argues for the death penalty for corrupt politicians whose actions endanger lives. While frustration against public corruption is appropriate (and for that matter should increase), and actions that actually cost a person’s life

The state of California finds itself in a fracking mess. The political energy of the Democrats’ supermajority in Sacramento is running on toxic fumes. The case can be made that the corruption of the recent convictions, indictments, investigations, and suspensions

Almost exactly a year ago, an attack on a major transformer substation outside of San Jose highlighted one of America’s most serious vulnerabilities:  If the power goes off and stays off, our nation and the vast majority of its population

Income inequality protestors marched to the home of Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose on Sunday with flyers and a banner branding Rose a “parasite” capitalist who has “ravaged the landscapes of San Francisco and Oakland.” Rose posted a picture of

California is bigger than a lot of countries, and like a lot of countries it’s in a state of undeclared war. San Franciscans despise Los Angelinos, and to the extent that Los Angelinos can feel passion about anything they hate their

Other than being far and away the best film yet to come out of the ho-hum Marvel Universe, “Captain America: Winter Soldier” is a blatant $175 million “screw you” to Barack Obama’s surveillance state, and especially the President’s dishonesty and

The sluggish U.S. economy has made job hunting hard for most people, but high tech talent is in such demand that one startup is recruiting at bus stops where Silicon Valley workers congregate. Software startup Bigcommerce is sending recruiters to

Phillips 66, formerly a division of energy giant ConocoPhillips, recently filed a project proposal to bring mile-long crude oil trains from Canada and North Dakota to its refinery in California’s San Luis Obispo County. If approved, the project would mean up to

Evolve, adapt or die. That is the fate of our current Republican party. We must evolve as a party and find a way to attract millennials to the conservative movement or we will never succeed in realizing our ideals of

Here’s the feel-good story of the week: according to the Los Angeles Times, “students” in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) throw away at least $100,000 worth of food every day, mostly fruits and vegetables they’re required to place

“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

California is often cited by conservatives as a liberal bastion headed toward destruction under the weight of its own big-government policies championed by the Democrats who occupy every statewide office and hold a near-supermajority in both houses of the Legislature.

Ronald Reagan was a son of the Midwest, but it’s only natural that he would find and make his home in California.  Reagan’s California, from the 1930s to the early 1990s, was a place for dreamers and innovators. A place

Mike Judge saw the connection between music videos and couch potatoes, and a crudely animated show called Beavis & Butt-head was born. Judge’s comic crystal ball, as it turned out, was just warming up. Now, as his new HBO comedy

While federal immigration agencies have taken heat for selective “catch and release” protocols in the southern Texas border region as cost-cutting measures, California’s Trust Act is already evidencing significant drops in illegal immigrant deportations since the act’s initial enforcement in

Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown, Jr. is the embodiment of today’s California–a whimsical figure entwined in the California legend.  Governor Brown’s great grandfather emigrated to the U.S. from Germany–took a brief respite back East–and then in 1852 covered-wagoned it to Colusa

Andrew Breitbart and I sat in a hotel coffee shop together not long before he passed away. I was California’s Republican Party Chairman at the time and Andrew was, well, Andrew Breitbart.  We were both speaking at a conference, motivating

The U.S. has been mired in a low-growth economy for more than a decade that is, arguably, the weakest national economic performance for the entire postwar era. California’s economic performance has been even worse, and California can only aspire to

“It’s Official: We Are In a Tech Bubble. That was the March 11 headline in Fox Business News. Tech veteran Steve Tobak asked, “How can an industry full of so many brilliant and innovative people–an industry I was once a

California’s 17th congressional district, which includes parts of Silicon Valley and the East Bay, is rated as “Safe Democrat,” but it is the subject of fierce competition and charges of foul play on all sides in the 2014 primary.  Each candidate–from

John Wooden, readers learn in Seth Davis’s Wooden: A Coach’s Life, was a simple man overflowing with complex contrasts and contradictions. His teams embodied these divergences. One of the fascinating paradoxes that most displayed the intimidating dominance of Wooden’s UCLA

Welcome to Breitbart California. Whether you’re a resident of the Golden State, or looking into our carbon emission-filled snow globe from elsewhere, I think you will find yourself returning often–for there is no doubt that, as the saying goes, “As California Goes,

California is a mess. Taxes are the highest in the nation. Our roads are awful. Our rush hour traffic resembles nothing so much as the traffic out of Atlanta on the poster for The Walking Dead. Our elected officials are

The average gasoline price in California may hit $4.25 per gallon in the next week. The ostensible reasons given are lower supplies and the increase in crude oil costs.  Because corn prices are rising along with the increase in rail

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), one of the country’s most powerful public sector unions, will file a ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage in San Francisco to $15 per hour (from $10.74), which would make it the highest