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Drought farm (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press)

Farmland Prices Down 9%, Predicted to Drop Another 25%

Breitbart News reported in January that farmland prices were estimated to have fallen 3 percent, for their first fall since 1986. But the Chicago Federal Reserve just upped the decline to 8.9 percent, and “Grant’s Interest Rate Observer” warns that farmland

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New Tell-all about Elon Musk Appears Factually Challenged

A new, unauthorized, supposedly “tell-all” biography just released by Bloomberg’s Ashlee Vance claims that serial entrepreneur and Tesla (TSLA-NASDAQ) CEO Elon Musk hid from investors and customers that the electric car company was down to two weeks of cash in early 2013 and had to beg for Google to consider buying the company.

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Democratic Rep. Ami Bera Caught Plagiarizing

Democratic Congressman Ami Bera, who represents California’s tightly-contested 7th district in eastern Sacramento County, has been accused of plagiarizing in an op-ed he wrote for the Sacramento Bee on Sunday, according to the Bee. In the column, Bera supported a Trade Promotion Authority bill giving Barack Obama “fast-track” authority to negotiate a trade deal.

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Koch Brothers Get Involved in All-Democrat Race?

The hard leftists in the California Democratic party, panicked at the thought of labor-supporting Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla, D-Concord, losing the race for the seat in the 7th State Senate District to Orinda Mayor Steve Glazer, have pointed out that a group supported by the establishment GOP Koch brothers has created an ad attacking Bonilla.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

L.A. Times: ‘Clinton Cash’ Casts Shadow over Hillary Campaign

Hillary Clinton’s launch of her 2016 presidential campaign is being severely hampered by the release of Breitbart Senior Editor at Large Peter Schweizer’s new book, “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich.”

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Cinco de Mayo Drinking Criticized

On Tuesday, the Mexican holiday of Cinco de Mayo will be celebrated in California, and despite the spate of drinking parties that will ensue, some want the holiday to return to a more sober celebration of Mexican independence from France.

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Los Angeles Times Attacks Jerry Brown for Supporting Fracking

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times published an op-ed by environmental activist Middlebury College professor Bill McKibben in which he attacks California Governor Jerry Brown’s support for fracking, calling fracking during a drought an “obscenity” because of its use of water.

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Bill Clinton Caught in another Fib by ‘Nail Bill Clinton’ Network

The “Hill and Bill” Clinton effort to convince America that “we are just regular middle-class folks” took another dive when former President Bill Clinton said that the couple had “taken almost no capital gains” over the last 15 years. However, in another self-inflicted controversy, Bill failed to realize that Hillary’s campaign had already released the couple’s 2000 to 2006 tax returns that reported a $371,000 of capital gains.

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San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Dept: Hands Up, Don’t Tase

The San Bernardino County Sheriff Department’s taser policy aligns with a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruling which requires law enforcement to refrain from using Tasers against persons who do not post an “imminent threat” to the officer or the public.

Chief Beck, LAPD (Damain Dovarganes / Associated Press)

20 Bills on Police Now at State Legislature

Now that the Obama administration has subtly encouraged critics of police to vent their fury, California legislators have initiated a flurry of at least 20 proposals–according to a count by the Los Angeles Times–to shackle the police and ensure that they are being zealously scrutinized.