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Condoleezza Rice (Reuters)

Black Conservatives Fund: Draft Condi for California!

The Black Conservatives Fund (BCF), a political action committee (PAC) that declares it is “committed to turning out the black vote and elect black conservatives at every level of government,” has launched a fundraising drive around an effort to draft former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to run for U.S. Senate in California to replace retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA). A recent poll showed that Rice outperformed all other candidates, actual and potential, from either major party.

Reuters

House Chair Demands FCC Net Neutrality Gag Order Lifted

Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) demanded yesterday that the Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler make public the details of the proposed net neutrality regulations that will regulate the Internet under the same rules as the old AT&T monopoly.

Jerry Brown (AP)

Jerry Brown Riding High in New California Poll

A new Field Poll reveals that a majority of California registered voters still have a very positive view of Gov. Jerry Brown–even though a similar majority also believes he spends too much money on big government projects the state cannot afford.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's Hydrogen Highway (Ann Johannson / Associated Press)

California Dupes Taxpayers into Building the Hydrogen Highway

The California Energy Commission is honoring ex-Governor Schwarzenegger’s dream by spending another $20 million to build the supposedly non-polluting ‘hydrogen highway’ through most parts of the Golden State. A high school freshman math class could figure out that the reason

Teamsters Hoffa (Phil McCarten / Reuters)

Teamsters Win Big in Silicon Valley, Target Tech Companies

With tech workers still expected to log 70-hour work weeks, shuttle drivers for Facebook voted to become a union affiliate of the Teamsters. After getting a leg in the tech industry door, the Teamsters intend to unionize Silicon Valley and have already scheduled union elections for workers at Apple, Yahoo, eBay, and others.

Wong Maye E/AP

Michael Phelps to Wed Former Miss California

Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, who has won 22 Olympic medals, the most in history, announced on Sunday via Twitter and Instagram that he and former Miss California Nicole Johnson are engaged. “She said yes,” Phelps wrote under a picture of him and Johnson cuddling in the snow. Johnson captioned, “I am gonna be a Mrs.”

John-Shearer/AP

Best Director Winner Blasts Mexican Government

Sunday night’s Academy Awards was littered with political commentary, with Best Director winner Alejandro González Iñárritu no exception as he dedicated Birdman’s Best Picture win to his fellow Mexicans, “who live in Mexico.” Iñárritu’s comments echo prior statements made by last year’s Best Director and fellow Mexican, Alfonso Cuarón, slamming Mexican government officials over systematic corruption.

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Common Core: There Will Be Children Left Behind

Parents and educators alike have taken exception to the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSS). As California and the United States seek ways to become more educationally competitive on a global scale, educators and people who are pushing the federally funded initiative have sought ways to package it in a manner that appears to benefit all. Yet most teachers say it does not.

Bobby Jindal (Michelle Moons / Breitbart News)

Jindal: Obama ‘Not Qualified’ to be Commander-in-Chief

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal joined about 900 Californians Saturday at the Unite IE Conference in Riverside’s Fox Theater with a strong, unapologetic and presidential speech that focused on “the importance of repealing all of Obamacare,” repealing “all of Common Core,” and winning “the war against radical Islamic terror.”

San Jose (Michael / Wikimedia Commons)

San Jose, Capital of Silicon Valley, Out of Money

San Jose, once viewed as a jewel, called “America’s safest big city” and known as the prime bedroom community of Silicon Valley, now has little money. Its libraries close some of the time, its potholes remain unfixed, and its police force goes understaffed.

California Oil Refinery (Paul Sakuma : Associated Press)

West Coast Dock Strike Settles–Just in Time for Oil Refinery Strike

With the West Coast ports labor dispute involving 13,600 unionized dockworkers inflicting pain on 318 million Americans by causing billions of dollars a day in losses to the U.S. economy settling yesterday, now 30,000 unionized refinery workers across America intend to play the same leverage game by cutting off two-thirds of all U.S. diesel and gasoline supplies.

Breitbart California in Sacramento (Joel Pollak / Breitbart News)

California Polls Set Tough Challenge for Republicans

Despite the presence of Republican presidential contenders in the Golden State this weekend, a pair of Field Polls released late last week look grim for the GOP. One shows President Barack Obama’s approval rating among likely voters in the Golden State rising to 57%, “the best appraisal of Obama in over two years by Californians.” The other shows that fewer than one in five Californians approve of Congress, and a near-majority say Republican control of both houses of Congress is a bad thing.

Carly Fiorina

Carly Fiorina: ‘We’re Losing the Sense of Limitless Possibility’

RIVERSIDE, California—“I am giving very serious consideration to a run for the white house,” former candidate for U.S. Senate in California and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina said, as she closed out her comments to a theater full of tea partiers from across California’s Inland Empire region and beyond. She used the opportunity to not only discuss her vision, but also to slam potential 2016 Democrat Presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren.