A majority of California voters support an upcoming ballot measure that would strip funding from the high speed rail project and divert it toward new water storage projects, according to a poll released Thursday.
The Church of Scientology ran a full-page advertisement in the New York Times Friday attacking HBO for the pay cabler’s upcoming documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief.
Thursday the Health and Human Services Agency of San Diego County announced ten confirmed cases of measles. Nine of the infected individuals had never received vaccinations.
SAN DIEGO, California Friday morning at the beachside RNC Winter Meeting in San Diego, California, the Republican National Committee laid out a schedule for a limited nine sanctioned Presidential debates ranging from August 2015 through March 2016. Fox news –
Facebook briefly shut down a page dedicated to informing activists planning a Friday protest for charges to be dropped against the arrest of 14 activists who chained themselves to trains and shut down the West Oakland BART station last November. The page was restored a few hours later.
On Tuesday, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls addressed the National Assembly and gave the most stirring speech on antisemitism since Chaim Herzog literally tore up the “Zionism is racism” resolution at the UN General Assembly in 1975. Valls reiterated his recent argument that
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker called for a fresh, new presidential candidate in 2016 in a speech to the Republican National Committee (RNC) Winter Meeting in Coronado, California–just 24 hours before Mitt Romney was set to address the group.
The White House dropped a bombshell on Thursday by announcing that FCC already has the authority to take over regulating and taxing the Internet without Congressional approval.
San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer gave his first “State of the City” address Wednesday night, touting his accomplishments since being elected to the position last February, and laying out his vision for the year ahead–including plans for a new Chargers
The fallout from a gigantic mismatch in a girls’ high school basketball game in Southern California has left one coach sitting on the hot seat. On January 5, the Hawks of Arroyo Valley High School’s girls’ team decimated their opponents from Bloomington High School, 161-2.
A woman’s pet alligator, which had been living in her Van Nuys home for 37 years, was taken away by Los Angeles Animal Services on Monday when it was discovered during a surprise search.
Tommy Caldwell, 36, and Kevin Jorgeson, 30, made the climb to the legendary 3,000 summit in Yosemite National Park, California in 17 days, defying the idea that the feat was impossible as an unaided climb. They only used safety ropes in case they fell.
A YouTube prank troupe pulled a fast one on two Los Angeles Police Department officers this week–and, unsurprisingly, the LAPD is less than thrilled with the group’s antics.
It’s hard to imagine someone worse for California than Barbara Boxer, but Steyer does a good job fitting the bill. Does this sound like the profile of someone that would appeal to liberal voters?
Mexican citizens living in the United States can retrieve their birth certificates much more easily now, thanks to the Mexican government’s decision to offer the certificates at 50 Mexican consulates throughout the United States, rather than offering them only in Mexico at government offices.
In a surprise announcement on his plane trip to Manila Thursday, Pope Francis said that he is planning to canonize the founder of California’s first missions and the father of the California wine industry when he visits the US next fall.
The California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS) has announced that its solvency has improved and that it is only $89.7 billion underfunded. Unfortunately, CalPERS’s purported solvency of percentage of 77% assumes the fantasy that it can conservatively compound its annual earnings at 7.5% without any losses. But if CalPERS only earns 4.5% a year–a rate conservative private pensions often shoot for–the fund’s long-term liability is a staggering $290 billion.
en. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), the darling of the American left, has endorsed California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who announced her bid for retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer’s seat earlier this week. Warren is the left’s new rising star, pitching old-style liberalism to a base eager to transcend the frustrations of the Obama presidency.
Last February, the New York Times editorial writer Joe Nocera raged against “The Bitcoin Blasphemy,” which he claimed was libertarian “sacrilege” since it is “unconnected to any currency or any government.” But try as they might, the leftist thought police at the Times that see bitcoin as an existential threat to “full faith” in the dollar and the U.S. government are failing.
A law requiring all single-stall bathrooms to replace gender-specific signs (male, female) with gender-neutral signs will go into effect in West Hollywood on Thursday.
A Huntington Beach alternative high school is reportedly the first in the nation to install a high security, bullet-resistant door-and-lock system in an effort to protect students from the threat of a school shooting such as those that have victimized students around the country in recent years.
Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative has launched another volley of banners around San Francisco targeting Islamists, this time showing a photo of a meeting between Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Muft of Jerusalem who in 1941
Portland authorities on Friday booked into jail a 19-year-old man from Kenya for threatening employees of a Northeast Portland deli that he would blow up the store “in the name of Allah,” for not selling him a loosie.
A Black-Lives-Matter protest group organized by Don’t Shoot Portland disrupted a Portland Public School Board of Education meeting, convened to help elementary schools in the district achieve greater racial balance in the classroom.
When it comes to online bragging, California takes the cake. A new study conducted by social media platform HeyLets found that people in the Golden State are the most boastful users of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
If you believe that government ought to keep its hands out of your pockets, and stick to its proper role–which is protecting our right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”; securing our borders; maintaining infrastructure; and achieving a handful of other things enumerated in the Constitution–then you cannot be silent in the face of an attempt to seize what little freedom you have left.
