
A Republican California assemblyman introduced a bill into the state legislature on Monday that would forbid the state – whose campuses have been a focal point of BDS activity – from doing business with companies boycotting, sanctioning or divesting from
by Breitbart Jerusalem6 Jan 2016, 1:13 AM PST0

No sooner had John Boehner announced his decision to resign as speaker than conservatives were lamenting the heir apparent.
by Shawn Steel7 Oct 2015, 11:09 PM PST0

California Governor Jerry Brown showed his unflinching support for unlimited drone operations by vetoing three bipartisan bills protecting privacy, public safety and education.
by Chriss W. Street4 Oct 2015, 9:42 AM PST0

California Gov. Jerry Brown was asked Wednesday what he thought of Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump: “Oh, my God,” he said.
by Joel B. Pollak20 Aug 2015, 5:46 AM PST0

The California legislature reconvened on August 17, and one of their first acts of business has been the passage of a joint resolution calling on Congress to enact a federal ban on the Confederate flag.
by AWR Hawkins18 Aug 2015, 9:28 AM PST0

Just as Brown signed the largest state budget in California’s history, weighing in at over $115 billion, he has called upon the California legislature to raise new taxes to fund transportation infrastructure–roads, highways, bridges and the like.
by Jon Fleischman3 Jul 2015, 5:38 AM PST0

Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 277 into law on Tuesday despite every effort on the part of thousands to halt a legislative push making California one of the three most restrictive states on childhood vaccines in the United States.
by Michelle Moons30 Jun 2015, 4:46 PM PST0

California legislators passed the highly controversial SB 277 by a vote of 24-14 on Monday, despite massive opposition efforts launched against the school-based vaccine mandate that brought thousands to the state capitol and caused protests around California.
by Michelle Moons29 Jun 2015, 3:30 PM PST0

It would appear that the appetite for increasing the size and scope of state government in Sacramento is insatiable. The Democrats who control all of the levers of power are about to pass the largest state budget in the history of California–but that is not good enough or big enough, it would seem.
by Jon Fleischman12 Jun 2015, 5:32 AM PST0

Both houses of the California legislature have agreed to a budget deal to forward to Governor Jerry Brown by the June 15 deadline. The ball is now Governor Brown’s court to use his line-item-veto to decide how much he wants to protect taxpayers from irresponsible spending.
by Chriss W. Street12 Jun 2015, 5:08 AM PST0

The appetite of Democrats in the California legislature for raising more and more taxes is voracious, and seemingly knows no bounds. If you don’t believe me, just keep reading. And when you do, you’ll realize that there is a lot of
by Jon Fleischman4 Jun 2015, 5:53 AM PST0

Democrats in the California State Assembly are being accused of using the state budget to execute retribution against opponents of highly contentious vaccine mandate legislation.
by Michelle Moons29 May 2015, 2:20 PM PST0

California’s record drought is dampening residents’ outlook on the future of their state. According to the results of the latest Field Poll, just 40% of registered voters in California believe the state is moving in the right direction, while another 40%
by Daniel Nussbaum27 May 2015, 8:51 AM PST0

Only three countries in the world have no listings in the extensive AirBnB online inventory: North Korea, Syria and Iran. But if State Senator Mike McGuire (D-Healdsberg) gets his way, maybe you can add a state, California, to the list.
by Jon Fleischman12 May 2015, 5:38 AM PST0

On Wednesday in the California State Assembly Rules Committee, Democrats defeated a bill that would have dropped state legislators from their taxpayer-funded premium healthcare plans and prodded them into Covered California, the state Obamacare exchange. The bill, authored by Assemblyman Scott Wilk (R-Santa Clarita), was defeated on a party-line vote–even though it would have reimbursed them for the cost of their new California Health Benefit Exchange plans.
by Jon Fleischman24 Apr 2015, 5:00 AM PST0

There is a saying in Latin: Primum Non Nocere, which translates to “First Do No Harm.” That phrase basically means that given an existing problem, it may be better not to do something, or even do nothing, than risk causing
by Jon Fleischman16 Apr 2015, 12:40 PM PST0

California legislators voted a bill through a State Senate committee 6-2 on Wednesday that would eliminate parental ability to opt their school-aged children out of required vaccinations, despite a strong showing from parents opposed and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who condemned the bill as “anti-woman and anti-mother” at a rally in Sacramento.
by Michelle Moons9 Apr 2015, 1:55 PM PST0

A couple of weeks ago a freshman Republican member of the State Assembly said to me: “You were right, this place is controlled lock, stock and barrel by the unions.”
by Jon Fleischman9 Apr 2015, 3:45 AM PST0

The measles outbreak has provoked California lawmakers to back legislation that would reduce personal belief exemptions for some or all required school vaccinations–but Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., wants them to reconsider.
by Michelle Moons19 Mar 2015, 5:45 AM PST0