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Donald Trump Piñatas Swing in Sacramento

Some members of the Latino community in California are beating the hell out of the latest Trump incarnation: a Trump piñata. Although the piñatas are unavailable in California, the family of Hector Barajas, a GOP strategist, bought some in Mexico

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Trump Street Art Rocks L.A.

Donald Trump has become the center of a new street art campaign, with work that can be seen all around Los Angeles. Today, Friday July 10, the Republican presidential candidate will be speaking to Hollywood conservatives at an event, and the Coalition for Humane Immigrants Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), has plans to protest.

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Moore vs. Krugman Throw-down at Freedom Fest

Heritage Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellow and former Wall Street Journal contributor Stephen Moore squared off against New York Times columnist Paul Krugman in a war of economic arguments that pitted free market, supply-side economics against statist, Keynesian Obamanomics.

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7 Ways Jerry Brown and California Democrats Embraced Illegal Aliens

In case you are wondering exactly how aggressive Governor Jerry Brown and his Democratic colleagues in the California legislature have been in trying to erase the distinction between people residing in California legally versus those here in violation of U.S. immigration law, here are seven startling but very real ways that they have done so.

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¡Viva California! Latinos Now Outnumber Whites

As of July 1, 2014, the Census counted 14.99 million Latinos and 14.92 million whites, making California the second state in which Latinos outnumber whites, after New Mexico. Laura Hill, from the Public Policy Institute of California, told the Sacramento Bee, “What’s mostly going is the difference in birth rates in Latinos and non-Hispanic whites.”

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Human Remains Found in Wall of Los Angeles Apartment

Human remains removed from a hollow wall of an apartment in California on Thursday are believed to belong to a woman who vanished in 2009. An anonymous tip led detectives to the Harbor Hills Housing Project in Lomita where Raven Campbell, 32 at the time, once lived.

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CA Can Restore Death Penalty

Now that the Supreme Court has upheld Oklahoma’s three-drug lethal injection method, California can resume carrying out the death penalty, although mandatory administrative procedures and hearings could slow the process.

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Gay Marriage Ruling Hasn’t Dissuaded Conservatives

Californians have seen it before. From the overturn of voter approved Proposition 8 and Proposition 22 to this week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges to institute homosexual marriage in all 50 states, judges overruled the will of the people.

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California to Reissue Black License Plates

On Monday, the California Department of Motor Vehicles announced it will start releasing black license plates similar to the 1960s version in two or three weeks. Personalized black plates will be released in August.

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Some California Tarballs Linked To Santa Barbara Oil Spill

A few of over one hundred tarballs collected on some southern California beaches were tested found to have come from the Santa Barbara oil spill that occurred on May 19 just north of Refugio Beach. Some samples were also connected to naturally occurring ocean floor seepage.

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CA Awaits SCOTUS Gay Marriage Ruling, Not Affected by Obamacare Decision

Two imminent Supreme Court decisions will be rendered in June, one that will affect some Californians significantly and another that is expected to affect at least 34 states, but not California. The Court’s decision in Obergefell vs. Hodges, which will decide if same-sex marriage must be legalized in all fifty states, will affect gay couples in California, including Placentia residents Matthew Mansell and John “Johno” Espejo, who live with their two adopted children and joined the case as two of the 30 plaintiffs.

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Obama Calls for Action Against Guns: ‘I Need You to Mobilize’

“If you’re dissatisfied that every few months we have a mass shooting in this country, killing innocent people, then I need you to mobilize and organize a constituency that says this is not normal and we are going to change it, and put pressure to elect people who insist on that change,” Obama says.

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Shannon Grove: I Never Blamed Abortion for the Drought

California Assemblywoman Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) is firing back against attacks suggesting she told a pro-life group that California’s drought is the result of abortion, a claim she says she never made. Grove spoke at the June 1 California ProLife Council