The City of San Jose filed a lawsuit against Major League Baseball (MLB) on June 18, attempting to invalidate the San Francisco Giants’s territorial rights in order to bring the Oakland Athletics across the Bay. San Jose has claimed that
On June 20, a three judge panel ordered California to reduce its prison population by 10,000 persons. California has been under court order to reduce its prison population since 2009. According to Reuters, the panel criticized California’s slow approach to
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who will be leaving office at the end of this month after eight long years of not working for the city, said on Tuesday that he wants to take his talents to Sacramento. “I want
California Democrats passed eight new firearm-related regulations this week, including background checks for ammunition purchases and broadening of justifications for seizing firearms from California citizens. According to the Sacramento Bee, the background checks on ammo purchases are contained within SB
In an article published on Bloomberg.com, David Crane, president of Govern for California, argues that California Governor Jerry Brown should instigate the repeal of proposition 13, the People’s Initiative to Limit Property Taxation, which was enacted during his first tenure as governor in 1978.
As if Maxim‘s Hot 100 wasn’t already bizarre enough this year – Miley Cyrus at #1? Really, Maxim? – clocking in at #79 is Hoda Kotb of the Today Show (she is 48 years old) and at #54 is Kamala
On Monday, California Gov. Jerry Brown said climate change has made the state more susceptible than ever to fires that could devastate the state. Speaking at Cal Fire’s aviation facility, Brown claimed, “Our climate is changing. The weather is becoming more
Allies of Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) now say that his plan to solve the state prison overcrowding issue will be “ugly.” After years of building no new prisons, Brown says that he will release certain prisoners earlier and shift responsibility
California Gov. Jerry Brown’s magical bullet train may not come to fruition after all. According to reports on Tuesday, Brown’s $100 billion vanity project may meet its demise at the hands of the federal government. So far, the California High-Speed
While members of the sycophantic media praise California Governor Jerry Brown for his supposed budget miracle, Brown is risking the state’s budget by refusing to write in any funding for a financial reserve. Typically, the California budget contains funding for
Los Angeles Times: SACRAMENTO — California would allow noncitizens to serve on juries under a proposal being considered by state lawmakers, potentially expanding a fundamental obligation of American life to millions more people. The measure, which would apply only to
In 2011, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law California Assembly Bill 109, a piece of legislation designed to relieve overcrowded prisons in accordance with a Supreme Court decision. AB 109 enshrined “realignment” into law – a plan to place supposedly
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has hitched his boat to the failing Titanic that is the state of California. Declaring the state in a state of “comeback,” Krugman wrote this week, “reports of the state’s demise proved premature. Unemployment
When California finishes tapping out the taxpayers in its state to pay for its nonsensical high speed rail, it will ask the taxpayers of other states to chip in, according to a new Government Accountability Office report requested by House
Drone tests may soon be carried out over a city near you. In response to Breitbart News queries about the limitations on the location of so-called “drone zones” – zones specifically designated to test commercial and military drones under Federal
The U.S. Senate rejected a motion to proceed to a final vote on the nomination of Caitlin Halligan to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Of the nine justices on the
On Saturday night, the keynote speaker at the California Republican Convention was Breitbart News editor-at-large Ben Shapiro. Shapiro electrified the crowd, was repeatedly interrupted for applause, and received a long standing ovation at the end of his oration, which focused
Texas Governor Rick Perry recently made a much-publized tour of California, meeting with business leaders and promoting his state’s pro-business climate. CA Gov. Jerry Brown dismissed the tour as a “political stunt.” He might want to take the threat more
In 1988, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis lost his presidential race in no small part due to the fact that he had paroled violent criminals. Taking a page from Dukakis’ book, California Governor Jerry Brown is now making a habit of
According to the Brady Campaign, California already has the nation’s toughest gun laws. But after the Sandy Hook massacre, Democratic lawmakers in California are pushing harder than ever for even more laws, despite the fact that enforcement of current laws
This week, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) launched a series of ad buys in the state of California, attempting to recruit businesses from the restrictive Golden State to his home state of Texas. “Building a business is tough,” Perry intones. “But
Texas Governor Rick Perry is courting California’s businesses by launching ads on radio that delineate the difference between California’s anti-business climate and the pro-business attitude of Texas. The ads are running all over the state, from San Francisco and Sacramento
In a desperate attempt to get California’s budgetary nightmares under control, Democratic Governor Jerry Brown pushed for a tax hike plan last November to increase the state’s overall tax rate on millionaires to the highest in the nation at 13.3%.
California Governor Jerry Brown may boast about his efforts to keep California solvent, but the budget problems of the state are severe enough that there is no money to track down roughly 20,000 convicts and mentally ill citizens to confiscate
Now that California Governor Jerry Brown has claimed credit for reducing the deficit of the state into single-digit billions with his cuts and austerity plan, the money is flowing out again. Although state Democrats will howl that it’s not enough,
