If you haven’t already heard, the crowd attending last weekend’s soccer match between the United States’ and Mexico’s men’s teams was overwhelmingly biased in favor of Mexico – and it was held at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA, with over 93,000 in attendance. When the U.S. team took the field it was “smothered in […]
By Mark Leno If you like to attend political rallies, parades, protests or sit-ins, you might consider leaving your cell phone at home in the unlikely event arrests are made. A recent California Supreme Court decision allows police to rummage through all of the private information on your smart phone as part of an arrest, […]
by Stephen Schwartz American Thinker July 17, 2011 Gertrude Stein, the controversial modernist author, spent part of her childhood in Oakland, California, a city on the southern border of Berkeley, home of the flagship campus of the University of California system. Returning to Oakland later in life, Stein is supposed to have complained, “there’s no […]
Vallejo, California (And Virtually The Rest Of The State Of California are a complete mess). Almost the entire state of California is an economic disaster zone. Austerity measures are being implemented in city after city as tax revenues have nosedived. The following is an excerpt from a recent New York Times article that describes the […]
Engineering of the Colorado River may have delayed an overdue large earthquake along the southern San Andreas Fault, UC San Diego researchers say in a new study. But as stresses keep building, faults under the Salton Sea may trigger a big quake anyway, the researchers said. The faults, some of which the researchers discovered, could trigger ruptures in a […]
In this week’s Common Sense video, State Chairman Peter Foy exposes the outrageous waste of taxpayer dollars in the Los Angeles Community College District. The $5.7 Billion Los Angeles Community College District Boondoggle [youtube NFCktq_cNJY nolink]
California State Senator Leland Yee’s (D-San Francisco) disastrous bill (SB 111) would add “language” to the state’s civil rights act. This week, the House Judiciary Committee approved the bill by a vote of 6 to 3, so it could come up for a House floor vote at any time! Yee authored the same legislation in […]
In this week’s common-sense video, David Spady discusses California Governor Brown’s use of the DMV as a political pawn in his attempt to raise taxes on Californians. Jerry Brown’s Word Games for Taxes [youtube BOSoFk8twxs nolink]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Even before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that California must drastically reduce its prison population, the state had begun taking steps to relieve severe overcrowding at the direction of a former actor-turned-governor who alternated roles between get-tough cop and social worker reformer. Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger insisted in 2005 that […]
A measure seeking to ban male circumcision will appear on the November ballot in San Francisco. More than 7,700 signatures from city residents on a petition in support of the measure were approved as valid by city officials on Wednesday. At least 7,168 signatures were required, and more than 12,000 were submitted. The measure, which […]
