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California Legislative Leadership Opposes Prop 27, an Online Sports Betting Ballot Measure
California’s legislative leadership — which includes the Democratic and Republican chiefs in the Senate and Assembly — found some common ground this week as they collectively came out against a ballot measure that would legalize online and mobile sports wagering. Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, Senate Minority Leader Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, Assembly Speaker Anthony […]
Los Angeles Schools Prepare Lesson on ‘Privilege’ and ‘Intersectionality’
The Los Angeles Unified School District has prepared a lesson to teach children about privilege and intersectionality. The lesson was prepared by the Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) Office of Human Relations, Diversity, and Equity. Titled “Privilege 101,” the lesson is intended to advance the left’s view of identity in the classroom. The presentation […]
Trump Says FBI Raided Mar-a-Lago
Former president Donald Trump said Monday the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. “These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of FBI agents,” Trump said in a statement. “Nothing like this has ever happened to […]
California Democrats Re-define State’s Open Meeting Act
The bill’s authors claim ‘many provisions in the Brown Act remain antiquated’ Only three months ago, the Globe reported that State Capitol leadership was still requiring social distancing in committee hearing rooms, greatly diminishing available seating for lobbyists and members of the public, and denying many access to their elected representatives – despite the Covid pandemic moving into […]
They Keep Trying, Keep Failing to Actually Nab Donald Trump for Criminality
Like a Road Runner cartoon, the pursuit of Donald Trump is unending, noisy, and repeatedly running off the edge of a cliff. The January 6th committee concluded its hearings in July with a thundering failure to present any of the long-promised evidence that Trump had committed a crime. But then another box of Acme explosives […]
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Life on the American River
…the colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky, are also on the faces, of people going by,I see friends shaking hands, saying how do you do, they’re really saying, I love you…– What a Wonderful World, sang by Louis Armstrong in 1967 The American River runs through the heart of Sacramento, from the bedroom […]
‘Hidden Truths Stripped From the National Dialogue’ – The president’s power over foreign policy
From the book “Hidden Truths Stripped From the National Dialogue” by Bruce Herschensohn MOST OFTEN REPORTED AND TAUGHT: “IT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL FOR THE PRESIDENT TO KEEP NATIONAL SECURITY SECRETS FROM THE CONGRESS” THE TRUTH: THE SUPREME COURT WROTE DIFFERENTLY The most pertinent excerpts follow from the decision of United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation in […]
Why Libertarians Are Unwitting Enablers of Socialism
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves […]
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Explore OC: Newport’s Back Bay is a paradise for birds, plants and people
A wake of turkey vultures sit in a dead tree, the prickly pear cactus are blooming on the bluffs above and herons pick through the marsh grass feeding on small fish and critters. Not too far away, cyclists, hikers and runners circle them all on the 10.5 miles of trail that is part of one […]
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CA Supreme Court Associate Justice Patricia Guerrero Nominated by Gov Newsom For Chief Justice Slot
Associate Justice Evans’ nomination drew much criticism; ‘She has had a hodgepodge of a career,’ ‘is disastrously inexperienced on the bench’ Governor Gavin Newsom nominated Supreme Court Associate Justice Patricia Guerrero as the next Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court on Wednesday, replacing current Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, who announced last month that she would not be seeking […]
UTLA Claims LAUSD Unfairly Added Four Teaching Days and Three Development Days to School Year
The teachers union has filed an unfair practice charge against the Los Angeles Unified School District, alleging its decision to add four instructional days and three professional development days to the 2022-23 school year, while optional for both students and teachers, should have been negotiated. United Teachers Los Angeles wrote in its filing with the […]
California Unemployment Checks: New Report Says Here’s Why They’re So Hard to Get
If you get laid off, there’s a system that’s supposed to help you get by: unemployment benefits. Whenever California stares down a pandemic or a possible recession, the partial wage-replacement program is one of the most important economic safeguards for workers. But the benefits have become more difficult for workers to access, due to the […]
Does University of California Undercut Academic Freedom?
Administrations and faculties at University of California campuses are embroiled in a searing controversy over requirements that applicants for faculty positions and candidates for promotion prove their active support, without reservation, of what’s called “diversity, equity and inclusion.” Candidates must submit “DEI statements” that, under UC’s policies, determine whether they will be considered for employment […]
California ‘The State Everyone Can’t Wait to Leave Behind,’ Kevin Kiley Tells CPAC Audience
Republican congressional candidate Kevin Kiley used the national conservative stage Saturday to forcefully denounce Gov. Gavin Newsom and paint California as a place where people “walk down streets that double as restrooms and injection sites.” Kiley spoke Saturday at the CPAC convention in Dallas, a gathering that included some of the conservative movements’ biggest – […]
