John Seiler: Ever wonder if America is a police state? Wonder no more. Reports the Daily Mail: "Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to 'destroy America' and 'dig up Marilyn Monroe'. "Leigh Van Bryan, 26, was handcuffed and kept...

Katy Grimes: A petty lawsuit filed by Assembly Speaker John Perez and Senate Pres. Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg against the state Controller demonstrates the legal levels the Democratic leaders are willing to go. While it may sound as if this is a legal precedence-setting opportunity, it’s not their ...

John Seiler: The California primary's late date, in June, usually makes it irrelevant. By then, one candidate usually has come to the fore of the Democratic or Republican parties. Yet California commentators still salivate over actually having something worthy to report. Writes Josh Richman:...

John Seiler: In California, everything is upside down. On Friday, the California Air Resources Board clicked its jackboots and ordered one in seven Calfornia cars to be "ultra clean" by 2025. That means "battery electric, hydrogen fuel cell and plug-in hybrid vehicles." It's supposed to cut...

John Seiler: Joel Fox makes some good points about the recent PPIC poll on tax increases. Supposedly the poll showed big margins of folks backing tax increases. But Fox pointed out that the recent Republican poll numbers in the primary season have changed rapidly within just a few days. There ...

John Seiler: Writing on Bloomberg, our colleague Steven Greenhut dissected President Obama's State of the Union speech. You can read the whole thing there. But here's the part on California: ------------------------------------------ Steven Greenhut: He called for a new era of responsibili...