Rights and Liberties
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Commentary:
JAN. 19, 2012
By JOHN SEILER
The Hollywood movie and recording companies are trying to censor the Internet. They're pushing SOPA and PIPA: the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House and the Protect Intellectual Property Act in the Senate. Given the garbage movies and records produc...
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
JAN. 11, 2012
By KATY GRIMES
Each year, thousands of California state employees do the right thing by exposing government waste and fraud. But not in the state Capitol in Sacramento, according to Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, D-Pasadena.
At an Assembly Judiciary Committee hearing Tues...
Thursday, December 29th, 2011
In the light of the state Supreme Court's redevelopment decision Thursday, I am reposting my Nov. 12 column regarding the state Republican Party's missed opportunity on this issue.
DEC. 30, 2011
By STEVEN GREENHUT
We all know that California's Democratic Party is running the state into ...
Friday, December 23rd, 2011
DEC. 23, 2011
By JASON STVERAK
Bloggers in Oregon, watch out. That’s because this month an Oregon court ruled that bloggers do not have same protection as the “media.”
This ruling emerged when Crystal Cox, a blogger, was accused of defaming Obsidian Finance Group and its co-founder Ke...
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
DECEMBER 1, 2011
By JOHN SEILER
Liberty held center court at the Pacific Research Institute's Annual Gala Dinner Wednesday evening, as Judge Andrew Napolitano gave a rousing speech in defense of liberty. The legal analyst for Fox News and host of "Freedom Watch" insisted, "Governments are not ...
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Commentary
NOV. 22, 2011
By DAVE ROBERTS
The dumping of inmates out of state prisons is coming at a good time — it will free up room for incarcerating people possessing illegal water softeners. Imagine the scene as you’re sitting in Cell Block D with your fellow inmates, discussing what...
Monday, October 10th, 2011
OCT. 10, 2011
By KATY GRIMES
While tuition costs have dramatically increased for most California college students, tuition for undocumented college students illegally in the state is about to drop significantly.
Gov. Jerry Brown just signed AB 131, part two of the California Dream Act o...
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
OCT. 6, 2011
By STEVEN GREENHUT
Gov. Jerry Brown today signed an executive order and legislation intended to deal with the problem of cell phones being smuggled into the state's prisons, but he artfully ignores the main source of those contraband phones, the employees who guard the prisons, an...
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
OCT. 4, 2011
By KATY GRIMES
The tone of a Monday telephone press conference changed dramatically from issues surrounding a campaign violation complaint, to charges of a "campaign of terror" being waged on LGBT youth.
Equality California filed the complaint with the Fair Political Practi...
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
SEPT. 29, 2011
By STEVEN GREENHUT
The California State University Employees Union is encouraging its members to intimidate people who are gathering signatures for a so-called “Paycheck Protection Initiative” that would limit the ability of unions to use automatic payroll deductions to gain...
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