Tag: California

A wildfire threatens homes as it burns along the 101 Freeway Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017, in Ventura, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Trump: ‘Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone’ in Los Angeles, California

Anna Giaritelli · December 6, 2017 4:43 pm

"Rather than focusing on getting the fund back on firm financial footing, CalPERS's management is making questionable investments of pensioners' money into social and political causes that are not yielding acceptable returns," said Tim Doyle, ACCF's Vice President of Policy and General Counsel. (Wikipedia Commons)

Beltway Confidential

California is putting retirees at risk with social justice pension investments

Brendan Pringle · December 6, 2017 4:24 pm

Universities employ various forms of prior restraint, effectively censoring speech before it ever takes place. (Gillian Jones/The Berkshire Eagle via AP)

Red Alert Politics

Prior restraint: How university officials stop speech before it ever takes place

alexander-staudt · December 4, 2017 3:03 pm

"What I often offer to foreign leaders and so forth is certainly you have to read [President Trump's] tweets but don't get mesmerized by the tweets," former CIA Director David Petraeus said. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Tweets and isolationist talk belie Trump’s first year of national security policy, experts say

Travis J. Tritten · December 2, 2017 8:03 pm

"It seems like to me that it wouldn't take five minutes to pass the Kate Steinle bill that passed out of the House with a good vote," Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Fox News host Tucker Carlson Friday night after a jury found Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty of murdering Kate Steinle, who was killed in 2015 on a San Francisco pier. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Jeff Sessions after Kate Steinle verdict: ‘Wouldn’t take five minutes’ for Senate to pass ‘Kate’s Law’

Diana Stancy Correll · December 2, 2017 2:03 am

Jose Ines Garcia Zarate will be removed from the country by U.S. immigration officials in accordance with a 2015 arrest warrant. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File)

Arrest warrant issued for illegal immigrant acquitted in Kate Steinle murder trial

Katie Leach · December 1, 2017 11:43 pm

Call your congressional representatives on your immigration concerns. But thank the jury for upholding their sworn duty and rendering a verdict, even if you disagree with it. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Beltway Confidential

In the Kate Steinle verdict, the separation of powers worked

Jenna Ellis · December 1, 2017 6:46 pm

The lawyer for an illegal immigrant who killed Kate Steinle on a pier asked the judge to drop all charges. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File)

Map: Illegal immigration costs California most, $23B, all states $89B

Paul Bedard · December 1, 2017 1:10 pm

San Francisco's sanctuary policy came under scrutiny during the trial because it allowed Jose Ines Garcia Zarate to be released from jail without federal agents learning of his release, which left them unable to detain him so he could be deported for a sixth time for illegally entering the U.S. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File)

Twitter users unleash #BoycottSanFrancisco as payback for Kate Steinle verdict

Anna Giaritelli · December 1, 2017 1:10 pm

San Francisco Superior Court jury determined Zarate was not guilty of first or second degree murder, or manslaughter. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File)

Illegal immigrant found not guilty of murdering Kate Steinle

Diana Stancy Correll · December 1, 2017 1:53 am

Four years ago, Jerry Brown launched "California Competes," his program to boost California jobs by awarding tax credits to job-creating businesses. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Beltway Confidential

California ‘jobs’ program fails as the state keeps chasing away job creators

Brendan Pringle · November 29, 2017 7:56 pm

Food insecurity has become such a common issue among students in recent years that four campus-based organizations decided to conduct a survey during the spring of 2016. The survey found that 22 percent of students reported being hungry in the previous 30 days. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Red Alert Politics

Trend: Starving college students turn to food pantries

Brendan Pringle · November 28, 2017 2:06 pm