By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 22nd at 10:00 PM  | 

Janice Hahn will retire from Congress, and go work somewhere that doesn’t have any Republicans running things.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 26th at 10:00 PM  | 

To wit: they’re creating actual nomad clans over there. Over the last two years, street encampments have jumped their historic boundaries in downtown Los Angeles, lining freeways and filling underpasses from Echo Park to South Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, a city-county agency, received 767 calls about street encampments in 2014, up 60% from the 479 in 2013. Some residents believe the | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 9th at 05:00 PM  | 

Or, as I would put it, Tom Steyer thinking of eliminating middleman by signing up to directly lose a Senate seat: “Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer is mulling a run for Bar bara Boxer’s Senate seat, according to a person close to the former hedge fund trader.” …and there’s the trouble, right there for Mr. Steyer: all those adjectives. ‘Billionaire’ is at best, neutral. ‘Environmentalist’ is not | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 8th at 02:00 PM  | 

is retiring.  If you listen, you can hear the faint sounds of Democratic politicians all across California as they get up from their breakfasts and calmly go to open up their weapons caches. For there will be a Democratic war in the primaries over this.  A California Senator’s seat?  Oh, my, yes, but there will be a Time Of Troubles.  Lots of people want that | Read More »

By: streiff (Diary)  |  October 23rd at 03:00 PM  | 

We knew this was eventually going to happen. And if it was going to happen it would more likely than not happen in California (known as the Cereal State because it is populated by fruits, flakes, and nuts). And now it has. California’s Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) Director Michelle Rouillard has ordered all insurance plans in the state to cover surgical abortion for | Read More »

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 11th at 12:27 PM  | 

There have been disturbing allegations against Carl DeMaio for a while. Those include all sorts of things including sexual harassment against another guy. Here’s the truth about all this. The NRCC vetted the guy and these allegations were there for a while. They have merit behind them. Were DeMaio a straight guy, the NRCC would have worked overtime to force him out. Republicans all over | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 2nd at 08:00 PM  | 

45/42 favorable ratings. In California.  This is not good news for Democrats, going into the formal 2014 election season: I mean, imagine how Obama’s doing elsewhere. Mark DiCamillo, director of the Field Poll, said the trend is ominous for Obama, because the latest declines come from his base. Support among California Democrats dropped 8 percentage points to 68 percent over the last three months. Approval was | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 22nd at 07:00 PM  | 

If you are wondering how it is that Jeff Gorell (R CAND, California-26) is managing to put Julia Brownley in such electoral fear – in California, forsooth! – well, it’s because Brownley is an awful candidate, of course. And she has awful friends, too. Let’s go to the Twitter, shall we? First off, meet some of Jeff’s supporters. Women in Ventura County support @JeffGorell for | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 4th at 08:30 PM  | 

It would be nice if the Democrats started using military veterans as something else besides mobile props.

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  July 15th at 12:00 PM  | 

The proposal to split California into six states has gotten enough signatures to make the ballot. Assuming there are no irregularities with the signatures, this means it should be on the ballot for a vote in November.

I doubt the idea will get anywhere though, because it’s one of those rare things that’s bad for Republicans and for Democrat interest groups.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  July 8th at 12:30 PM  | 

It’s so easy to go evil, in this thing of ours. You always have to be careful.

By: Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher (Diary)  |  June 17th at 09:05 AM  | 

How many laws have to be passed before you believe they are after your guns? President Obama and the left have an aggressive gun control agenda – and it’s hiding plain sight. Yet even in respected circles there are many who believe we only need to enact new legislation further restricting gun and ammunition ownership and our problems with crime and mental health will go | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 6th at 07:00 PM  | 

This is fallout from last Tuesday’s California primary: freshman Democrat Julia Brownley got 46% of the vote to Republican Jeff Gorell‘s 44%. What should probably worry Brownley more is that the combined total percentage of Republican votes was over 50%.  It was generally not a great night for California’s Democratic candidates: In CA-07 incumbent freshman Democrat Ami Bera is likewise dealing with an environment where Republicans got | Read More »

By: Erick Brockway (Diary)  |  June 4th at 06:43 AM  | 

Democrat lying isn’t exactly news lately, but all politics are local, as are Democrat lies these days

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  May 28th at 07:18 AM  | 

Unlike most other states, California uses an “open” primary system where the top two vote getters on primary day advance to the general election regardless of party affiliation.  In some ways, this makes the analysis a little difficult.  It is possible that in certain districts there may be a Democrat vs. Democrat or Republican vs. Republican in the general election.  This article will focus on | Read More »