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Federal Judge Blocks New California Law Forcing President Trump to Release Tax Returns

September 19, 2019 4:47 pmSeptember 20, 2019 1:15 pm

In a win for President Trump, presidential candidates will not have to disclose their tax returns to appear on California’s March primary ballot, if a tentative federal court ruling is made final. United States District Judge Morrison C. England, Jr....

Newsom Grants Clemency to Felons for Serious Crimes Involving Firearms

September 14, 2019 8:38 amSeptember 16, 2019 8:54 am

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday that he is commuting the sentences of 21 inmates, most of whom were serving life terms. Newsom’s clemency and commutations grant each offender hearings with the state Board of Parole Hearings. Yet 19 of...

San Francisco Adopts PC Language Instead of Fighting Crime

August 25, 2019 9:48 amAugust 26, 2019 7:10 am

“Societies in decline fixate on impossible postmodern dreams as a way of disguising their inability to address premodern problems.” The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will now call a “justice-involved person,” someone previously known as a “convicted felon,” Lloyd...

Chronicle of a ‘Justice-Involved Person’

August 24, 2019 7:29 amAugust 25, 2019 9:48 am

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will now call “justice-involved person” someone previously known as a “convicted felon.” That term includes some in the high ranks of California government, national figures in the field of education. Attorney Bill Honig, State...

Gun Snoops in White Coats

August 20, 2019 9:59 amMarch 28, 2022 3:28 pm

“In the three years since California implemented the nation’s first law allowing guns to be taken from individuals who pose an extreme risk,” Cathie Anderson reports in the Sacramento Bee, “the so-called red flag orders have prevented at least 21...

From El Paso to San Bernardino

August 6, 2019 7:22 amAugust 6, 2019 10:57 am

The mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday left 22 dead and more than two dozen wounded. While the carnage was still being sorted out, prominent Democrats began to unload on President Trump. “He is a racist, and he...