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The biggest stories in the national media this week both came from the mad streets of New York. The manslaughter trial of Daniel Penny, the young man who accidentally killed

Gavin Newsom has just two years remaining of his governorship. As it winds down, he is stepping up efforts to build a national profile toward what many pundits assume will

There’s nothing like a clear election victory to clear away a constitutional crisis. Or to set one in motion.The result: Jan. 6, 2025, will be a bore. But Jan. 20,

Joe Biden has 40 more days to serve as president. But anyone watching events in Paris over the weekend would think President-elect Donald Trump has already taken office.  The president-elect

Pundits and academics who have parsed the data of Donald Trump’s presidential victory differ on the fine points but generally agree it reflected voters’ widespread unhappiness with the status quo,

I turned 63 on Dec. 4. Unlike many women of my vintage, birthdays are a very public celebration in my house. It’s always been that way. From the time I

The Public Policy Institute of California, a think tank that conducts vigorous and objective research into vital state issues, is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a series of retrospective reports.

There have been some interesting discussions about birthright citizenship, intensified by Donald Trump’s election a few weeks ago. A number of people who are angry at the chaos at the

The next four years are going to be especially tough for MSNBC’s Joy Reid. The always-angry host of “The ReidOut” has spent the past four years ranting about Donald Trump

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, the major culprit in the unconstitutional open border crime that has, including gotaways, admitted — 10 million, 12 million, 15 million; no one truly

You will probably agree that President Joe Biden’s issuance of a broad pardon to his son Hunter Biden is the world’s least surprising news. Many have predicted for quite a

On Nov. 5, the presidential election captured most of the nation’s attention. But few paid any mind to California’s House of Representatives election outcomes since the results were a foregone

The national frustration over President Joe Biden’s immigration agenda was reflected not only in the presidential election’s results but also in Arizona. Proposition 314, a border security measure that makes

It got lost in the massive attention paid — with good reason — to Donald Trump’s triumphant return to the presidency, but a quiet revolution occurred in Los Angeles County. 

It seems like years, but it was just one month ago that the media effort to stop Donald Trump reached its final, most desperate phase in the closing days of

Kamala Harris could count on winning California’s 54 electoral college votes as she campaigned for president, and the state’s voters delivered. In fact, California’s electoral votes were almost a quarter

You know the old song lyrics, “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am”? I’ve been hearing that on a loop in my inner ear

When the Democratic convention took place in August, with new nominee Kamala Harris rising in the polls, Democrats were giddy with a sense of impending victory.  In Chicago for the

Proponents of common-sense immigration reform won a rare but crucial victory when district court Judge Trevor McFadden ruled that the Center for Immigration Studies’ lawsuit, Massachusetts Coalition for Immigration Reform

The Democrats did not do a good job of dealing with their terrible loss. In fact, they and the liberal media collectively melted down in front of the world last