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Kamala Harris Calls for Legalization of Marijuana After Opposing as DA

February 13, 2019 9:23 amFebruary 13, 2019 12:28 pm

California Senator Kamala Harris yesterday again called for the legalization of marijuana and revealed that she has smoked the stuff herself. Harris hasn’t always been a fan of making pot legal. It’s worth wondering whether her relatively newfound enthusiasm is...

McCarthy Signals That He’d Support Border Barrier Other than Wall

February 6, 2019 10:30 amFebruary 6, 2019 9:58 am

Border wall, border fence, or border barrier? Border security is certainly the most prominent issue currently facing the Republican Party but how to define it may be an even larger problem. While the government shutdown plagued Congress for over a...

DCCC Adds Nunes to Its Early Target List

February 6, 2019 5:00 amFebruary 6, 2019 4:52 am

While presidential hype surrounding the 2020 election has dominated political media outlets nationwide, one California Congressional District is already witnessing the early stages of a dogfight that promises to be nasty next year. It appears Republican Devin Nunes of Tulare...

Democrats Tap Xavier Becerra for Spanish-language SOTU Response

January 29, 2019 5:44 pmJanuary 29, 2019 5:56 pm

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who has sued the Trump administration a record 45 times, will give the Spanish-language response to President Trump’s February 5 State of the Union speech. “I’m looking forward to addressing my fellow Americans on a...

Schiff Dings Trump Jr. but Won’t Say What He’s Done Wrong

January 28, 2019 12:19 pmJanuary 30, 2019 4:32 pm

California Representative Adam Schiff said on Sunday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller should investigate Donald Trump, Jr. for possibly lying to Congress about his June 2016 meeting with Russians peddling dirt on Hillary Clinton. But on ABC’s “This Week” Schiff...

Kamala Is In!

January 21, 2019 1:15 pmJanuary 21, 2019 5:21 pm

Senator Kamala Harris, the much-hyped Democratic presidential candidate who announced her decision to run for President today, was just walloped from the left for her stints as San Francisco District Attorney and California Attorney General. But do these searing criticisms in...

Adam Schiff Is Blindly Credulous toward Website’s Debunked ‘Scoop’

January 21, 2019 11:21 amJanuary 23, 2019 6:06 am

News stories spark congressional investigations all the time. But whoever heard of a discredited news story sparking an investigation about charges that were already debunked by the person charged with investigating them? Probably nobody until the era of Donald Trump,...