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How Tax-Free Gas and Casino Exemptions Built a Political Powerhouse

May 30, 2026 5:02 amMay 30, 2026 5:02 am

In California, filling up your gas tank has gotten more expensive than usual, with prices topping $6 per gallon. While many people are tightening their budgets, tribal nations are benefiting – leveraging a regulatory double standard that is unavailable to other...

Electronic Commerce

May 30, 2026 2:30 amMay 30, 2026 2:31 am

Title 1.6D of Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code deals with electronic commerce. Article 1 contains general provisions. Section 1789 contains a legislative finding and declaration. Section 1789.1 names this title as “The Electronic Commerce Act of...

Taxpayer-Funded Gang Murderer Hired as ‘Peace Ambassador’ in DSA-Run MacArthur Park

May 29, 2026 2:06 pmMay 29, 2026 2:18 pm

Los Angeles taxpayers are once again footing the bill for a convicted gang murderer’s lifestyle, this time as a city-hired “Peace Ambassador” embedded in the very neighborhood his gang has turned into an open-air drug market. This morning, FBI agents...

Instructing the Courts on Interpretation

May 29, 2026 2:00 pmMay 29, 2026 2:01 pm

In reviewing some recent legislation in the 2026 California Legislative Session, I have come across several bills that contain “liberally construe” language, as well as one that used “liberally interpret” language. In other words, this language is directed at state...

Information Practices Act

May 29, 2026 7:00 amMay 29, 2026 7:26 am

Civil Code Division 3, Part 4, Title 1.8 deals with personal data. Chapter 1 contains the Information Practices Act of 1977. Article 5 provides agency requirements. Section 1798.14 requires each agency to maintain in its records only personal information which...

Gavin’s New Grift: Newsom Announces He is Awarding $80 Million in Funding to 343 Nonprofits and Faith-Based Orgs

May 29, 2026 5:00 amMay 29, 2026 5:20 am

Governor Gavin Newsom announced Thursday he is awarding $80 million in funding to 343 nonprofit and faith-based organizations throughout California following the San Diego mosque shooting. How interesting. California has a $30 billion budget deficit (that we know of) and the...

Sacramento Democrats Push Bill to Gut Prop 36, Advance ‘Criminals-First Agenda’

May 28, 2026 2:22 pmMay 28, 2026 2:23 pm

Just months after voters approved Proposition 36 to restore felony penalties for repeat theft and drug crimes, Democrats in the Assembly passed AB 2108, a bill authored by Assemblymember LaShae Sharp-Collins (D-La Mesa) that creates a pretrial diversion program for...