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WaPo Busts Kamala Harris for Misrepresenting Trump Tax Cuts

February 15, 2019 8:43 amFebruary 15, 2019 8:50 am

California Senator Kamala Harris has received lustrous press coverage since announcing her presidential bid last month. But yesterday the Washington Post fact-checker zinged her for a mendacious tweet claiming the 2017 Trump tax cuts actually raised taxes on the middle...

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...

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...

Newspapers sue Sacramento sheriff for refusing to release records

January 25, 2019 4:01 pmJanuary 26, 2019 9:17 am

The Sacramento Bee and Los Angeles Times have filed a lawsuit against Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones for refusing to comply with a California Public Records Act request for records related to sheriff’s deputies employed by his agency. The lawsuit,...

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,...

Maxine Waters Dictates Policy to CBS News

January 17, 2019 9:13 amJanuary 17, 2019 1:03 pm

Is there a black way and a white way to cover political campaigns? California Representative Maxine Waters seems to think so. Waters yesterday conferred with top CBS News officials following tweeted complaints from her and other luminaries that CBS News...

Hedge Fund Media Group Offer to Buy Gannett

January 14, 2019 12:24 pmJanuary 17, 2019 1:03 pm

At least one-third of the largest newspapers across the United States experienced layoffs between January 2017 and April 2018, according to the Pew Research Center. Monday, reports of MNG Enterprises, backed by a New York hedge-fund, announced it made an...