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Later this week, Republican presidential candidates will gather in Simi Valley, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, for the second GOP debate of the campaign season.

A new poll released Sunday morning by the Los Angeles Times shows Donald Trump leading among Republican voters in California, with 24% of the vote. Fellow outsider Dr. Ben Carson is second, with 18% of registered voters.

California Gov. Jerry Brown sent a letter to Republican presidential contender Dr. Ben Carson on Thursday, along with a flash drive containing the latest science on climate change, challenging him to “review the material.”

Convicted fraudster Robert Creamer played a key role in selling the Iran deal to Democrats, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Creamer, a political consultant who is intimately connected with Obama’s inner political circle, pleaded guilty in 2005 to tax violations and bank fraud.

President Barack Obama stressed atonement in his New Year greetings to the Jewish community, but failed to ask forgiveness for the anti-Jewish rhetoric he and his allies used in campaigning for the Iran deal in recent weeks.

As of this writing–late night on Thursday, September 10–not a single local newspaper has noted Ted Lieu’s opposition to the Iran deal. Only three outlets have reported the news: one is a pro-Israel website, one is a conservative blog, and the third is Breitbart California.

Senate Democrats used a filibuster to prevent a vote on the Iran deal on Thursday. The move will also prevent President Barack Obama from having to use his veto power to block the motion of disapproval.

Breitbart News Contributor Sonnie Johnson and Editor-at-Large Joel B. Pollak will join Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark R. Levin and others in addressing Wednesday’s Tea Party rally against the Iran deal.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the theocratic dictator of Iran, tweeted Wednesday that Israel would not survive for 25 more years.

Gov. Mike Huckabee was the guest star at Kim Davis’s freedom rally–and showed fellow Republicans how to beat Donald Trump.

A new movement, “Defund Iran,” seeks to amend state constitutions to prevent taxpayer dollars from being spent on Iran or other state sponsors of terror.

Jonah Goldberg argues that Donald Trump is no conservative, and he is disappointed in conservatives who support him. He singles out my Breitbart colleague John Nolte, who has tweeted effusive praise of the way Trump confronts the media.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) is facing a massive backlash against his support for the Iran deal, and is reportedly trying to meet Tuesday with local Jewish leaders in an attempt to mend relations, the New York Observer reports.

Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz cried over the Iran deal on CNN’s State of the Union this weekend when she was asked by host Jake Tapper what she would say to fellow Jews who would say to her that she had “sold out Israel” by casting a vote in favor of the agreement.

Former Secretary of State and Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell backed the Iran deal on Sunday. The retired statesman, who played a key role in the push for war in Iraq, later supported Barack Obama for president.

Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta admits that the Iran deal is bad, but says it provides an opportunity for the U.S. to become more aggressive in dealing with the Iranian regime.

Pentagon officials said Thursday that Chinese naval vessels that appeared near Alaska during President Barack Obama’s visit this week passed through U.S. territorial waters–and hastened to defend China’s actions as being consistent with international law.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) wants Congress to shut down the Select Committee on Benghazi, now that Hillary Clinton’s emails are coming to light. In an op-ed in the New York Times, Schiff, ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and

The Iran deal will fail to muster enough votes to override an anticipated presidential veto. In the Senate, it may even fail to gather enough votes to stop Democrats from filibustering. The fact that Minority Leader Harry Reid wants to protect his members from having to vote on the Iran deal at all tells us exactly how bad it is. But it also tells us how weak the Republican opposition to the Iran deal has been from the start. And there must be political consequences.

CAIR’s alliance with the movement reinforces the perception that it opposes law enforcement because it backs some of the aims of Islamic radicals, even as it condemns their tactics.

Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Mark Warner (D-VA), both considered moderates, announced their support for the Iran deal Thursday.

The PBS Ombudsman has called Gwen Ifill’s ‘Take that, Bibi’ tweet on the Iran deal “inexcusable,” and suggests that employees avoid Twitter.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the pro-Israel lobby group long seen as one of the most powerful organizations in Washington, is blaming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech in March for the imminent passage of the Iran deal.

On Wednesday, Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) became the 34th Democrat in the U.S. Senate to support the Iran deal, handing President Barack Obama a veto-proof majority. In so doing, Mikulski drove the final nail into the coffin of the pro-Israel lobby.

One possible reason for Clinton’s eager embrace of the Iran deal may have been the e-mail scandal that unfolded as the details of the accord emerged.

Pulitzer-prize winning Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens launched an uncharacteristically vicious attack against Donald Trump and the voters who support him on Tuesday, calling Trump a “demagogue” who appeals to the “vulgarians” among us.

Alaskans, and millions who love Alaska, support changing the name of Mt. McKinley to Denali. And that is exactly why President Barack Obama’s unilateral decision to change the name is so wrong.

As the fateful vote on the Iran deal draws nearer in Congress, support is building for an idea first proposed at Breitbart News: use the states to maintain existing sanctions on Iran, and add new ones.

As a growing number of Democrats declare their support for the Iran deal, not one of them has criticized the way it was done.

CalPERS, the Golden State’s public employee retirement system, is seeking to shift the cost and risk of pensions to taxpayers after a $5 billion shortfall in 2014.

The real blame rests not with Corker, but with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who failed to defend the constitutional prerogatives of the Senate. He should have warned at the outset that if Obama failed to submit the Iran deal as a treaty as required, it would be dead–period.

Nearly 200 retired U.S. generals and admirals have signed an open letter opposing the Iran deal and urging Congress to reject the “defective” agreement.

California Gov. Jerry Brown is a “geezer,” but he has the “opportunity of a lifetime” in the 2016 presidential race. That’s according to Los Angeles Times columnist George Skelton, who says that Brown “never has been in better position to run”–though he argues that “Brown blew his best chance” because of his three previous failed runs (1976, 1980, and 1992).

Republicans in Congress plan new sanctions against Iran even if the Iran deal passes, according to a new report by Josh Rogin of Bloomberg View.

California governor Jerry Brown, who owes much of his personal fortune to oil, blasted the oil industry Monday, saying it provides a “highly destructive” product.

President Barack Obama’s political allies are questioning the text of a “side deal” between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published by the Associated Press this week.