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Political observers rightly predicted that the tenure of progressive New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio would be marred by constant opposition from conservatives. What they did not predict is opposition from the political left. Now, liberal activists are blasting

On Wednesday, Gov. Jerry Brown of California, unused to dealing with the minority GOP faction in his state house, asked for a special session of the legislature to consider his proposal to create a rainy-day fund, the Sacramento Bee reports.  Brown

Amidst the general gloom about Republican electoral fortunes in California, past and present, came some good news last week: Pete Peterson, director of the Davenport Institute for Public Engagement and Civic Leadership at Pepperdine University, is leading the race for Secretary

The California Chamber of Commerce aims to kill 26 bills that they say would damage job creation in the state. According to the LA Times, the annual list of job killing bills presented by the chamber consisted primarily of proposed

It is not just Markos of Daily Kos infamy claiming the Left has won the culture war. The Week’s Matt Lewis is saying the same. Yeah, they are both kinda trolling. So ‘scuse me while I take the bait. Let’s

In February, we reported on the depredations of large banks operating in the derivatives market focused on public sector entities, especially the bankrupt city of Detroit. Most recently, The New York Times reported that the banks involved in the swaps contracts at

Britain’s Trades Union Congress (TUC) – a collective of the country’s trades union groups – has launched a report entitled “Way of the Dragon” examining what Britain can learn from Communist China. The report, which is unfortunate enough to share

A construction trades union is jumping into the 2014 midterms. While it isn’t surprising when a union engages in politics, this particular union is going against the usual grain for union political expenditures by using its campaign dollars to threaten

Members of the government employee union SEIU and a group of Democrat supporters protested an Illinois think tank for opposing efforts to push a hike in the Illinois income tax. The protests in the state capital were organized by a

Cardiff University Students’ Union has attempted to ban pro-life demonstrations on campus despite opposition from the University’s Islamic, Catholic and Pro-Life societies, and some pro-abortion students. The Union’s senate last week debated the motion to “prevent affiliated societies and groups

Billionaire Charles Munger Jr. is forking out some much-needed cash to an array of California Republican candidates so that the GOP has broader representation in upcoming elections. The Republican philanthropist is a Stanford physicist and an anti-tax crusader, and has supported initiatives

Tea party groups are organizing this weekend to protest the “betrayal” by GOP House leadership and twenty-five other members at a tropical summit organized by a group working to undermine the Tea Party. The summit, sponsored by a sub group

The state’s largest public employee unions have perfected the art of controlling state government–in fact, when you look at how they do it, it’s really more of a science. These unions have literally have purchased the governance of the state

Former President Jimmy Carter at the LBJ Library Civil Rights Summit said his greatest concern for America’s future is the “stupid” Supreme Court decision of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which held the First Amendment prohibits the government from

On Hugh Hewitt’s radio show on Tuesday, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus discussed his intentions to take on campaign finance law… Partial transcript as follows: HEWITT: So to summarize, I want people to really understand this. There is, you

ForAmerica chairman Brent Bozell is excoriating House Majority Leader Eric Cantor for attending a tropical summit hosted by an organization working to marginalize the Tea Party movement. “Conservative leaders were stunned to learn that you will be headlining a conference

An elite Washington education policy group has conducted an anonymous survey of influential education insiders to provide strategic support to stakeholders in the current Common Core debate. Whiteboard Advisors state their April 2014 survey contains the views of unidentified education

America’s biggest state is now getting its own Breitbart page. Or is it its second, counting Big Hollywood? Or its third, given Big Government’s content? If California is to make its way back to more liberty and less government–and America

This is the moment for Breitbart News to focus on California. The times, they are a-changin’. Even in California. Last (or near last) in the nation in K-12 test scores and business climate, first (or near first) in high taxes,

“Maybe we can start again, in the new rich land–in California, where the fruit grows. We’ll start over.” – John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath  America is the greatest nation on Earth–and California, by virtue of its population, wealth and natural

Welcome to Breitbart California. Whether you’re a resident of the Golden State, or looking into our carbon emission-filled snow globe from elsewhere, I think you will find yourself returning often–for there is no doubt that, as the saying goes, “As California Goes,

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), one of the country’s most powerful public sector unions, will file a ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage in San Francisco to $15 per hour (from $10.74), which would make it the highest

Labor unions seek to organize Northwestern, Duke, and Stanford athletes the way they once organized Flint, Gary, and Paterson workers. Who could possibly object?   “Face it: The jig is up,” William C. Rhoden declares in the New York Times.

Kain Colter, the Northwestern University quarterback who organized his teammates into a union, meets with senators and representatives in Washington, DC on Wednesday and Thursday. Ramogi Huma, the president of the College Athletes Players Association, joins Colter in meeting with

A day after a regional director for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) determined that college athletes should be considered employees and be allowed to form unions, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on Thursday said college athletes should be

At some point in the media’s ongoing coverage of Pope Francis, one would assume they would start to get a clue about how Catholicism works. So far, one would be mostly wrong in doing so–especially as regards the Catholic view

The Conversation’s John Hayward already hit on the left-wing Politico’s use of “Creationism” as a straw man to lobby in favor of Democrats and powerful teacher unions and against the rights of underprivileged children to get a shot at decent

Democrats and union officials usually blame management obstruction, international competition, and the growth of robots for the 80% decline in the percentage of Americans working in the private sector that are unionized.  However, Steve Early, longtime union staff member and

Seniority is an important issue in the airline industry.  It affects everything from work schedules to job assignments to standby flight benefits and more.  It is so critical that it has created strange bedfellows in lawsuits filed last week regarding

Last week, Chuck Reed, the Democratic mayor of San Jose, abandoned an effort to place a referendum on the state ballot in November that would do for California what he did for San Jose in 2012–namely, bring massive unfunded pension

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon Fox is resigning from his leadership post and will not run for re-election, he said Saturday, a day after federal and state authorities raided his Statehouse office and home as part

Michael Madigan, the all-powerful Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, announced Thursday that he would direct the Democrat-controlled state legislature to place a referendum on the November ballot that would raise taxes on millionaires by three percent. The measure

Britain’s left-wing National Union of Students (NUS) is being criticised for its latest attempt to grab power from local university student unions. Students fear the NUS is seeking to impose NUS returning officers for elections. The move has already caused