California

Orange County Supervisors Seek to Bar Registered Sex Offenders from County Parks, Beaches

03.23.2011

Orange County supervisors have given initial approval to a new ordinance that would bar registered sex offenders from setting foot on county parks, including beaches, or risk being hit with a misdemeanor offense that comes with up to 6 months in jail and a $500 fine. This all stems from when a registered sex offender [...]

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Driving While Texting Causes Deaths: But, Does Outlawing it Make Us Any Safer?

12.15.2010

Texting and driving is illegal in California because it causes accidents and deaths. But is it that much different than any other activity done behind the wheel? Does outlawing it make us any safer?

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Vote, Vote, Vote: Do Your Civic Duty in the General Election Tomorrow

11.01.2010

Especially for us blogging blowhards out here on the Internet, voting in the general election tomorrow is our civic duty to actually make our voices and opinions heard on shaping the state and the country.

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If California GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Meg Whitman Needs a Bully to Quiet the Dissent, How Does She Expect to Govern the State?

09.25.2010

GOP candidate for the governor of California can’t even address one heckler — actually, just a dissenter — at her event without the help of New Jersey Gov. Christie. How does she expect to run the state with a Democratic-controlled congress?

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Getting Fired for Medical Marijuana Use: Why Should Employers Drug Test At All?

09.15.2010

Employers fire employees for failing drug tests, despite having medical marijuana prescriptions from their doctors. Why do we even drug test workers in the first place?

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Do You Like Capitalism? Then, You Should Love Gay Marriage.

08.24.2010

Marriage is big business. Sure, it’s about love and being together forever and all that jazz, too. But, let’s be real: it’s a serious moneymaker. So, why not include gays?

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California Blue Cross Hikes Premiums by 39%

02.10.2010

Anthem Blue Cross – California’s largest for-profit health insurance company – just sent notice to some 800,000 customers who purchase individual health plans that their premiums will be increasing by as much as 39% on March 1st.  That’s over 15 times the inflation rate.  They also told subscribers that they will be adjusting rates more [...]

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Palin Dismisses Climate Change as "Snake Oil Science"

02.09.2010

Ex-Governor Sarah Palin at a logging conference in Northern California on Monday with regards to why she sued to repeal the Endangered Species Act in Alaska: “We knew the bottom line … was ultimately to shut down a lot of our development … And it didn’t make any sense because it was based on these [...]

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Challenging Prop 8 in Federal Court, Take One

01.11.2010

Today marked the beginning of the federal trial contesting the constitutionality of Proposition 8 in California, which outlawed marriage for homosexual couples.  Below is the opening statement from attorney Ted Olson, arguing on behalf of the couple challenging the proposition.  I just don’t see how any rebuttal holds any water whatsoever.  It’s a case for [...]

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Prop 8 Upheld, Equality Not

05.26.2009

A disappointing day to say the least: the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of the ban on same-sex marriage. While no new gay marriages can take place, the marriages that occurred during the summer of 2008 when it was legal will remain valid.  Some point to this as being a minor victory in the [...]

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