“Birther” Lawyer Orly Taitz has qualified to run for California Secretary of State, giving Debra Bowen new competition for her position. Taitz, a USSR native and naturalized U.S. Citizen,
There are over 242,000 Defense Department contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. This at times exceeds the amount of troops we have officially deployed. The cost is well over $100
A study released earlier this week by the University of California Los Angeles showed that almost 25% of Californians under the age of 65 lacked health insurance during all or
Steve Poizner is California’s State Insurance Commissioner, and now the Stanford graduate is running for governor of California. Poizner, like his main rival Meg Whitman, is an individual with
According to the conclusion from observations noted in an op-ed in the San Jose Mercury, the federally mandated healthcare bill that the House will vote on this weekend is
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s quest to convince the federal government to put-up-or-shut-up by paying California an additional $6.9 billion he says the state needs to
Amidst the current, highly contentious debates over national healthcare policy, it is often easy to forget that the House and Senate are more than battlefields for the competing interests and
We face a critical juncture for our Republic, one that might even prove if we have reached, according to Francis Fukuyama, the "end of history." This fork in
This Saturday, anti-war protestors will take to the streets in large numbers to protest US foreign policy. Multiple political groups, ranging from the left to the right, have planned
Are we better off trying to “go green” via state, regional and national power grids, or on a home-by-home basis through rooftop solar panels, home wind turbines or
The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is the largest public pension system in the country with current assets of about $205 billion. They fund pensions and health plans
