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California able to deploy National Guard troops to border before Arizona
This week, California became the first state to be provided with resources to deploy National Guard troops to its southern border with Mexico. The move is a part of a promise from the Obama admi ...
20 Aug, 2010
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Looming Arizona immigration law sets the stage for impassioned debate
While Arizona’s immigration law is set to take effect this Thursday, there is much to consider both now and after the law is implemented. It seems as if the law is already fulfilling its intenti ...
27 Jul, 2010
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California's gubernatorial candidates and the failure of the Democrat-Republican consensus on drug policy
By any reasonable standard, I would argue that the 40 year-old “war on drugs” has been a failure. Among other things, this war has hurt the lives of countless individuals and families, swelled t ...
07 Jul, 2010
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California Could See Over $1.4 Billion Revenue Spike From Tax Cannabis Act
California's very own State Board of Equalization reports in its legislative bill analysis that revenues from a bill similar to the Tax Cannabis Act would equal roughly $1.4 billion.With California's ...
12 Jun, 2010
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Gulf of Mexico drilling disaster triggers counterproductive reaction in California
Santa Barbara environmentalists who have been fighting offshore oil drilling for more than 40 years appeared to have gained a new ally when Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced this week that he w ...
06 May, 2010
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President Obama proposes cutting border security in 2011 federal budget
Possibly indicating what direction the president might lean on comprehensive immigration reform, the Washington Examiner reports that President Obama has proposed cutting U.S. border security as part ...
05 May, 2010
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23,000 Dead In Mexico's Drug Wars (And How We Caused It)
A leaked government report indicates that nearly 23,000 people have died in Mexico's violent drug wars in the last three years alone. But it doesn't have to be this way.Any economist armed with basic ...
04 May, 2010
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Arizona's controversial illegal immigration legislation puts California in the crosshairs
Laws have consequences. With the new hard line immigration crackdown passed in Arizona, its impact will be felt on that particular state and others with similarly high concentrations of illegal immigr ...
27 Apr, 2010
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Attack of the clones: Mexican drug smugglers using counterfeit border patrol vehicles
Illegal drug traffickers and alien smugglers from Mexico are never running out of innovative ways to accomplish their goals. Concerning illegal operations taking place across the border, these i ...
16 Apr, 2010
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2 min read
Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson reveals reform strategy in CAIVN interview
To better assess many of California's problems and some possible solutions, the following is from an interview I conducted this week with former New Mexico Governor, Gary Johnson.When he ran for Gover ...
03 Apr, 2010
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