Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN) -- one of the lead Blue Dogs -- made a startling admission to lefty Liberadio today, suggesting the White House quietly encouraged him to buck House leadership
For Californians who feel they are part of anAlice-in-Wonderland budget process, check out what's going on in theneighboring state of Nevada. Governor Jim Gibbons recently announcedsome
Welcome to the latest episode of "Wild West Politics, California-Style," a show where everyone would rather fight than switch.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger comes out ahead in this
While Gov. Schwarzenegger is notthe bearer of ecstatic education news for California, a U.S. stimulus package may very well be. Of the $21.5billion that the Golden State stands
President BarackObama's appointment of Californian Leon Panetta to direct the CIA isyet another example of how the Golden State has become the nation's defacto go-to
GovernorSchwarzenegger had the nerve to suggest that legislators take a paycut as a symbolic gesture and to save the state some money. As heput it in his State of the
Nothingshort of a massive dose of retroactive common sense -- not to mention ashot of banking industry regulation -- could have stopped theforeclosure crisis that's been the nuclear reactor in
In the recent blockbuster The Dark Knight,the by-this-point infamous Joker sidles up to the permanently scarredHarvey Dent and expresses his hope that "There won't
It's a strange world when a Democratic president does in six days what Republican governor could not convince a Republican president to do in four years of letter-
As the hand-wringing over California's budget crisis inSacramento continues, the hard truth that the world's 8th economicpower is sliding into fiscal insolvency is finally starting
The Golden State is at the leading edge of the most recent recession. The national unemployment has risen to at least 7.2 percent, and the rate is much higher
As California headsthrough January, ever closer to the magical date of February 1, allCalifornia citizens face a startling truth: the state is rapidlyheading toward becoming, for lack of a better
