U.S. Republican Party

Illegal Immigrants Should Be Able To Stay In California, Voters Say

We're not sure what's happened in recent years, but California's stance toward illegal immigrants has gone from the hate of the Pete Wilson '90s to almost nothin' but love today (unless, of course, you listen to AM talk radio). USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll numbers released over the weekend s ... More >>

Sandra Fluke Headlines L.A. City Hall Rally For Increasing Taxes On Rich

Sandra Fluke, the activist Rush Limbaugh once called a prostitute because she said her Catholic law school, Georgetown, should offer free birth control for women, is in L.A. today. She's the headliner at a City Hall rally organized by a group called the Action. What do they want? An end to tax brea ... More >>

Romney Writes Off Latinos, Young Voters As Government Moochers

The Republican party has four years to do something thinking, mainly about how you can be elected president, as Obama was last week, without a majority of white voters. The big story there is Latinos, and how they rocked the booths for Obama, with 70 percent or so going for the incumbent, according ... More >>

Latinos, Immigration Play Big in Second Obama-Romney Debate

Watching the debate last night you'd think that Latinos (and not, as conventional wisdom would have it, Ohioans) are going to swing this thing. The issue aimed at the Latino vote, of course, was immigration. Because that's all us brownfolk think about -- getting other brownfolk across that border, ... More >>

How Wall Street and Washington Conspired to Spike Gas Prices

By Pete Kotz On July 11, 2008, the price of oil rose to $147 per barrel, a record high. Gas stations engaged in hot pursuit as the price of a gallon rocketed past $4. All hell was about to break loose. The country's largest banks had already begun to implode through arrogance and ineptitude. Now t ... More >>

Same-Day Voter Registration is Here! ... Next Year (Maybe)

Someday you'll be able to vote simply by driving your Prius past the Whole Foods (your desires will be tallied automatically because we all know who you're going to vote for). Until then, Gov. Jerry Brown saves the day with same-day voter registration in California. Yay! Except that ...

California Democratic Drunks Make a Scene at DNC in Charlotte

Props to our California delegates who made drunken fools of themselves in Charlotte even before the Democratic National Convention started there today. While Mitt Romney's prom had Clint Eastwood lecturing an empty chair in Tampa last week, the Golden State's own Dems were prepping for Obama's seco ... More >>

Dr. Matthew Lin to Sacramento, Stat?

GOP surgeon may beat Dems for first time since '70s in San Gabriel Valley

California Democrats Kill Plan to Post Elected Officials' Spending Reports Online

A plan to post each California state lawmaker's spending habits online -- proposed by Republican Assemblywoman Kristin Olsen, and supported by her fellow Republicans in Legislature -- just died at the hands of Democrats. L.A. libs love to hate on the GOP. But when it comes to big, irresponsible gov ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free), it's where most of your content comes ... More >>

Democrats Worked The Refs In Redistricting Battle, ProPublica Investigation Finds

A detail of the state's new Congressional map​California's Democratic lawmakers were not in charge of the redistricting process this year, thanks to the new Citizens Redistricting Commission. But according to a ProPublica investigation, the state's Democrats found ways to influence the commission ... More >>

Berkeley Bake Sale: How Much Those Cookies Would Really Cost if They Were Based on Campus Demographics

We have no problem with the Berkeley College Republicans' bake sale yesterday, or at least with the young GOPers' right to make an issue of anything they wish. (Yes, it is ironic that so-called lefties would seek to shut them down rather than grant them the freedom of speech liberals so take for gra ... More >>

L.A. Democrat Says Republican 'Science Deniers' Are Using Solyndra Solar Failure to Argue Against Clean Energy

baycitizen.orgWas Obama blinded by the wonders green jobs could do for his campaign?​Solyndra, Inc., the NorCal solar company that just blew through a $535 million loan from the federal government and is being probed by the FBI, had a lot more to lose than the money. (Hell, what's $535 million ... More >>

Obama Disguises Campaign Donation Website as 'Immigration Reform' Fundraiser, the Sneaky Bastard

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KPCC, L.A. Public Radio Station, Pulls Planned Parenthood Spots Over Federal Budget Debate That Is Targeting Abortion Issue

Planned ParenthoodRepublicans want to shut down government because they don't want you to have a plan. Seriously.​So while high taxes and (over) spending remain the mantra of Republicans threatening to shut down the federal government over President Obama's budget, the real deal-breaker could ... More >>

L.A.'s Andrew Breitbart Announces 'Big Ol Gay Party' For 'These People' at Conservative Convention In D.C.

Andrew Breitbart welcomes the gay crowd. Sort of.​L.A.-based conservative pit bull Andrew Breitbart is about as right as it gets here on the left coast. But that doesn't mean he isn't down with the rainbow massive. To prove it Breitbart pulled out every musical stereotype in the book (declari ... More >>

California's Proposition 20 and Proposition 27: Gerrymandering And Election-Fixing And Why You Should Give A Rip

By Hillel Aron California's "Ribbon of Shame" Congressional District 23 stretches more than 200 miles from outside Camarillo to the Monterey Co. border, narrows to 100 yards and is said to "disappear at high tide​Update: Before Nov. 2, read about shadowy Michael Berman, a map-making guru who ... More >>

Effort To Legalize Marijuana In California Losing In Latest Poll

themadpothead via FlickrCalifornia's pot just might stay medical for a while.​Friends, countrymen, our fellow stoners. Lend us your lighters, for we shall spark one in honor of what could have been -- fully legal weed in California. We know, this thing's not over yet. But Prop. 19, the initia ... More >>

President Obama's Campaign Manager David Plouffe Talks 2010 In Hollywood

David Plouffe, Obama campaign manager​ Democrats as a species are nearly always filled with dread and doubt, like Charlie Brown to the Republicans' Lucy. Except when they win, in which case they turn on each other with nearly as much venom as on their Republican opponents. David Plouffe, Pre ... More >>

Pew poll says Americans hate government. Exhibit One: Howard Berman, gerrymander king

The respected Pew Research Center several hours ago revealed that Americans from all walks of life are beset with distrust for government at all levels, plummeting from 73 percent who said they trusted government in the Eisenhower era, to only 22 percent who say so today.Howard Berman ​This week's ... More >>

WeHo Club At Center Of Republican Controversy Misunderstood

voyeur7969.comAn image from Voyeur's website.​A publicist for the West Hollywood club at the center of a Republican National Committee spending spree in the Los Angeles area last month wants to correct the record: It's not a bondage club, nor is it a strip joint or bikini bar. Voyeur is just ... More >>

Young Republicans Gone Wild In L.A: Staffer Fired For Bondage Club Visit

voyeur7969.comAn image from Voyeur's website.​This is a fun game to play, and some of you probably called it: When an entire political party's leadership took heat for approving lavish expenses that included private jet travel, top-flight luxury hotels and a trip to a bondage-themed club in We ... More >>

Florida's Electoral Do-Over: Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

In the battleground four years later

The Latest Republican Cover-Up: The Presidency of George W. Bush

Ready to hit the reset button: At the GOP convention, plenty of Mac and cheese, no W

Storm Over Palin Blows McCain on the Bridge to Nowhere

Hurricane Sarah

Governator 2: Rise of the Girly Man

Arnold’s budget beats up the weak

The People Revolt

If only the Democrats could find a credible candidate for president

Saturday's Stroll

Felt all the way to Washington, the Big March left Arnold unable to play the immigrant card

Life Not Quite Imitating Art

What the prez could learn from his West Wing addiction

They Shoot News Anchors: Part II

Media moguls, not looters, killed Katrina’s truth tellers

Taking on Anti-Gay America

Stonewall Democrats plot a 2006 strategy

Judgment in Burbank

Winter of Malcontents

A to-do list for the Left

Bush Wins the Air War

Big Media gets rewards for good behavior

Hail Mary

And why John Kerry has nothing to do with it

Does Mr. Middle-of-the-Road Lean Left?

Jay Leno talks about the tragedy and comedy of politics

GOP Action Heroes

Arnold, Rudy, John McCain and the Bush twins

The Perfect Storm

Remember me to Herald Square

Back at the Carnival

We had a toilet dunk, loopy announcer and fireworks, but no cotton candy

Letters

Gay Guys Who Dig Bush

Log Cabin Republicans try to get in tune with reality

The Patronage Game

Bush’s end run around Roe

Look Homeward, Pollster

The little bit of Lott in all of us

The Election Where Nobody Came

What to make of last week’s voting in California and L.A.

Wake Me Up in Four Years

A case for a strong Republican Party

Rampant Illegitimacy!

Down among teens. Up among presidential candidates.

What Los Angeles Needs To Know About the Democrats

Can the world’s oldest continuous political party regain its majority? Its activists? Its purpose?

Right and White

Why last week’s electorate does not portend the future of California politics

Bore and Gush

America’s nominees

Where's the Left?

American liberalism at century's end