Rights and Liberties

Kamala Harris let Filner escape without 'sex offender' designation

Anger over a criminal-justice system in which the affluent and well- connected seem much more able to avoid severe consequences for their lawbreaking is common across the ideological spectrum, but it is probably most intense among the “social justice” Dems

AG Kamala Harris ensures she won't go down with bullet-train Titanic

Chris Reed October 15, 2013

The saga of the California bullet train took a twist on Friday that at first seems strange but at second look appears to be shrewd politics by an ambitious officeholder playing the long game. On Aug. 16, Sacramento Superior Court

Stemming police violence/misconduct: Why LAPD should emulate Rialto PD

Chris Reed October 11, 2013

The more I watch the law-enforcement complex at work, the more I think our criminal-justice system is often akin to an industry designed to manufacture tidy narratives of guilt and innocence. This POV leads some officers to believe they should

$4.4 billion headache solved. How? Chronicle has no explanation

Chris Reed October 7, 2013

Members of the media's aversion to math — especially to explaining how numbers work when explaining spending decisions in public policy — is hard to miss. For years, few stories by California journalists on pensions and retirement benefits really dug

Judge rules against government retirees, for common sense

Chris Reed October 6, 2013

A common argument in California from public employees and government retirees is that once they get a goodie, they always have to get a goodie — even if it's not guaranteed by law. Take the bizarre, antithetical-to-logic practice of giving

Gov. Brown signs drivers license bill for undocumented immigrants

Katy Grimes October 4, 2013

Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Thursday which gives million of undocumented immigrants the right to drive in California. AB 60 by Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Salinas, will grant drivers licenses to everyone who can pass the tests required by the Department of Motor

Anti-UFW farm workers seek help from Gov. Jerry Brown

Katy Grimes October 3, 2013

SACRAMENTO — Roll over, Cesar Chavez, here comes Silvia Lopez. custom essay writing services Silvia Lopez is a quiet, thoughtful 15-year Gerawan Farming employee, and the de facto leader of thousands of Central Valley farm workers who have been protesting

Farm workers fight UFW unionization

Katy Grimes October 1, 2013

The United Farm Workers labor union and the state Agricultural Labor Relations Board have found themselves on the brink of ruination and even irrelevance. The labor union boasted 50,000 members by the end of the 1970s. But according to the UFW’s

FPPC imposes regulation on political bloggers

Katy Grimes September 20, 2013

The California Fair Political Practices Commission just ruled this week to require campaign committees to report to the State who they pay to post “favorable or unfavorable” content on blogs, social media or online videos, on their campaign finance statements. The

Modesto Junior College bans U.S. Constitution

John Seiler September 20, 2013

Although governments regularly ignore the U.S. Constitution, this is ridiculous. Modesto Junior College has banned the distribution of the Constitution on campus! “The Constitution guarantees the right to free speech, but don’t try to pass out copies of it at