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Feinstein’s assault weapons ban won’t be in Dem’s gun bill

March 19, 2013 By Katy Grimes Liberty loving gun rights advocates pushed politicians so hard, the assault weapons ban has been dropped from the gun control legislation in the nation’s Capitol. Either that or U.S. Senator Harry Reid is running

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Cracking down on ADA lawsuit abuse

March 19, 2013 By Joseph Perkins I was a White House staff member when George H.W. Bush was in the Oval Office. I remember well when he signed the Americans With Disabilities Act into law, insisting that it would not

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Drones a litmus test on trust in government

March 18, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -– Don’t you hate it when life starts to resemble one of those bleak, futuristic dystopian movies? I’m thinking of an almost unfathomable reality –- local and state governments are joining the feds

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CA-style feudalization is going national

March 16, 2013 By Chris Reed The feudalization of California that Joel Kotkin has written about so smartly for years just keeps accelerating. Wealthy coastal professionals and public employees with deep job security and high pay simply don’t care that

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One way TX is worse than CA

March 15, 2013 By John Seiler On CalWatchDog.com, we’ve often compared California unfavorably to Texas on taxes, regulations and general business climate. But fairness dictates we should show where California is better than Texas. One area is the abuse of

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CA lawmakers advance gun-control bills

March 13, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO — Anti-gun lawmakers in the California state Senate and Assembly have been busy advancing legislation to further control guns. On March 7, the state Senate passed SJR 1, a resolution by state Sen. Lois

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How about solving murders instead of gun control?

March 10, 2013 By John Seiler California already has among the country’s most restrictive gun laws. Not satisfied with existing attacks on our Second Amendment “right to keep and bear arms,” the state Legislature is pushing even more restrictive legislation.

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Lawsuit opposes excessive Coastal Commission restrictions

March 8, 2013 By Dave Roberts One of the reasons many California businesses are struggling to survive or are leaving the state is over-regulation by the state’s vast bureaucracy. While much of the economic devastation can be quantified, one of

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Rand Paul’s liberty loving filibuster

March 7, 2013 By Katy Grimes If you love liberty, you were probably among the millions of Americans watching U.S. Senator Rand Paul yesterday on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and are cheering today. Kentucky Sen. Paul dedicated 13 hours

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Freedom Law School holds Rally in Ontario March 8-11

March 7, 2013 By John Seiler The Freedom Law School was founded by one of California’s boldest defenders of liberty, Peymon Mottahedeh. This weekend, March 8-11, it’s holding a Freedom Rally at the Sheraton Ontario Airport, 429 North Vineyard Avenue, Ontario, CA

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