Rights and Liberties

Senate committee advances bills on rape, sentencing

March 7, 2013 By Dave Roberts California state laws from the past occasionally crop up and need to be amended. That happened last week when the Senate Public Safety Committee unanimously approved SB 59, which is designed to close a loophole that allows

CA Dems seek to export gun crackdown

CalWatchdog Staff March 6, 2013

March 6, 2013 By Dave Roberts California’s Democratic politicians, not content to have enacted some of the nation’s strictest restrictions on their citizens’ right to keep and bear arms, now want to do the same to the rest of the

Train agency ‘raids’ CalPERS for exec talent: Oy vey!

CalWatchdog Staff March 6, 2013

March 6, 2013 By Chris Reed When the press release came out Monday that the California High-Speed Rail Authority had recruited a top executive away from the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, a Tweet from former Los Angeles Times journo

Californians exercise gun rights in Nevada

CalWatchdog Staff March 3, 2013

March 3, 2013 By John Seiler When the Soviet Union existed, Russians traveling to the free, capitalist West would pick up goods that were difficult or impossible to get back in the USSR: stereos, cameras, French perfume, etc. California now

Video: Sacred Gun Rights will not be taken away

CalWatchdog Staff March 2, 2013

March 2, 2013 By John Seiler Last November, former Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino lost a race for U.S. Senate from Maryland In January he made a video defending gun rights, posted below, that has “gone viral” on YouTube. This

20th anniversary of Waco raid

CalWatchdog Staff February 28, 2013

Feb. 28, 2013 By John Seiler If you think government “protects” you, remember what happened 20 years ago today: The federal government initiated its siege of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Tex. The siege lasted 50 days and ended on April

Lessons for CA from my Middle East trip

Katy Grimes February 27, 2013

Feb. 27, 2013 By Katy Grimes I just returned from a trip to the Middle East, and managed to pack several thousand years of history into three weeks. Against the warnings and concerns of many friends, my husband and I,

S. Court splits on defending civil liberties

Steven Greenhut February 24, 2013

Feb. 24, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO — The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decisions regarding police powers were mixed, thus offering a reminder to civil libertarians that they cannot depend upon the high court to protect the public from unwarranted

I’m going to Starbucks to support gun rights!

CalWatchdog Staff February 22, 2013

Feb. 22, 2013 By John Seiler When my work is done today, I’m heading off to Starbucks to patronize their fine coffee. Three of their ships are half a mile of where I live. That’s because today is the day

Hiltzik mangles gun statistics

CalWatchdog Staff February 18, 2013

Feb. 18, 2013 By John Seiler In the Los Angeles Times’ continued attack on our gun rights, Michael Hiltzik writes: “Consider the most important statistic related to California’s gun laws. In 1981, before the most stringent rules were adopted, California’s