A while back I wrote about the ambitious of San Francisco’s mayor to become governor of California:

The young mayor captured national attention in early 2004 when - defying state law - he opened the cities City Hall to gay marriages. Hundreds of gay..

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger - I think he was an actor once - is known for his blunt speaking. He previously referred to opposition Democratic state politicians as “girly [sic] men” and once threatened to kick the rear of the nurses union....

California has a special place in the American psyche. It is the Golden State: a playground of the rich and famous with perfect weather. It symbolises a lifestyle of sunshine, swimming pools and the Hollywood dream factory.

But the state that was once.

Immigrants try to climb over it, narcos tunnel under it, but nobody has ever tried lobbing off chunks of it to sell as scrap, until now.

On August 24, 2009, just over a mile west of the San Ysidro port of entry, in an area where both drug and...

till, as diverse as this group is, one word seems to sum up the effect of the recession on their businesses: brutal.

The reason is simple. Wine is a cash-flow business, and all along the pipeline, from farm to production to sales, cash is not flowing..

California Democrat Jane Harman is one of those incredibly zealously hawkish pro-Israel members of Congress in a chamber full of pro-Israel hawks.

Naturally, Ms. Harman has voted for and co-sponsored every piece of legislation lobbied for by the..