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The Supreme Court rejected hearing the case cited below. Justice Thomas dissented in that denial of cert. The case concerned a business that operated a medical-marijuana dispensary in Colorado. Since marijuana is still illegal accordig to federal law, there are legal and tax implications to that. This is something that really needs to be dealt with by the court. It is exactly this sort of thing that the court exists for. For governments and courts at all levels to continue to just wink at this stuff and not actually resolve what is, and is not actually legal is really nothing...

California is moving ahead with a dramatic reopening of the economy this week as COVID-19 numbers remain low and more people get vaccinated. In this week's "In Focus SoCal," host Tanya McRae sits down with Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Krekorian, chair of the Budget and Finance Committee, to talk about the economic recovery in Southern California and what we can expect in the next year. "Tourism was devastated during COVID," he said. "At one point, our hotels were at lower than 20% occupancy, and we expect that they'll be back over 70% by this summer. And that's a huge...

"It's been a hell of a year, stress, anxiety, fear, the loneliness many people have felt over the course [of] last year," Newsom said. "So look, we're at this point. But it wasn't without a lot of pain, a lot of suffering. And so I'm mindful of that." "The best days of California are ahead of us."

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made another attempt to convince Americans that rising crime in New York City and elsewhere in the country is a non-issue over the weekend while alleging those pointing to the violence in America's streets are engaging in "hysteria.""We are seeing these headlines about percentage increases" in crime, Ocasio-Cortez admitted before saying "any amount of harm is unacceptable and too much. But I also want to make sure that this hysteria — you know that this doesn't drive a hysteria — and that we look at these numbers in context so that we can make responsible decisions...

In 2020, if you wanted to get a Democrat outraged, you’d have someone in President Donald Trump’s administration speak ill of the media. In 2021, if you want to get a Democrat outraged, have a member of the media speak ill of someone in President Joe Biden’s administration. In this regard, Fox News host Tucker Carlson seems to be a prominent target, particularly when he criticizes how the military has gone woke. On his program Thursday, he criticized Joint Chiefs of Staff head Gen. Mark Milley for his remarks defending critical race theory training and saying he wanted to understand...

A woman goes to a spa and sees a naked man in the womans' locker room. Apparently this woman hasn't been following current events for the last 5 years and doesn't understand some men are actually women and they have the right to be in the womans' locker room. 3 min video. Woman Goes Off After Seeing A Transgender Man Exposing Himself In Front Of Little Girls At A Spa (3 min video)

alifornia will extend its ban on evictions while covering back rent and utility payments for people who fell behind during the pandemic. The state will pay for this under a $7.2 billion plan that Governor Gavin Newsom called the "largest and most comprehensive renter protection deal in the United States." California placed a moratorium on evictions after Newsom imposed the nation's first statewide shut down in March 2020 and ordered most businesses to shut down because of the pandemic. Officials haven't said how many people will qualify under this new plan but there's enough money to provide more than $10,000...

All Lives Matter. It sounds so sensible. It sounds so innocuous. It sounds so logical. It cost one woman her life. After the sentencing of Derek Chauvin George Floyd's brother Philonise Floyd said“I just want to reiterate: not just black lives matter, all lives matter.” No one canceled him. No one insulted him. No one killed him for it. Others have not been so fortunate. Five years ago a student at the University of Houston was suspended for 50 days for uttering it to satisfy the bloodlust of several groups: Her belief that every life matters set off a firestorm...

A Christian street preacher arrested while preaching the Gospel has won his case against a police department that admitted liability in a lawsuit, agreeing to pay $4,500 (£3,250) in damages in addition to his legal costs for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and violating his human rights. A Liverpool County Court has awarded $4,500 plus legal costs to David McConnell, who was arrested by West Yorkshire Police in December 2019 for “a hate-related public order offense” and “for preaching on gay rights and abortion,” The Christian Institute, which supported his case, said in a statement. McConnell was preaching the Gospel when...

California has had a robust initiative process built into our state constitution since 1911. We take great pride in our citizen-level powers to shake up all levels of our state officialdom and no branch, neither executive, legislative nor judicial, is exempt. We’ve booted out many an office holder over the last century but it isn’t easy. Sen. Marshall Black was the first of many to be recalled back in 1913. However, most attempts fail to gather enough signatures to force a ballot measure. Just considering California governors, there have been 10 of them, both Republican and Democrat, who so provoked...

A sizeable portion of Americans do not believe their lives will completely return to pre-pandemic normalcy, a Gallup survey released Monday found. The survey, taken June 14-20, among 4,843 American adults, asked respondents if they believe their lives will ever “get completely back to the ‘normal’ that existed before the coronavirus pandemic.”

President Joe Biden’s senior adviser Cedric Richmond blamed a nationwide crime surge on guns on Sunday and insisted Republicans defunded the police earlier in the year.His comments follow an announcement from the Justice Department that it is implementing "cross-jurisdictional firearms trafficking strike forces" in five U.S. cities to track and stop the illegal transfer of firearms amid unprecedented spikes in crime. When asked what is behind the rise in violence, Richmond insisted firearms, including so-called “assault weapons,” were the culprit.“Well, part of [the crime surge] is the plethora of guns that are flooding the streets of this country, and that's...

Let’s face it: Joe Biden sucks. Everything about him sucks. He sucks as a messenger, his economic policies suck, he completely sucks as a truth-teller. He sucks in the integrity department. And people suffering from the debilitating effects of old age can tell you that absolutely sucks. You are not the person you used to be, and you can’t do the things you used to do. Joe Biden sucked before he became increasingly, cruelly incapacitated by the decline of his faculties. Thursday’s Potemkin sham of a press conference, in which pre-written questions and scripted answers replaced an honest dialogue with...

Four years ago, California Democrats altered the state's recall laws in part to slow down the process and try to aid a state senator facing a removal vote over his support for increasing the gas tax. Now, as Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom faces a recall of his own, they're trying to change the laws again. This time, though, Democrats want the option to speed things up to take advantage of what they see as favorable conditions for Newsom. Those who want to speed things up believe the longer the wait until voters cast their ballots, the more risk of problems...

On Monday, the Supreme Court announced it would not take up the case Gavin Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board (2020), a high-profile case concerning whether or not Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 forbids schools from designating bathrooms according to biological sex. The school board had allowed single-user restrooms as an alternative to dropping the sex-specific restroom policy, but Grimm challenged it, anyway. A panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Grimm, a female student who identifies as male and sought to use the boys’ restroom. In the 2-1 ruling, Judge Henry...

UK London #explosion pic.twitter.com/WktgpvT2OW — Nicole Elisei (@EliseiNicole) June 28, 2021 Fire breaks out near London’s Elephant and Castle metro station VIDEO AT LINK.......................... Insane scenes as explosion rips through Elephant & Castle Station in Central #London 👀 pic.twitter.com/WJSAw2NKon — CAM (@CAM0zUK) June 28, 2021

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) requested additional police protection at his New York home in January while demanding police departments be defunded in America. “About a week after the January 6 incident at the Capitol, we received a request from the Congressman’s office for increased police presence at his residence,” Yonkers Police Department Detective Lt. Dean Politopoulos told the New York Post. “In response, our Intelligence Unit was notified of the request and the local precinct instituted what is called a directed patrol at the Congressman’s home for the next two weeks,” Politopoulos explained. Bowman’s calls for additional police protection comes...

The more we learn about Donald Trump’s baseless, false and discredited claims about the 2020 election, the more baseless, false and discredited those claims have become. Just consider the revelations over the past week — from Republicans: In Michigan, a GOP-led investigation by its state Senate concluded that it “found no evidence of widespread or systematic fraud in Michigan’s prosecution of the 2020 election.” (Remember, Biden won Michigan by more than 150,000 votes.) Regarding Arizona, a report co-authored by former Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson criticized the so-called “audit” of the election results in that state, saying it “does...

A recent exchange of views between Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Col) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) revealed starkly different visions for America's future. Boebert initiated the debate by sharply criticizing the Biden Administration's policy of "incentivizing laziness. As it now stands, the Biden plan seems to be to ensure that people can receive more money for staying unemployed than they can make by taking a job. Small businesses are hurting for workers because of this. Coming on top of the severe restrictions imposed by the pandemic lockdown and social-distancing rules, businesses that barely survived are put in further danger." Ocasio...

As the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus gained traction around the world, the World Health Organization urged vaccinated people to continue to wear masks and social distance, according to reports. “Vaccine alone won’t stop community transmission,” Dr. Mariangela Simao, WHO’s assistant director-general for access to medicines and health products, said during a briefing in Geneva, according to CNBC. “People need to continue to use masks consistently, be in ventilated spaces, hand hygiene … the physical distance, avoid crowding. This still continues to be extremely important, even if you’re vaccinated when you have a community transmission ongoing.”