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In perhaps the most damning act of #Resistance yet, Gavin Newsom’s California is refusing to even check if a few thousand specific registered voters are in fact noncitizens. Washington sent Sacramento a list of 20,000 suspected violations to check out; Newsom & Co. responded: Pound sand — so the feds are taking California to court. Gov. Newsom and other Democrats are screaming that Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections, or maybe to set up another claim of “fraud” if he loses — but it sure looks like they fear what they might find if they look under the...

Five of the 14 statewide ballot measures are related to taxes The one you’ve likely heard most about is Proposition 40, which, if passed, would make California the first state to introduce a wealth tax. Almost all of the tens of billions of dollars the tax is estimated to generate would be set aside for the state’s public health insurance programs Prop. 3 would make permanent a higher income tax rate for the state’s top earners that voters approved on a temporary basis twice in the past decade-plus. The tax — which expires in 2030 unless Prop. 3 passes —...

Rob points out the ridiculous concept of CA paying slave reparations.

‘Racial wealth gap’ – the catch-all phrase that would serve to justify anything the committees wanted When I read that “New California reparations law requires companies to disclose past profits from slavery,” I thought it was a joke. I’ve covered California Democrat’s years-long attempts to pass legislation to authorize reparations. In June, I reported “DOJ Case Applies to California: Reparations Program is Discriminatory and Illegal.” I thought once again, reparations in California is so stupid and factually ignorant – California wasn’t a slave state. Slavery has existed on every inhabited continent for at least 4,000 years of recorded history. And...

Raman has campaigned on grievance and gain at the expense of those who work for their money or own property. Last year, I told New Yorkers to vote for Republican Guardian Angel (and perennial candidate) Curt Sliwa, but prepare for the worst. Democratic Socialist Mamdani was the favorite from May to November 2025, with polling consistently giving him the edge. Former governor Andrew Cuomo, forever corrupt and incompetent and glorying in self-aggrandizement, was the last person who should have been mayor. Democrats and Republicans who didn’t want a crazy commie taking over their city glided toward Cuomo. Mamdani had the...

California advocacy groups are celebrating a "big, important victory" in their push for state-level reparations after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a first-in-the-nation bill requiring large corporations to investigate and disclose historical ties to chattel slavery. Kristin Nimmers, policy and campaign manager for the California Black Power Network (CBPN) and the Alliance for Reparations, Reconciliation, and Truth, told Fox News Digital Newsom’s signature on Assembly Bill 2599 — the Truth in Disclosure Act — marks a significant milestone for corporate accountability. "There are connections right now from slavery to current wealth of individuals and current wealth of corporations whose foundation and...

It’s four weeks until Election Day and Donald Trump is doing his utmost to dig Republicans out of their polling hole. In theory, anyway. Trump has been rallying through red states – Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas – to try and secure existing Senate seats. But today’s Democratic pile-on concerns a throwaway comment he made last night in Nebraska. Mid-weave, of course. The President said: “It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They could take out a city… ‘let ’em, let ’em take Los Angeles, let ’em take out San Diego, that’s…’ this is...

U.S. — The nation has reportedly slipped into a period of deep sadness and introspection after learning that Iran may not actually nuke Los Angeles. Following a misunderstood statement by President Trump that it would be a "small price to pay" for Iran to nuke LA and San Diego, the nation was upset to learn there is no imminent threat to the City of Angels and that it would not, in fact, be destroyed. "There are no words to express my disappointment," said John Glenn of Arizona. "I mean, I'm glad San Diego is going to be okay, but I...

Stealing from the taxpayer has now become a multi-billion-dollar industry in America - and the Trump administration is finally doing something about it. From the Department of Government Efficiency to Vice President JD Vance’s task force, the Trump administration has made combatting fraud a top priority. Here are just a few of the most astonishing fraud schemes uncovered so far. 750,000 fraudsters stealing $2.2 billion from ObamacareSince its passage in 2010, Obamacare has been a magnet for scammers, resulting in higher tax bills for Americans and higher premiums in the private insurance market. But the Trump administration is finally doing...

DA says 20 surrogate-born children suffered abuse in California 'house of horrors' A California mansion packed with young children was a "house of horrors," prosecutors say. Authorities on Tuesday arrested Guojon Xuan, 65, and his wife, 38-year-old Sylvia Zhang, on child abuse charges after a yearlong investigation into what officials describe as a tightly monitored "home school type" compound for more than 20 children, most of them born to surrogate mothers, the Los Angeles Times reports. Fifteen children, most of them between 1 and 3 years old, were removed from the home in the Los Angeles County city of Arcadia...

A Chinese-born couple who paid a nationwide web of surrogates to bear close to two dozen children for them were arrested Tuesday in what Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman called an “unprecedented case of child abuse.” Hochman alleged that Silvia Zhang and Guojun Xuan conspired to commit child abuse by authorizing nannies caring for 14 babies and toddlers in the couple’s Arcadia, Calif., mansion to beat and physically punish the children, sometimes directing the abuse. Xuan was also charged with one count of child abuse, and both he and Zhang were additionally charged with dissuading witnesses. Mitchell Krems,...

This is Measure ULA, sold to voters in 2022 as a way to stick it to the millionaires and billionaires.But it ended up sticking it to the people as a whole instead!Here's the NYP:LA's 'mansion tax,"'sold to Angelenos as a way to tax the rich and boost housing, has instead blocked the building of 9,100 homes, wiped out 16,650 full-time construction jobs, and cost $452 million in revenue.A damning new report says the tax, officially known as United to House LA, or ULA, has had a negative impact on the city's high-end and multifamily real estate markets and collected less...

Los Angeles County introduced a 10.25 percent sales tax on Thursday, four months after voters approved Measure ER. The Essential Services Restoration Act (Measure ER) overwhelmingly passed in L.A. County earlier this year, raising the sales tax by a half-cent to support health care and other essential services – from 9.75 percent to 10.25 percent. “For every $100 in taxable purchases, Measure ER adds 50 cents in tax, bringing the total to $110.25,” noted NBC News. “The increase is temporary. Measure ER allows the tax to remain in effect for five years until Oct. 1, 2031 as it is projected...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that formally recognizes two Muslim holidays as state holidays on Sunday, making it the second state to formally recognize both holidays statewide. California Assembly Bill 2017 officially added Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha to the list of state holidays, which would permit public schools and colleges to close and allow state employees to be eligible to observe the holidays. However, schools and businesses will not be required to close on these days, and courts will be required to stay open. This makes California the second state in the country, after Washington...

Earlier, “progressive” LA mayoral candidate Nithya Raman used the "genocide" slur with Hasan Piker.  Appearing on Sep 29, 2026 in a Jewish forum by the Jewish Federation, Raman was asked whether she would appear with someone who was anti-Christian or anti-Muslim, as she had appeared with the antisemitic Hasan Piker. She said yes, explaining that “we need to hear a wide variety of opinions.”  So she was asked about her use of the word “genocide.”  She answered, “I’m not an expert on this term, but I’ve seen experts calling it a genocide. I looked it up, and...

A Honduran agitator arrested earlier this year at an anti-ICE protest in Southern California was busted by Homeland Security agents Friday on charges of illegally registering to vote — part of a crackdown on suspected election fraud in California. Darwin Jonathan Rivera Flores, 30, a Honduran national living in the San Fernando Valley, is accused of two felonies related to his false claims of US citizenship to complete voter registration forms, prosecutors say. Rivera Flores’ early-morning arrest outside a health-care center in Ventura is just the beginning of a war on suspected election fraud that has the full support of...

Spencer Pratt didn't make the November runoff, but his warning did. The latest UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll has DSA-backed City Councilmember Nithya Raman at 39 percent and Mayor Karen Bass at 28 percent. The DSA, which has called for defunding the police and abolishing prisons, endorsed Raman's mayoral run earlier this month. Another 33 percent of likely voters haven't chosen either candidate. The online survey of 2,150 likely Los Angeles voters was conducted Sept. 15-20 and has a margin of error of about three percentage points. Pratt had a simple response. And this wasn't Pratt taking a...

Nithya Raman is dominating Karen Bass in the Los Angeles’ mayor’s race, according to a bombshell new poll. The challenger has surged to an 11-point lead with less than six weeks until the vote, according to the UC Berkeley/LA Times survey. Far-left Raman is backed by 39% of likely voters compared with just 28% for Bass, the poll released Wednesday morning shows.But a whopping 33% remain undecided, leaving plenty of room for the race to move before the Nov. 3 election. Bass’ campaign quickly blasted the survey as an “outlier,” saying other recent polls have shown a much tighter contest.

Typhus, a flea-borne bacterial disease, is on the rise in Los Angeles County, with the latest localized case reported in the Wilshire Center neighborhood, public health officials said Tuesday. The disease is spread to humans by infected fleas that commonly live on rats, opossums, stray cats and other animals. Common symptoms include headaches, chills, muscle aches and rash. The Wilshire Center case is the second localized typhus outbreak this year, according to the LA County Department of Public Health. There were at least seven symptomatic cases linked to the outbreak, health officials said. Six of the seven patients had to...

A Republican can’t win, Becerra is already governor, and the remaining issue is Steve Hilton’s accent On Flagrant and Funny with Jemele Hill and Cari Champion, Mayor Karen Bass did California the courtesy of canceling November. “That’s why the governor’s race is over. Our governor’s name is Xavier Becerra. You don’t need an election on November 3. A Republican cannot win in this state.” Then, she supplied the punch line: “And yet, a Republican with a British accent?!” The hosts laughed on cue like trained parrots. The party of “No Kings” would like a coronation, please—just don’t call it that....