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Storm Warning in California Shows How Easy It’s Become to Panic Americans
I am writing this column on a beautiful sunny day in Southern California. It is a Monday in mid-August, so it is not a national holiday, yet in Los Angeles County, where I live, all the schools and all government offices are closed. Why? Because, for the past week, the National Weather Service, state and… -
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California Library Silences Speaker for Saying Men Shouldn’t Be Allowed in Women’s Sports
A California librarian kicked out female rights advocate Sophia Lorey for “misgendering” biological men who identify as transgender during a speech Sunday, according to a video of the incident. Lorey, a member of the California Family Council, an organization that advocates fairness in women’s sports and parental rights, was speaking at an event entitled “Forum on Fair… -
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California Democrat Wants DeSantis Investigated for ‘Trafficking’ Illegal Aliens
A California state lawmaker is calling for an investigation of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for the “illegal trafficking of migrants.” DeSantis “illegally trafficked vulnerable migrants across state lines” and transported illegal aliens “unknowingly” to California to score “cheap political points,” California Assemblyman Evan Low, a Democrat, said Tuesday in a written statement. DeSantis, a Republican,… -
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California Is Trying to Use Its ‘Market Power to Change How We Farm,’ Iowa AG Says
Iowa is calling on Congress to prevent California from overregulating the agricultural sector. "California [is] trying to use their market power to change how we farm [and] I think that violates the Constitution," Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird says. California's Proposition 12 regulations, implemented in 2022, "require veal calves, breeding pigs, and egg-laying hens to… -
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California Transportation Policy Is Not for the Free
MIDLAND, Texas—Here in Texas oil country, your Uber is more likely to be a pickup than a Prius. Daniel, who works in the oil pipeline business when he’s not driving for Uber, picked me up from Midland International Air & Space Port in his Chevy Silverado. Born in Midland Memorial Hospital and raised in Midland,… -
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California AG Hints at Investigating Second School Board to Back Parental Rights on Kids’ Gender Transitions
Parental rights advanced last week in deep blue California, as another school district required teachers to notify parents if their children begin to identify as transgender. The school board of the Murrieta Valley Unified School District adopted a Parental Notification Policy by a 3-2 vote Thursday. Under it, teachers must contact a parent or guardian within three days if… -
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Parents Could Face Jail Time for Sending 2 Emails School Staff Don’t Like: Critics Sound Alarm on California Bill
California already has undermined the rights of parents from out of state when it comes to experimental transgender "health care," but the Legislature also is considering a bill that would criminalize causing "substantial disorder" at school board meetings—an attempt to "chill parents from speaking out," critics warn. SB 596, which the California State Senate passed… -
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Pulling Back Curtain on ‘Erosion of Parental Rights’ in California
Parents are losing the right to parent in California, according to Karen England. A bill has been introduced in California stating that if parents “do not affirm your child’s gender confusion, it’s put in the same category as abuse, and it is supposed to be considered when you’re battling in a custody battle,” England says…. -
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Pushing LGBTQ Agenda, Top California Educrat Disrupts School Board Meeting. Board Rules Against Him Anyway.
School is not even back in session yet, but some state education officials are still trying to restrict parents’ influence over their children. At a school board meeting Thursday in Chino Valley, California, about 35 miles from downtown Los Angeles, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond tried to stop the board from considering a… -
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California Democrats Vote Against Anti-Child Trafficking Bill, Then Reverse Course
Last week, one Democrat in the California state Assembly made a rare public apology—not over a scandal, but over her position on a vote that had taken place the same week. Assembly member Liz Ortega had joined fellow Democrats just a few days earlier in blocking a bill aimed at cracking down on human trafficking… -
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California Creates Baby-Selling Market Through ‘In Vitro Fertilization for All’
The latest trend to come from leftist lawmakers and the reproductive industry alike should shock everyone with a conscience: selling babies. For the sexual Left, children are no longer a gift received in marriage. Instead, they are a right that one may purchase based on the needs and desires of adults. A bill in California… -
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California Lawyer: Bill Would Make Parents Who Don’t ‘Affirm’ Trans Child’s New Gender Abusive
This is a lightly edited transcript of remarks Erin Friday made Tuesday during a hearing before the California Senate Judiciary Committee. Read below, or watch the video above. I am Erin Friday, lead of Our Duty, an attorney and a mother of a girl who used to believe that she was a boy. AB 957… -
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California Mom Speaks Out Against Bill: ‘My Daughter Was Murdered by Gender Ideology’
Watch Abigail Martinez’s testimony at a California Judiciary Senate hearing Tuesday, above, or read the lightly edited transcript below: [My] name is Abigail Martinez. It has been three years and 164 days since I lost my daughter Yaeli. I miss her every single day. Let me tell you how she died. My daughter was murdered… -
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BREAKING: California Bill Would Charge Any Parent Who Doesn’t Affirm Transgenderism With ‘Child Abuse’
A recently amended California bill would add “affirming” the sexual transition of a child to the state’s standard for parental responsibility and child welfare—making any parent who doesn’t affirm transgenderism for their child guilty of abuse under California state law. AB 957 passed California’s State Assembly on May 3, but a co-sponsor amended it after… -
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3 Arrested After Antifa Clashes With Armenian Parents at California School Board Meeting
Several fights broke out between Antifa and parental rights activists Tuesday night outside the Glendale Unified School District’s administration building in Glendale, California, during a school board meeting discussing LGBTQ+ curriculum. Law enforcement arrested three individuals amid the mayhem after the protest "exceeded the bounds of peaceful assembly," the Glendale Police Department announced Tuesday night…. -
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Antifa Urged to Battle California Parents Over Elementary School’s LGBTQ+ ‘Pride Day’
After parents in Glendale, California, protested a scheduled “Pride Day” at their local elementary school, the Southern California chapter of the violent extremist group Antifa called for progressives to stand up to “hate groups” at a school board meeting Tuesday night. In late May, Glenoaks Elementary School planned and announced a “Pride Day” for students… -
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Eager Publicists for Racial Reparations in California
How insanely radical and unjust can blue states get? California’s nine-member Reparations Task Force voted May 6 to recommend that state lawmakers provide billions of dollars in compensation payments to black residents, along with a formal apology for slavery. Why should an 18-year-old white person—or a freshly minted migrant—pay taxes through the nose to atone… -
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California Church Faces $1.2M Fine for Defying COVID-19 Mandates, Says Not 1 Case Traces Back to Worship Services
A California Superior Court judge ordered a church to pay more than $1 million in fines for refusing to comply with COVID-19 mask mandates during the pandemic. The church, Calvary Chapel San Jose, slammed the ruling and Santa Clara County's efforts to defend the fines in court, arguing that not one case of COVID-19 has… -
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‘Deeply Perverse’: California School Board ‘Turns Education on its Head’ in Transgender Vote; Faces Lawsuit
Another public school system has voted to hide mental health information about students from their parents. This time, however, parents are fighting back. The Center for American Liberty has filed suit against the superintendent and school board members of the Chico Unified School District in Northern California on behalf of Chico parent Aurora Regino. At… -
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California Bill Would Require Schools to Notify Parents If a Child Wants to Change Gender Identity
A California bill would require teachers, counselors, and any other employee of a school to notify parents within three days in the event their child requests to be called by a name normally used by the opposite sex or different personal pronouns, or begins using a bathroom or locker room designated for the opposite sex….