Recently, at a special board meeting, the California State University (Cal State) trustees voted to increase undergraduate and graduate fees five percent beginning Fall 2010. The increase will raise the annual cost to $5,097 per year not including housing or books. This increase follows a 32 percent increase in 2009. 

Earlier this week, California missed another constitutionally mandated deadline to pass a state budget. Policymakers are reeling from the enormous, seemingly impossible task of bridging an approximately $19 billion budget deficit.

In a Daily Show segment entitled "Respect My Authoritah", Jon Stewart criticized President Obama for his apparent hypocrisy on foreign policy and presidential power.