Following in the footsteps of George W. Bush, President Obama has requested another $33 billion of "emergency", off-budget spending on the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars. 

Dr. Paul set two, one-day internet fundraising records in 2007.  He was the only GOP presidential candidate to warn of an imminent economic crisis.  He was the only GOP candidate to even acknowledge that the United States was already mired in a recession in 2007/2008.

How did Meg Whitman’s poll numbers fall? Or more accurately, what *didn’t* happen in order for this perhaps signficant drop to occur?

A coalition of students, parents, school boards, and California educational organizations has filed a lawsuit against the state seeking to declare the current school financing system unconstitutional, and to direct the California governor and legislature to create a system that is "sound, stable and sufficient." 

Wall Street reform passed the Senate last night 59 – 39, with four Republicans voting across party lines, including the newest member of the chamber, Scott Brown (MA).  The reasons necessitating the reform ought to be obvious by now.  Our economic recession has headlined news outlets for nearly two years. 

A U.S. District Court in Los Angeles is hearing a class-action lawsuit about the federal government's right to detain illegal immigrants for periods longer than six months without bond.

For all the media coverage many California cities are receiving for their call of an Arizona boycott, the new immigration law seems to have had the opposite effect in another part of California that actually favors SB 1070.