Jerry Brown

Are California’s Democrats really charting a future path for the rest of the country?

Cleaning up a misleading claim about two bills signed into law.

Hours after throwing Washington into a frenzy with his surprise decision to fire Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, President Trump skipped town Tuesday, traveling to San Diego to examine prototypes for his signature border wall that have been constructed at the U.S.-Mexico border.

It’s time for the January 2018 Hypocrite of the Month awards. The nominees are . . .

The Sacramento statehouse, according to conventional wisdom, is a bellwether for social policies that soon sweep the nation. This week, Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed the legislature's attempt to give Obama-era Title IX guidance the force of law that it never had nationally.

On February 7, a giant hole opened up in the main spillway of Northern Calfornia's Oroville Dam, leading to a possible chain of events that could burst the dam's reservoir with billions of gallons of floodwater crashing into the towns below. The next day, the office of California's Democratic…

The January 6 stabbing death of 27-year-old Emilie Inman in Berkeley, California, and the arrest of the alleged killer, 22-year-old University of California-Berkeley undergraduate Pablo Gomez, Jr., who is suspected of stabbing another young Berkeley woman although not fatally, remains shrouded in…

Liberal members of the California Assembly are outraged today after Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would eliminate sales taxes on women's hygiene products. Proponents of the bill have misleadingly dubbed their bill as a solution to the "tampon tax" — though there is no specific tax on…

A piece of California legislation, unanimously approved by the state assembly and just waiting for the governor's pen, would relax the definition of rape to include any non-consensual sexual contact.

I don't know how important Jerry Brown's endorsement of Hillary Clinton will prove to be, but in the closing hours of the California Democratic primary campaign, and the closing days of the primary season itself, it cannot hurt. Brown is a four-term governor of California, three-time presidential…

California governor Jerry Brown, who dubbed Bill Clinton "the prince of sleaze," endorsed Hillary Clinton Tuesday ahead of the California primary despite years of denouncing the Clintons' lack of moral integrity.

California governor Jerry Brown said Monday that his state's new minimum wage law makes more political sense than economic sense.

The bottom line from a reported minimum wage agreement in California? No one knows how it'll be affected.

Earlier this evening, Governor Jerry Brown of California hinted that he might, possibly run for president of the United States. "You could have a lot of big surprises," said Brown.

California governor Jerry Brown gave signs in a Wednesday interview on CNN that he may be considering running for president.

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California’s terrible drought has become -- like just about everything else in the United States -- a political issue. Many liberals have taken to blaming anthropogenic climate change for the drought, while some conservatives have placed the blame at the feet of “liberal environmentalists.” The…

California governor Jerry Brown said, "Yes, I would" run for president if I were ten years younger. He made the remarks this morning to NBC:

The Republican party's best chance to win a statewide office in California for the first time since 2006 all started with a check for $800. Pete Peterson’s wife Gina is graphic designer in Santa Monica who owns her own business, a limited liability company. Last year, she was getting ready to pay…

THE WEEKLY STANDARD podcast, hosted by Michael Graham, with Ken Grubbs on his cover story, Paradise Lost.

On November 6 voters in California did something nearly unheard of during the past 30 years: They approved, by a margin of 54 percent to 46 percent, a ballot measure raising state income taxes on the most prosperous Californians and sales taxes on everyone, even though the state’s sales tax is…

Vice President Joe Biden called California governor Jerry Brown "the smartest guy in American politics" last night at a California fundraiser. Via the pool report:

On Monday, August 8, Governor Jerry Brown finally signed a bill the California state legislature had passed in July—a bill that binds California to “National Popular Vote” (NPV). Which is to say, to the committing of all its electoral college votes in a presidential election to the winner of the…

And the top five suggestions for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's new bumper sticker are:

Politico reports that Proposition 19, which would have legalized recreational marijuana in California, has failed:

After former California Democratic governor (and 2010 gubernatorial candidate) Jerry Brown lost the 1992 presidential primary, he was a bit candid about his campaign promises on a CNN program:

1. CNN/Time Oversamples Democrats in California?  Yesterday evening, the CNN/Time poll of the California Senate race found Barbara Boxer up nine points among likely voters over Carly Fiorina. 

Democratic California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown attacks Bill Clinton at what appears to be a campaign stop in California:

Jodie Evans is a terrorist sympathizing, America and Israel bashing extreme left-wing activist in California. Evans, also, is a supporter of Democratic California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown. And, apparantely, Brown is a supporter of Evans.

I had the pleasure of traveling to California last week, a place D.H. Lawrence once described as “crazy sensible” because its people think about “just the moment: hardly as far ahead as carpe diem.”