Mohammad Sahimi is a professor of chemical engineering at USC, Iranian expat and expert on Iranian and US foreign policy and relationship, on his article "Pompeo's Ridiculous Crocodile Tears for the Iranian People", about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's speech to...
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Country Time Offers "Legal-Ade" to Pay Fine, Permit Fees For Kid Lemonade Stands
Country Time Lemonade is now offering “Legal-Ade” to help kid entrepreneurs who are being harassed by killjoy bureaucrats. Whenever a city demands a permit or slaps a fine against a kid’s lemonade stand, parents can upload an image of the fine or permit to send to...
California Sues EPA to Maintain Automobile CAFE Standards That Hurt the Poor
The Environmental Protection Agency last month launched a new rule-making process that aims at rolling back Obama-Era Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. In addition, the EPA is looking to revoke the long-standing regulatory waiver that allows California...
California Speeches This Weekend
Friday I'll be speaking at Libertopia in San Diego and Sunday at Liberty on the Rocks in Los Angeles. Also will host Antiwar Radio live on KPFK 90.7 FM on Sunday morning. See yall there.
California Is One Step Closer to Single-Payer Healthcare
Last Friday, the California's state senate passed a bill called the Healthy California Act that would institute a single-payer healthcare system in California. It still has to get through the Assembly and get signed by the governor in order to become law, but it has...
California, Illinois, and New York Keep Losing People to Other States
It seems that many residents of the West Coast and the Northeast are leaving those regions behind. In March, for example, the Sacramento Bee reported that California "exports its poor to Texas...while wealthier people move in." Former Californians report that a...
3/31/17 Robert David English on repairing US-Russia relations by understanding US meddling in the 1990s
Robert David English, an Associate Professor of International Relations and Slavic Languages & Literature at the University of Southern California, is the author of the Foreign Affairs article "Russia, Trump, and a New Détente: Fixing U.S.-Russian Relations."...
Single Mother Facing Prison for Selling Homemade Mexican Dish to Undercover Cop
Mariza Reulas, a single mother, is going to trial and could be sentenced to a year in prison for selling a couple bucks worth of a homemade dish—her Mexican ceviche—to an undercover police officer. Reulas, who hails from Stockton, California, is part of an informal...
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