June 17, 2015 On May 3rd, tar balls started washing up on a four-mile stretch of coast in Long Beach, Ca. For many southland residents, this was an alarming turn of events and certainly an eyesore that blighted California’s famously pristine shores. But just two days later the beaches were reopened and everything was back…

May 15, 2015 Ensuring access to gender reassignment surgery for prisoners has emerged as a hot topic in the transgender rights movement amid recent developments in court cases filed on behalf of inmates. On May 4, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court released their decision against hearing a lawsuit for a transgendered inmate who was prescribed…

May 13, 2015 There’s something about superhero movies that keep audiences coming out in droves. The idea of stouthearted individuals taking on nefarious criminal elements, both natural and supernatural, plays into human beings’ love of the fantastic. Now it seems Californians don’t even have to head to the multiplex to look for crime fighters operating…

April 27, 2015 The saddest part about having a constitution that guarantees citizens the right to vote is having so few people actually take advantage of that right. This was evident in the 2014 mid-term elections in California, where voter turnout was a paltry 42%, a new low. The problem is an obvious one: more…

April 20, 2015 It was no coincidence that California Gov. Jerry Brown announced his recent water-conservation directive from a dry-grass field in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Numbers don’t lie, and this year’s snowpack measurements for that area were a paltry 5% of the April 1st average. Even sadder, that figure represents a 65-year low. Drastic…

April 17, 2015 California has long prided itself on being one of the most progressive states in the nation. However, its collective liberal attitude has thus far failed to result in the legalization of marijuana. This is despite seeing other bastions of liberalism, such as Washington and Colorado, pass ballot measures bringing the little green…

April 8, 2015 With the cases of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice, alleged police brutality has become an eminent issue in American society. On April 7th, yet another video of a police officer killing an unarmed citizen was released. This time the video documents the seemingly unprovoked murder of a fifty-year-old man, Walter L. Scott in South…

April 2, 2015 America can’t afford to forget the senseless tragedy that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, back in December of 2012. That was the month when Adam Lanza, a mentally unstable 20-year-old, found a gun in his mother’s home and killed her. He then went over to Sandy Hook Elementary where…

March 15, 2015 A legal group has filed a lawsuit in federal court which argues prostitution is a right that is protected by the constitution. ESPLERP (Erotic Service Providers Legal Education and Research Project) is a group based in San Francisco, which has brought forth the claim. The argument is founded upon the premise that…

March 6, 2015 The Supreme Court is once again in the midst of a great debate over Obama’s health care legislation, hearing the case King V. Burwell. This is the third time so-called Obamacare has faced down the Supreme Court’s gavel, with the challenges having become progressively more obscure with each showing. This time around, conservative…

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