She's the best-selling author of "Going Rogue,'' a former VP candidate and governor of Alaska, and now Sarah Palin has a surprising new role -- as the most bankable star in...edited by: Adam Haverstock,
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She's the best-selling author of "Going Rogue,'' a former VP candidate and governor of Alaska, and now Sarah Palin has a surprising new role -- as the most bankable star in...
Some hard punches being thrown in that eBay v. Craiglist suit currently going on in lovely Delaware. This week, Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster testified that an eBay exec warned him about the two...
It may all be coming down now to abortion.
With Sen. Joe Lieberman now saying he'll support health legislation, the Democrats' 60th vote may be Nebraska conservative Democrat Ben Nelson, who is...
Former South Bay Rep. Tom Campbell , asked about buzz that he's being urged to rethink his 2010 GOP gubernatorial run -- and enter the U.S. Senate race -- was unusually tightlipped Monday....
With Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Ct., saying he can't support the Senate deal on health care that would allow people 55 and over to buy Medicare coverage, passage of legislation by Christmas is growing...
Health care polls keep getting uglier, and Republicans are salivating over the 2010 elections. For those doubting this month's Quinnipiac poll showing 53 - 38 disapproval of the health care...
We're getting the distinct feeling that the Tea Party is coming down with a serious case of Lefty Envy.
On Sunday Tea Partiers told us that they were following the Saul Alinsky organizing...
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Every day, it seems, we get word of yet another proposed ballot initiative that's been cleared by the Secretary of State. There's not enough time in the day to tell you about all of them -- and...
On Thursday, we were telling you about former Labor Secretary/current UC-Berkeley prof Robert Reich and the video he cut about the public option that's burning up the interwebs. (Well, as much a...
California Democratic Party chair John Burton insisted Thursday that Gov. Schwarzenegger's GOP nominee for state Lieutenant Governor, Senator Abel Maldonado of Santa Maria, "won't be...
We just had to RSVP -- with regrets -- to the First Annual Conservative Christmas Party in lovely San Ramon. (It's the same night as the Chronicle holiday party. Frankly, what it came down to was...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today squelched the crazy idea circulating on Capitol Hill that if the Senate somehow passes a health care bill quickly, the House could just adopt the Senate version and...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi restored more than $5 million of San Francisco's slashed federal HIV/AIDS funding through an appropriations bill that passed the House passed 221 to 202 today.
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The blogger known as Sgt. York rarely missed an opportunity to Meg Whitman bash on the popular conservative blog Red County . On her "condescending attitude," her voting record, Van Jones, etc. No...
The American Medical Association's former veteran lobbyist predicts Senate passage of the health care legislation by Christmas.
Julius Hobson, now a senior policy advisor at the law firm Bryan...
President Obama just announced his new jobs plan Tuesday -- or as Jon Stewart might call it, WEATHERIZATION-apalooza! But we just were chatting with Robert Reich -- UC-Berkeley prof/former...
The biggest controversy in the giant health care bill -- the public option -- may be threatening to explode the whole enterprise once more.
The so-called public option was always more symbol than...[...] California Sen. Barbara Boxer, a long-time advocate of women's rights, squared off today with Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson with an impassioned plea against his anti-abortion amendment. The Nelson...
[...] Has hell officially frozen over? Has that "peace on earth, good will toward men" seasonal thing actually kicked in? Because it's looking like Big Love has come to California GOP's...
Carly Fiorina is getting some national exposure Saturday after Senate GOP czar Mitch McConnell tapped her to give the GOP weekly Republican address today.
Mitch's assignment was to address the...
It's been one day since a state audit took a former California State University employee -- and current University of California worker -- to task for charging taxpayers for what the auditor...
Yes, that headline was a shameless attempt to tickle the search engines like the masters do . But we do it in the name of the revival of an antiwar protest that born in Marin back in the run-up to...Just in time for her swing out West, author and GOP icon Sarah Palin -- coming to the Reno Costco on Dec. 9 -- is again stirring up controversy in her "Going Rogue" book tour. This...
It's the end of the year and time to hand out the LGBT-Friendly Grades to our California legislators. According to the report card released by Equality California, it looks like Guv...Republican political rookie Damon Dunn's suprising run for Secretary of State appears to be catching on with some big party names: he's been endorsed by GOP State Assemblyman Nathan...
Assemblymember John Pérez , who has deep ties to labor, will indeed be the next speaker of the state Assembly, current Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, told a small group of reporters...
California gubernatorial candidate and ex-E-bay chieftan Meg Whitman will be heading to far away Delaware Monday to testify as a star witness at a trial.
It's a civil trial, to be sure, between...[...]
Democrats are not raising all taxes on the rich. Tomorrow the House will take up and probably pass an extension of the current estate tax.
HR 4154 would permanently extend the current estate...[...] Three members of the San Francisco-based anti-war group Code Pink, a fixture of the war debates during the Bush administration, protested calmly behind the witness table before today's Senate hearing...
We're hearing that Assemblyman John A. Perez, D-Los Angeles, has the votes to grab the speakership -- if he does, he would become the Assembly's first openly gay leader in California history.
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Here's the statement on Obama's Afghan speech from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has publicly warned of the resistance he will face from Democrats but has never said outright that she opposes a...
Here's the reaction from two Republicans running to be California's senator in 2010 to President Obama's Afghanistan plan:
From Orange County GOP Assemblyman Chuck DeVore. He said "the problem...
Heard from Obama confidante and gay rights activist Steve Hildebrand about the Courage Campaign saying it doesn't "see a path to victory" for same sex marriage in California. Even though...
As President Obama's plan to escalate the war in Afghanistan leaks out, protests are lined up for Wednesday in San Francisco and around the Bay Area.
From 3-5 p.m. on Wednesday, there will be...
The effort to get same sex marriage on the California ballot in 2010 took a hit Monday. Rick Jacbos, the leader of the 700,000-member Courage Campaign just told us that after spending more than...
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In prelude to President Obama's speech committing more troops to "finish the job" in Afghanistan tomorrow, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has published the story of Tora Bora .
The escape...Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown has taken in about $700,000 from his big A-list Hollywood fundraiser earlier this month -- less than the $1 million projected so far, but...
When President Obama addresses the nation on Afghanistan Tuesday night, he will own the war. And Democratic solidarity will be shattered. His decision is widely viewed as the most consequential of...
It's been a rough week for California's first family, at least when it comes to the tabloids and driving -- namely TMZ , which busted Maria Shriver (again) Tuesday for failing to obey traffic laws....
We sure love our ballot initiatives here in sunny Cali, and 2010 is shaping up to be no exception. Consider this: in the past month, the Secretary of State has announced that no less than 17...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his share of official declarations and we pretty much never cover them due to their lack of newsworthiness. Today being the day before a holiday, though, we thought...
It was a love fest at this morning's news conference in East Los Angeles, where Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger re-announced that he is appointing Sen. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria (Santa Barbara...
In addition to announcing Abel Maldonado as his new Lite Guv pick last night on Jay Leno show( Hello out therrrrrrrrrrrre? Is anybody watching ?), the Guv mentioned that he hasn't been pulled...
Carly Fiorina is developing a complicated relationship (nooooo, not THAT kind) with her CA GOP Senate primary opponent Chuck DeVore.
Just days into her fledgling campaign, she has already...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer have an idea for all that stimulus funding still being handed out by the feds: high speed rail.
The political...
House Appropriations chief David Obey, in an interview with ABC news, threw down the gauntlet on Afghanistan, saying if the administration wants more troops, he will demand that they be paid for...
Sarah Palin knows the power of a best-seller as a timely vehicle to get the press and public talking, and now former eBay CEO Meg Whitman has quietly laid plans to add "author" to...