Dec 17, 2021 – I’ve said this since the beginning of the fight against California’s AB5, or anti-independent contracting law: What Sacramento’s power brokers are most afraid of is all of us regular folk figuring out that the battle is really us versus them, instead of liberal versus conservative. Because of laws like AB5,...

Jan 5, 2022 – Californians woke up to the ominous news, reported by CBSLA: BREAKING: A COVID testing site at the Getty Center has detected LA’s first case of flurona, a combination of influenza and coronavirus. Oh no. Lock it all down right now. #BREAKING: A COVID testing site at the Getty...

Jan 3, 2022 – Elizabeth Holmes, once a Silicon Valley wunderkind and founder of Theranos, the now-failed blood-testing startup, has been found guilty of three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud after a three-month federal trial in San Jose, California. Holmes was charged with 11 counts...

Dec 27, 2021 – (DISCLAIMER: Harmeet Dhillon and the Dhillon Law Firm represented RedState Managing Editor Jennifer Van Laar in a lawsuit filed by…

Dec 27, 2021 – As one of the world’s leading nanotechnology researchers, Harvard professor Charles M. Lieber was seen by many of his colleagues as a future Nobel Prize winner. Lieber desperately wanted that too, and he was willing to partner with the Chinese Communist Party to get it. That ended poorly for him...

Dec 22, 2019 – Joshua Kaufman, a Holocaust survivor who eventually emigrated to the United States, became “a professional plumber at the age of 48 and raise[d] four daughters on the income of what steel toe boots and strong hands were able to provide,” has had his work van stolen in Los Angeles, and...

Dec 22, 2019 – California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-Union $$) has been unusually active on Twitter of late and she’s earned the dubious distinction of being more insufferably out of touch and irritatingly condescending than the former title holder, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Willie). Though she’s been dragged in multiple ways by people across...

Dec 21, 2019 – I won’t go into all the details, as they have been well and properly covered by my colleagues Nick Arama and Jennifer Van Laar.…

Dec 20, 2019 – Late Friday the United States Naval Academy released a report concluding that “hand gestures seen at the Army-Navy game were part of the ‘circle game’ and not a white supremacist symbol.” No s**t. The findings resulted in a predictable chorus of “DUH” directed at the Woke Brigade on...

Dec 20, 2019 – Earlier this week Vox Media announced it was canceling the contracts of hundreds of freelancers who live in California as a result of the state’s new “gig economy” law, AB-5, which essentially prohibits independent contracting in the state (except for massive carve-outs for specified industries, partial nonsensical carve-outs for others),...

Dec 20, 2019 – More than 96 members of MS-13 were arrested on Friday in Suffolk County, New York, as the result of a 23-month long investigation conducted by local, state, and federal authorities, prosecutors announced at a crowded press conference. Those arrested included nine “clique” leaders and 19 drug suppliers. Prosecutors displayed...

Jan 3, 2020 – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who’s ignored a rash of anti-Semitic attacks in his city and under whose watch the city’s murder rate has skyrocketed, finally held a joint press conference with NYPD brass to assuage the fears of New Yorkers who feel unsafe. Was he talking...

Jan 3, 2020 – After writing about the effect California’s new anti-choice, anti-freelancing bill, AB 5, I discussed the bill and how I made my decision to become a Californian living in exile in North Carolina with KABC’s Larry O’Connor. A couple of highlights: Question: “What about benefits? You don’t...

Jan 3, 2020 – David and Courtney Brayton attend the Los Angeles premiere of the Gosnell film on October 12, 2018. (Photo Courtesy of Courtney Brayton.) California veteran David Brayton, whose fight with the Veterans Administration for a lung transplant RedState covered, has died. David received his lung transplant at UCLA just...

Jan 2, 2020 – (Hat tip: Twitchy) Related via Jennifer Van Laar –>> Casualty of AB5: I’m Leaving CA to Live in Exile in NC…

Jan 1, 2020 – California’s Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5), which purports to protect workers from evil employers who want to misclassify them as independent contractors, went into effect today. Written by the California Labor Federation and sponsored by former union president Asm. Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), the bill was designed to unionize Uber,...

Jan 1, 2020 – [Screenshot from CBS2 New York via Twitter, (Editor’s Note: The post has been updated to include the introductory paragraph that was missing due to a technical error.) Over the past few days much has been learned about Grafton Thomas, the man who carried out a machete attack at...

Jan 1, 2020 – My colleague, Jennifer Van Laar recently wrote a piece explaining that she will now have to live on both the west and east coasts because…

Dec 31, 2019 – For more information on Lorena Gonzalez and AB5 please see this piece by Jennifer Van Laar Another article on Lorena Gonzalez and AB5…

Dec 31, 2019 – During the 2016 Presidential election I chose the Ramones’ “I Wanna be Sedated” as my song of the year, naively assuming that no matter what the results of the 2016 election were, the year would be an anomaly. (Ignorance was bliss for a short while.) Over the last few weeks...

Dec 30, 2019 – (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) RedState’s Jennifer Van Laar wrote Sunday about the horrific news from Monsey, New York where five Jewish…

Dec 29, 2019 – As RedState’s Jennifer Van Laar shared earlier this morning, there’s been another horrific anti-Semitic attack in New York.…

Dec 29, 2019 – A machete-wielding man burst into the home of Rabbi Chaim L. Rottenberg in Monsey, New York, Saturday night during a Hanukkah celebration, yelling “No one is going anywhere” and swinging his weapon “wildly” before stabbing five congregants. When the man entered just before 10 p.m., people were in the...

Sep 18, 2024 – Six Presumed Dead in Baltimore Bridge Collapse, Search and Rescue Efforts SuspendedIn an update later on Mar. 26, my colleague Jennifer … Van Laar wrote about a previous crash and ongoing mechanical issues with the ship: The ship had been cited for issues with propulsion…

Sep 28, 2024 – UPDATE 6 AM EDT, September 28, 2024The Israeli @IDF confirms that Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Hezbollah terrorist organization and one of its founders, was eliminated yesterday, together with Ali Karki, the Commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front, and additional Hezbollah commanders.Nasrallah will no… pic.twitter.com/aThduf0bwe— Israel ישראל (@Israel) September 28, 2024ORIGINAL...