After the shock of Mitt Romney's and other critical Republican seats {i.e. the Indiana Senate race in favor of Democrat Joe Donnelly} wore off, the Republican party cleared the drawing board on their approach to social policy and the infamous 47%'ers. Following the direction of media personality Sean Hannitty, local politics is taking a turn from the Fiscal Cliff hoopla in Washington and focusing in on immigration (especially in coastal areas that are directly affected with the issue). Republicans in the state of California are jumping on the moderate bandwagon to attempt to sway the large hispanic...

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California is infamous for many things besides its Hollywood Hills; one of those things being its legalization of medical marijuana. There are 16 states and Washington, D.C. that have declared certain amounts of marijuana to be legal, with the justification being the medical benefits. With the overcrowding of prison systems and the current state of economic affairs in various states, legalizing marijuana is becoming much more attractive. States such as Wisconsin are fighting for those rights now. Lawmakers at the state capitol in Wisconsin have pushed for the legalization of weed for people...

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Would you pay $5 million for a job? Well, in a sense that is what Senator Dianne Feinstein is doing. Feinstein is contributing $5 million of her own money to her 2012 reelection campaign. $5 million may be a lot but not so in comparison to her net worth of at least $45 million.Currently, there are no regulations against how much money a candidate can donate to their campaign from their personal accounts and Senator Feinstein is taking full advantage of that. You may wonder why was she unable to raise the necessary funds to run for reelection, well Senator Feinstein employed a popular political...

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Sure, you’ve heard of events or parties hitting capacity, so no one else is allowed in; or when Twitter is over capacity, you cant log on. What happens when the prison can no longer hold enough inmates; do you not allow anymore criminals in? Well, the U.S. Supreme Court came to a 5-4 decision this week of decreasing the prison population by about 25 percent; that calculation equates to about 33,000 inmates. The state of California has promised to release a solution for reducing the prison population within the next two weeks. Quite naturally, residents are afraid the solution will be early...

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