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From sanctuary cities to brutally high taxes, California is the undisputed center of gravity for today’s far-left. If you want to see how liberal policies would look on a national level, you don’t have to imagine it. You can just look at the thousands fleeing the once-great state. In the latest chapter of California’s descent into liberal madness, the city of Berkeley – a hotbed of radical liberalism – became the first city in America to ban natural gas from new homes and businesses, including restaurants that use natural gas for stoves. Environmentalists are reportedly hailing this development as a...

A University of California, Berkeley task force is blaming conservative students for destructive protests on campus, saying that hosting conservative speakers was “likely to incite a violent reaction.” The report was filed on April 10 by a Commission on Free Speech that Chancellor Carol Christ created last October to “analyze events featuring external speakers” on campus in the wake of a series of disruptive protests against planned appearances by speakers such as Ben Shapiro, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Ann Coulter.

The slowly shifting ground in the Berkeley hills area means the land that's yours today may be your neighbor's tomorrow The land under Robert Mathews' house in the Berkeley hills has slid about 20 feet since the structure was built in 1916. But property lines do not move, which means that today half of his house seems to sit on his neighbor's land. "I figure the property line runs right through the middle of the front doorway,'' he said. Three major landslides in Berkeley and neighboring Kensington are creating a dilemma for residents who, like Mathews, live in the well-populated...

Crowd Joins to Jeer Bush Speech UC Berkeley students and professors at the Institute of Governmental Studies reacted critically to President Bush’s State of the Union Address yesterday with jeers and laughter. In an annual tradition, pundits and spectators alike jammed the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies Library last night to scarf down pizza and scoff at President Bush’s annual State of the Union Address. UC Berkeley political science professor Nelson Polsby set the tone for the evening with a defiant taunt for the Republican-controlled Congress. “They have the White house, Congress and the Supreme Court, but they...