A 17 year-old foster child in the state of California (where else!) has been denied the right to sign up for the Marines and the $10,000 signing bonus that goes with it. Why? Because the judge disagrees with the Iraq war.
Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Marilyn Mackel denied 17-year-old Shawn Sage’s request to join the [...]
According to an LA Times article, homeschooling has been ruled illegal in California.
“Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children,” wrote Justice H. Walter Croskey in a Feb. 28 opinion signed by the two other members of the district court. “Parents who fail to [comply with school enrollment laws] may be [...]
In the latest California nuttery, next year the state will have to power to control thermostats whenever they want.
Next year in California, state regulators are likely to have the emergency power to control individual thermostats, sending temperatures up or down through a radio-controlled device that will be required in new or substantially modified houses and [...]
Unlike the AP, who titled their article “Lawmaker Drops Effort to Ban Spanking,” I still say she is trying to ban spanking.
A Democratic lawmaker has abandoned her heavily ridiculed campaign to make spanking a crime, acknowledging that the idea would get whacked even in California’s sometimes whimsical Legislature.
Lieber is seeking to classify a laundry list [...]
Reuters is reporting that California may ban conventional lightbulbs by 2012. I can see it now – a huge black market and smuggling lightbulbs into California.
The “How Many Legislators Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb Act” would ban
incandescent lightbulbs by 2012 in favor of energy-saving compact fluorescent
lightbulbs.
I have only seen a compact fluorescent lightbulb [...]
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