Does California Let Non Citizens Vote?

Recently on Facebook, someone stated that the Popular vote showing Hillary Clinton leading over Trump was inaccurate because “a large portion of people voting for Hilary were illegals and dead people”, and he followed that up with “the entire state of california gave illegals the right to vote”.

  

I asked for the source, and he sent me a link to this InfoWars story.  He also sent me a link to the Washington Times, which is simply a direct copy and paste of this story.

  

While it would be easy simply to dismiss the claim out of hand, I believe that anytime someone takes the effort to try to back up their statements, the least I can do is read their citation and analyze it...

History Fun: Why Independence?

A friend of mine, inspired by our Independence Day celebrations, wrote “…we Declared our Independence from England partially to get away from heavy taxation and decreasing civil liberties.”

It’s a common refrain: Britain taxed us too much, so we left.  If only bad old England hadn’t taxed us so much.

 

But the thing is, that’s not true.  While taxes were certainly a part of the complaint, they weren’t a major complaint.

 

I’m not going to do a complete history of the Revolutionary War – I’d be posting for MONTHS.  No, this is just addressing the root causes of the war.  That is, I’m going to tell you just WHY we “Declared our Independence from England.”