“San Francisco” on The Daily Caller

Thousands of San Francisco workers are starting the new year with a raise. (more)

Paul Kanter, a musician who helped found the pioneering psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane and a native of San Francisco, once said: “San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.” There is a lot of evidence to back up Kanter’s statement. San Francisco has devised new ways to impose taxes on hotels. The city has also not been shy about regulating everything within its jurisdiction, from mandating composting to declaring a complete ban of McDonald’s Happy Meals. But nothing proves Kanter’s point more than San Francisco’s mobile phone labeling law. (more)

Why did the chickens cross the road? For thousands of hens riding in a truck on a California interstate, that joke became reality. (more)

With the iPhone 5 rumored to be released sometime this autumn, rumors about a prototype being lost at a San Francisco bar by sloshed Apple engineers are sure to grab anyone’s attention. (more)

The “hacktivist” group Anonymous announced its plan this weekend to take down the website of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system. The online group’s press release makes clear that the move is a direct response to BART’s shutdown of cell phone service on Thursday, which was an attempt to squash an organized protest. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The proprietors of a San Francisco restaurant said Wednesday they have surveillance footage of a sockless thief who snatched a valuable Picasso drawing off an art gallery wall. (more)

The same city that brought us the Golden Gate Bridge and Chinatown wants to prohibit its residents from buying pets. And it doesn’t stop there. (more)

The first vision was simple and straightforward: To curtail puppy mills and kitten factories, the sale of cats and dogs should be banned in San Francisco, where the loving guardians of animal companions come to regular blows — politically — with the loving parents of children. (more)

CNN contributor LZ Granderson got it right. He’s posted an online video taking issue with the San Francisco gay activists who want government to ban circumcision for little boys. (more)

California’s system of initiatives, referendums and recalls, which started nearly a century ago as a defiant act of progressivism under the mantra of “people power,” has performed pretty much as one would expect. It’s brought the system to its knees. (more)

Los Angeles (CNN) — Los Angeles police arrested a suspect early Sunday in connection with the brutal beating of a San Francisco Giants fan at Dodgers Stadium in March, a police spokesman said. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO—A group seeking to ban the circumcision of male children in San Francisco has succeeded in getting their controversial measure on the November ballot, meaning voters will be asked to weigh in on what until now has been a private family matter. (more)

San Francisco is full of crap — literally. A few years ago, the city fathers forced “low-flow” toilets on the populace. According to the people’s enlightened representatives, these things save water, are better for the environment, etc. While on the surface the concept seems straightforward and harmless enough, city officials should have heeded the words of Mark Twain: “No good deed goes unpunished.” (more)

On Thursday night, President Obama flew to San Francisco from Washington for a meeting with technology entrepreneurs. The White House called the meeting part of an “ongoing dialogue with the business community” on how they can “work together” to rebuild the economy, support entrepreneurship and focus on innovation and research. (more)

If there’s one thing that really annoys most people about politicians, it’s when they take advantage of a situation to score political points without thinking things through. One recent example is the feel-good proposal to ban or tax plastic grocery bags, supposedly to help preserve the environment. (more)

You’re running your Saturday errands: dry cleaners, post office, oil change, etc. At the grocery store you work your way down the list: milk, eggs, broccoli . . . Where’s the bread? You don’t want to buy that brown stuff with all those seeds and twigs; you want good old-fashioned, mushy, best-thing-since-sliced white bread. But it’s nowhere to be found. Upon further investigation, you’re informed that it’s been banned by the government due to the potential harm it can do to diabetics and the gluten-intolerant, and because refined white grains may contribute to obesity. Never mind that you don’t fall into those categories, you’ve been prohibited from making the choice for yourself, for the greater good. (more)

The nation’s first gay museum opening in San Francisco’s Castro district showcases a variety of items ranging from Harvey Milk’s pink-framed sunglasses to manuscripts and sex toys. (more)

Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix, Arizona has been at the center of a roaring controversy for his decision to remove the Catholic status from St. Joseph Hospital in Phoenix. The hospital may no longer refer to itself as a Catholic institution, Mass may not be celebrated there, and the Diocese of Phoenix will not give it any further support. The decision came as a result of an abortion procedure performed at the hospital, and the repeated violations of Catholic moral teaching that the hospital had perpetrated over the years. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — This city is about to enact one of the nation’s toughest ordinances requiring its officials to hire locally, over the objections of neighboring counties that say it will hurt their residents. (more)

In the latest episode of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin pokes fun at First Lady Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity campaign. (more)