May 15, 2013 By John Seiler In 1938, Hitler imposed an anti-home schooling law on German families. All children were required to attend Third Reich-approved schools, receiving indoctrination in Nazism and anti-Semitism, and to join the Hitlerjugend -- the Hitler Youth. American G.I.'s inclu...

May 15, 2013 By Chris Reed Has Gov. Jerry Brown simply not been reading the newspaper for 40 years? Does he not see all the wars that the CTA and CFT fight on behalf of their members? Is he unaware of ACLU lawsuits targeting school districts for policies that help unions but hurt minority stud...

May 15, 2013 By John Seiler We're constantly told that California governments have a "constitutional obligation" to pay for the pensions of public-sector employees. Except when there's no money left. If a city, county or even the state goes absolutely flat broke, then nothing will be paid. ...

May 14, 2013 By Katy Grimes The Associated Press found itself in an interesting juxtaposition yesterday when it had to report that the Obama Justice Department secretly obtained two months of AP's own employees' phone records. In what can only be called strange, the Obama Justice Depa...

May 14, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- Another secretive budget is in the near future as Democrats passed 37 empty budget "spot bills" Monday. It was business as usual in the Assembly. Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield, D-Los Angeles, the author of AB 74, the budget bills, and Chairman of the...

May 14, 2013 By Chris Reed This is saying a lot. But in my 23 years in California, no regulation has more clearly established the vapidity of how the state's regulatory culture works than a new rule embraced by the San Diego Regional Water Quality Board. My colleague at the U-T San Diego, b...