Feb. 26, 2013 By Chris Reed There has rarely been a journalistic scoop that did a better job of exposing the fraud that is the claim that state Democrats are the party of social justice than the report last week from California Watch. Its investigation showed that thousands of teachers in...

Feb. 25, 2013 By John Seiler Last week I riffed on a column by Tony Quinn on Republicans, immigration and California, "Are Republicans Finally Learning to Count?" In turn, Quinn has responded to me: "He argues that even if they do so Latinos will not vote for them, and to support immigration ...

Feb. 24, 2013 By Chris Reed As someone who's lived in Southern California since 1990, it's been pretty obvious to me that Los Angeles and Los Angeles County have been in a broad decline that began when the end of the Cold War subtracted tens of thousands of well-paying defense-related jobs fro...

Feb. 24, 2013 By Chris Reed Lance Izumi does a great job in the Orange County Register of documenting how President Obama's push for universal preschool is a retread of actor-director Rob Reiner's failed, scandal-scarred push in California --- right down to citing the same shaky study to justi...

Feb. 23, 2013 By John Seiler In Forbes' new ranking, three of the eight "most miserable" cities in the United States are in California: Modesto (No. 5 worst), Vallejo (No. 6) and Stockton (No. 8). Cities were graded on such factors as "crime rates, foreclosures, taxes, home prices, commute tim...

Feb. 23, 2013 By Chris Reed The Golden State may yet be rescued from its epic mismanagement by private-sector innovation that brings vast new wealth to California. For all our Solyndra-style boondoggles, there's also extraordinarily promising work being done that could make San Diego County th...