MAY 23, 2011 Most parents of school-aged children who are familiar with charter schools clamor to get their kids into one. In some cities, the waiting list for charters is impossibly long, as demand is far greater than the availability of the alternative schools. But this doesn’t rest well w...
Rights and LibertiesDunce Cap On Charter SchoolsMonday, May 23rd, 2011Statists Fear ‘Atlas Shrugged’ FlickMonday, April 25th, 2011 APRIL 25, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT Editor's note: The movie "Atlas Shrugged: Part 1" opened in California on April 15 and is currently playing at a number of theaters throughout the state. Check your local movie listings for times of showings. The packed audience for the San Francisco premie... GOP’s Low Road On ImmigrationMonday, April 11th, 2011APRIL 11, 2011 Republicans in the state Assembly, still high-fiving each other for stopping Jerry Brown's one proposal that actually made sense (ending redevelopment agencies), congratulated themselves last week for their tough stand on illegal immigration, another foolish decision that flies... End Soviet-Style Kids CourtsMonday, March 14th, 2011MARCH 14 The most heart-wrenching issues I've written about involved the state's dependency court and foster-care systems. Officials have the power to remove children from their family homes and to place them in the care of strangers, yet the system that exercises these vast powers is veiled ... Mark Leno’s Bully Bill MillThursday, December 16th, 2010DEC. 16, 2010 With California in the middle of the most devastating financial crisis in state history, Senator Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, has introduced a bill purportedly aimed at stopping bullying in schools. But some are asking if it's merely a deflection attempt away from the state’s crumb... WikiLeaks Good For Free SocietySunday, December 5th, 2010DEC. 5, 2010 The response by pundits to the latest WikiLeaks classified-document dump has reminded me of a preacher who decries pornography, but who also insists on reading the dirty magazines page by page so that he can better understand the depth of the world's depravity. If WikiLeaks' actions ... Why Californians Go To TexasThursday, December 2nd, 2010DEC. 2, 2010 When will enough be enough for California? How much longer is California going to roll over for Texas? Or North Carolina, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Tennessee or Utah? While these wonderful states are cherry-picking our surviving businesses, state legislators are still talking about ex... Groping Toward TyrannySunday, November 21st, 2010NOV. 22, 2010 The Transportation Security Administration knows with 100 percent certainty that John Tyner, the 31-year-old Oceanside man who refused to submit to one of those embarrassing body scans or be searched by TSA groin-grabbers during his recent attempt to fly from San Diego to South Dako... Falling crime despite scare tacticsSunday, July 4th, 2010JULY 4, 2010 "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary," observed the journalist, critic and satirist H.L. Mencken. Mencken perhaps would not have env... Snake Oil LegislatorsWednesday, April 21st, 2010APRIL 21, 2010 Nearly every person I talk to is either feeling the crush of the bad economy or knows people who are really suffering. Which leads me to believe that most California legislators don’t run in the same circles that I do. Most of the folks that I know are small business owners, entr... |