Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher

There's always got to be a bad guy, and even though I find smoking to be vile and disgusting, I think political calls against it are to ...

Joanne asks this question in response to former NEA President John Wilson's contradictory article : Well, one of my favorite Southern...

Is the TSA doing anything of value that couldn't be done better, and more inexpensively, by private companies? U.S. airport screening...

The welfare state is dying --at least in one European country: In an address to the people of the Netherlands earlier this year, the Dutc...

I was out Christmas shopping with a friend today, when out of the blue, it hit me:  want to go to Reno?  He'd never been, so off we went...

From National Review Online : T his magazine has long specialized in debunking pernicious political myths, and Jonah Goldberg has now pr...

If this boondoggle fails for the "wrong" reasons , I'm still ok with that: California’s bullet train boondoggle was sucker p...

From nearby UC Davis , aka Berkeley-lite: A sustainability-focused UC Davis housing community is generating 87 percent of its own...

From the major Sacramento newspaper : More attention must be paid to the California State University system and to the state's communi...

For all I know I'm just as guilty as anyone else, but at least I don't "round up" grades at the end of the semester just s...

"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our ow...

Each year in early November my statistics classes conduct a survey of our school's students.  We spend days brainstorming questions, win...

When men outnumbered women on university campuses it was a "problem" that needed a "bold solution".  Now that the number...

Yesterday I wrote about Vancouver's decision not to allow builders to install doorknobs in new houses.  Today's story comes from ...

First, from UCLA : Student demonstrators alleged that there is a “toxic” racial climate in the graduate school, including in Rust’s classr...

I know what's best for your child, and if you don't see things my way, I'll make life difficult for both your child and you. ...

Again, thank God for FIRE : The federal government is backing away from the nationwide “blueprint” for campus speech restrictions issued ...

Good idea or not, why would anyone need or want government to make this type of decision ? In Vancouver, the humble doorknob is being phas...

This is why states like California, with strong unions, are not right-to-work states--because given a choice, teachers would opt out of uni...

Mike Rowe, host of Dirty Jobs, didn't like one of the posters in his high school counseling office .  He's now made a new one. Was...