Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher

Some people are so delicate and fragile that they shouldn't ever leave home, much less attend a university : Three contributors to the...

It needs to be said again and again until the truth wins out: While the huge multi-million pay packages of a few hundred CEOs get all of...

I can't speak for the English standards, only the math standards.  Those aren't as good or as rigorous as what California gave up, a...

From the Wall Street Journal : Go back, for a moment, nearly 30 years. In March 1987, Margaret Thatcher visited Mikhail Gorbachev, the re...

I watched Maze Runner several months ago and genuinely liked it.  It was yet another "teens fight to save the world" story, the fi...

A few months ago I was contacted via email and asked to review Straight A's Are Not Enough by Judy Fishel.  I agreed to do so, receive...

I've come up with a new saying:  don't become the peacock.  Here's the background: Last Sunday evening my sister, a realtor, h...

Normal, rational, real people recognize that, as in the Kenny Rogers song, "sometimes you gotta fight when you're a man."  Th...

From Investor's Business Daily : Since 2006, the average annual increase for family plans at work has been 4.9%, down from around 10% ...

This article got me thinking: Passed in 1974, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act is an unwieldy piece of legislation affectin...

The lede in this article pretty much says it all: Free enterprise has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty and will answer Pope Fra...

I think nowadays they just try to one-up each other in coming up with crazy ideas to promote: So just to review, despite their obvious sh...

I have a hard enough time with Euclidean geometry.  Especially in my current class, wherein we're proving a number of Euclid's propo...

Another candle shines brightly in the darkness : Debates can raise intense emotions, but that doesn’t mean that we should demand ideologi...

It's a small step, but an important one : The Faculty Senate at American University has passed a resolution affirming the importance ...

This particular research shows what logic would lead you to expect , which is why our friends on the left won't believe it: One huge s...

I've been a Talker For Walker, but now he's dropping out : Scott Walker announced Monday he is dropping out of the GOP presidentia...

I'm not saying this list is the end-all, be-all, but there are some funny things in it: 11 Things That Are Normal To Do In College That...

If you concern yourself with the future competitiveness of the nation, you need to worry about the smart kids.  If you concern yourself with...

The major Sacramento newspaper ran a story showing the median pay of California university graduates 10 years after starting college , and i...