Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
California used to have the finest public education system in America. It wasn’t lack of funding that killed it; it was Leftist corruption and insanity. Don’t believe me? Read these two articles. From Bruce Kesler: Important Report On The Sinkhole That Is Higher Education From Donald Douglas: California State Colleges
Continue readingThroughout my legal career, the Harvard Law grads of my generation and after have bewildered me. The ones I met practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area, more often than not, were distinguished by two things: lousy legal skills and strident aggression. I was pretty sure that this perception on
Continue reading[My friend Lulu wrote this post. Now you’ll know what I already know about her: she’s extremely bright, well-informed, analytical, and morally centered.] Andrew Breitbart didn’t just try to fix the existing problems. He challenged the entire narrative as presented to us by the Left. In my small way I
Continue readingI’ve got a new post up at PJ Tatler: The University of Southern California (“USC”), an expensive private university in Los Angeles, used to rejoice in the nickname “University of Spoiled Children.” I’m happy to report (my tone is dryly sarcastic as I write this) that the University is doing
Continue readingIt’s already old news to you that statistical data shows that Obama is the most polarizing president ever. Much as I’d like to blame Obama, it seems that, rather than causing the polarization, he reflects it: One Gallup chart ranks presidents from Eisenhower to Obama on polarization during their third
Continue readingBack in the day, I thought the University of California was overpriced, because the professors lived like (Marxist) kings and taught like fools (boring fools, I might add). It’s only gotten worse, as the professors still live like kings and teach like fools, but the tuition has skyrocketed, far beyond
Continue readingAmerican universities pay lip service to multiculturalism and inclusiveness, but one of their despicable secrets is that, while conservative and Jewish speakers are ignored or shouted down with no push-back whatsoever from the university administrations, pro-Palestinian speakers are given a bully pulpit. The worse their rhetoric — the more anti-inflammatory
Continue readingWhoopi Goldberg got some airplay on conservative sites the other day for pointing out something I’d already learned by the time I was 13 — Leftism is great in theory, but it doesn’t work so well in the real world. To that “duh” moment (although I doubt it will convert
Continue readingWe spend a lot of time talking here about the way our Progressive culture infantilizes young people. Just think about the way the whole liberal world had a collective head explosion when Newt suggested that young people get jobs to learn the value of discipline and achieve the satisfaction of
Continue readingWhew! That was a long drive home. We got caught in traffic jams caused by two accidents, so we got to spend an extra couple of hours in the car. Still, better to sit around because of an accident than to be in an accident. I’ve done both and prefer
Continue readingRegular readers know Marica, who occasionally comments here. If you like her comments, as I do, you might want to check out the blog she’s started, Big Food, Big Garden, Big Life. While you’re there, be sure to read this post, about the Left’s smug belief in the righteousness of
Continue readingWhat the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protestors don’t realize (yet) is that they have been suckered into becoming the agents of their own enslavement. Orwell had it so right in defining the Left because he was a man of the Left. The term “Orwellian” now refers to the Left’s use
Continue readingIn a previous post, I opined that spoiled kids who don’t want to deal with their student loans are one of the motivating forces behind the Wall Street protests. Flush with neo-1960s pride, students have been pouring out of classrooms. That’s not news. One expects that from the young, Marxist-informed
Continue readingI hated UC Berkeley. Loathed it. Despised it. Couldn’t shake the dust off my feet fast enough after I graduated. But graduate I did, and pretty well too, if my Phi Beta Kappa key has anything to say about it. Knowing my feelings about UCB, my daughter asked a good
Continue readingI’m growing very fond of Jill Tucker, a “journalist” at the San Francisco Chronicle who gives me lots of meat for my blogging. A couple of weeks ago, I looked at her incurious (some might say lazy) reporting about the decision the Oakland Children’s Museum’s made to cancel a controversial
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