Junk the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Plan
Bravo to the Los Angeles Times editorial writers for coming down against the one-sided proposal on how to teach California students “ethnic studies.” The Times editorial follows by a few days an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Williamson M. Evers, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, which hit the […]
“Citizens Vote” Initiatives Are a Huge Opportunity for Those Who Believe In Immigrant Rights
In Florida and other states, Trumpians and others are pursuing ballot initiatives that say voting is only for citizens. In so doing, they are merely ratifying the current reality. Of course, these initiatives aren’t about reality. They are about ratifying the president’s bigoted and bogus fantasies that non-citizens are voting everywhere, and especially in California. […]
Derailing the bullet train
A decade ago, shortly after California voters narrowly approved a $9.95 billion bond issue to finance a statewide bullet train system, an official involved in early planning for the project confided a dirty little secret. While a 200-mile-per-hour bullet train was the sizzle sold to voters, he told me, the unspoken motive was getting more […]