[Hat tip: Ace.] We can’t have students feeling bad about their grades – unless they’re smart and high-achieving students. Then it’s okay. So let’s eliminate the tails, says California. All students will be equally – or almost equally – mediocre: … Continue reading →
In 2022 the California legislature passed a bill with the intention of implementing “equitable” electricity charges – in other words, charge the non-poor more. Must have seemed like a great idea to the California legislators at the time, but guess … Continue reading →
RIP. Feinsteins career was “filled with firsts,” as this article reminds us: She was the first woman president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the first woman mayor of San Francisco, and one of two of the first women … Continue reading →
Yesterday I wrote this post about three ballot initiatives in California designed to protect children and parents from the radical trans activist push in that state. In it, I observed: What if these ballot measures pass? I have a hunch … Continue reading →
There’s some pushback to the gender ideology takeover in the schools, even in ultra-blue California: Protect Kids California, a coalition of parental rights advocates and others who oppose gender ideology, filed three ballot initiatives Monday for the November 2024 ballot, … Continue reading →
Why would anyone want to be a small landlord in a city with rules like this?: Oakland is one of the last cities in the Bay Area hanging on to its eviction moratorium, which was introduced during the pandemic to … Continue reading →
One would think that the most basic task of those running a large city would be to preserve civic order. Not a perfect order, of course; that would require a level of control and a restriction of freedom that would … Continue reading →
First we were told it was probably a bona fide accident. Then we were told it was likely to have been a purposeful crime. Now we hear this: Twenty-five recruits for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department got mowed down … Continue reading →
Very Soviet of Newsom, and of the California legislature that passed this bill: Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed California Assembly Bill 2098, making it the first state to attempt to censor what physicians can say about COVID-19 to their patients. … Continue reading →
One can hope: A preliminary count of signatures submitted in a petition to recall Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón totals 715,833, L.A. County elections officials reported Saturday. L.A. County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan said his office has completed … Continue reading →
Though California does have sections that are politically conservative, the left has an iron grip on the state’s politics because of its large coastal urban areas. The state has also instituted something called the jungle primary, which means that the … Continue reading →
That’s the title of this piece at BattleSwarm Blog about the possible recall of George Gascon. I submit, however, that it actually should read “especially his own prosecutors.” Lawyers don’t – or at least, until the last few years, didn’t … Continue reading →