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Video: John Lott dissects two gun control fanatics
July 30, 2012 By John Seiler In the following YouTube, America’s top gun scholar, John Lott, faces off against two gun-control fanatics who hardly let him get in a word edgewise. One is host Piers Morgan, who like a lot
Read MorePolice shooting policies need rethinking
July 30, 2012 By Steven Greenhut While sitting in a restaurant in Philadelphia’s Chinatown during my first visit here in more than a decade, I watched TV news reports of violent protests erupting in normally placid Anaheim after two fatal
Read MoreCalif. universities could expand without tax increases
July 30, 2012 By Michael Poliakoff and Andrew Gillen From coast to coast, discontent rocks the great flagship universities. State funding is declining and institutions are responding with ever rising tuitions. But the response is far from inevitable. Remedies are
Read MoreParks Dept. corruption not isolated
July 27, 2012 By Katy Grimes The recent scandal inside of the State Parks and Recreation Department is no surprise to anyone, but the levels of corruption, schemes and deceit, is. The agency director, Ruth Coleman, resigned. But as she
Read MoreParent Trigger is welcome school reform
July 27, 2012 By Joseph Perkins California public schools received their annual report cards last month. On the state’s 10-point grading scale — with 10 being the highest and 1 the lowest — Desert Trails Elementary School earned a 1. The
Read MoreBankruptcy: Report warned of San Bernardino fiscal foolishness
July 27, 2012 By Tori Richards SAN BERNARDINO — Five years before San Bernardino became California’s third city seeking bankruptcy protection in 2012, a 266-page management analysis report warned of dire repercussions if changes weren’t made that would cut costs
Read MoreLawmaker proposes corporate welfare for NFL club
July 26, 2012 By Joseph Perkins Elaine Alquist is not a member of the San Francisco 49ers’ Gold Rush gals, but the Santa Clara state senator is the NFL club’s biggest cheerleader. With but a month left in the legislative
Read MoreS.F.’s hypocrisy on water
July 26, 2012 By John Seiler Our colleague Steven Greenhut just wrote for Bloomberg on San Francisco’s hypocrisy on water. Read the whole thing here. Key graphs: “Consider their response after a group called the Yosemite Restoration Campaign collected enough signatures to
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Obama’s General Motors bailout still ripping us off
July 26, 2012 By John Seiler One reason the American economic “recovery” is so weak is that, when General Motors went bankrupt in 2009, President Obama stole the company’s assets from bondholders to give to the UAW union. Yes, he
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