Students Need Parents, Not Pals

The Cult of Equality is in full swing in today's public schools. Instead of disciplining students, teachers are expected to accomodate them. Accountability has shifted from the students to the adults, many of whom are still struggle to grow up, themselves. There...

Editorial on Education Reform

Former LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines was implicated in an illicit affair with another high-ranking employee in the district from which he retired last year. For his indiscretion, Cortines’ former employer handed off a hefty severance, all taxpayer money diverted...

Capitalism is About Profits — Everyone's

The United States needs a crash course in economics. Or perhaps the economics teachers in our public high schools need the crash course in how economies really work, not the high and flighty aberrations which passes for learning in elite institutions throughout the...

Obama Faces Campaign Concerns

The economic recovery has not recouped the jobs lost over the past three years. The military is  still overextended in every continent in the world, with small relief hardly shoring up the pacifist lobby which help propel the President into power in 2008. The low...

Debt Stand-Off Renewed on Capitol Hill

Speaker of the House John Boehner must lead the charge to stop the spending. He should not refer to his member as "frogs in a wheelbarrow." It is time that House Representatives assert their independence and their loyalty to their pledge to stop government...