About Public Education in the Beach Cities

Manhattan Beach Unified just handed out pay raises to the superintendent and his attending personnel, then hired a substitute teacher to serve as an energy consultant. This kind of waste takes place on an ongoing basis in the Beach communities, yet the voters are...

DREAM Act-Lite Creates a Logjam

The DREAM Act-Lite executive order was a constitutional nightmare when Obama issued it. Now it has become a bureaucratic nightmare. The crush of young people now seeking asylum in this country has positioned some states to offer driver's licenses and social...

America and Gun Ownership

People own guns in this country. More people own guns in this country than elsewhere in the Western World. More people do get shot in this country, too. That is not an argument to curtail gun ownership, however. Great Britain is struggling with moral decline and a...

Port of LA Area Loses the Parking Meters

Shortly after Janice Hahn left the LA City Council to go Congress, Los Angeles decided to do away with the parking meters all over San Pedro and Wilmington. From the outset, it was a foolish idea to tax the business sector in the port region, which was already...

Univesity of Texas Racial Quotas on Trial

Equality as a benchmark is meaningless, and diversity in the name of creating a mixed composition in itself wars against the role of a university, free inquiry based on merit, not skin color. With Justice Elena Kagan recused from the case, I am certain that a 5-3...