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They both get special treatment at Fresno State. Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante got credit but did not have to attend a basic speech class at Fresno State in the late 1990s because a professor decided in 15 minutes or less that the Fresno Democrat would have earned at least a C based on his public […]

The Boston Globe reported today that the federal judge who found the FTC's do-not-call list to be an abridgement of freedom of speech had his own phone number on the list. The story notes that anyone can put a number on the list, so it is possible that a censorious aide to the judge might […]

The upcoming issue of National Review has an excellent article by Dave Shiflett on the late, great Johnny Cash. That's not what is disgusting. What is disgusting is the recounting of former Vice President Al Gore's comments at Cash's funeral. At his funeral, daughter Rosanne Cash said he was "a Baptist with the soul of […]

San Diego Union-Tribune columnist Joseph Perkins has a great article in today's paper on Proposition 54. What astounds is that race demagogues like (Jesse) Jackson and (Cruz) Bustamante are hardly the only ones who hold this view. Many whites in California also share this view, particularly those who consider themselves enlightened on matters of race. […]

Then Gen. Wesley Clark would be running for the Republican nomination for president in 2004. After reading Clark's remarks at a fund-raiser for the Pulaski County Republican Party in May 2001, I can't comprehend how a man who graduated first in his class at West Point and was a Rhodes scholar can make what is […]

And that's a lawsuit from the Center for Individual Rights. If you're looking for some background on the issue, you can check out my blog posts here, here and here. You can also check out some work on the case done by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education here. Cal Poly will lose this […]

As has been done at numerous campuses, conservative students at Southern Methodist University had an affirmative action bake sale. Unlike other campuses, school officials shut the bake sale down because it created a "hostile environment." This just in, the real-world is a "hostile environment." The quote in ths story that really got me was one […]

From today's New York Times corrections page: An article on Monday about Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz's comments at a forum on Iraq misstated President Bush's position on whether there were contacts between Al Qaeda and the government of Saddam Hussein. Mr. Bush has said there were such contacts; he has not said they […]

A federal judge has taken the California government's credit card away. judge has blocked as unconstitutional the state's plan to borrow nearly $2 billion to pay for employee pensions, part of the more than $15 billion in borrowing lawmakers relied on to balance the budget. If upheld on appeal, the judge's preliminary opinion could raise […]

I watched/listened to quite a bit of Wednesday's California recall/gubernatorial debate. It was on in the newsroom, but I couldn't pay 100 percent attention to it because I had other work to do. You can find a transcript of the entire debate right here. The debate's format, something that was a point of contention, worked […]