A mom in Sacramento who once again caught her son high on weed decided to make his punishment public this week. Christine Drye got her 16 year old son, Dominiq, out of bed and drove him to the corner of Howe and Hurley, gave him a sign that read, “I’m stupid. I smoke ‘weed’ marijuana” and made him stand there from 7:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. You can read the full story here. Of course, there are people who think Dominiq’s mom was too harsh on the boy, but he doesn’t think so. Neither does his coach, who stopped to shake his mom’s hand.

My kids are small enough now that the biggest problems I have are my daughters leaving their bedroom light on 24/7 and my son never picking up his Legos.… Read More

With my kids out of school this week and my son turning five yesterday, I have to admit to being just a little bit behind on the news (up on it enough, however, to know that my Dodgers are 7 1/2 games in front of the Giants!). As I was playing catch up today, I was interested to read the glowing story on the new Mandarin immersion program as San Francisco Unified’s Star King Elementary.

The new program, which will expand to first grade next year, immersed 26 kindergarteners in the new language, while teaching them standard kindergarten curriculum at the same time.

School Principal Chris Rosenberg told the SF Chronicle, "It was a fantastic year. Did the kids learn Mandarin while mastering the grade-level standards? Yes. It was a big success, a great success."

I can’t help to wonder why educators are still dragging their feet on… Read More

Koeberer, Albiani and Guilbault. All three are nominees by Governor Schwarzenegger to the California Community College Board of of Governors. If FR sources are right, all three of these nominees will soon be former Board of Governors members. In order to be confirmed to these positions, you need a 2/3 vote of the State Senate. Perhaps all three should have thought about that before the took radical pro-criminal alien policy positions on the Board of Governors (once appointed by the Governor, they can serve up to a year without confirmation).

State Senator Bob Dutton, one of two GOPers on the Senate Rules Committee, found out about the radical views of these nominees and prepared an extensive briefing for his GOP colleagues. We obtained a copy of his written briefing, which is reprinted below.

From other reliable sources (not Senator Dutton, I might add), we learned that Senate Republicans are resolute about not confirming these nominees.

Note to the Governor: Please nominate new Board of Governors members who are not interested in increasing illegal immigration to California by increasing taxpayer funded benefits to them. … Read More

Koeberer, Albiani and Guilbault. All three are nominees by Governor Schwarzenegger to the California Community College Board of of Governors. If FR sources are right, all three of these nominees will soon be former Board of Governors members. In order to be confirmed to these positions, you need a 2/3 vote of the State Senate. Perhaps all three should have thought about that before the took radical pro-criminal alien policy positions on the Board of Governors (once appointed by the Governor, they can serve up to a year without confirmation).

State Senator Bob Dutton, one of two GOPers on the Senate Rules Committee, found out about the radical views of these nominees and prepared an extensive briefing for his GOP colleagues. We obtained a copy of his written briefing, which is reprinted below.

From other reliable sources (not Senator Dutton, I might add), we learned that Senate Republicans are resolute about not confirming these nominees.

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Read about it here.… Read More

We are pleased to present this commentary from Jon Coupal, President of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association:

"Scary"

Lots of things bother me about horror movies, but one of the big things is the inability to warn the victims that a grisly fate awaits them just around the corner. There are times when, at one time or another, we have all wanted to stand up in the theatre and yell "don’t go in that creepy mansion, you fool!" In horror movies, "ignorance is bliss" is a decidedly wrong idea. Ignorance leads to nasty encounters with characters like Freddie, Chucky or Hannibal. Equating ignorance with bliss is also a decidedly wrong idea when it comes… Read More

We are pleased to present this commentary from Jon Coupal, President of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association:

"Scary"

Lots of things bother me about horror movies, but one of the big things is the inability to warn the victims that a grisly fate awaits them just around the corner. There are times when, at one time or another, we have all wanted to stand up in the theatre and yell "don’t go in that creepy mansion, you fool!"

**There is more – click the link**

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War profiteer and filmmakerMichael Moore (Fahrenheit 911 $260M worlwide gross) visited the State Capitol with a message of health care socialism yesterday. Here is one of his more ridiculous (of many) quotes: "’There is no room for the concept of profits when taking care of people when they are sick," Moore told a crowd of nearly a thousand nurses who swarmed the west steps of the Capitol.

I wonder if there could be anyone dumber than this guy. The profit motive in health care drives all innovation, all advancement, all efficiency and all progress in the industry. Socialist countries with single payer health care produce no advanced medical technology of their own, no new pharmaceutical drugs, and massive rationing and wait times. Nobody from the United States goes to Canada for advanced treatments.

The single largest cost drivers in our private health system are illegal immigration and government run health programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. Hospitals and practitioners lose… Read More