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The Trouble With Teachers Unions

The teachers unions’ desperate screams of outrage and blatant effort to use economic extortion to suppress proof of its members’ failings are proof that the Times has struck a nerve that needs to be struck. We can only hope that the citizens of Los Angeles back the paper and stand up to the union, for the sake of Los Angeles students and the integrity of journalism. Continue reading

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Note to the EEOC: “Fairness” Must Not Require The Suspension of Common Sense

When affirmative action and anti-discrimination measures make discrimination against criminals a form of bigotry, we are nearing the end-game in race-based social engineering. Laws supporting fairness must be rooted in and consistent with common sense, the one thing the American public has in abundance. Policies like this will rob anti-discrimination regulation, no matter how well-intentioned, of all credibility. Continue reading

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The Strange Case of the Starving Lawyer

Newly minted and unemployed lawyer Ethan Haines has gone on a hunger strike in the name of all unemployed former law students, to protest misleading law school employment statistics, commercial school rankings, and antiquated career counseling programs.

He is confused. Continue reading

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Thought Police at the Transportation Security Administration

An internal directive that went out to all employees of the Transportation Security Administration at the beginning of July. It stated TSA employees are no longer allowed access to five categories of websites that the TSA has decreed is “inappropriate for government access.” Unethical. And dumb. Continue reading

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Law School and High School Credential Corruption

“When everyone is somebody, then no one’s anybody!” Continue reading

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