Listen: Radio Free California Podcast Episode 200: Mobbery in San Francisco
Listen: Radio Free California Podcast Episode 200: Mobbery in San Francisco
Mobs of thieves rob Bay Area stores, but California’s conservative counties are peaceful. Merrick Garland is still pushing the “terrorist parents” narrative. Liberals say Ivy Getty’s Hunger Games-style San Francisco wedding is evidence we need a wealth tax. The House that Kobe Built has a new name. David and Will weigh in on Gavin Newsom...
By Will Swaim
BREAKING: Tech Mistake Leads LAUSD Parents to Receive Names of Students Who Had Tested Positive for COVID-19
BREAKING: Tech Mistake Leads LAUSD Parents to Receive Names of Students Who Had Tested Positive for COVID-19
Some LAUSD parents received a surprise early Monday: over 130 emails naming students exempted from the district’s testing policy because they recently recovered from COVID-19. The watchdog group UTLA Uncensored revealed the gaff on their Twitter account. According to UTLA Uncensored, the two parents they have found who have received these emails found their child’s...
By Brandon Ristoff
A plea for copping
A plea for copping
After school police are cut back, violence rises. In June 2020, the United Teachers of Los Angeles passed a motion to eliminate school police, and replace them with counselors and mental health programs. The union asserted, “Police presence in schools leads to negative outcomes for Black and Brown students, who are arrested and disciplined at...
By Larry Sand
Radio Free California Episode 199: A Fast-Food Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Radio Free California Episode 199: A Fast-Food Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Assembly member Lorena Gonzalez, author of the infamous A.B. 5, is at it again, this time with an effort to unionize fast-food workers by extraordinary means. AG Rob Bonta threatens to bring down the house. CalPERS says it’ll have to accept greater risk to fully fund generous government-union retirements. Gavin Newsom extends his emergency authority...
By Will Swaim
The dumbing of America
The dumbing of America
Our failing education system is leading us down a dangerous road. America is in the midst of an education crisis, ranging from newborns to college students, and it is ubiquitous. In an under-reported story from August, a study by researchers at five universities found that babies born during the Covid pandemic show reduced verbal, motor,...
By Larry Sand
Listen: National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast Episode 198: French Laundry 2: The Getty Afterparty!
Listen: National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast Episode 198: French Laundry 2: The Getty Afterparty!
Irony alert: Governor Gavin Newsom canceled his flight to Glasgow’s climate meet-up and then appeared at the lavish San Francisco wedding of oil-heiress Ivy Getty — and then magically makes natural gas “carbon neutral.” Sean Penn finds himself in the crosshairs of the National Labor Relations Board. Surveying epiphenomena of this sort, the city of...
By Will Swaim
The National School Boards Association Fiasco: California Leans In
The National School Boards Association Fiasco: California Leans In
State school boards across the nation have ended their memberships with the National School Boards Association after the organization likened concerned parents to “domestic terrorists.” But there’s been no similar response to the execrable California School Boards Association. They sent their own letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom, a missive remarkably similar to the national association’s letter...
By Celeste Fiehler
Yes, Virginia, There Are Lessons We Have Learned
Yes, Virginia, There Are Lessons We Have Learned
The recent election in Virginia has provided a trove of “teachable moments.” As a former educator, I know a teachable moment when I see one. And the political doings in Virginia this fall have been a goldmine. While the Democrats still maintain a small majority in the Old Dominion’s Senate in the recent election, Virginia...
By Larry Sand
As Virginia goes, so goes the nation!
As Virginia goes, so goes the nation!
The election of Republican Glenn Youngkin as governor of Virginia this week shocked Democrats and their media allies, but has put politicians and teacher unions nationwide on notice: parents, not bureaucrats, direct their children’s education. Tuesday’s historic upset of Democrat powerhouse Terry McAuliffe was decisive. Virginia saw its highest voter turnout in recent history and...
By Dawn Collier
Listen: Radio Free California Episode 197: ‘Punching the Golden Goose in the Mouth’
Listen: Radio Free California Episode 197: ‘Punching the Golden Goose in the Mouth’
San Francisco finds new and interesting ways to kill people and opportunities. Xavier Becerra takes California’s most lethal drug policies national on the Joe Biden Medicine Show. Your hosts also compare the Newsom recall with Glenn Youngkin’s big win in Virginia and consider Inglewood High School’s 106-0 football victory over Morningside. Music by Metalachi. Listen...
By Will Swaim
The Year of the Parent
The Year of the Parent
Battle lines have been drawn, the war is on, and the great parent awakening of 2021 will have permanent consequences. Back in the 1950s and early 1960s, my parents could send me off to school and assume I would be taught by people who shared their values. Those days are long gone, however. To be...
By Larry Sand
Our Full-Employment Division
Our Full-Employment Division
Why didn’t California’s unemployment office heed past audits? Because real efficiency means fewer jobs. The report last week that the state Employment Development Department had paid $20 billion in bogus jobless benefit claims, including $810 million to convicts, added to the view that EDD is the government equivalent of a dumpster fire. It came days...
By Chris Reed
California Department of Education’s failure will cost kids big
California Department of Education’s failure will cost kids big
California’s public-school administrators took a test this year, and they failed miserably. No, we’re not talking about their refusal to reopen classrooms when data showed it was safe to do so. And no, we’re not talking about abysmal student reading and math scores. We’re talking about the way they’ve demonstrated that, even with unprecedented amounts of...
By Celeste Fiehler
Finding Common Ground in California
Finding Common Ground in California
In California, environmental regulations have brought infrastructure investment to a standstill. Without expanding energy, water, and transportation infrastructure, it is nearly impossible to build housing, the cost-of-living is punitive, water is rationed and food is overpriced, the overall quality of life is reduced, and money that ought to be paying skilled workers to operate heavy...
By Edward Ring