Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
My California upbringing shows that people will cling to ideas long after the facts reveal those ideas are flawed — a scary thought for the 2020 election. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, one of America’s bluest of blue regions; attended UC Berkeley, which once was the
Continue reading
Meeting representatives of Berkeley’s College Republicans in the Trump era, you learn that courage is not limited to men in uniform on foreign battlefields. In 1964, the Free Speech Movement came to the University of California, Berkeley. It began as a protest against Berkeley’s extremely strict rules regarding political speech.
Continue reading
With two days having elapsed since rioters disrupted Milo Yiannopoulos’s planned speech at UC Berkeley, using fire, pepper spray, sticks, fists, and feet in a successful effort to silence Milo, I’ve now got a bit of the distance I need to comment on the event. My conclusion is a simple
Continue reading
After assaulting you for three days with the “American Studies” offerings from obscenely expensive liberal arts colleges, I thought I’d give you a palate cleanser. Here is the choice of required classes that a Hillsdale student must take in order to major in American History. (Yes, Hillsdale actually offers “American
Continue readingIt’s been pouring paying clients lately, which is a good thing but, as always, it cuts into my blogging time. I’ll skip the preliminaries and throw myself in the round-up. It’s a bad thing when our president is happy My Mom, in commenting on the state of the world today,
Continue readingWithout exception, all of the structural flaws VDH identifies in America’s higher education were already problems when I was at Berkeley, and they explain why I hated my experience at Berkeley so much. The only difference is that, back in the day, when I attended lectures given by bored tenured
Continue readingWhen I was at Cal, one of the great inconveniences was bomb threats against Sproul Hall, which was then (and I presume is now) Cal’s administrative building. From my point of view, the scenario was unchanging: I’d stand in an endless line in order to get or return some piece
Continue readingColorado State Rep. Joe Salazar’s ham-handed, even troglodyte, advice for campus women worried about rape came as no surprise to me. My experiences at UC Berkeley thirty-odd years ago left me fully prepared for this Leftist approach to females and true self-defense, an approach that hides both misogyny and an
Continue readingI didn’t enjoy my time at UC Berkeley. Even though I didn’t realize it at the time, already then I was fighting Marxist tropes so I found my classes nonsensical. This isn’t sour grapes speaking. Although I found the classes foolish, I still managed to graduate Phi Beta Kappa, etc.
Continue readingThe American Academy of Pediatrics has a plan. To protect your daughter from . . . you, it wants all girls who could be sexually active (that means every girl 10 or older) to have her own personal stash of “Plan B,” aka “the morning after pill: During Thanksgiving week
Continue readingThe other day, Zombie put up a post that resonated with me on more levels than you can imagine. It turns out that Zombie deciding to drop in on a lecture at UC Berkeley (my alma mater) to hear a lecture by an English as a Second Language, or ESL,
Continue readingSproul Hall houses UC Berkeley’s administration. Back in pre-computer days, when you wanted to get anything done (i.e., enroll in classes or get forms or whatever), you had to go to Sproul. The lines at Sproul were always ridiculously long and slow. Way too often, after I’d stood in line
Continue readingThe UC regents voted for a steep increase in tuition. Some have pointed to the unedifying spectacle of whining middle class students taking to the streets to protest the tuition increase, since they prefer to have California’s working class, most of whom will not attend the school, bear the financial
Continue readingI pretty much have no words for how much I hated UC Berkeley. And I see from Steve Crowder’s visit there that little has changed: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUybMMYmpxo[/youtube]
Continue reading