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Analysis and Commentary

The New Rules of Engagement

by Philip Bobbittvia Newsweek
Monday, January 11, 2010

Nine imperatives for our post-9/11 world. . . .

In the News

RNC chair Michael Steele to hit Bay Area's Hoover Institution Tuesday

with Michael J. Boskin, John F. Cogan, Hoover Institution, Condoleezza Rice, George P. Shultz, John B. Taylor, Bill Whalenvia San Francisco Chronicle
Monday, January 11, 2010

RNC chairman Michael Steele has been in the news plenty this month -- and now he will be in the Bay Area Tuesday to sit down with fellows at the Hoover Institution, the leading conservative think tank. . . .

Analysis and Commentary

Eureka! Why don't we take over Nevada?

by Bill Whalenvia Los Angeles Times
Sunday, January 10, 2010

And other outside-the-box ideas to regild the Golden State. . . .

Analysis and Commentary

Union Attacks Bill Evers for Encouraging "Best-in-the-World" Math

by Williamson M. Eversvia Ed Policy
Sunday, January 10, 2010

The teachers' union in Capistrano Unified attacks me for encouraging the district to consider Singapore Math instead of a business-as-usual math textbook series. . . .

Analysis and Commentary

Mad Money for California: Annex Nevada, Bankroll Cameron, etc.

by Bill Whalenvia Bill Whalen: Politi-Cal
Sunday, January 10, 2010

I have an op-ed in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times, suggesting some “creative” ways for California to raise some badly needed revenue. . . .

Analysis and Commentary

Stacking the Deck Against Proposition 8

by Edwin Meese IIIvia New York Times
Sunday, January 10, 2010

THE much-anticipated trial to determine the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8 is scheduled to begin this morning in the case of Perry v. Schwarzenegger. . . .

Analysis and Commentary

Campbell Senate Switch-a-roo. Is It Soup Yet?

by Bill Whalenvia Bill Whalen: Politi-Cal
Friday, January 8, 2010

Two California political stories that won’t go away: will any Democrat try to get between Jerry Brown and his party’s nomination for governor. . . .

Analysis and Commentary

Hell No, We Won't Pay!

by Peter M. Robinsonvia Forbes
Friday, January 8, 2010

The New Yorker has chosen to welcome the new decade by publishing an obituary: 45 years after the founding of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, the magazine lets us know in its Jan. 4 issue, the campus protest movement is dead. . . .

In the News

Governor's call for giving colleges priority over prisons faces hard political tests

with Thad Kousservia Los Angeles Times
Thursday, January 7, 2010

At the center of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's State of the State speech Wednesday was a proposal that outside of Sacramento might seem like common sense: Mandate that the state invest more dollars each year in its public universities than in locking people up in prison. . . .

Analysis and Commentary

See Jane Run?

by Bill Whalenvia Bill Whalen: Politi-Cal
Thursday, January 7, 2010

How’s this for a surprise entry in the California governor’s race. . . .

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