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Posted on November 24 at 4:19 p.m.
California is further crippling its own economy, today announcing a state cap and trade tax on energy production and consumption. This is while the ClimateGate story is breaking into the MSM, and our state unemployment rate has hit 12.5%. But I'm sure the majority of UC students and faculty believe in global warming and support carbon taxes, while their cars fill the parking lots at UC campuses.
Both Republicans and Democrats have systematically cut UC funding since the 1970s. It was Jerry Brown who said professors should accept the "psychic pay of working in California" in lieu of raises. Richard Polanco in the late 80s (Democrat Assemblyman) was hostile to funding "research" universities, and even introduced a bill mandating that UC must award degrees to students in proportion to representation of their race/ethnicity in the population (not just admit in proportion.) It was a Democrat, Vasconcellos who was the most hostile critic of building UC Merced. Republicans believe higher education is not a proper government function, but Democrats similarly oppose full funding of UC because they don't like the demographics of the students and faculty.
Posted on November 19 at 7:47 a.m.
If the Independent (who wrote this anyway) thinks Al Sharpton is an "education advocate" then we're finished.
"These children are not even taught English until the 3rd grade; "
Then the school is not dual-immersion.
Posted on November 9 at 6:58 a.m.
"If people truly want to be "culturally affirmative" and "anti-bias" they would call for the eradication of European language and return to the use of pre-Columbian languages"
This is actually being done at the LA Charter School, Academia Semillas del Pueblo Xinaxcalmecac . The Aztec language Nahuatl is taught along with Spanish. An LA talk radio show host (Doug McIntyre) tried to expose the anti-white racism and anti-Americanism at this school which led to lawsuits against KABC, and a physical attack on a KABC radio reporter by a school supporter. Here's an interview with the wack-job founder of Academia
http://tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/equalterms/di...
Like Cesar Chavez, Academia has extremely low test scores, but its charter has been repeatedly renewed.
Are local media being intimidated from really investigating Cesar Chavez School and Latino separatist organizations like PUEBLO and Casa De La Raza due to a fear of violence and lawsuits, as in the Academia/KABC case?
Posted on November 8 at 11:05 a.m.
"Even if you can do well on a rote, multiple-choice, white-oriented test, doesn't mean you can think."
"White-oriented" -- This is really sick. Students of Asian descent in California are doing better on "white-oriented" tests than whites, which is why they comprise 40% of University of California undergraduates. If knowing English vocabulary and being able to solve arithmetic problems is considered "white" we are really doomed.
We could make Spanish the official language of California and of higher education, and I bet students of Asian descent would still do far better academically than Whites or Latinos.
"You better believe that there will be an uprising if this charter does not get renewed"
There is always an undercurrent of violent threats in the demands for bilingual education and affirmative action. Translation, we are taking over and you better learn our language and give us preferences.
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Posted on November 5 at 8:07 p.m.
I think frankfrost perfectly illustrates the ugly side of our local progressive community, with his irrelevant (to the Travis Armstrong situation) rant about "angry white male losers." White males can do no right, unless they are self-hating progressives, and non-white males and/or females can do no wrong.
BTW frankfrost, you're supposed to use the diminutive coined by Houston Baker -- the "whitemale" next time you want to put the latter in their place.
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Posted on November 4 at 6:25 a.m.
"Seara noted that the letter City Hall sent out to many voters notifying them of signature problems was written only in English, and that many of the voters spoke only Spanish."
In order to vote, one must certify when registering that one is a US citizen. In order to become a citizen, you have to demonstrate a passable knowledge of English. PUEBLO believes illegal aliens should have driver's licenses and legal residency. Perhaps PUEBLO believes they should be able to vote too.
A real "Independent" newspaper would be investigating PUEBLO.
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Posted on November 3 at 7:25 a.m.
jcrdan -- you're exhibiting the wishful thinking of McCain/Bush Republicans about Hispanic values. You should take a look at the Telles and Ortiz study from UCLA -- it found that 3rd and 4th generation Latino immigrants supported racial preferences and bilingualism more strongly than the first generation. Further, educational performance improvement stalled out at the 3rd generation and assimilation was very weak even by the 4th.
If affirmative action/preferences and multiculturalism are now Republican values, there is no point in having two parties.
Lastly, your point about the "strong work ethic" among Hispanics is rather tiresome. Doing one's homework and studying also represent hard work -- by these criteria many Asian immigrants are working far harder than Hispanics. And we're not allowed to talk about the success of white immigrants due to their hard work, as all right-thinking (or Independent-thinking) people know their success is only due to their white privilege.
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Posted on November 3 at 7:15 a.m.
"Perhaps the Indy feels because the News-Press is so one-sided that you need to counter-balance them by being one-sided in the other direction."
Georgy nails it. The Independent may not like Wolfswinkel's big money, but there has to be an alternative to the noxious coalition of the racialist Left and dense-development, cheap labor-seeking big business interests that currently run this town.
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Posted on November 1 at 3:11 p.m.
I realize the interviews in the article "Voices rarely heard" were taken from a book, and not conducted by the Independent. But the intro is written by Independent staff, and the article is labeled as a "Cover Story" and not as opinion.
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Posted on November 24 at 5:32 p.m.
"If there is such a problem with socialism, why are Switzerland, Germany, and Canada (all socialists) in a much better shape than the US?"
Canada does not hesitate to use its own natural resources including timber and shale oil, despite the environmental platitudes from its politicians. Furthermore, Canada's immigration policy, unlike the U.S. is based on a points system which favors skills and education, rather than blood relations. Finally, mortgage interest is not tax deductible in Canada, and its banks were not forced to make insane zero-down loans. For all these reasons Canada's economy has withstood the global meltdown fairly well.
The top five most prosperous and democratic nations according to the Legatum 2009 Prosperity Index are Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway and Denmark. Unlike the U.S., these countries are highly homogeneous ethnically. Thus, their populations are willing to fund higher levels of health care and education without viewing these expenditures as taking from one ethnicity and giving to another.
In contrast, California's high levels of immigration coupled with multiculturalism as government policy has led to a multi-sided ethnic/racial conflict in which government services are seen as redistribution from one ethnicity to another.
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