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The New Caste System: California’s LGBTBE Program Rewards Identity Over Merit

June 20, 2026 6:40 amJune 20, 2026 11:29 pm

I arrived in California in 1990, when the government was functioning and the mood was upbeat. Thirty-five years later I’m still here, watching Sacramento systematically dismantle the institutional infrastructure that made the state worth staying in. The latest example is...

Pacific Legal Settles Lawsuit Over UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Race-Based Internship Program

June 19, 2026 6:30 amJune 19, 2026 8:14 am

The UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital had a longstanding high school internship program called CHAMPS that tried to make whites into chumps. In a blatant violation of Proposition 209 and federal civil rights laws, the program for minorities interested in healthcare...

UC STEM Professors Demand SAT/ACT Return After Failed “Equity” Experiment

June 1, 2026 2:36 pmJune 1, 2026 2:36 pm

More than 800 University of California faculty members, including a majority of mathematics department chairs across the UC system, have signed an open letter (see below) to the UC Board of Regents, UC Office of the President, Academic Senate leadership,...

ACA 7 Aims to Authorize Race Discrimination in K-12 Gifted Programs & College Financial Aid

February 17, 2026 5:30 amFebruary 17, 2026 5:31 am

In 1996, California voters passed Proposition 209, which amended the California Constitution to ban racial preferences and race-based affirmative action. However, the proponents of race-based affirmative action spent the next 20 years scheming on other ways to circumvent the law....

San Francisco Reparations: Will Mayor Lurie Veto this Unconstitutional and Illegitimate Scheme?

December 24, 2025 2:03 pmDecember 24, 2025 2:03 pm

After last week’s near unanimous approval by San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors (our 11-member City Council) to establish a “fund” to accept and distribute so-called Reparations to qualified city recipients, will Mayor Daniel Lurie veto it? In July 2023, San...

Legal Advocacy Stops a Racially Exclusionary Scholarship at UC San Diego

October 30, 2025 2:06 pmOctober 30, 2025 2:06 pm

Wenyuan Wu In the case of a joint legal challenge to halt the Black Alumni Scholarship Fund, a 42-year-old program at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the wheels of justice turned quickly. Almost immediately after our lawsuit Californians...

Greenberg: Seven times Newsom Crushed Voters’ Will

October 22, 2025 2:45 amOctober 22, 2025 2:46 am

Governor Newsom portrays himself a “progressive champion,” yet his tenure reveals a disturbing pattern of executive overreach that undermines the democratic will of our state’s voters. Promising bold leadership, he has instead prioritized personal ideology over ballot-box mandates, overriding voter-approved...