Education

By PLACER COUNTY ONLINE As California higher education institutes continue to raise tuition, a small but robust private Christian liberal arts college in Rocklin has managed to decrease its fees while adding academic programs and a woman’s softball team. As a result, enrollment at William Jessup University is up more than 50 percent in...

In 2003, when President Bush unleashed the Gods of War on Iraq, he had first obtained clear and overwhelming consent from the U.S. Congress - Democrats included. You can disagree with his reasons for going there, but you cannot disagree that he didn't...

Our Dear Leader was talking the other day to some of the Democrat party faithful. While he has to know that his soaring, yet empty, rhetoric no longer dazzles the disgruntled independents out there who voted for him but now wish they hadn't, he appare...

The state's chronic recession and budget crisis appear to be having a major impact on the financial health of the state's school districts. While the number of districts and other educational agencies on the state's list of those unable to meet their ...

So the Obama administration is enthusiastically working out a deal with Brazil to buy oil from that country. Seems like a smart move, right? I mean, after all, just listen to the sales pitch that the president of Brazil puts forward as the reasons tha...

Heh.After being open for only a year, Barack Obama Elementary School in Asbury Park, New Jersey is being closed."If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was, and never will be." -Thomas Jefferson

Two interesting actions have come to light this week in which our overlords in Washington D.C. are attempting to use the power of the federal government to intervene in something that should have nothing to do with the federal government.First action: ...

FROM REPORTS William Jessup University and the Sierra College Foundation are asking for donated laptops to support a new program called “Fostering Care in Education” and designed to assist former foster youth.   More than 150 students who have aged out of the foster care system are currently attending Sierra College. The two Rocklin-based...

The NFL is currently undergoing labor negotiations between players and owners. In truth, I don't really give a rip about the NFL or any other professional sports. If all professional sports were ended tomorrow, it wouldn't bother me all that much. I...

There were and are many things I did not like about George W. Bush, but one line of his that I always thought was spot-on was his description of that other kind of expression of racism which he called the "soft bigotry of low expectations."He mostly us...