Few American institutions have worked longer, harder, more effectively and more articulately than the Claremont Institute at recovering and reviving understanding of the principles of the American Founding – which are now under more concerted and intense attack than anytime in memory. This Saturday, the Claremont Institute invites all to its annual Constitution Day Celebration at Chapman University, under the ...

[In an op-ed that originally appeared in the OC Register on August 25, Chapman University scholar and demographer Joel Kotkin and co-athor Doug Havard provide trenchant insights into how the education establishment’s hostility to charter schools and increased emphasis on political indoctrination (e.g. the ethnic studies curriculum) is most harmful to those students and families these social justice warriors purport ...

District 3 Councilman Jose F, Moreno is at it again – assuming the worst about the fallen with whom he shares the council dais. In yesterday’s LA Times, Moreno besmirches the motivations of Mayor Sidhu and several of his council colleagues: Jose Moreno has expressed concern that Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu is the council’s lone representative on the city’s negotiating ...

  The next Anaheim City Council Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, August 27th. The meeting usually begins at 5:00 pm at City Hall (200 S. Anaheim Blvd, Anaheim, CA 92805).  The meeting will include a public hearing to determine if the emergency ordinance banning the establishment of needle exchange programs within the city should be extended. City Staff is recommending ...

A staple of Councilman Jose F. Moreno’s Facebook feed are posts celebrating radicals or laser-focused on the darker aspects of American history – to which he often adds the observation “History. Matters.” On Friday, he posted this: Why is Moreno commemorating Huey Newton, a socialist revolutionary and founder and leader of the Black Panther Party, whose motto was “by any ...

The August 20 Voice of OC headline blares: “Anaheim Mayor Sidhu Pays Off 2016 Assembly Debt by Fundraising While Mayor” Yes – Harry Sidhu has been raising money to eliminate campaign debt left over from his 2016 Assembly race. Yes – he is currently the mayor of Anaheim. But how is that newsworthy? The article lede: “Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu ...

[This op-ed originally appeared in the OC Register on August 22, 2019] We have a once-in-a-generation chance to build on the legacy of baseball in Anaheim. As we set out on talks with the Angels on a new stadium lease, we can forge a better deal for our residents while also improving what is great about having baseball in Anaheim. ...

From Supervisor Don Wagner’s office: Under the direction of Supervisor Donald P. Wagner, the Transportation Corridor Authority (TCA) and Caltrans will immediately begin weed abatement work to reduce wildfire risks along the 241, 261, 73 and 133 Toll Roads. The brittle overgrowth blanketing our Third District hillsides must be removed before the onset of the fire-carrying, seasonal Santa Ana winds. ...

Online fundraising drives have been mounted in the names of at least two of the four victims of last week’s murderous rampage by ex-convict Zachary Castaneda. Helmuth Hauprich, 62, and Gerardo Fresnares Beltran, 63, were roommates in the apartment next to Castaneda. Hauprich was an immigrant from Romania and had lived in the Garden Grove apartment complex for 20 years. ...

Former U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once wrote critically about “a political culture that rewarded the articulation of moral purpose more than the achievement of practical good.” There’s certainly a lot of that going around the progressive precincts of Anaheim politics. This thoughtful essay by public policy scholar Stephen Eide – which originally appeared in the OC Register on August ...