The trashing of Mayor Liccardo's home in August by protestors was caught on video. And guess what? It's three months later, and nobody has been charged. But don't be surprised: Brazen intimidation of politicians isn't unique to Santa Clara County, as the Washington Free Beacon reports (week of November 11).

The government’s power to take private property for purportedly "public" good is vast, and leads to gross inefficiencies. Mix that in with govt's penchant for overpriced affordable housing boondoggles, and you get a perfect witches' brew. Nextcity.org reports from the Southland.

As the City of San Jose kicks off its racial sensitivity training programs, we look to Robby Soave at Reason magazine to provide a quick lesson on understanding the vocabulary of the movement.

Our local economy continues to become even more like an hourglass--rich people on top, poorer people on the bottom, and nobody in the middle. Joel Kotkin explores the roots of this development in National Review.

Since the 1930s, civils rights litigation and legislation has gone a long way to providing equal opportunity in voting, business, schools, transportation, and employment. But there's a place they missed: our neighborhoods. Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law, explains in Reason magazine.

Spending goes up. Test scores go down. California's attempts to track what happens in the bottomless pit of education management gets a harsh review from the San Jose Mercury News editorial board.

Atari goes bust. Netscape tanks. The Newton wouldn't sell. Is it such a bad thing? Deidre McCloskey explores the upside of free-market competition in her review of Capitalism in America, by Alan Greenspan and Adrian Woolridge, in the Claremont Review of Books.