Our students deserve better. In 2010, the LUSD Board of Trustees raised class sizes for our students in kindergarten through 12th grade. It was done, ostensibly, as a cost savings measure, but also to put pressure on employees to concede to dramatic salary concessions.

In a recent article, a writer extolled the oil companies for reducing the price of gas. The main reasons were the completion of switching over to summer blend, the price of a barrel of oil is now $88, the demand for oil in China was not what it was expected to be and the usage of gas in the United States is down because of the buying of lower mileage cars and reduced driving.

During a recent BBC News interview, a retired U.S. general was asked if he felt the U.S. is still at war and with whom. His answer hurt: "Yes, and it's a war we, our kids and grandkids will not see the end of."

In reading comments from my leftist friends, I find that they consistently call the Tea Party a group solely formed as a reaction to having, as one put it, "a black socialist president." As usual they see the color, ethnicity or faith in a person first in describing them. It doesn't matter what he looks like; it's his policies that are abhorrent.

This is to the two women in the red car who broke into my son's home and stole my granddaughters' laptops, jewelry left to them from their great-grandmother who passed a year ago, their Wii and many games, the rent and food money their father had supposedly hidden but was found by these two women, and much, much more.

What judgment will history record for this generation? I hope there is time for vindication.

I believe that a newspaper should carry balanced reporting. That way we can be aware of what the enemy is doing. The Creators Syndicate columns carried in the Lodi News-Sentinel is an example of that premise. They have conservative writers such as John Stossel and Thomas Sowell. Other writers endorse everything Obama says. Higher taxes, more government agencies, more welfare programs — they're all for it.

I would like to point out an "inconvenient truth" — that the Second Amendment was not put in the Constitution to protect your right to hunt, sport shoot or for personal protection. It was put there to protect the people from the tyranny of the government.

Well, our wonderful, Democrat-dominated Assembly has passed out of committee AB 1266. Heard of it?