It was an all too familiar story that appeared in Monday's Sacramento Bee which explored the reasons why Child Protective Services decided to return a child to her parents, despite all common sense an ...

The End of the Road for David Crane - the Would-Be UC Regent One thing that has become clear in the aftermath of the pepper-spraying incident at UC Davis is the need for new voices on the UC Board of ...

The long-time-in-the-making Justice Department report does not just implicate Sheriff Joe Arpaio, it eviscerates him with the force of which we have rarely seen in modern times.  The word this week is ...

By E. Roberts Musser The TSA is at it again, still engaging in "gate-rape" of the elderly.  The following are the most recent examples: Inspectors pulled aside Ruth Sherman, age 88, to ask her about t ...

To say that, to many on the left, the first term of Barack Obama's presidency has been a profound disappointment is an understatement. While a victim, to some extent, of the realities of his times, Pr ...

In his column this week, Willie Brown, the former Speaker and former Mayor of San Francisco argues, "If the Occupy people really want to make a point about the 1 percent, then lay off Oakland and go f ...

This started out as a small column for the off-topic column, but after some reflection I realized I needed to make a broader point here.  Illegal immigration is far more than just another flash point ...

UC - Legislature Starting to Get the Message While this will probably not go down as a great week for either UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi or the State Legislature, there are signs that the message ...

The Occupy Woodland event from earlier this week triggered some interesting discussions.  Unfortunately, it appears a lengthy discussion on Supervisor Matt Rexroad's page has been removed so we cannot ...

With only a small contingent of protesters and their star, Cindy Sheehan, home with a migraine, the small but enduring Occupy Woodland group made a noticeable impact as they protested in front of Chas ...

Last week the Vanguard ran a piece that covered an op-ed by Daniel Filler who argues that the tactics used against the UCD protesters were typical of police tactics used against minorities.  Mr. Fille ...

UCD Academic Senate Commends Student Body According to a release from the UC Davis News Service, The Academic Senate's Representative Assembly took up only one proposal on Dec. 2, voting unanimous app ...

Jon Stewart Compares Linda Katehi to Hitler As the Sacramento Bee's Stuart Leavenworth notes, "[John] Stewart has remained remarkably steady. In my mind, there's never been a comedic talent as consist ...

The Vanguard is off for the next four days, taking its annual Thanksgiving vacation.  We plan to return on Monday, barring some unforeseen major events in the coming days. We also will have a major ne ...

In a decision viewed as a major victory for opponents of same sex marriage, the California Supreme Court granted the proponents of the ballot initiative standing to defend measures in court when the g ...

By E. Roberts Musser As an alumnus of Penn State University, I was shocked and appalled by the child sex abuse scandal that has unfolded there in recent days.  However, I was not all that surprised.  ...

The ACLU of Northern California and the National Lawyers' Guild filed a lawsuit Monday in federal court against the Oakland Police Department for what they are calling "its egregious constitutional vi ...

On Thursday night, the Vanguard had 285 people show up to our wildly successful event.  Despite that showing, we had a massive amount of leftover food that we could not store.  So my wife decided it w ...

"Welcome to the occupation.  Here we stand and here we fight, all your fallen heroes.  Held and dyed and skinned alive, listen to the Congress fire," sang REM back in 1987 in words that probably reson ...