So California is in the middle of a fiscal crisis–a budget deficit of perhaps $3 billion, pleas that it may need a loan-package rescue from Washington, D.C.–and a handful of UC professors are whining about cuts to something called the Miguel Contreras Labor Program: “it threatens academic freedom by singling out, without any academic review, one program within UC for elimination. … We see this as unwarranted political interference.”

Oh, give me a break. The UC system is lucky that only one program was singled out, because Sacramento should bring an axe to its next higher-ed budget meeting. I say this as a federal taxpayer who isn’t too keen on Congress approving a bailout deal for California, simply so that it can keep the lights on at the Miguel Contreras Labor Program.

(Hat tip: CHE)