Re “Silence Is Oily at City Hall” Speaking of oil, that may have been a slick move Sentinel Peak Resources engineered a month ago. When the boss of the Inglewood Oil Field backed out of a community debate over new rules governing the field, they saved money at least. Councilman Jim Clarke has been poring over the rules and the … Read More

Since 81 percent of non-serious, non-qualified students on Cal State’s 23 campuses fail – that is the operative term – to graduate, the wise semi-educators decided to dumb down the system. Subtract requirements and artificially crank up the number of uneducated, unqualified students with degrees. Remedial math and English classes for, uh, unqualified students is hereby killed because the classes … Read More

The City Council has pressed the Pause button on strengthening rules governing Culver City’s one-tenth of the yawning Inglewood Oil Field. As for the Oil Field Subcommittee of Meghan Sahli-Wells and Jim Clarke, what are they talking about since Sentinel Peak Resources walked from negotiations last month? “Nada,” said Mr. Clarke. “We are just waiting for the consultant to finish … Read More

Between tears, the weepy headline in the always- sympathetic Los Angeles Times read: “Man, in U.S. illegally, was arrested after dropping off a daughter at school.” “Dropping off a daughter” is a liberal newspaper’s calculated way of compelling you to sink to your knees in abject pity for this sneak criminal. Romulo Avelica-Gonzales, 49- year-old father of two, could be … Read More

Imagine the Dodgers winning nine consecutive World Series, and then a pipsqueak sportswriter asks why they have a second baseman who hits only .290 rather than .300. An exactly analogous scene unraveled – not just unfolded – the other day on the annual press tour of networks when the boys and girls stopped at CBS. We are told that CBS, … Read More

The always colorful liberals of Hollywood are off their drug-recovery meds. Again. Ecstatic liberal bean-counters threw their diapers in the air last month when Actors’ Equity honored the play “Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812” for its “extraordinary excellence in diversity on Broadway.” And then reliable liberal racism stepped in. Since last winter, “The Big Comet” had been … Read More

Too bad that so-called “Sentinel Peak Resources,” the farce of an oil company that runs the Inglewood Oil Field, wasn’t around when “Laugh-In” was hot. Sentinel’s repeated evasions remind me of a dozen years ago when I used to joke with retiring Police Chief Ted Cooke about diving under the desk when I dialed him. Sentinel has mastered the questionable … Read More

Third in a series   Re “Finding, Counting Homeless Is Complicated” Like housed people, Tevis Barnes was saying, “those who are homeless have the same basic desires. They want to sleep in a nice, quiet neighborhood like everybody else. “They wait for everyone else to go to sleep. Or to go away.” Routinely the homeless hide, said Culver City’s Housing … Read More

Do you think it is blind coincidence that two absurd California imams – distant from urban settings — on the same day last month, urged their followers to annihilate all Jews? Next question: How soon will be the twin theological thugs be offered writing gigs by the anti-religious Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles? By lunch? Dinner? The two Islamic … Read More

Third in a series Re “How Sentinel Pullout Was Good News” After declaring that the end game at the Inglewood Oil Field is not to be extracting any so-called black gold from the ground, Vice Mayor Thomas Small shifted to a thornier calculation: Explaining how last month’s withdrawal by Sentinel Peak Resources from an oil field rules debate with the … Read More