The left’s perpetual campaign to ignite a phony race war has warmed up again, on schedule, with the issuance of the annual We Are Victims of Racist Cops report. The boys and girls on the left actually believe CNN. This is why they never tire of fake weeping over fake data. As you know, cops across our country gun hourly … Read More

Third in a series   Re “Culver City’s Romantic, Historic New Link”   Raving about the Aeolian Islands off the coast of Sicily when an official Culver City delegation visited in May, Vice Mayor Thomas Small painted an irresistible portrait,   “When we visited the islands we stayed in the home of one of our colleagues, a City Councilman from … Read More

Second of two parts   Re “Choosing Lockhart an Inspired Move” This is a favorite day of the summertime week at busy LaBallona Elementary, notes Interim Supt. Leslie Lockhart. A farmers market – from 12 noon to 1 o’clock — has been added to the heavily subscribed Summer Lunch (11:30-1:30) program introduced four years ago by former Supt. David LaRose. … Read More

Tomorrow would have been the 60th birthday of my kid sister, but she missed by a few years. No one knows why she died when she did, especially medical professionals. Severe depression was the majority conclusion. She was physically different from all of her peers. While that was not unusual among her six siblings, all seven of the children were … Read More

Re “God and Parents Made Forte the Right Choice”   In 1966, when native Texan James Forte, who is black, sought to join the all-white Culver City Police Dept. via a pass-fail test, he was told, to his surprise, he had failed. While he was certain he had passed, he swallowed. “They advised me of what I needed to study … Read More

On America’s 241st birthday, apparently celebrated by only half of the country, we struggle with two gigantic, ankle-rattling first-time forces: The kind of president America never has seen A single-cell lockstep media last detected crawling across the Soviet Union in 1987 after President Reagan demanded, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that (Berlin) wall.” Four days before the lockstep media marks the … Read More

First of two parts For an opening act, the well-liked Leslie Lockhart stepped into a sprawling lawn of sticky grass. Unceremoniously, the School Board had just unceremoniously dumped a popular superintendent, Josh Arnold,  before the end of the first year of his three-year contract. The fire bell rang for Ms. Lockhart, a two-decade veteran of the School District, to serve … Read More

Third in a series   “This should be seen as an observation rather than a criticism,” said one of the two former elected officials who have been evaluating the City Council for the past two weeks. “I have not seen what I would call a real leader,” she said, “someone with the power of persuasion to move a discussion in … Read More