In defense of Culver City’s three-week-old status as a sanctuary city, Mayor Jim Clarke issued a statement over the weekend that will be familiar to advocates and opponents.   “Culver City is a City of Kindness, and our City Council has affirmed this with the adoption of our Sanctuary City Resolution.   “Media outlets recently reported about a section in … Read More

As the single dissenting vote on Tuesday evening’s City Council approval of a polystyrene ban for restaurants, Thomas Small, congenial environmentalist, wants this much known:   “I don’t really have any objection to the ordinance as it is. The ordinance is just fine.”   Mr. Small explained the evolution of his vote.   As happens commonly at Council meetings when … Read More

On the day after President Trump ordered his second Middle East bombing in a week, the gap between his towering resolve and former President Obama’s crawling cowardice has widened to the moon.   Buttressing Mr. Trump’s favorite assertion, that 98 percent of journalists purvey fake (anti-Republican) news, irresistible proof lies in the way the media treats each one.     … Read More

Emerging late last evening from two days of religious seclusion for the start of Passover has been exhilarating.   If you ever participated in a religious or business retreat, you have tasted one transitory drop of our miraculous immersion in the sui generis regality of Jewish tradition.   For the first 48 hours of the seven-day Passover holiday – from … Read More

Three days before Easter Sunday, Christian environmentalists will have  fresh reason for joy:   Tuesday evening’s expected – but never guaranteed – passage  of an ordinance that later this year will forbid Culver City restaurants from using Styrofoam containers.   The 4-1 vote by the City Council – with Thomas Small dissenting — will be explained momentarily.   Eight months … Read More

Second of two parts Re “Why Eriksson Is Celebrating – Litter-ally”   “We are on our way, but we still are lagging behind many other communities” – Goran Eriksson   This evening’s 7 o’clock City Council is supposed to be on the outlawing of polystyrene containers by Culver City restaurants. Begging people’s pardon, Councilman Goran Eriksson says that “the big … Read More

President Trump’s brilliant stroke against Caveman Assad’s Syria last Thursday not only sent a reassuring message to the civilized world, and our too-comfortable enemies, but obliterated B. Hussein Obama’s sissy foreign policy. Four years ago when Caveman Assad laughed and stomped across B. Hussein’s fake red line on use of chemical weapons against his own people, B. Hussein quivered, sank … Read More

[Editor’s Note: In deference to Passover, which begins tonight and continues through Tuesday of next week, this week’s City Council meeting has been shifted to tomorrow evening at 7 o’clock.]   This month Thomas Small and Goran Eriksson both turn 1 year old. Beginning with Tuesday evening’s 7 o’clock City Council meeting, Messrs. Eriksson and Small will be rounding out … Read More

By most yardsticks, President Trump’s missile strike on Syria last Thursday was a bullseye. Although America’s allies heartily commended President Trump’s retaliatory missile strike on Syria, U.S. Rep. Karen Bass (D-Culver City/Crenshaw District) disagreed. In a sharply partisan gesture, she joined fellow leftists in sternly criticizing the president. Ms. Bass felt snubbed. “The Constitution is clear,” said Ms. Bass about … Read More