The most interesting headline from yesterday’s countywide election was: Mayor Garcetti skated to an 81 percent victory over 10 opponents whose vote total would not have added up to a candy bar purchase? Measure S’s onesided defeat, which cast a pall over worried residents of South Central while thrilling unrestrained developers? Measure H’s required barely two-thirds victory in a tax … Read More
Not Even One Dent in Obama’s Armored Suit
Mr. Obama …
Purely innocent thoughts are ambling through my mind on a languorous but political morning after Election Day: Speaking of narcissistic presidents covered with thin, almost see-through, skin and outsized egos, only one mug comes to mind. During the slightly rigged campaign of 2012, Mr. Obama’s shameless post-Benghazi motto was, “whatever it takes to get me re-elected.” This included repeatedly lying … Read More
Clarke Not a Cinch Yes Vote on Sanctuary Status
Normally, City Hall staffers prepare heavily political ordinances that the City Council considers and votes on. This time it is different. The City Attorney’s office is preparing the sanctuary city document that the City Council will study, absorb and vote on at its March 27 meeting. Mayor Jim Clarke, among other leaders, says that Culver City already is conducting business … Read More
McVarish Explains Why He Is Not Running
The four remaining members of the School Board will not have to surrender much of their precious time deciding on a fifth member. Following last week’s resignation announcement by Board President Sue Robins, there has been something less than an avalanche of applications. With merely a week and a half window for candidates to beat Friday afternoon’s deadline, School District … Read More
Racism Today, Racism Tomorrow, Racism Forever
Mr. Coates
Everyone capable of gripping a pencil with a maximum of one hand and capable of requiring fewer than two syllables to pronounce d-o-g, agrees that racism in America has shrunk to infinitesimal levels. A magnifying glass is needed to identify it. Except among our liberal friends. Routinely, liberals contend contemporary racism is scarcely has retreated since the mid-19th century, that … Read More
Now Small Has Clarity on Sanctuary Bid
Thomas Small
Re “Small’s Intellectual Approach to Sanctuary Cities” On the matter of becoming a sanctuary city, which the City Council will decide at the end of this month, Councilman Thomas Small said a recent meeting with two Northern California state legislators provided lasting clarification for him. After speaking with Assemblymen Rob Bonta of Alameda and Evan Low of Oakland, “it clarified … Read More
Open-and-Shut Penny ‘Probe’ of Obama’s Tap Role
Mr. Obama can’t take his eyes off Mr. Trump – or can he?
Since Barack Obama’s greasy Organizing for Action group jerked the trigger on last month’s mudslide of phony protests – nationwide — at town hall meetings of Republican legislators, it is entirely logical for President Trump to suspect the shadowy ex-president of wiretapping at Mr. Trump’s Trump Tower headquarters. Especially in view of Mr. Obama’s teeth-baring hatred of the president, here … Read More
Deport-crazy Senator Blames Trump for Obama Order
Mr. de Leon
When his almost-toupee starts to lift above his scalp, you know that Kev de Leon, liberal Democrat, is descending into molten lava again. Despite his boyish looks, Mr. de Leon is old enough to have lived through the Obama administration – a historical fact to tuck away for a moment. Last Monday, Mr. de Leon, president pro tem of the … Read More
How Trump Changed Minds on a Night to Remember
Ryan Owens
Slowly but promisingly, President Trump’s magnificently crafted and spoken address to Congress two nights ago may be bringing around some of his most resolute rivals. The happiest and perhaps most revelatory headline in any newspaper this morning decorated the lead story in the leftist USA Today: “Trump inspires Dow to 21,000” Given the millions of buckets of emotional blood that … Read More
Measure S: S Is for Scintillating? Or It Sucks?
Mayor Garcetti
Measure S – restricting development all over Los Angeles, especially in South Central where residents are frantic — is the most confounding, intriguing line on Tuesday’s countywide election ballot. The partisan skies are heavy with clouds. The business community and its high-profile backers say they need more elbow room with where they can go and when. Middle-class residents, especially south … Read More