When compassion for lovely human beings and the law criss-cross –as they do in all sanctuary cities – do your heart and your need for law-and-order proceed in the same direction. When the concept of sanctuary cities bobbed up a few years ago, only those perceived as heartless raised their voices. We were shown photos of wretched-looking immigrants. Desperately huddled … Read More
Group Hopes to Make ‘Sanctuary City’ Official
The best organized attempt yet to formally identify Culver City to all America as a sanctuary city is expected to be presented early in Monday evening’s 7 o’clock City Council meeting. A group of unknown size calling itself the Culver City Action Network dispatched a 1200-word letter — obtained by the newspaper – to Council members. While it is likely … Read More
Day Obama Threw Cuban Escapees into the Sea
Cuban escapees no longer welcome here
Now serving a fresh dollop of A-1 evidence that the nationwide anti-President Trump protests are as phony as Confederate money. Ain’t no hypocrites here, eh Barack? Saving one of his slimiest moves for the end, on Jan. 12, with 8 days left in his term, President Obama quietly issued a stunning administrative order that reversed a 20-year Clinton era policy. … Read More
How Different Are Palestinians and Dems in Congress?
Jerusalem is the capital, not Tel Aviv where virtually all embassies are.
The problem with normal people sitting in a body of lawmakers alongside Democrats is that Democrats, unbelievably, are equally outraged over a terror attack in Orlando and a banana falling to the floor. How can you create a productive work environment when half of the room holds that an impatient driver honking his horn and a terrorist merit identical punishment? … Read More
I Wish You Had Known Schwartzie
Schwartzie.
One of the most magical Jews in the history of Los Angeles died yesterday. He was mature enough to die. He seemed so invulnerable, though — didn’t he? — that you assumed he probably never would be nifter, as Jews say. His legacy is made of gold: Husband of two, father of 12, grandfather of 50. His family yesterday was … Read More
She Has More Money Than We Have – Inherited, Too. Ugh
Lily Eskelsen García (NEA)
Life should be even more fun after Betsy DeVos’s confirmation yesterday as Education Secretary than it was when the envious Jenny Craig dropouts applied their considerable bulk to a doomed attempt to derail the eminently qualified lady. They lost yesterday’s vote even though they spent zillions to trick Republican senators into rejecting Ms. DeVos. My question: What are the red-faced … Read More
‘Purely by Chance,’ Azran Says of Culver City
Mr. Azran
Seventh in a series. Re: “Azran’s Way of Saying Thank You” How do you build a sparkling three-decade career with the Culver City Police Dept.? “I landed here purely by chance,” says 50-year-old Valley boy Allen Azran, who retired recently as the acting assistant police chief. “I was chomping at the bit to become a police officer,” he says. “Soon … Read More
School Board Benefits for an Extra Year
Dr. Arnold
Second in a series. Re: “Every School Board Member Wins Extra Year” When the terms of members of the Culver City School Board and all school boards throughout the state recently were extended by a year to conform with the election cycle, Supt. Josh Arnold was asked if it would make a difference, psychologically or otherwise, in the full picture. … Read More
Shut Windows Fast. Climate May (Not?) Change
This essay is dedicated to the last two Muslims in Yemen (abandoned because they walked too slowly), to the four angry Muslims landing in Chicago, enraged because their photo was not taken with a lookalike relative, and to the 154 million Muslims who have arrived in the U.S. since the travel ban was suspended: Like many of the street ladies … Read More
Singing and Dancing to Escape a Flying Ashtray
John Cassese, The Dance Doctor
Sixth in a series. Re: “Cassese: How to Succeed by Really Trying” In a memorable scene from John Cassese’s video biography that he hopes grows into a commercial film, this youngest of five sons is 12 years old and innocently toiling at an ironing board. Suddenly, his angry, drinking father, who never needed provocation, winds up and fires an ashtray … Read More