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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

How often has somebody said something to you that rubs you the wrong way? What have you done about it? I’ll tell you what my wife and I do about it. And it works for us. Maybe it can work for you, too. Here is a scenario: Wife: “How about we work on the house today?” Husband: [Thinking: “Oh, my … Read More

Dateline Jerusalem – “Adir, Adir, Adir,” shop owners and customers cried out enthusiastically as they ran outside to watch the glorious Israeli Adir F-35I stealth fighter. The jet was flying low in the clear blue skies above us in an area just outside my city. I actually got goose bumps on my arms as the jet whizzed by and seemed … 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

On this next to last evening of the Boulevard Music Summer Music Festival, Led Zeppelin rides again.  Thirty-seven seasons after the group was dissolved, “classic rock done acoustic with string quartet by Led Zepagain,” Led Zeppelin sounds will ripple across the comfortable Dale Jones Courtyard at City Hall. At 7 o’clock, producer Gary Mandell will step on stage. Before another … 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