OP-ED Articles

Culver City High School has been named one of 275 California Gold Ribbon schools. The school’s Academy of Visual and Performing Arts also recognized as a Gold Ribbon Exemplary Arts Program – one of only 17 in the entire state of California. AVPA has been an innovative program since 1996. AVPA highlights video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SirgSuFOnr0 “School offerings outside of core academic … Read More

In the midst of an active shooter situation, we have tips for how to judge breaking news. We need similar tips to manage anti-Trump breaking news.   On May 10, the Washington Post‘s Philip Rucker, Ashley Parker, Sari Horwitz, and Robert Costa claimed: [Deputy Attorney General Rod J.] Rosenstein threatened to resign after the narrative emerging from the White House … Read More

Dateline Dayton —  Here is a partial list of my pet peeves: Drivers Don’t look when backing up – worst at the Post Office and grocery. Don’t stop when they see someone is backing out of a parking spot. Going at a slow speed in the fast lane. Sitting at a four-way stop. Waiting for the light to change? Don’t … Read More

For the last seven years, most of the 14 Republicans representing parts of California in Congress railed against Obamacare, high corporate taxes and illegal immigration. But that was mere chatter. So long as a Democrat was president, nothing new was going to happen. Even though Obamacare policy holders, illegal immigrants and poor people abound in many of their districts, their … Read More

Dateline Dayton — Last Sunday afternoon, there was a horrible accident on Interstate 75, in downtown Dayton.  A wrong-way car ran into a gasoline tanker truck, killing the driver.  The explosion damaged numerous nearby cars and closed the interstate. Thanks to state-owned cameras, there is a clear picture  of the car going in the wrong direction, the impact and explosion. … Read More

Few California senators of the last 50 years have been more active than the Dianne Feinstein of early 2017. That’s important mostly because of Ms. Feinstein’s age – despite her dark hair, she will be 85 next November, when she may seek a fifth full term and sixth term overall. For sure, vultures are waiting in the wings for Ms. … Read More

L.A. Watchdog — Mayor Garcetti and the City Council have convinced themselves that the proposed 2017-18 budget is a “fiscally responsible spending plan” that supports the mayor’s Back to Basics priority goals:   A safe, prosperous, livable, sustainable and well run city looking to fulfill its destiny as a world-class city. But the Los Angeles Times does not buy into … Read More

Dateline Dayton – For more than a month, much of my free time has been spent helping put together my daughter’s condo. Before she moved here from Michigan, there were things to get done. Next was the actual move followed by all the little things she wanted done. My major remaining task I have left, is the black-splash in the … Read More

Liberals are eminently qualified to play dumb – since they are. Alan Gomez and E. Garcetti are two of my favorite dumb liberals. Their trick-filled chutzpah is galig. A reporter for USA Today for 11 years, Mr. Gomez has set aside the largest section of his heart to feel tearfully sorry for all illegal aliens, whether terrorists or normal people. … Read More

More than one month after the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously that text messages and emails sent by public officials on their personal devices are matters of public record if they deal with public business, Gov. Brown has still not moved on his own email issues. During that time, Mr. Brown flouted his own boasts of transparency by using a … Read More