In May of 2007, WLA reported that Rocky Delgadillo’s office had announced that there was now...
The Shooting – one more update
The next episode of the series, The Shooting, is coming next week, I promise. A killer deadline...
Campaigning Against Intelligence
In the Vice Presidential debate, as in much of the rhetoric spouted at the Republican convention...
The Supremes & the California Whales
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court got involved with the battle over whether George Bush should be...
DEBATE #2: Barring a Force Majeure or Rovian Surprise, IT’S OVER
The bottom line is this: It was a rout. No question. Not even close. Very little new was...
The New Yorker Makes a Choice
In their October 13 issue, the New Yorker Magazine endorses Barack Obama for president but, because...
California Prison Health Care: The Bill Comes Due at a Bad Time
Yesterday U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson made it clear to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and...
UNAMERICAN: The Politics of Any Means to An End
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THE GREAT CALIFORNIA BAILOUT? (Jerry Gets Bucks Back)
So far, the Bush Administration has mostly been giving gobs of money to those who had a significant...
SUNDAY/MONDAY MUST READ: It’s the Criminals, Stupid
At the top of the list of this weekend’s MUST READS, is a actually a MUST VIEW and a MUST...
Vicious Conspiracies and Rovian Plots
As a consequence of a nefarious and undoubtedly politically-motivated conspiracy (either that or a...
VP DEBATE: THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON BIDEN-PALIN
There was a big crowd in the Landmark Theater in West LA last night. One could assume that it was...
Blogging the SARAH & JOE SHOW…& Helen Gahagan Douglas
I’ll be watching and blogging the debate from the Landmark Theater in West Los Angeles, at an...
Understanding the Financial Crisis in 2 Easy Lessons
Okay, the Senate passed the damned thing. Are we happy or sad? (Lovely to know that the...
APOCALYPSE DAY 3: Truth and Truthiness
Okay, today the Senate has (incredibly) added tax cuts to the Bailout plan, raised the FDIC...
A New South LA “Education Corridor”
A successful charter school organization named ICEF Public Schools announced an intriguing plan...
The Cost of Revealing LAUSD’s Bloated Bureaucracy
With all the drama yesterday around the Wall Street bailout (or lack thereof), I didn’t post...
Okay, What Now?
These are scary days. Nobody liked the bailout bill. But a lot believed it was better than...