FIVE quick must reads—but all worth your time and attention. 1. OBAMA AS PERSONAL...
And Crown Thy Good With Brotherhood. Please.
Yes, there are of the vilest nature going out in such battleground states as Colorado, Nevada...
Sheriff Joe Jumps the Shark
Get the butterfly net! Call the ski patrol. Waiter, a pinot noir for me, and a 72-hour psych hold...
The LAPD’s Faulty Fingerprints
LA Times reporters Joel Rubin and Richard Winton have a story about the LAPD’s fingerprint...
McCain & Obama: The Last Waltz (With Joe the Plumber)
OVERVIEW: Not an overly intertesting debate—except for the moments where McCain finally...
What’s the Real Story on Those &%$#@&$$! ACORN People?
Because I report on issues pertaining to LA’s inner city, I occasionally run into people from...
Supreme Court to Troy Davis: Drop Dead
Tuesday, the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal for 40-year-old Troy Davis, the Georgia...
Painting a Portrait of Jerry Brown
Pulitzer-winning writer Ed Humes calls Jerry Brown California’s most original political...
FIRE WEATHER 2: The Wind Shifts….Toward Granada Hills – UPDATED
10:00 a.m. This morning I had to explain to the dog why we couldn’t go running, that there...
Registering to Vote – Straight Outa Compton
LA writer, columnist, blogger Jasmyne Cannick was feeling frustrated because she felt most of the...
FIRE WEATHER 1: Running to the Sea? – UPDATED
Okay, this is not good. In the latest on the Porter fire, one of the two big fires now burning in...
Paul Krugman Wins the Nobel in Economics
It is interesting to note that two of the American economics scholars who have been consistently...
A Reminder That an LA Death Mattered
The homeless man who was doused with gasoline last week and then burned to death, was named John...
The Blood Dimmed Tide: McCain’s Reckless Dance With the Beast
name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> Kevin Roderick, at LA Observed reported that, on Friday, the...
Sarah In Wonderland
Oh, the horror. Another bunch of those horrid and annoying, non-six-packy groups who “buy...
The Persistent Specter of Voter Fraud
“The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide...
Getting Off the Gang List….FINALLY
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...