650,000 Americans are paroled from prison each year. Within 12 months, around half will be back...
The Church of Rock and Roll
I realize I was quite slow in posting on Wednesday morning. The truth is I was too sleepy and...
THE GREAT LA GANG WARS: Tony C. Does the Right Thing for the Wrong Reasons
Well it’s settled, signed sealed and delivered, written in stone…and thoroughly peed on...
The Wa Po’s Pulitzer Girls
The Washington Post deservedly won a string of six Pulitzers yesterday. They won for, among other...
Devils, Dust…and the US Army
name="wmode" value="transparent"/> There’s a lot in the weekend’s papers and around...
Lies, Damned Lies, and Retractions
This morning the LA Times published a full and official retraction of its Tupak Shakur story. ...
10 Survival Tips for Barack and Hillary
It seems that tonight Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are both attending the same rubber chicken...
School Age and on Skid Row
Years ago Parenting Magazine asked me to do an article on a homeless mother with children. The...
LA to FEDS: BACK OFF on Medical Marijuana!
On Wednesday, the LA City Council passed a resolution that asks Federal law enforcement to mind its...
Just Say NO to Murder? How about NO to Politics?
I don’t want to seem like a killjoy, but I don’t think asking politely is quite the...
GOT GRADUATION? Evidently Not, From LA to Detroit
Yesterday, another horrifying report came out about urban graduation rates. This particular...
Writing Guantanamo
In the upcoming April 17 issue of the New York Review of Books, veteran investigative reporter...
The James Q Wilson Factor – Part Deux
It turns out I was not the only person annoyed by Sunday’s James Q. Wilson Op Ed. Texas...
The James Q Wilson Factor
In Sunday’s LA Times Opinion section, famous conservative criminology prof, James Q. Wilson...
Royal Government
Three separate stories tonight—one on television, two on radio—addressed the idea that...
Who’s Driving the Latest Reverend Wright Controversy?
For days we saw (over and over and over) that Barack Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright has, at...
The City Grieves
LA Times story here, Daily News here, LAFD blog here.
Cut Education, Wound the Economy?
Two thousand students, administrators and education advocates gathered at Cal State Long Beach on...