Last night I was going through scores of old snapshots for possible use in a new edition of my gang...
The Governator Vs. the Union
In the running of California’s prisons, one would assume that the warden is pretty much the...
The Judge…and the Student…
As we think about what kind of Attorney General Judge Mukasey might make, it is worth reading...
LA’s New (Cough) Schools (Cough, Cough)
Just when I was starting to feel a teensy, weensy bit optimistic that the LAUSD board had finally...
Shocking Children
This month’s Mother Jones Magazine (Sept/Oct) features a cover story by Jennifer Gonnerman...
Streaming to JENA
They came in bus load after bus load from all the states bordering Louisiana, and from states...
The Move-On Flap: Dumb….Meet Dumber.
I really, really, REALLY don’t have time to post today as I’m neck deep in researching...
Prison Kills
In 2002, a very angry U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson ruled that health care in the...
The White Tree
Today, Americans from all over these United States will march in Jena, Louisiana, because of a...
The Legality of Dreaming
A year or so ago, when I was researching a story about low-scoring Jefferson High School, I...
Stuck on Stupid
And that’s understating the matter. The Restore Habeas measure would have passed the Senate...
Writ Large
It is stain enough on our nation’s integrity that, in a moment of reckless cowardice in the...
American Voices….Part VI
Okay, finally….here’s my last installment of Voices from the Road. (For those just...
Card-Carrying ACLU Liberals Befriend Larry Craig
….Legally speaking, that is. More specifically, on Monday, the ACLU filed an amicus brief...
The Return of the Chemerinski
Deals have been struck. Kisses have been exchanged. Troths have been plighted. Mutual...
Who is Mukasey? Read for Yourself.
In the next few days and weeks much will be said and written about 66-year-old retired federal...
Overplaying the Secrecy Card
Sunday’s Los Angeles Times has an excellent opinion piece that flags the dangerous trend...
Chemerinsky, Part 3: Wheeling, Dealing….and Fact Checking
More comes out about the behind the scenes wheeling and dealing to get Chemerinsky dumped, courtesy...