Why Donald Trump Will Be The Republican Nominee
Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for president. The last gasp in the long and brutal fight to stop Trump will be June’s California Republican primary, but it will fail. Trump will be the nominee because Trump is today’s Republican Party. America has changed greatly in the past 40 years. The middle class, the […]
Schwarzenegger-Brown is not really a “Bipartisan” Alliance
Monday’s L.A. Times gushed over the “bipartisan” gubernatorial legitimacy Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown have given efforts to fight climate change in Paris this weekend. The two former Governors “sat for a joint interview to put a bipartisan spin on fighting climate change,” showing the world that green-minded Democrats and Republicans can avoid petty bickering […]
Kobe for Governor
Kobe Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers star, has announced that he’ll retire when the basketball season ends in April. What should he do next? My suggestion: he’s exactly what this state needs in a governor. Kobe has been criticized for many reasons, but no one has ever accused him of being cautious. Indeed, he has […]
Don’t Doom L.A. to a Permanent Housing Shortage
Last month, a group of activists calling themselves the “Coalition to Preserve L.A,” led by Michael Weinstein with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, filed papers to place an initiative on the November 2016 ballot that would establish a citywide building moratorium on higher density housing. The measure is officially titled “Restrictions on General Plan Amendments, Required […]