California, Get Ready for President Trump
Hillary Clinton’s diagnosis of pneumonia, followed by her near collapse at Sunday’s 9/11 remembrance, followed by her dismissal of Trump supporters as a basketful of deplorable racists, followed by a dismal performance at Matt Lauer’s NBC veterans’ forum last week all lead to one conclusion: Donald Trump’s probable election as president in November, and the crisis that […]
Could the Chargers Join the Ranks of the Homeless?
No one wants the San Diego Chargers. A last-ditch ballot measure to support a new stadium for the NFL team (as part of a convention center next to Petco Park) is all but certain to fail on the November ballot. It would raise the hotel tax to help fund the project, and it would need […]
How to Make Enemies and Influence People With Newspapers
Are newspapers kaput? Not quite yet. And they still will be influential in this November’s election, especially at the state and local levels. On Thursday, the New York Times ran an article, “Want to Own a Newspaper? A Vermont Contest Has Trouble Finding Takers.” No question about that. Newspapers today are about as valuable as […]
Eric Garcetti: LA’s Flip-Flopper-in-Chief
In the 2013 Mayoral race, Candidate Eric Garcetti opposed Proposition A, the permanent half cent increase in our sales tax that would have raised our already regressive sales tax to a staggering 9½%, one of the highest rates in the country. According to Garcetti at the time, hard-working Angelenos were already burdened by a high […]