The Governor’s Budget Non-strategy
It wouldn’t be surprising to see non-Californians still do a double-take when the title “Governor” is applied to former on-screen cyborg Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was admittedly a lot weirder at the […]
A Messy Food Fight
Everyone’s a little tense about groceries lately — eggs up to an average of $2.18 a dozen from $1.45 in 2006, whole milk around $3.87 a gallon, up from $3.20 […]
The Thanks of a Grateful Nation
The Marine base that exerts an outsize gravitational pull on Twentynine Palms, Calif. is the largest in the world, and shimmers several miles outside of town in the desert at […]
Halting the Oil Slick’s Spread
It was bound to happen: Oil goes up to $140-plus a barrel and the president calls for offshore drilling and opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, aka ANWR. Technology […]
A Tale of Two Anaheims
Disney may have won the day against the construction of affordable housing in its “tourism zone” but the coalition forged in the struggle against The Mouse is alive and well and pushing for a community benefits agreement in Anaheim’s Platinum Triangle development.
The Grass-roots Factor
This post started out Thursday thinking about an interesting factoid related to the Obama campaign. But since the big Obama news Friday has been about Obama’s rejection of public financing, […]
New Math for a New (We Hope) Era
Long, long ago, children, in 1981, Ronald Reagan became President of the United States and expanded the military budget by 43 percent over what it was during the U.S. war […]
Obama Could Take a Cue From This LA Dust-Up
Now it’s on! — woohoo! — between Barack Obama and John McCain, who has already morphed into McNasty. A CBS poll on June 6 showed Obama six points ahead of […]
Asking the Big, Fat Question
The huge news this past week, of course, was Scott McClellan, who, a few years too late, called his former White House boss a big, fat liar. But “big fat” […]
Leadership Afraid to Cling to Immigration
While lots of us fired up the grill over the Memorial Day weekend, a story came out Saturday in The New York Times about the previous week’s prosecution of 270 […]
Countrywide CEO’s Cyberblunder
We hear it a lot these days, the Dante Alighieri quote that declares that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis […]
Senator Kennedy’s Awful Diagnosis
Oof—Bad sucker punch from the cosmos on Tuesday. We all saw the worrisome weekend news about Senator Edward Kennedy’s seizure, but it was followed by the more soothing follow-ups—those oh, […]