Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., for the first time, Tuesday, addressed the recent bitter partisan fight over new Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court, seeking to “assure” an audience in Minneapolis that the court will serve “one nation” and not “one party or one interest.”
What do you mean there’s
As you know, we continually learn things as we stroll, and sometimes trudge, down the paths of our lives — and often quite unexpectedly.
Throughout the great state of California, drivers are loudly complaining about insufferable wait times in Department of Motor Vehicles facilities.
Be careful, Socialists
Whenever Donald Trump talks about fake news, there are howls of indignation from the establishment media. We’re told that the very mention of “fake news” is a direct attack on our democracy, that the alternative is “darkness,” that it led to the dismemberment and murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a…
We were told that if Donald Trump were to get elected, we’d be winning so much that we would become bored with winning. To be fair, some good developments have taken place under this president. A fast-growing economy, a palpable business optimism, a much-needed lower corporate tax rate and f…
Health officials are worrying that a small but growing proportion of the youngest children in the United States have not been vaccinated against any disease.
Birds of a feather
Not all who
A few feet behind Gavin Newsom as he sipped a drink in a coffee shop near Los Angeles International Airport, a tall man with a wet paint roller wiped a menu blackboard clear, giving the store a clean slate.
“Our solar system just got a little spookier,” Chelsea Whyte wrote, after the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet on Oct.1.
According to the TV business channel, CNBC, President Donald Trump’s administration can now “focus all its ire on China.”
If Sen. Ben Sasse is right — he has not recently been wrong about anything important — the nation’s most-discussed political problem is entangled with the least-understood public-health problem.
Believable losers
Editorial
American philosopher Jerry Seinfeld famously exposed how irrational we American baseball fans must be: “Team loyalty is a kind of hard thing to justify, in the end. ... Every year, it’s different guys. ... You’re rooting for clothes, when you get right down to it. ... I want my team’s clothe…
They just want our money
Remember who started the circus
It’s autumn. The leaves will soon be falling off the trees and the influenza viruses will be all around you, wherever you go.
Birthdays are a fitting time for reflection. So, as Antelope Valley Hospital marks its 63rd “birthday” this month, I wanted to take the opportunity to reflect on where the hospital has been, where we are today and our vision for the future.
“Hey, John, in your last column, you mentioned a few detective films that were at the top of your list, you know, flicks like ‘Chinatown’ and ‘L.A. Confidential.’ So I got to wondering if there were any others you’d put up there near the top. I mean, you taught this stuff at the college, did…
The United States has told India and other countries to cut oil imports from Iran to zero by Nov. 4 or face sanctions, making it clear that there would be no waivers for anyone.
He believes him
Where is she?
A new report in the United Kingdom says that obesity is set to overtake smoking as the leading preventable cause of cancer in women in the UK.
Accusations
Boeing has been awarded the first portion of a $2.38 billion fixed-price contract to replace the U.S. Air Force’s Bell UH-1N fleet with its MH-139 helicopter, derived from Leonardo Helicopters’ commercial platform.
If there’s a theme to Steve Poizner’s independent campaign for state insurance commissioner, it might be “back to the future.”
Bits and pieces about how the Russians and others ran their con games to try to capsize America’s long-standing democracy in the 2016 election process have been dropping in the news for months.
How they see it
Propaganda
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that new data shows that alcohol causes 5% of deaths, worldwide.
For centuries mosquitos have plagued humans. It’s not just that they mess up your picnic. They carry malaria and inject it into people all over the world.
Is that an oxymoron?
In recent months, a vocal group of conservatives has joined with Democrats in arguing that it’s time for the government to correct a blatant market failure: the private sector’s inability to provide sufficient paid leave. A new study suggests otherwise.
Be noble and respectful
An endorsement
When billionaires engage in sniping arguments, insulting each other about money and brains, the story becomes high-level newsworthy.
“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” — 8th Amendment, United States Constitution (part of the Bill of Rights)
Brett Kavanaugh may have saved his Supreme Court confirmation with one of the most memorable statements in modern congressional history.
In spite of the enormous wave of wealth that is sweeping through the United States of America in this time in our history, there are still many patches of needy communities which should be given monetary help.
In 2006, many people were outraged when what they had learned in school might not be true.
What did he do?
As with the first allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, his second accuser, Deborah Ramirez, levels a claim of sexual abuse supposedly witnessed by others.
Watching this video upset me. Students and even faculty members won’t let Dave Rubin speak. They constantly interrupt, shouting “hate speech!” and “black lives matter!”
‘Justice’ Department
Which one is it?
Leslie Moonves, Brett Kavanaugh, Tim Murphy, Rob Porter, Bill Cosby, David Copperfield, Michael Douglas, Stan Lee, Louis C.K., Dustin Hoffman, Jeremy Piven, Kevin Spacey, Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, Bill O’Reilly and Oliver Stone.
Something has changed in California politics as the political class gets serious about this fall’s statewide election: Despite what has lately amounted to single-party rule in America’s most populous state, there’s a new insecurity in the air.
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