On Wednesday, former lawyer Michael Cohen, who served Donald Trump before and after his election to the presidency, was sentenced to three years in prison.
How do we govern in the age that will begin with the 2020 election?
Protect options
This week, 44 former U.S. Senators delivered a superbly written letter to the United States government in an attempt to restore many of the principles that have prevailed since America was founded in the 18th century.
You know you’ve got a problem when your tax schemes are even being rejected by the French. While there’s always a danger in reducing the causes of political unrest to a single issue, the plan to impose yet another regressive $9 billion annual carbon tax proved to be a catalyst for the “yello…
It’ll get worse
For quite awhile this year, it seemed like open season on kidney dialysis patients, the more than 66,000 Californians who depend for life after kidney failure on getting their blood cleansed during sessions of three or more hours three times a week.
In the novel “1984” published by George Orwell in June 1949, “Big Brother” is the face of the party in control of the dystopian society of Oceania.
What blue wave?
Bike lanes appreciated
Shakespeare famously wrote of the “sceptered isle” of Britain acting as a moat “against the envy of less happier lands.”
With global orders pouring in, America’s aerospace businesses are scrambling to keep up with a remarkable boom.
Yes, it’s true that their party just won the House majority and more House seats, 40, than in any election since 1974 (and with the increasing likelihood of a new election in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District after confirmed reports of Republican election fraud there, maybe 4…
Misleading story
This past summer we learned that references to “Individual-1” in Russia investigation court documents was being used to identify Donald Trump.
It sounds like a wonderful idea and California Gov. Jerry Brown, in 2017, signed it into law.
A recent Bloomberg News headline came as no surprise: “Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost.”
This morning Google told me that it would not allow my YouTube video “Socialism Leads to Violence” to be viewed by young people. It violates “community guidelines,” said the company in a computer-generated email.
From across California, the obituaries for the California Republican Party have come thick and fast ever since the November election. After all, the GOP’s onetime national stronghold in Orange County now lacks even a single Republican in Congress.
A recent Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation survey found that 51 percent of American millennials would rather live in a socialist or communist country than in a capitalist country. Only 42 percent prefer the latter (http://tinyurl.com/ybsejy3f). Twenty-five percent of millennials who k…
In a long-awaited, enormous news burst, the Russia probe special counsel, Robert S. Mueller, on Tuesday, released documents commending Michael Flynn for his “substantial assistance” in three ongoing investigations.
Can’t deny science
Are we going to have a full-blown trade war with China, and maybe the rest of the world? Nobody knows — because it all depends on the whims of one man. And Tariff Man is ignorant, volatile and delusional.
‘Big opportunity’
The press in America is even worse than we imagine. We sense that they’re biased and stunningly incompetent. They are those things, but so much more. Our media’s version of the news is mathematically and precisely the opposite of the truth.
The stock market is always erratic, but when the Dow Jones plummets almost 800 points – 3.1% — it produces a lot of anxiety for anyone who has invested in stocks.
Lying has become a growth industry as the Robert S. Mueller Russia probe continues to investigate person after person in a difficult quest for some truths.
After spending months complaining about the disparity between the United States and other nations’ duties, along with the unfair treatment of U.S. exporters, President Trump is once again threatening to pull the plug on one of the best tariff-equalizing deals ever made: the North American Fr…
Ridiculous
Merry Christmas
About a month from today, a new governor will sit in the state Capitol’s “horseshoe” suite and face some problems that not even the hyper-active and often contemptuous soon-to-be-ex-Gov. Jerry Brown could solve.
Masten Space Systems, Mojave, is one of nine companies, ranging from start-ups to aerospace giants, to be eligible for future NASA contracts to deliver payloads to the moon’s surface.
In our history, George Herbert Walker Bush had the best resume to become president of the United States. And, furthermore, he lived up to it.
Watch out for
At the beginning of his long and well-lived life, George Herbert Walker Bush, who in politics was always prosaic, acquired, by way of a grandfather, the name of a British poet and priest (George Herbert, 1593-1633). He acquired much else from family inheritance.
In Saturday’s edition, a front page story diagnosed more of the Antelope Valley Hospital’s symptoms and the prospects are increasingly dire.
Doesn’t mean it’s true
In spite of continued attempts, either misguided or malevolent — or both — by national leaders to undermine public trust and confidence in the American free press and free elections, the United States’ model of political and individual freedom has inspired billions around the planet. Ba…
Our local congressman, Kevin McCarthy, was elected House minority leader in mid-November.
All I want for Christmas
Michael Cohen’s guilty plea Thursday that he lied to Congress about Donald Trump’s interests in building a Moscow tower comes as little surprise — everyone attached to this administration seems to lie with ease. And yet it’s explosive news in the carnival kingdom of liars, crooks and thieves.
More than a year before he won election as California’s next governor, Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom did not hesitate for a moment when asked what’s California’s biggest problem. “Income inequality,” he said in an interview then.
What do you think of the proposition that no black youngsters should be saved from educational rot until all can be saved? Black people cannot afford to accept such a proposition. Actions by the education establishment, black and white liberal politicians, and some civil rights organizations…
If President Donald Trump were paid a dime every time critics call his anti-illegal immigration policy “racist,” he’d double his net worth. Never mind that at one time, President Bill Clinton, former Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid, former Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Sen. Dianne Feins…
E-cigarettes let people get a hit of nicotine without burning tobacco.
Here’s a solution
The slowdown in new car sales has prompted automakers to apply the brakes to their production lines and hand out pink slips.
Many people joined with NASA Nov. 26 to celebrate the successful landing of InSight Mars Lander.
Alex Villanueva made Los Angeles County history by becoming the first sheriff to defeat an incumbent in more than a century.
No burden
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