Jackson Confirmation Hearing Proves GOP Has No Interest in Making America a Better Place
CONFIRMATION HEARING - It’s somewhere between comical and tragic watching the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
CONFIRMATION HEARING - It’s somewhere between comical and tragic watching the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
PANDEMIC ANALYSIS - Two years ago I was panicking, making hundreds of phone calls to postpone my wedding that was a few days away. It was March 2020.
OIL INDUSTRY - Long used to cheap gas at the pump, Americans are experiencing serious sticker shock these days.
GUEST COMMENTARY - Some readers may have seen the graphic showing oil company revenues since last year:
LETTER TO THE EDITOR - We are writing concerning Bob Gelfand’s article of March 21, 2022, entitled “LA City Goes Full-On Fascist in Neighborhood Council Forced Indoctrination Proposal” which contains gratuitous anti-Scientology bigotry.
MY THOUGHTS - I’ve finished watching all the new Hallmark movies…TV news is so depressing…the price of gas precludes joy rides…even Trader Joes is out of some of my favorite things.
GUEST COMMENTARY - Today’s US propaganda barrage seeks to demonize the Russians as thoroughly and completely as possible, which now ironically includes attacks on Russia’s oligarchy.
GUEST COMMENTARY - As right-wing candidates around the country mold themselves after Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene, we have a new template for Los Angeles politicians who proclaim their love for children while undermining public schools.
GUEST COMMENTARY - As we lock horns with the cruel and out-of-touch Putin, once again we’re at a moment that too closely resembles the Cuban crisis of 1962.
GUEST COMMENTARY - For more than a decade, Vladimir Putin has sought to sow division and undermine American democracy.
IMMIGRATION WATCH - When Joe Biden ran against President Donald Trump in 2020, he promised to fight back against anti-immigrant policies, including those that punished “sanctuary cities” and that gave more local authorities power to act as an extra arm of federal immigration enforcement.
HOUSING WATCH - Unable to come up with real solutions for Los Angeles’ homelessness crisis, City Council Member Joe Buscaino is pushing forward a ballot measure that doesn’t address homelessness and merely rearranges the deck chairs on the Titanic.
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