I was reading the L.A. Times last Friday when I came across an op/ed by Bill Maher entitled “Enough with the Obamathon.” Thinking the comedian would write something funny like Larry David’s New York Times pieces on undecided voters and “Brokeback Mountain,” I read on.
<i>Editor’s Note: The Quackers are three awesome ducks from the canals of Venice, Calif. who are on a mission to educate the community about the dangers of global warming and the importance of practicing sustainability, all while surfing the most gnarly waves possible.
Of the more than 80,000 tree species on our planet, the Indian neem tree (Azadirachta indica) is magnificent and known by millions of people as “the village pharmacy.
Dad. Pop. Old man. Whatever your favorite nickname for your father is, this weekend is the time to call him and thank him for all the things that he did for you.
Nat Hentoff has had a life well spent, one chock full of controversy fueled by his passion for the protection of civil liberties and human rights. Hentoff is known as a civil libertarian, free speech activist, anti-death penalty advocate, pro-lifer and not uncommon critic of the ideological left.
Last Tuesday evening, the City Council upheld an appeal of landmark designation for 301 Ocean Ave. Big developers won another victory. Gentrification in the form of more multi-million dollar luxury condos for the wealthy moves forward while the little guy gets kicked in the pants.
You may think that crime has gone up in these dark economic times when more and more people are out of work and fewer and fewer people have money. That hasn’t been the case.
General Motors is still too big. The number of people already put out of work by the Amazingly-Shrinking General is sickening, outrageous; these workers didn’t bring this on themselves, it’s been forced on them and their families and the businesses where they trade by GM’s own shortcomings and the c
After my column last week, one particular reader, whom either lives in Cleveland or hates the Lakers, completely flipped out. I’ve been writing columns in Santa Monica for over 20 years and his e-mail takes the cake (assuming there’s a cake for profanity and lousy grammar).
It is a tale that speaks of two Americas. Among the progressive left, Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s life narrative is a compelling story of a woman who overcame daunting odds to achieve the success she has earned in her career as an attorney and a jurist.
Whether you lament dwindling rain forests or the disappearance of neighborhood cats to hungry coyotes, most of us recognize loss of wildlife habitats as a growing environmental concern.
President Obama has officially begun the era of bigger big government by proposing to go on a multi-trillion dollar borrowing spree that risks doing to the “full faith and credit of the United States” what excessive borrowing during the housing bubble did to private credit.
