While I often voice strong political opinions, occasionally I'm wrong. Okay, maybe a tad more than occasionally. In my family we used to discuss politics at the dinner
Today, I had intended to write about Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Then, even though Donald used four deferments to dodge Vietnam, he called John McCain a "loser&
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I've been reading SMDP columnists Jack Neworth and Bill Bauer for some time and am usually in agreement with each, even though they are both self-serving, opinionated
Compared to countries that are a thousand years old, the U.S. is essentially a teenager. And we often act it. Americans are enthusiastic and open, but we can also
Since Santa Monica was founded in 1886, it has attracted artists from all over the world: painters, poets, writers, actors and filmmakers, to list but a few. A who'
At 35, the late Vincent Bugliosi was the tireless prosecutor in the successful Manson family murder trial. He would also become a New York Times bestselling author many times over,
I remember my first journalism class at Hamilton High School in West Los Angeles. The classroom was filled with old desks and even older typewriters. (For those too young, a
Paul Sand, longtime Santa Monica resident and Tony Award-winning actor, first visited our fair city when he was barely a toddler. Paul's parents lived in Silver Lake, but
There are 521 days until the 2016 election and I'm already switching channels. England takes 40 days to campaign for Prime Minister, we take almost two years. The
In retrospect, perhaps it's appropriate that it was in Texas. The Lone Star State is perennially near or at the top in mass shootings and death penalty executions.
