This past Tuesday President Obama spoke to the cadets at West Point announcing his plans to add 30,000 more troops in Afghanistan. Sadly, I’ve seen this speech before, though maybe not as well delivered.
For too long our country has been in a horribly divisive state. It was worse during the Vietnam era, which was second only to the Civil War. That period was so divisive they fought a war! On a divisive scale of 1 through 10, I’d say we’re currently around 8.
Brace yourself folks, Christmas is around the corner. I know because this Sunday, Hallmark Hall of Fame presents the first of the slew of the holiday TV movies we can expect this season.
Damon Duvall looks like a middle-aged surfer as he stands in front of the Santa Monica Courthouse leaning against a large, green sign, “A Father Has A Rite [sic] to Parent.
Judging from the reaction to last week’s column, Pat Tillman still resonates nearly six years after his death. The L.A. Times ran an article, “Remembering Pat Tillman on Veterans Day.
This week I had planned on writing about the Clinton-Bush (43) debates to be held in February in New York and Los Angeles. Then I watched a compelling segment on “Meet the Press.
On the road to the Freeway World Series, the Dodgers exited one off-ramp too soon. For the second straight year, they lost the National League Championship to the Phillies, four games to one.
Last week I debated writing about serious local, state, national and international world issues, but frankly they were too depressing. Take California for instance (before the state goes in a big garage sale).
Two types of people in Los Angels could identify with the newly released DVD, the romantic comedy, “Kissing Cousins:” those is in a relationship and those not in a relationship.
These are grim times my friends. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan drag on, the economy is in the worst shape since the Great Depression and, in California, we’re so broke that we’re letting prisoners out of jail early.
One irony of the town hall health care debates was that they weren’t debates, they were shouting matches. In New Jersey, a paraplegic woman in a wheelchair tried to speak but an angry middle-aged man kept yelling at her.
