President Donald Trump has thrown the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 Capitol riot prosecutions out the window. But a week before Trump became president, the Department essentially did the same to
As Donald Trump this week assumed the presidency for the second time, he rekindled his personal and political feud with California and its governor, Gavin Newsom, while also inflating Newsom’s
“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” If you don’t believe in coincidences, perhaps you see a vast conspiracy in the fact that the Bob
President Joe Biden issued a flurry of pardons as he left office, but I’m more interested in getting some long overdue and deeply justified pardons from another president, the new
The wildfires sweeping through Los Angeles County communities have destroyed at least 10,000 homes so far and more are in the path of still-uncontrolled flames. Obviously the loss of so
Praise the Lord for his mercy. Joe Biden’s failed presidency has finally come to an end. There’s no predicting what Biden will do at the last minute to sabotage Donald
Three days after immensely destructive and deadly wildfires broke out in and around Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a $322.3 billion state budget with a positive revenue forecast “based
President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced last week in the bookkeeping case brought against him by Alvin Bragg, the elected Democratic district attorney of Manhattan. The sentence was effectively nothing. Although
“We poured everything” into that house. Fran from Altadena was standing outside the remains of her home, destroyed by the most recent California fires, speaking to a reporter. “I don’t
There’s nothing artificial about the controversy that’s growing among homeowners, educators, doctors and sports administrators over fake grass. The artificial turf market is projected to nearly double in the U.S.
“Trial by fire.” It’s a cliché, but Los Angeles has a way of validating clichés — riots, earthquakes and fires are part of life here. One waits for locusts. More
Fashioning a budget for a state as large and diverse as California is a fraught process under the best of circumstances, involving not only strictly financial aspects but demands from
Joe Biden was 26 then, fresh out of law school with the Delaware bar exam behind him, and a Michel Legrand song began playing on the radio of his Corvette
It’s easy to blame California’s Democrats for the devastating fires that killed at least five people and destroyed more than 5,000 homes in Los Angeles this week. It’s the Democrats
Nearly a half-century ago, during Jerry Brown’s first stint as governor, he and state legislators became embroiled in an extremely complex political squabble over taxing the incomes of multinational corporations.
Hollywood thrives on depictions of desperate battles against overwhelming forces of destruction. A real life version, the equal of any cinematic disaster film, is raging today. Wildfires, driven by fierce
On Monday, journalist Glenn Greenwald asked on X, “Is there a single person in D.C. or media acting as if Literal Adolf Hitler is about to assume power in two
Six years into his governorship and with two years to go, Gavin Newsom is at a political inflection point, choosing whether to finish his stint and resume his wine and
Last week, I was incensed after learning the Sugar Bowl would only be postponed a day after a horrific tragedy in the host city, New Orleans. Fifteen families were planning
When California state Sen. Scott Wiener introduced the nation’s most ambitious artificial intelligence safety bill last year, it became a flashpoint in the debate over how to govern AI. Senate