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American Ideals are Still Radical

  The Orange Felon is trying to reverse the last 100 years of progressive change As national radio commentator Thom…

9 months ago

Tariff Tantrum, Tourism and BS

According to the LA Tourism and Convention Board, the worries are rippling across a local tourism and hospitality industry that…

9 months ago

A Prophet for Change

And while we are on the topic of religion, and this is Easter and Passover, it may be time to…

10 months ago

Gutting the Kennedy Center

It’s the Bill of Rights’ guarantee of freedom of expression. Without that protection — that first of our freedoms —…

10 months ago

Remember the Promise to Lower Prices on Day One? ― It’s time for a third impeachment

I was sitting at my favorite coffee shop on Sixth Street drinking espresso the other day watching a young woman…

11 months ago

Talking Trade, Kool-Aid and Gaslighting ― A Barstool Debate on Tariffs, Robots, and Reality

The problem is that even though this is a kind of performative political theater, real consequences will come. It will…

11 months ago

Unified by a Common Enemy

What we are seeing today in reaction to the fires and the coup is that at our core the average…

12 months ago

Tyranny and Chaos

A free democratic nation cannot remain free without a free and unfettered press, the founding fathers warned. And yet we…

12 months ago

From Fiction to Reality

Yet, Jan. 20, 2025 was presaged by a long-forgotten 1935 Sinclair Lewis novel called, It Can’t Happen Here. And now…

1 year ago

Reflections on 45 Years

Remember that freedom in every era takes eternal vigilance and that is what honest, truthful and diligent reporting needs to…

1 year ago