Bill Donohue heads up the Catholic League and you’ve probably seen him on CNN and Fox News usually arguing against Gay Marriage and complaining about coverage of priests who sexually abuse kids and the higher ups who cover for them. …
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LA Times: An Occupy Manifesto for Real Change
by Dan Chmielewski • • 4 Comments
Today’s LA Times editorial page features this editorial about the Occupy movement and turning the energy behind it into something that actually affects change instead of just a protest. The editorial seems to capture the essense that many people —…
A call for a New Stimulus
by Dan Chmielewski • • 4 Comments
The Los Angeles Times carried a page one editorial from writer Michael Hiltzik today in which the writer called for a new stimulus program to rescue the economy. NY Times columnist and Princetron economics professor Paul Krugman’s crticism of the…
37 Years Ago Today; Nixon Quit
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August 9, 1974, Richard M. Nixon, the pride of Yorba Linda, stepped down and became the only U.S. president to resign. And 37 years later, there’s no mention of the significance of this event in the former president’s Local…
The Spineless Republicans in the State Senate and Assembly
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The Los Angeles Times carried a Sunday profile on the three Johns and their influence over the minority party in the California state legislature. The three Johns being John Coupal of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, John Kobylt of KFI…
James Rainey on Civil Discourse by Commenters
by Dan Chmielewski • • 11 Comments
Chip Hanlon’s Red County post about censorship by the Fullerton School District in blocking the Friends for Fullerton’s Future was an excellent post not only for the topic, but for the comments it generated. One commenter had a comment blocked…
Fleischman on KCET: “I Know People (from OCSD) with $100K $150K, $200K Pensions”; Does the name Carona Ring a Bell?
by Dan Chmielewski • • 7 Comments
I had the misfortune of watching KCET’s post State of the State analysis last night. David Lazarus, a brilliant business columnist for the LA Times, and Judy Muller, a professor of journalism at USC and former CBS News correspondent, had…
