GOP Needs to Be Schooled on Walker's Education Budget

In elementary school, most people learn that one should compliment one’s friends in public, but criticize them only in private. Fitzgerald has criticized Governor Scott Walker’s proposed education budget to the Associated Press, a media conglomerate which is...

How Judaism Could Be More Welcoming

The cover of last week’s edition of the Jewish Journal asks: “Can Judaism be Welcoming?” One should start with the learning (or lack thereof) from some of the representatives of the faith. For starters, Rabbis like Paul Kipnes could forego their condescending comments...

Folllowing Up on Legislators

How much longer will the residents of the Beach Cities have to wait before State Senator Ted Lieu hosts a townhall meeting in Redondo Beach?  He should have scheduled something by now, since his new “deferral areas” include Rancho Palos Verdes, along with Santa...

Comments on Governor Walker's Budget

Peter Barca, Democratic representative from Kenosha and Assembly minority leader, siphoned off some of the scattered complaints from Republican legislators against Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget, one which claimed that Walker’s support for more money to...

SFV GOP — Take Down Brad Sherman

To the voters of the San Fernando Valley: My name is Arthur Christopoher Schaper, a resident of the South Bay (particularly, Torrance), but I am appealing to all Valley voters: conservatives, libertarians, Republicans, and the disaffected Independents and disappointed...

The Sequester: "Much Ado About Nothing"

"Much Ado About Nothing" was a play by William Shakespeare, but even then, his play was about something: the conflict of older lovers reconciling their aging options, plus younger loves embracing the future, plus the intrigue of shamed integrity vindicated...