Cudahy Blocked Term Limits

The dysfunction of Cudahy knows no bounds. Check out this link, which features a Cudahy City Council meeting from 2012. The city council, before the FBI agents arrested people, before a new sweep of elected officials stepped into to fix the mess they created, the city...

Conservatives: As Good As it Gets (And Getting Better)

One of my favorite movies is “As Good as It Gets”. Jack Nicholson plays Melvin Udall, a successful romance novelist with obsessive compulsive disorder—and a mean mouth. He falls in love with a waitress, Carolyn Connelly (played by Helen Hunt) whose plain-spokenness...

Congressman Lieu: Wrong on Transgenderism

Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Torrance, CA) tweeted the following message on NewYear's Day, 2015: Being #transgender is not a "mistake." It is the beautiful expression of what it means to be human. http://t.co/Luu24kH4hn #LeelahAlcorn — Ted Lieu (@tedlieu)...

Governor McCrory: Dig in Your Tar Heels!

Governor Pat McCrory of North Carolina — “The Tar Heel State” — worried me. When the Republican supermajority in Raleigh passed legislation to protect individual civil servants’ freedom of conscience, he vetoed the bill, fearing a lawsuit onslaught. The legislature...

Hands Off Our Beaches, Congressman Lieu!

Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) cannot leave well enough alone. The voters of the 33rd Congressional District shipped him off to Washington. There, we could rest assured that he would never trouble us again, especially since as a member of the minority, he would be...