Op-Ed

	Is It Possible the President Really Did Not Know? By Ari L. Noonan @ 8:00 AM May 24, 2013 Found in: Op-Ed We are asked to believe that President Obama was unaware of the felonious mischief that surrounds him, from his lying attorney general Eric Holder, to the team of pompous liars infecting the IRS, to the constructors of the ever-changing fairy tale that passes as the President’s excuse for purposely avoiding any contact with the electoral disease that was Benghazi last Sept. 11.read
	While Battling Anti-Semitism, the Joys of Scouting in Israel By Shachar @ 7:00 AM May 24, 2013 Found in: Op-Ed Dateline Jerusalem – I had always heard about Israel's famous Scouts, called Tzofim, and I wondered if the organization was connected to the Boy Scouts and Girls Scouts of the USA or the international Scouts. I was a Girl Scout, early in elementary school, a Brownie, called Ofer in Israel. My mother was my Brownie troop leader. I was the leader for one of my daughters, and that daughter is the Girl Scout leader for my granddaughter's Brownie troop. While visiting family in the USA this week, I attended my granddaughter's troop meeting. This experience evoked...read
	Baby Bok Choy – Oh, Boy! By Robert Ebsen @ 7:00 AM May 24, 2013 Found in: Op-Ed Let’s see. How did it come about that for the past two weeks I have been buying, and consuming, lots of baby bok choy? Could it be that I am connected genetically somehow to baby bok choy? Could it be that I have an atavistic gustatory connection to my childhood memories of drinking (and eating) soup containing bok choy in Chinese restaurants? Could it be that...read
	Average Salaries: Culver City vs. L.A. County By George Laase @ 7:00 AM May 24, 2013 Found in: George Laase For the first seven years of the spreadsheet below, the Culver City USD remained with or ahead of the Los Angeles County average in salaries. Then the Great Recession hit, severely affecting California’s economy. The state’s housing market collapsed, foreclosures soared, the state’s tax base shrank and the state Legislature cut spending by deferring funds from K-12 school districts. In response to the state’s continued deferrals of funding, the CCUSD found it necessary to negotiate five furlough days in 2010-11 and four days in 2011-12.read
	Death Penalty, My Experience And the Jodi Arias Case By Dr. Rosemary H. Cohen @ 7:00 AM May 24, 2013 Found in: Dr. Rosemary Cohen About the Ten Commandments: For Jews, the 49-day Counting of the Omer – a Torah-based ritual, starting the second day of Passover – ended last week. Counting the Omer each day, after sundown, represents spiritual preparation and anticipation for the receiving of the Torah, which was given by God on Mount Sinai at the beginning of the month of Sivan.read
	Huge Victory for Crenshaw – Leimert Park Station Approved By Letters to the Editor @ 4:00 PM May 23, 2013 Found in: Letters By Damien Goodmon. Did you hear the news? This morning the MTA board voted to fully fund a subway station at Leimert Park on the Crenshaw Line: Yes, Virginia, there will be a Leimert Park station on the upcoming Crenshaw/LAX light rail Line.read
	Let Me Snivel One More Time, Says Wendy By Ari L. Noonan @ 1:00 PM May 23, 2013 Found in: Editor's Essays Next to whining Wendy Greuel, the funniest post-election mortem was coughed up by the Los Angeles Titanic’s Jim Newton. His Uncle Sir Isaac must have bounced one of his trademark rotten apples off nephew’s cranium. Listing five reasons Ms. Greuel’s ramshackle campaign for mayor flopped like a fat lady in a broken beach chair, No. 2 was...read
	This Won’t Take Long Did It? By Ari L. Noonan @ 11:00 AM May 23, 2013 Found in: Op-Ed The least imaginative political minds on the Westside and in South Los Angeles convened this morning. They broke their huddle and, dully, began touting state Assemblyperson Holly Mitchell (D-Culver City) for Culver City’s vacant state Senate seat – as reported here earlier. For sheer importance, this dust-laden strategy is analogous to the newest boxboy at your least favorite supermarket changing his month-old sox – because his mother burnt the filthy ones.read
	Does Our Congressional Delegation, Creaking with Age, Belong in a Nursing Home? By Thomas D. Elias @ 8:00 AM May 23, 2013 Found in: Op-Ed California saw plenty of change to its congressional delegation last year, with the long-serving Pete Stark (East Bay area), David Dreier (San Dimas), Jerry Lewis (Redlands), Joe Baca (San Bernardino County), Elton Gallegly (Simi Valley), Mary Bono Mack (Palm Springs) and more either retiring or getting turned out. For their remaining veteran colleagues, reelection seemsread
	How Much Has Waxman Truly Contributed to Our Welfare? By Arthur Christopher Schaper @ 8:00 AM May 23, 2013 Found in: Op-Ed What has U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Westside/South Bay) fought for? And who is winning?read