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Seven years ago when Chris Christie was the new Republican governor of Democratic New Jersey, and Nikki Haley was the new governor of South Carolina, I wrote that they would make a splendid ticket for the 2012 election. She was magical. He seemed outsized – the combination of his gargantuan size and bravado advanced the apparently wrong signal. He looked … Read More

Forget The Grinch. Meet The Amy Who Stole Christmas. As you know, it has been powerfully offensive for years to irreligious leftists to wish anyone, even in the privacy of his kitchen, with the lights off, to wish Merry Christmas to another human. Sometime in the ‘90s, I think, leftists commanded all Americans to hereafter confine their December wishes – … Read More

The spectre of death this morning hangs over one of the favorite women in my life on this holiday that she used to enjoy more than anyone I have known. Call her Rebecca. Rebecca is 73 years old, in relatively good health, and lives alone, though not by choice. As a girl, Rebecca dreamed of walking down an aisle as … Read More

The Poynter Institute, whi the world’s leading journalism “instructor, convener and resource for anyone who aspires to engage and inform citizens,” touches every American journalist in mainstream media — and most of the world’s – in various ways. It happens through its control over the standard curriculum, school instruction and influence on journalism schools and within the industry. On its … Read More

Business owner and Civil Service Commissioner Albert Vera officially pulled papers this week to appear on the City Council ballot in the April 10election. Flanked by his girlfriend, Kimberly Griffin, campaign treasurer Hal Berman, Mayor Jeff Cooper, and longtime supporter Ira Diamond, Mr. Vera met with City Clerk Jeremy Green and made official his intent to run for one of … Read More

Don’t bother telling your “progressive” friends (if you have any left that is — 2017 was a harrowing time) Donald Trump is clearly The Grinch who stole Christmas. First, he was a racist, a Nazi allied with every undesirable (need I say deplorable?) force in the nation. “Of course he’s an anti-Semite.” To tell you how far the denial on … Read More

That was three days before Christmas, and look what The New York Times has done: Become the first (and hopefully last) newspaper on planet earth to hire a gender editor. Schlepping down the long, dusty, sometimes lonely, road of life, you may be pardoned for idly wondering, what does a gender editor do? Jessica (I Am a Victim) Bennett, who … Read More

Jerusalem and President Trump have important – but naturally ignored –common qualities. Both are heapingly undervalued, under-credited because each one’s mere existence offends leftists — and leftists control the media, many areas of government and thereby dictate popular opinion. Nobody on the planet gives a darn whether South Gate or Culver City is named the capital of Lebanon, Iceland, Portugal … Read More

Sarah Sanders began her press briefing today by ticking off some of President Trump’s achievements in 2017: As December winds down, I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to look back at what has been, by any measure, a historic year. Nearly 1.7 million new jobs have been created, The unemployment rate has fallen to 4.1 percent, the lowest … Read More

One year has passed since Los Angeles voters approved $1.2 billion in Measure HHH to end L.A.’s homeless crisis — and the City Council and Mayor Garcetti have failed to erect a single unit of homeless housing. Now, the backlash: On Monday, on camera, homeless activist General Dogone dramatically ripped up an “award” handed to him by a frozen-in-place Garcetti, … Read More