Love him or hate him, Ted Kennedy was the last of his kind.
It was not simply that he was the last of four brothers bred for destiny. Or that his name was Kennedy. For five decades Ted Kennedy has been the essential stitching in the broadcloth of the American political experience.
There's a slowdown all along the Mexican border. Border Patrol agents caught fully 27 percent fewer illegal immigrants trying to sneak into the United States between Nov. 1 and April 30 than during the same six months a year ago.
For background, see “Mr. Smith Goes Back to the City Council and Comes Away Still Undefeated” The visionary developer Frederick Smith, arguably the most intriguing and mysterious personality to inhabit the heavily industrial Hayden Tract, won Round 1 last night for his latest eye-catching project: A futuristic parking structure to be built at 8511 Warner Dr., on the land he … Read More
Dateline Jerusalem — It is 3:30 a.m. in Israel, and I cannot get to sleep.
I should be over my jet lag since I have been back here for three weeks, especially because
the change in time zones was a gradual one on the way home.
Dateline Jerusalem — I am a shoppaholic.
My town has thousands of little shops, corner grocery stores, sidewalk cafes, open air markets, butcher shops and bakeries, an outdoor mall, and a large modern indoor mall.
There are so many little businesses that I have no idea how the owners can make a living.
Center-Sinai Animal Hospital and Culver City High School have earned a statewide honor from the California Department of Education for their collaboration to provide hands-on work experience for special education students.
Only 15 such partnerships in the state were recognized by being named to the Workability 1 Honor Roll.
I received a request the other day from Deborah Galambos, the reading specialist at Lin Howe School, to find volunteers who will help students with their reading.
The commitment is for a minimum of one hour a week, says Ms. Galambos. No experience necessary. Just enthusiasm.
Even if you never had heard of Israel or the Jewish people, it would have been child’s play yesterday to identify exactly where my colleague Frederik Sisa jumped off the rails in his rant against war and against Israel in particular. Thirteen of Mr. Sisa’s first 14 sentences demonstrated his disappointing, but unsurprising, unwillingness to engage the world. Often a model of crystallized thinking, Mr. Sisa gives in to his reflexive feckless liberal tendencies. He surrenders, instead, to base emotions, the spinal column of liberal doctrine. Blindly, he swings a coarse club against war, against religion, and especially against Israel. These are the first three commandments to which all modern liberals must pledge unswerving fealty or face unattractive expulsion, the price that Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) is paying this summer. Theoretically, Democrats are as smart as Republicans. But, being liberals, they are required to soak all of their feelings in a pool of cynicism before presenting them publicly. Perennial cynicism makes it easier for liberals to be anti, to be against what the other side stands for instead of offering a counter proposal. Chronic cynicism discourages the development of ideas.
