Thomas Buckley – Page 35 – California Globe

Is LA Voting with its Wallet?

January 26, 2024 7:12 am

George Gascon is the current Los Angeles District Attorney and he is running for re-election. Gascon has the least amount of campaign cash available now, six weeks before the March primary vote. In a field of ten main candidates that...

Cradle to Cocoon: California Tracking Students for, Um, Well, Maybe,…

January 24, 2024 5:12 pmJanuary 24, 2024 5:12 pm

Those in the hard studies – physics, engineering, chemistry, medicine , etc. – already have hard facts and run their work by what they say (or are supposed to.) Soft studies folks – sociologists, education degree holders, communications types, gender...

About Last Week…

January 22, 2024 6:36 amJanuary 22, 2024 6:36 am

So Toni Atkins announced her gubernatorial campaign last week. Outside her close circle of friends and the all-powerful Sacramento Blob – conveniently the same thing in her case – no one noticed. Sometimes candidates are no hopers, some run for...

House Passes Rep. Kiley’s Bi-Partisan ‘PRESS Act’ to Protect Reporters

January 20, 2024 9:33 amJanuary 20, 2024 9:56 am

With the massive government-coordinated censorship programs in place and the mainstream media questioning any defense of the First Amendment, it would seem freedom of the press is on its back foot of late. But Thursday, the House of Representatives –...

Cal Lutheran Faculty in Revolt

January 20, 2024 8:07 amJanuary 21, 2024 9:21 pm

While the brouhaha at Harvard has garnered international headlines, a smaller scale skirmish is happening closer to home at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks. Earlier this week, the faculty assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution of “no confidence” in President...

Gascon in Crosshairs at DA Debate

January 19, 2024 2:35 amJanuary 19, 2024 2:36 am

There were ten candidates on the stage at the Los Angeles Magazine-sponsored Los Angeles County District Attorney’s race debate – eight of them roundly criticized current DA George Gascon – two, including Gascon himself, did not. In trying to defend...

Deference Deterrence: Will U.S. Supreme Court Let the Bureaucrats Keep Running Wild?

January 17, 2024 5:03 pmJanuary 17, 2024 9:06 pm

There is a legal thing called “Chevron deference” and it has encouraged the massive growth of the power and scope of the bureaucratic state over the past 40 years. Named after a 1984 legal case, the doctrine holds (in a...