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John McKinney: Candidate for Los Angeles DA

October 12, 2023 10:30 amOctober 12, 2023 10:30 am

John McKinney knows temptation. Before becoming a lawyer, before rising through the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office to a position as deputy district attorney in Major Crimes (he successfully prosecuted the murderer of rapper Nipsey Hussle,) he was just...

DA Gascon: Disavow the DSA!

October 11, 2023 5:06 pmOctober 11, 2023 6:58 pm

Given that he regularly expounds on hot button issues, the Los Angeles Association of Deputy District Attorneys is wondering why District Attorney Goerge Gascon has said nothing about the Hamas attack on Israel. Could it be that Gascon is the...

Ex Uno Plures: The Destruction of the Common Frame of Reference

October 9, 2023 12:14 pm

E Pluribus Unum – out of many, one. That has been the national aspiration since its founding – creating commonality while exulting individuality, building an expansive framework within which the people can thrive. In other words, creating common frames of...

About Last Week…

October 8, 2023 8:44 amOctober 8, 2023 8:44 am

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s rather inexplicable* pick of out-of-state swamp schemer Laphonza Butler is not going down terribly well with the public. About one-third of Californians said “who?” (if the poll had before the pick that number would have 99.27%,) about...

CalOSHA Throws Pandemic Shade

October 6, 2023 2:30 amOctober 6, 2023 2:31 am

Between the end of August, 2020 and December, 30, 2022, a California business was cited for a “COVID-19 Related Violation” every 9 hours and 48 minutes. Overall, in less than two-and-a-half years, CalOSHA issued 2,096 pandemic-related citations with a fine...

Jon Hatami, Candidate for Los Angeles DA

October 5, 2023 1:58 pmOctober 5, 2023 9:29 pm

George Gascon had been the Los Angeles County District Attorney for two weeks and already Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami had already had enough. Angry enough about Gascon’s day one “policy directives” that he went public, blasting Gascon and saying...

LA County Parents’ Free Speech Win Has National import

October 3, 2023 8:30 pmOctober 3, 2023 8:38 pm

In a major win for the basic American right of freedom of speech that could have national implications, a Los Angeles County Judge has ruled a civil trial against County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer’s draconian and censorious health department...