Santa Barbara mass murderer Elliot Rodger left a 141-page manifesto in which he revealed a hatred of women–and an obsession with the California State Lottery. Several times throughout the text, the disturbed 22-year-old recalls playing the Mega Millions and Powerball
It seems almost impossible to think that retiring Rep. Henry Waxman, a one-man liberal institution who has represented the west side of Los Angeles for forty years, could fail to be succeeded by a fellow Democrat. Yet that is precisely
Santa Barbara mass murderer Elliot Rodgers claimed that he had acted out of retribution for his rejection by women. Yet even a cursory examination of the videos and the 141-page manifesto left by the 22-year-old suggest the opposite: that he,
Retired Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley is still fondly remembered by many in the Windy City, but he left three giant messes for his successors: a failing pension system that rivals Detroit’s for insolvency; a bad parking meter deal that
A California man was sentenced this week to eight years in federal prison for transporting two minor girls from Oakland to Nevada for the purpose of working as prostitutes, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced. According to court documents, one
Republican moderate Neel Kashkari has closed the gap with Tea Party favorite Tim Donnelly in the race for California governor, while both trail incumbent Democrat Jerry Brown by a wide margin, a new poll reveals. The Public Policy Institute of
LOS ANGELES, CA — Billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, one of the most prominent contributors to Republican candidates in recent elections, will host a fundraiser for Elan Carr in Los Angeles on May 29 in his race to succeed Rep.
LOS ANGELES, CA — Billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, one of the most prominent contributors to Republican candidates in recent elections, will host a fundraiser for Elan Carr in Los Angeles on May 29 in his race to succeed Rep.
The mainstream media are all agog and aghast in feigned outrage at Porterville, California mayor Cameron Hamilton’s advice to victims of bullying: that they should “grow a pair and stick up for them damn selves.” This is timeless and eminently sensible
The worst thing about Macklemore’s antisemitic performance in Seattle last Friday is not that he dressed up as a hook-nosed, black-bearded Jewish caricature (in a non-ironic fashion). Nor is it that he performed his song “Thrift Shop,” driving home the
Gay and lesbian activist groups are working hard to defeat an experienced candidate who is running for District Attorney in Sacramento–despite the fact that she herself is a lesbian with a stack of law enforcement endorsements. The reason: they want
Unemployment in the San Jose metro area fell dramatically last month, by nearly 1%, the Silicon Valley Business Journal reports. The drop was driven largely by hiring in government and health care, and brings the area’s unemployment rate down to 5.4%–“close to
Gov. Jerry Brown defended his record in a meeting with the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board last week. In addition to touting his record on job creation, defending the troubled high-speed rail project, and claiming that Toyota’s departure from the state
Willie Brown, the charismatic former mayor of San Francisco, has penned a column for the San Francisco Chronicle in which he expressed his fervent wish that the city would be destroyed. “This weekend moviegoing America will watch Godzilla stomp the daylights out
The race for governor in California has become a joke–one told by the local media at the expense of the GOP. On the one side is Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, a Tea Party conservative whose enthusiasm for the Second Amendment is
State Senate candidate and free-birth-control activist Sandra Fluke lost a key endorsement this week, as the Santa Monica Democratic Club endorsed local school board president and Harvard graduate Ben Allen instead as its candidate for the 26th district in the
Dean Baquet, the new executive editor of the New York Times following the ouster of Jill Abramson, was himself ousted as editor of the Los Angeles Times in 2006–on Election Day. Baquet was reportedly removed because of his strong–and public–stance against cuts to
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — Hundreds of professional dominatrices began arriving in Los Angeles Wednesday for the eleventh annual DomCon, one of the largest conferences of bondage professionals in the United States. Held every year since 2004, DomCon is less about
A cat has saved a young boy from a vicious dog attack in a spectacular fight caught on surveillance video. The boy is making his way up a driveway on a toddler’s balance bicycle, struggling with each step, when a
On Tuesday, legislators, business groups and tax reformers reached a compromise to change part of California’s Proposition 13, the legendary restriction on property taxes passed by referendum in 1978. At the time, Prop 13 heralded the beginning of an economic
Republican gubernatorial candidate and Tea Party favorite Tim Donnelly was in second place in the latest poll, with a net favorable rating. California’s newspapers, however, seem determined to change that. The Los Angeles Times has focused on comments Donnelly made
Shelly Sterling, the wife of controversial Los Angeles Clipper owner Donald Sterling, has found a new ally in her bid to retain control of the team, in the event that the National Basketball Association ousts her husband as the owner:
The California State Bar is not commenting on whether it would discipline a California attorney who gave an electric shock to a witness during testimony in a Utah state court. The attorney, Don Howarth, gave an expert witness a trick
