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Representative Henry Waxman is insisting that the owners of the L.A. Times cancel current plans to spin-off its publishing division into a stand-alone company. Waxman thinks that the announced structure is detrimental to the newspapers he wants protected. Tribune Co.,

The Los Angeles Times has blamed Breitbart California, which launched Sunday evening, for what it predicts will be a Republican “slide” among women and Latino voters. The Times cited a satirical poster by street artist Sabo, depicting U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy

A “Promise Zone” for Los Angeles that President Barack Obama announced in January would be the beneficiary of federal funds for economic development is under fire for bypassing poorer residents in greater need of aid, and directly benefiting a nonprofit

The Los Angeles Times greeted the Obamacare enrollment data on Monday with a striking headline, claiming that “at least 9.5 million previously uninsured people have gained coverage,” which is 3 million people more than the Obama administration itself claimed last week

The ObamaCare launch disaster wasn’t all about the bumblers in the Obama Administration scarfing down $600 million and farting out a pile of 404 errors.  The state exchanges had a lot of trouble, too.  The worst ones are still abject

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny was in Washington today as part of a long-observed St. Patrick’s Day tradition. He also used the visit to lobby the American government for immigration reform, in effect asking for amnesty for an estimated 50,000 undocumented

Three years ago, a massive 9.0-magnitude offshore earthquake rocked Japan and generated a massive tsunami that eventually knocked out the Fukushima nuclear power plant and caused widespread destruction. Today, Californians are bracing for a similar event, as new research indicates

My two-bedroom apartment in Santa Monica overlooks a sort of courtyard/alleyway that is surrounded by several dozen other apartments. On still summer nights, there is a couple–no one knows quite who they are–who make love with their windows open. They

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said Tuesday that, by 2024, Obamacare will reduce the size of the U.S. labor force by 2.5 million full-time workers, to which White House Press Secretary Jay Carney replied that 2.5 million Americans leaving the

Journalist Wendy Lee of local public radio station KPCC reported Monday that Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), who represents Hollywood and much of west Los Angeles, has written to the Tribune Company, demanding that it provide him with documents about the

M.I.A. caught plenty of heat for flipping the bird at audience members during her Super Bowl halftime show performance earlier this year.Now, the Sri Lankan rapper is defending the gesture as a “godly” act after the NFL demanded both a

In his two successful presidential campaigns, Barack Obama won the State of California by huge margins. Now, according to the LA Times, the bill is coming due and it is socking middle class Californians in a brutal way. Not only

Uber-producer Harvey Weinstein know how to snare Oscar buzz better than almost anyone in Hollywood. He’s also expert at wresting editorial control from some of film’s biggest directors en route to making himself the center of attention, according to a

The controlling owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers is interested in purchasing the Los Angeles Times. The Times’ Bill Shaikin reported on Friday that Mark Walter, who is the chief executive of the Guggenheim Partners group that put up much

The Obama administration is considering resettling thousands of refugees who left Syria during the country’s ongoing civil war to multiple towns and cities across the United States, the L.A. Times reports. A resettlement plan under discussion in Washington and other

The Hollywood Reporter’s Paul Bond details what might be the lamest protest in the history of Los Angeles — which is saying a lot. Thursday, in Beverly Hills, a few dozen (the L.A. Times says 100) people showed up to

Tuesday afternoon a bombshell was dropped into the already explosive IRS scandal when it was reported that Lois Lerner, a top IRS official in the non-profit division that paralyzed Tea Party groups with ongoing harassment, would invoke the Fifth Amendment

On the heels of reports that “half” the staffers at the L.A. Times would resign if the paper was sold to conservative billionaires the Koch brothers, the Newspaper Guild-Communications Workers of America, a journalist labor union, have issued a statement

Here is a fascinating look at our open-minded, objective, unbiased, not-at-all-liberal media: At a Los Angeles Times in-house awards ceremony last week, columnist Steve Lopez addressed the elephant in the room. Speaking to the entire staff, he said, “Raise your

The National Rifle Association recently put out its National School Shield proposal elucidating its ideas on adding more security in the nation’s schools. Right on cue, the Los Angeles Times ridiculed the plan as but “a hail of bullets” that

UPDATE: Howard Kurtz states that a source of his claims Walters will retire in 2014. A source confirms that Barbara Walters will step down in May 2014, but wants to announce it on her own terms. Hard in the Twitter

Jerry Kammer at the Center for Immigration Studies takes a look at how the New York Times has moved from a thoughtful pro-immigrant paper to a destructive force that encourages illegal immigration and demonizes the other side: Far from seeking

Disney’s animated classic Peter Pan could have suffered from today’s politically correct prism. The 1953 animated film depicts Native Americans in a fashion that would never pass muster today. The film’s new Blu-ray release keeps every element of the film

The L.A. Police Department had big news on December 27. They had seized a pair of rocket launchers! This, of course, would have been shocking news if only they really had found “rocket launchers” in the City of Angels. As

LOS ANGELES — Two veteran LAPD officers are under investigation for allegedly forcing women to have sex with them, according to court documents obtained by the L.A. Times. Officers Luis Valenzuela and James Nichols targeted at least four women whom

A few months ago, 85 members of Congress sent Attorney General Eric Holder a letter about the swatting of four conservative bloggers, but the story got little traction in the mainstream media. However, when former American Idol judge Simon Cowell and

Sandy Banks of the L.A. Times has figured out why anyone would vote against Barack Obama. Why, they are all racists, of course. Oh, you don’t use “the N word,” she tells us, but we know what you Romney voters really

For his L.A. Times column for Halloween day, Doyle McManus rates the best and worst political ads of this presidential campaign cycle. Even as he presented some interesting entries, McManus completely ignored the hateful Obama ad that claimed Mitt Romney

Gee, why don’t more Hollywood conservatives come out of the closet? Well, part of the reason is that the only media pipe organ in Los Angeles is left of Fidel Castro, even more dishonest, and almost as mean. Nothing Ms.

Both the Romney and Obama camps are attempting to lower expectations for their respective performances in the upcoming presidential debates, both saying the other has an advantage. In a recent memo to Romney supporters, for instance, Romney adviser Beth Myers

The first presidential debate is only a week away, but the L. A. Times is laying the groundwork to explain a bad Obama performance in the contest. In a September 26 article, L. A. Times writer Christi Parsons is already