Former President Trump appears at a campaign rally at Calhoun Ranch in Coachella on Saturday. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times) Donald Trump’s cognitive decline has a soundtrack. It includes the Village People’s “YMCA.,” Guns N’ Roses’ “November Rain,” and Elvis Presley’s “An American Trilogy.” Don’t try to find a theme among the musical numbers. There isn’t … Read more
The oath that Bill Clinton took to begin his second term as president was 35 words. His inauguration cost $44 million. Do the math. It comes out to well over $1 million a word. Of course, for the $31 million in private contributions and another $12.7 million in taxpayer money, the republic–and particularly the approximately … Read more
The Supreme Court handed President Trump a significant defeat Monday, turning down the administration’s plea for a quick ruling that would have upheld the president’s power to end special protections for so-called Dreamers. The court’s decision keeps in place a legal shield for nearly 700,000 young immigrants for the rest of this year, and perhaps … Read more
Appearing Sunday on the CBS program “Face the Nation,” President Trump’s budget director, Mick Mulvaney, engaged in a drive-by shooting of some the nation’s neediest and most defenseless people: the disabled. Mulvaney’s attack shared its essential qualities with most previous Republican attacks on disabled Americans, in that it was arrogant, ignorant and abetted by the … Read more
President Clinton’s brother-in-law and the daughter of Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) were married Saturday in the first White House wedding in 23 years. The Rose Garden was brimming with pink and white geraniums and roses as the Clintons played host for the marriage of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s younger brother, Tony Rodham, to Nicole … Read more
The California Department of Motor Vehicles has spent $44 million over the last six years on a computer modernization project it now admits is a hopeless failure, prompting the Legislature to order an investigation. DMV Director Frank S. Zolin, who has been on the job since 1991, said Tuesday that the project got off on … Read more
Ling Zeng, a Chinese American Trump supporter takes the stage with the Republican candidate Wednesday at the Anaheim Convention Center. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) Ling Zeng got celebrity treatment at this week’s Donald Trump rally in Anaheim. One after another, dozens of Trump supporters approached to snap pictures of Zeng and her friends, … Read more
An Oregon mother, her voice filled with emotion, told a congressional panel Wednesday how her son was so anguished over society’s intolerance toward gays like himself that he killed himself by leaping off a freeway overpass and into the path of an 18-wheel truck. “Bobby needed an education free of the nagging fear that his … Read more
For a moment here Saturday, as he appeared before the most exuberant crowd of the day, Vice President Dan Quayle could reach back into the past and snarl at the ghost of the last Democratic President. “Remember a guy named Jimmy Carter?” he asked supporters gathered at a senior citizens center. “You see what Jimmy … Read more
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has drawn criticism from the family of Cesar Chavez. The late labor leader was close to the candidate’s father, the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, in the 1960s. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) During the 1980 presidential primaries, Fernando Chavez traveled for months with Robert F. Kennedy … Read more
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