The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Pamela Geller Goes Hollywood

LOS ANGELES — Frankly, I didn’t think it could happen, and blogged to that effect. But when I stopped by for a cup of coffee with Evan Sayet, he told me that it was entirely possible to attend the Pamela Geller/Robert Spencer event at 7 p.m. and still make it to LAX in time to […]

Great: Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi Have Screwed Up My Last Day in L.A.

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — My plans were all set: I’d drop by Pamela Geller’s 7 p.m. event on Sepulveda Boulevard, get some quick pictures, jump in the rental car, hustle down to LAX and return the car, and still leave myself plenty of time to catch the red-eye flight back home. What could possibly go wrong? […]

Ladd Ehlinger Jr. Goes Hollywood

My latest column at The American Spectator: HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — On a sound stage near Santa Monica Boulevard, actress Valerie Novak flubs a line and director Ladd Ehlinger Jr. asks her to repeat it. “And — action!” Novak nails the line this time and continues with her dramatic monologue when the director’s cell phone rings, […]

Fear and Loathing in Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — I’m at a sound stage near Santa Monica Boulevard where Ladd Ehlinger Jr. is directing his latest series of political ads. There is something of an embargo about the exact nature of the production, and I’m on deadline for The American Spectator, so I can’t give you the full story now. However, […]

California Reporter Nick Green Says He Is ‘Victim of an Andrew Breitbart Wannabe’

“So imagine my surprise today to find I’m the victim of an Andrew Beitbart wannabe, a blogger with a clear agenda of his own who has decided in his hypocrisy I have one of my own.” — Nick Green, Torrance (Calif.) Daily Breeze He’s the victim, you see. Nick Green was just minding his own […]

Da Tech Guy Interviews Mattie Fein

The local newspaper can’t be bothered, but she scores big with New Media: “There are serious issues in the district and the voters deserve the issues on the table.” Read the whole thing. Remember it was Da Tech Guy who loaned me the Famous Fedora of Objectivity, which made another celebrity appearance today: Yeah, Mattie Fein has […]

California Reporter to Republican Candidate: ‘We’re Not Interested’

A reporter for the Torrance (Calif.) Daily Breeze sent an e-mail to a political consultant saying the newspaper is “not interested” in covering Republican candidate Mattie Fein, who is challenging Democratic Rep. Jane Harman in California’s 36th District. In the e-mail sent Wednesday (see text below), Daily Breeze reporter Nick Green told consultant John S. […]

California: Land of Witch Doctors

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — “Natural” medicine is big on the Left Coast, and what’s more natural than sexual assault? Gardena police arrested a self-described witch doctor on Wednesday on suspicion of groping at least two women or girls. Rigoberto Padilla Carranza, 53, was arrested at his Gardena business — Productos Naturales Rigo at 2210 Marine […]

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