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Category Archives: Los Angeles
Forbes: Why California Keeps Making Homelessness Worse
Michael Shellenberger writes: California is home to some of the world’s toughest environmental and public health laws, but skyrocketing homelessness has created an environmental and public health disaster. The 44,000 people living, eating, and defecating on the streets of L.A. … Continue reading
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Why Did The News Media Lose Interest So Quickly In The Death Of Bodybuilding Cosmetic Surgeon Bruce Nadler And His Wife Terri?
There was no follow-up on this story. From ThinkSteroids.com Feb. 8, 2008: The Los Angeles Police Department discovered former bodybuilding cosmetic surgeon Bruce Nadler, MD and his wife dead as the result of gunshot wounds on Monday, February 4, 2008. … Continue reading
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A Chinese Massacre In 1871 Los Angeles
From David Kipen’s new book, Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018: Frank Lecouvreur writes: October 24, 1871: There has been a Chinese massacre this month, a most disgraceful affair, the like of which is … Continue reading
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I Was Livestreaming On Youtube When The 1:52 AM 3.3 Earthquake Rolled Through
Map of the testimonies received so far following the #earthquake M3.3 in Greater Los Angeles Area, Calif. 1hr 7min ago pic.twitter.com/aOLRUgBAVj — EMSC (@LastQuake) February 26, 2019
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Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018 (Modern Library)
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Racial Politics In America
Ron Unz writes: Consider that blogger Steve Sailer is a California native who moved back to live in his hometown of Los Angeles around twenty years ago. While he was growing up, that city was among the whitest in America, … Continue reading
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Who Leads Orthodox Jewish Los Angeles?
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LAT: ‘Los Angeles is filthy, so I started picking up trash. I sure could use some help’
Charles Fleming writes: Long before we were urged to Make America Great Again, we were told to Keep America Beautiful. Baby boomers may remember the 1950s campaign that made littering a criminal offense, a time when offenders were targeted by … Continue reading
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‘Boyle Heights Anti-White Vigilantes Try to Drive Out Kosher Coffee Shop’
COMMENTS AT STEVE SAILER: * These days “anti-gentrification” is just a generic term for kicking people you don’t like out of the neighborhood. * If people in a 94% white neighborhood in say W. Virginia were protesting the opening of … Continue reading
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LAT: Aspiring rapper turns L.A. commute into nightmare
Los Angeles Times: The worst qualities of Los Angeles — endless traffic and shameless self-promotion — collided in exasperating fashion Wednesday on the 110 Freeway in downtown. It happened about 8 a.m. when a husky, shirtless man in underwear scaled … Continue reading
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