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Category Archives: Los Angeles
White Death enabling Oxycontin ring set up by Hispanic, Armenian immigrants in Los Angeles
Lot comments: What makes this story special is some of the details: They set up a waiting room, hired an elderly physician and gave the place a name that sounded like an ordinary clinic: Lake Medical. The doctor began prescribing … Continue reading
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Debate brews over proposed Southwest L.A. skyscraper
The underlying issue here is race. Non-blacks are moving into this black neighborhood and would flood in if more blacks could be pushed out and black crime reduced. Gentrification means white people are moving in (often led by gays). As … Continue reading
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LAT: Why the second movie is the biggest hurdle to becoming a filmmaker — especially for women and minorities
Elsewhere in the Times: “Outfest Los Angeles embraces the LGBT-friendly mainstream with ‘Ghostbusters’ and more LAT: Politics on parade: How Black Lives Matter halted a gay pride parade in Toronto
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Pushing The Mexicans Out Of Valley Village
Valley Village resident Steve Sailer writes: In my neighborhood, the Mexicans tend to get pushed out by taciturn guys named Ivan and Vlad. Nobody saw that coming.
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LAT: YouTube star charged with filing false police report after saying he was beaten near WeHo gay club
Love is love. LA TIMES: An openly gay YouTube star who said that he was brutally assaulted by three men in West Hollywood was charged Wednesday with filing a false police report. Last night was the worst night of my … Continue reading
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Santa Monica’s Dumpy Housing
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Santa Monica’s housing stock was pretty unimpressive when I lived there in 1981-82. No airconditioning in my dumpy apartment, but I only needed it about 10 days per year, and barely needed any heat. Before … Continue reading
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Was the Juice on the Juice?
Steve Sailer writes: Seriously, the reason the conventional wisdom has such trouble making sense out of the Simpson story is because O.J. epitomizes how beloved blacks had become by American whites in the last third of the 20th century…and how … Continue reading
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Rabbi Meir Pogrow Denounced for Sexual Misconduct by Six Rabbis from US and Israel
From Frum Follies: An Israeli rabbinical court issued a ruling (6/14/16; 8 Sivan 5776) denouncing 46-year-old Rabbi Meir Pogrow for sexual misconduct with women (see image below). The court ruling which I hope to translate in full was signed by … Continue reading
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O.J.: Made In America
Part one. It’s a hot night in Los Angeles. Around 1 a.m. Sunday, I give up trying to sleep and watch the fifth and final installment of this superb ESPN documentary series. The show brings back memories. I moved to … Continue reading
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Does LA Need To Make Clothes?
Steve Sailer writes: Los Angeles became a huge light manufacturing center in the 1980s by importing an illegal alien workforce to sew clothes together and the like. But is light manufacturing (i.e., low investment manufacturing) much good, except for the … Continue reading
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