Musings from the Left Coast

Nun kann man ja durchaus, von gutem Willen und Mitleid getrieben, rufen: " Macht hoch die Tür, macht voll das Land " und alle Flü...

GW Bush burbled a lot about " the coalition of the willing " to prosecute what essentially were his private wars. But where are t...

NDR-Reporterin Aline Jabarine Dass die Flüchtlings-Aufnahmelager in Deutschland kein Spaß sind war klar, dafür braucht es keine Underco...

Ich finde meine Werte nur selten auf dem konservativen Blog " Die Achse des Guten " vertreten, aber Antje Sievers trifft heute mi...

Just a little footnote on the fact that Saudi Arabia is not taking a single muslim refugee, but is pushing to build 200 mosques for them in...

Nun sind verstopfte Waschbecken sicher nicht der Idealzustand. Und krakeelende Salafisten erst recht nicht. Aber was haben diese Lager...

Ignoble, ignominous and abominable. Slate Mag concludes that " Southern California is the New Deep South for the Death Penalty ...

I was about to skip forward through one of those "Cash in your hands. Tomorrow!" ads that cluster densly in late night programmin...

I have been around long enough to see some strange shenaningans in the news media. From a newsroom that had model-coffin on the shelf with t...

Avoiding death at all, literally all cost! There is this concept, that no price is too high to save a life. Aside from being a sentimental...

Religulousness taken to its absurd extreme: Preacher Pat Robertsons CBN.com network claims most Halloween candy has been demonized by wit...

Los Angeles sort of inoculates one against awe. Yet, once in a while you see something just remarkable. I just had my jaw drop, when I pluck...

Dick Cheney doing some post-interrogation clean-up??? Just wondering...

Despite the fact, that certain elements of the Republican Party have been mining for a bottom ever since Barak Obama was inaugurated Preside...

With the "Station"-Fire now into its sixth day and no wind to speak of, the sky over Los Angeles is blanketed by a gossamer of smo...