Long Beach Vice Mayor Bonnie Lowenthal was all smiles Saturday after receiving 67.3 percent of the vote at the Democratic Party’s Pre-Primary Endorsement Conference. But Councilwoman Tonia Reyes Uranga escaped as the short-term survivor by keeping Lowenthal from getting the 70 percent needed to qualify for the party’s official backing in their race for the [...]

Chuck Norris’s craggy yet oddly immobile face has been bobbing over Huckabee’s shoulder for weeks and weeks (really, he looks like an ancient Muppet with malignant melanoma). That’s a good thing, because even though his televised image frightens children, we know that if he’s over there then there is little chance of running into [...]