Per CNN:
For only the second time in nearly three decades, there won’t be a Bush on the presidential ballot this November. But that absence may not be a permanent one, the current White House occupants hinted Sunday.
President Bush was asked by a SkyNews correspondent whether the end of his term marked the end of the [...]

Can you beat this? More unpaid bills for Congresswoman Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach), and this time they’re big ones.
As reported by Capitol Weekly’s Anthony York (and tipped here locally by Kevin Roderick’s LAObserved.com), Richardson’s Sacramento house–which she purchased in January 2007, shortly after being elected to State Assembly–has been foreclosed on.
Why? Turns out Richardson, [...]

Packed with variety and energy, ‘Insights’ makes art look simple

MATTHEW OHM’S ‘UNTITLED’
Pity the folks tasked with installing “Insights 2008,” the Cal State Long Beach Art Department’s annual juried exhibition at University Art Museum (UAM). This show seems to grow every year.
When I visited, the installers were still hard at work atop fiberglass ladders, and everywhere [...]

Mon | APR 28 “Goodbye, palm trees,” reports the Press-Telegram in a story with its first sentence ghost-written by Kurt Vonnegut explaining how a debilitating fungus is about to wipe out a palm-tree population that costs too much to preserve. Replacements for the 2,900 reportedly unsalvageable Phoenix palms infected by fusarium—famous for killing thousands as [...]

I don’t care what you claim as your party affiliation–Democrat, Republican, Progressive Wicken–you had to feel sorry for John McCain Wednesday. The Republican nominee for President was forced to go to the White House to accept the endorsement of George W. Bush, which is sort of like getting an endorsement from the guy who invented [...]

Can a Mormon who believes in magic glasses and golden tablets win the White House?
What’s the prpper role of religion in the White House? The Founding Fathers believed it had no role. But times have changed, and Thursday Mitt Romney will explain how his Mormon faith is a very good thing for America. Pundits [...]

Keeping Mitt’s dream alive
Mitt Romney, the most mannequin-like of the current crop of Republican presidential candidates, needs your help. Up until now, Mitt’s core fundraising strategy has been to raid his own multi-million dollar piggy bank, and loan his campaign money. But apparently, that’s not enough anymore. So Mitt wants you to sell your possessions [...]

Bush’s partner in the ‘Freedom Agenda’
Having originally come to office by overthrowing the government, it’s only fitting that General Pervez Musharraf is following up his victory in the Pakistan’s recent presidential election by overthrowing the government again.
Musharraf says he declared a state of emergency in order to fight Islamic extremists. His critics say Musharraf is [...]

Justice for George W. Bush
A Chicago Sun-Times columnist speculates about George W. Bush’s post-presidential career, and a woman whose 19 year-old grandson was killed in Iraq sends in the perfect idea. Anne Collins writes:
Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, in the wind and snow of winter and the heat and humidity of summer, let [...]

TUES OCT. 23: FEMA IS HERE!
Tues | Oct 23 Welcome to hell. Yes, another day, another fire as about one million people are displaced and an area roughly the size of Rhode Island is scorched. Just as predictable as the wind fanning the flames has been the reaction of some of the nation to our [...]