As I quietly sit in my backyard, I watch the one lone tree that sits within it. I have no idea what type of tree it is and quite frankly, it does not matter. To me, all that matters is it is an exquisite thing of...
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David Lacy
Columnist and iPinion co-founder - July 4, 2018 in Uncategorized
The Not So Curious Case of Ocasio-Cortez
Go, go women! Until you threaten the democratic establishment that is. When Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) was asked about the astounding drubbing that 28 year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez handed to a 30-plus year veteran of New York democratic politics (Joseph Crowley), her response was not entirely...
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Julie Parker
Columnist - July 4, 2018 in Columnists
‘Tis of thee
In the 1957 film, “12 Angry Men,” Henry Fonda plays the lone dissenting juror on a panel which has overwhelmingly judged a Puerto Rican teenager guilty of murdering his father. In the jury room, he argues and cajoles with the men, forcing his fellow jurors...
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Maya Spier Stiles North
Columnist, Copy Editor - July 4, 2018 in Columnists
I will pledge no allegiance to Trump’s America
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one’s country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. George McGovern I confess I’ve never been middle America’s idea of a patriot. If it’s red, white and blue...
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Carolyn Wyler
Columnist and C.O.O - July 4, 2018 in Columnists
“What so proudly we”…HELL NO!
I am angry, embarrassed, frustrated and scared, but proud? It’s not an adjective I would use to describe how I feel about my country right now. Not at all! I can remember the day when my feelings began to change. It was on my 57th...
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Debra DeAngelo
Columnist - July 2, 2018 in Columnists
Banning fireworks sales would be ‘safe and sane’
All sales of personal fireworks should be banned in California due to the potential to start wildfires.
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Donald Sanders
Columnist - July 2, 2018 in Columnists
Diogenes, the Streamkeeper and the cure for despair
Back in the old days, a guy named Diogenes spent all his time looking for an honest man, an admirable man. I don’t know if he ever found one or not, but I think I can tell you why he had so much trouble. He...
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Kelvin Wade
Columnist - June 29, 2018 in Columnists
Want to take back the Supreme Court? We have to be ruthless
I ran this column on July 2, 2014. I foresaw that the Republicans would do something like hold the Scalia seat open and deny Barack Obama a Supreme Court pick. I’m rerunning this column now, not to say, “I told you so” but to reiterate...
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Stephen Cooper
Columnist - June 26, 2018 in Columnists
Blaze Mob: “Musical messages that’ll last forever” (the interview)
On a recent Tuesday, as the sun descended in Los Angeles, disappearing in an earthy, caramel glow, the Melody Lounge in Chinatown was set ablaze by a mob – the dynamic reggae band “Blaze Mob” – with harmony, unity, and the positive vibrations conscious roots...
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