Marc Cooper

No Time for a Sucker

I thought it only fair to spend Columbus Day weekend with some of Southern California’s Native Americans, giving them back at least some of the booty stolen over the centuries by the White Man. I dutifully did my stint at the blackjack tables run by the Cahuila tribe’s Agua Caliente......

Jonestown for Democrats

Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov The toxic Gray Kool-Aid so vigorously and blindly lapped up by Democrats and liberals over the past week seemed fully ingested by the time the polls closed Tuesday night. As the 8 o’clock hour ominously tolled at the Biltmore, the ballroom bleachers sagged under the weight......

Davis Deathwatch

This is the end, my beautiful friend, this is the end. The moment has come for Governor Gray Davis to ride that snake — seven miles long, old and his skin cold — and head for the lake. The Blue Bus is gassed up nearby, anxiously idling, and geared up......

Back at the Carnival

SACRAMENTO — Democrats owe Arianna Huffington a handsome debt for her performance at the Great Gubernatorial Debate. If she hadn’t been here and had she not kept Arnold Schwarzenegger tied up in relentless guerrilla crossfire, the Terminator would have totally flattened the staggeringly hapless Cruz Bustamante. The lieutenant governor served......

Punching-Out Gray

By punch cards Gray Davis was re-elected last fall. And by the same system it now seems, he will finally be punched out of office, as originally scheduled, on October 7. The 11-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals as much as laughed the ACLU “voting rights” lawsuit......

Courts, Coups and Clinton Too: Priceless

Casino cash funneled to Cruz: $3 million. Labor cash pledged to the governor’s anti-recall movement: $10 million. Former Groper-in-Chief Bill Clinton in church citing New Testament Scripture and praying for Gray Davis: priceless! What’s next? We already know. The most solidly pro-Democrat court in the country acts on a brief......
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You, Sir, Are No Gene McCarthy

It’s what professional political consultants call “the pivot” — the usually scripted moment when their candidate-client pauses in the middle of a debate, turns and, face to face, directly unloads some stinging dose of unpleasantness on a deserving or undeserving rival. The possibility of a good, juicy pivot like Lloyd......

Storm of the Century

The state labor meeting in Manhattan Beach concluded Tuesday in an intricately staged photo op: Governor Gray Davis flanked by legendary farm worker union co-founder Dolores Huerta and state labor chief Art Pulaski. As the chants of “No Recall!” voiced by dozens of other union activists died down, Pulaski —......

Circus Maximus

Talk about recall circuses. The Big Tent went up Tuesday night at UCLA and Governor Gray Davis rolled out his anti-recall campaign by reminding us at least 10 times that he’s coming out fighting — fighting for me! For you! The people! For all of California! Our future! Against the......

It’s Democracy, Stupid

It’s time to tune out the bleating elites and vacant talking heads whose doomsday warnings about these exciting times raise questions about their sanity. They need to spend more time with their de Tocqueville, who could have warned them that here in America nothing is more chaotic than democracy itself......