“It was chaos. Everyone was running everywhere, trying to hide. Why would they kill us? We are Muslims. We are not Russians or Americans,” Khalil said. He said he worked for the same public welfare department during the five-year rule of the Taliban, which ended with the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. Source: “Los Angeles” – Google […]
Blog: Conozca cómo puede afectarle el cierre del gobierno
Las agencias afectadas incluyen los departamentos de Seguridad Nacional, Estado, Agricultura, Comercio, Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, Interior, Justicia y Transporte, así como la NASA, la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos y la Agencia de Protección Ambiental. A unos 800,000 trabajadores federales en esas agencias no se les pagará; Se espera que unos 420,000 de ellos […]
Blog: Why the Trump presidency will end poorly – Los Angeles Times
Character is one of those topics, like culture or morality, that everyone strongly supports yet also argues about. When James Q. Wilson, one of the greatest social scientists of the last half-century, turned his scholarly attention to character, many of his colleagues in academia were repulsed. Even though every one of them surely believed in […]
Blog: Los Angeles Valley College’s 1950s-era bungalow classrooms see their end – LA Daily News
Aged wood-framed bungalows that were among the oldest buildings at Los Angeles Valley College were demolished Thursday, more than half a century after they were brought to the campus. The first to go were classrooms 50, 51 and 52, the sites of countless tests and at some point a home of an administrative office, falling […]
Blog: Menace and Malice: On Dorothy B. Hughes’s Debut, “The So Blue Marble”
DECEMBER 25, 2018 GRAND MASTER Dorothy B. Hughes’s debut hard-boiled novel, The So Blue Marble (first published in 1940), is being reissued by Penzler Press as the first in a series of American Mystery Classics. This acknowledges her place as a significant contributor to the Golden Age of American crime fiction of the 1920s, 1930s, […]
Blog: Today: The Christmas Bear?
As the market dropped yet again, President Trump unleashed a blizzard of tweets, attacking the Federal Reserve as “the only problem” in the U.S. economy, praising Saudi Arabia’s autocratic regime, lashing out at departing Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis and more. “I am all alone (poor me) in the White House waiting for the […]