The LAT investigates illegal registering

On Saturday, the LAT reported that it had interviewed 46 voters who recently changed their registration from Democrat to Republican and found that 37 of them believed they had been duped into changing their registration by a small Republican firm named YPM. The LAT did not report on Saturday that they had conducted an investigation of ACORN, which may have illegally registered thousands or millions of dead or fictitious people. ACORN, of course, registers Democrats.

Noonan on Palin

In her column today, Peggy Noonan comes down hard on Sarah Palin, primarily, it seems, because Palin hasn't declared her independence from the McCain campaign. Noonan thinks Palin should have informed the media and the public, by now, of her innermost thoughts and opinions. If those happen to conflict with McCain's then tough. We need to know these things.

But Palin is a creature of the McCain campaign. She can't go off and say whatever she feels like saying. She can't travel wherever she wants or appear on whatever television program she wants. No vice-presidential candidate can do those things. No presidential campaign can allow any daylight between the presidential candidate and his running mate.

Noonan's remarks seem to have another motivation too. Noonan considers herself an educated woman, a talented writer and an opinion maker. Palin is a wife and mother of five, and worse, a politician. Oh, and Palin is pretty and shapely and petite. It's a good thing she isn't blond. The two kinds of women do not mix. Like Kathleen Parker, Noonan can't or won't tolerate a woman like Palin.  

Kmeic is pro-choice

On the LAT's opinion pages today, supposedly conservative, Catholic, Doug Kmeic -- law professor and former Justice Department official -- argues that though Barack Obama is pro-choice, Catholics can vote for him because Obama spoke certain words in the last debate, lamenting the frequency of abortions and arguing for better education and adoption assistance. 

The problem is, they're just words. Politicians make lots of promises during campaigns. They tell people what they think people want to hear. They pander, and Obama was pandering.

What you can rely on is that Obama is a radical, left-wing liberal, and if he if he is elected he will be influenced by even more radical left-wing liberals like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer and perhaps William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. Obama is too high  risk.

Rainey prefers people who agree with him

LAT columnist James Rainey appeals today for what he thinks are reasonable Republicans. He wants them to convince John McCain to stop competing with Obama and accept his fate. Rainey relies on Republican "stalwarts" Ed Rollins and David Gergen on CNN, as well as liberal columnist Ronald Brownstein, to prove his point.

Rainey apparently thinks Rollins, Gergen, CNN and Brownstein are nonpartisan, the same as he, Rainey, is, or thinks he is. It's a safe bet that Rainey reads, watches and listens to MSM, NPR, PBS and CNN and thinks that's all the news that's fit to print or broadcast.

Rutten on trust

LAT columnist Tim Rutten says we have a crisis of trust and it's Bush's fault. No one trusts the government anymore, Rutten says, and they don't trust the media either. Rutten says both are essential.

Rutten is partly right but he blames the distrust of the media on "intense partisans of both left and right." Rutten would be wise to look in the mirror. He seems incapable of writing a column without blaming Bush or Republicans or conservatives for whatever he doesn't like.

Pot calls kettle black

Last Friday, LAT columnist James Rainey attacked Sean Hannity and his Sunday night show "Hannity's America." It isn't fair and balanced, Rainey says. But what Rainey writes isn't either.

Gov. vetoes Harvey Milk Day

California's governator sent out an e-mail yesterday to people who e-mailed him opposing California Assembly Bill 2567, which would have established May 22 of each year as Harvey Milk Day (California only) and would have required California schools to celebrate the day with special activities. The governator said in the e-mail that he had vetoed the bill. Good for him.