Opinion: In today’s pages: The race war that wasn’t
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The editorial board tells Congress it has better things to do than condemn MoveOn.org ads:
‘General Petraeus or General Betray Us?’ Get it? See, it’s funny because it rhymes. Good one, huh?Well, not really. MoveOn.org’s juvenile attack on Gen. David H. Petraeus in a full-page ad in the New York Times on Sept. 10 might have merited a trip to the principal’s office, or at least a stern rebuke from some of the liberal activist group’s more grown-up multimillionaire donors. But an official condemnation from both houses of Congress?Oddly, Congress didn’t seem eager to intervene after a far more egregious and consequential low blow directed at a military man by a political activist group: the infamous ‘Swift boat’ ads attacking Democratic Sen. John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign.
The board praises the governor’s water plan but tells him to work out the details, and wonders if the Supreme Court will return to consensus and caution in its new term.
Columnist Gregory Rodriguez debunks the myth of L.A.’s black versus brown race war. Contributing editor Gustavo Arellano discusses that other wayward socal bishop, Orange’s Tod D. Brown. Columnist Niall Ferguson follows the impact of an aging China, and former Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich asks if Harvard is really a charity.
Letter writers respond to an op-ed on the dangers of delivering babies by C-section. Pacific Palisades’ Russell Kussman notes that vaginal delivery can be dangerous, too, ‘When ‘vaginal birth after caesarean’ was in its heyday -- before publication of data showing it to be risky -- I represented dozens of severely brain-damaged babies whose mothers had uterine ruptures during delivery.’