Kings keep searching for elusive answers as they face the Blues

• January 28, 2024

After a lopsided defeat in Colorado, the Kings’ outlook had become so bleak that even their beacon of positivity Phillip Danault –– “always progression, never regression” is his stated ethos –– remained at a loss for inspiration.

“It’s getting hard to get our pace and our confidence going into the game. We have to get back to trusting each other, and, I don’t know, we’re running out of solutions,” Danault said.

“I think the guys are working hard, I don’t know, it just doesn’t work,” he added.

“It” may be construed to mean just about anything since apart from the Kings’ penalty kill, little has functioned since the close of 2023. When the Kings get a reprieve, the first month of 2024 will be over. In the month leading up to a showdown with the Blues in St. Louis, they’ve won just two games, the fewest in the NHL.

They are hanging by a thread to a postseason berth and could be out of the picture heading into a pause that theoretically could help them get healthier –– physically in some cases and also mentally –– but could also see them return with an even more significant deficit in the standings behind the West’s top teams.

On a positive note, Quinton Byfield, who missed Friday’s flop with an illness, was back on the ice at practice per Kings blogger Zach Dooley. He’s been remarkably consistent in terms of effort and production alike, drawing high praise during low moments from Coach Todd McLellan after a blown lead against Buffalo brought out the boo birds.

There have been so many rapid recalculations as the Kings metamorphosize from lions into mice that it could even impact their late-season outlook. ESPN’s Greg Wyshinski reported that an Eastern Conference GM told him that this prolonged plummet for the Kings might “change the math” at the trade deadline.

Math hasn’t been the Kings’ forte this season, as they’ve carried short rosters and even short lineups. That was even after scraping the barrel and skimping on their most blaring and glaring need, goaltending (all-star Cam Talbot’s numbers have ballooned of late), while eschewing depth, talent and favorable contracts to bring in Pierre-Luc Dubois at crippling costs. Dubois reprised his role as The Invisible Man on Friday, registering one shot on goal and a minus-one rating in a match where malaise reigned across the lines and pairings.

Even Drew Doughty, whose surly remarks dominated the narrative after the loss to Buffalo, got in on the tragicomedy with a turnover that led to a goal. His pal Trevor Lewis has resembled a bald tire playing in place of the injured Blake Lizotte on an utterly inept fourth line that desperately misses the Kings’ smallest but most effortful player.

There’s little that can be pointed to as going swimmingly for the Kings as even Danault’s second line has slipped, leaving what was once a four-line team predicated on depth and balance by the brass’s own admission to feed on whatever scraps its mostly healthy but still tattered lineup can provide each night.

The recall of Alex Turcotte on Saturday might inject some new blood into the room, though it seems beyond unfair to expect greatness from a player with just 12 games of NHL experience who sustained two concussions and a multitude of maladies over the course of his brief career.

He was to be the crown jewel in a draft that the Kings heralded. Turcotte was the fifth overall selection in 2019 and one of four picks the Kings’ had in Rounds 1 and 2 after finishing with the NHL’s second worst record. Of those four, Turcotte has lost significant development time to injuries; Tobias Bjornfot was waived and claimed by rival Vegas; Samuel Fagemo was waived, claimed and then returned to the Kings only to languish on the fourth line lately; and Arthur Kaliyev has found himself the subject of countless trade rumors amid inconsistent performance and deployment.

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The Forum Report’s Jon Rosen reported that General Manager Rob Blake overruled his own scouting department to select Turcotte –– who was by most external measures a bankable pick with a high floor and a star’s ceiling –– and perhaps under the influence of former teammate Tony Granato (he coached Turcotte at the University of Wisconsin).

This year in the minors, Turcotte has amassed 23 points in 28 games with a plus-8 rating.

Assuming he draws in, Turcotte will make his NHL season debut against the Blues, who are led in scoring by Robert Thomas. They’re winners of four straight contests after sweeping a three-game Northwestern road trip. Since Drew Bannister took over coaching duties from 2019 Stanley Cup winner Craig Berube, the Blues have gone 12-6-1 following a tepid 13-14-2 start.

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Orange County boys basketball standings: Saturday, Jan. 27

• January 28, 2024

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Standings for the Orange County boys basketball leagues through Friday, Jan. 26.

Trinity League
League
Overall

Mater Dei
7-1
23-2

St. John Bosco
7-1
22-4

JSerra
5-3
21-4

Santa Margarita
4-4
17-8

Orange Lutheran
1-7
9-14

Servite
0-8
10-14

South Coast League
League
Overall

San Clemente
6-0
21-5

San Juan Hills
3-2
15-9

Trabuco Hills
3-2
18-7

Tesoro
1-5
10-16

Capistrano Valley
1-5
11-15

Sea View League
League
Overall

Dana Hills
6-0
21-4

El Toro
4-3
9-16

Aliso Niguel
3-3
18-6

Mission Viejo
0-7
9-18

Surf League
League
Overall

Los Alamitos
4-0
21-4

Fountain Valley
2-2
16-10

Edison
1-3
19-7

Newport Harbor
1-3
21-5

Wave League
League
Overall

Corona del Mar
3-0
20-5

Marina
3-1
19-7

Laguna Beach
1-3
12-14

Huntington Beach
0-3
14-11

Crestview League
League
Overall

Foothill
5-0
18-7

Canyon
4-1
20-6

Villa Park
1-4
12-14

Yorba Linda
0-5
14-11

North Hills League
League
Overall

El Dorado
5-0
17-9

Esperanza
2-2
9-16

Brea Olinda
1-3
8-14

El Modena
1-4
10-15

Freeway League
League
Overall

La Habra
8-0
22-4

Sonora
5-2
18-7

Troy
4-3
17-9

Sunny Hills
3-5
15-11

Fullerton
2-5
10-15

Buena Park
0-7
11-14

Orange Coast League
League
Overall

Costa Mesa
9-1
15-11

Calvary Chapel
7-2
14-10

St. Margaret’s
6-3
13-8

Estancia
7-4
19-8

Santa Ana
3-6
9-13

Orange
1-9
2-22

Saddleback
1-9
6-19

San Joaquin League
League
Overall

Pacifica Christian
6-1
17-10

Fairmont Prep
5-1
17-8

Orangewood Academy
2-4
10-14

San Gabriel Academy
2-4
13-9

Capistrano Valley Christian
1-6
11-14

Empire League
League
Overall

Cypress
7-0
19-5

Crean Lutheran
7-1
14-12

Tustin
5-3
16-10

Pacifica
3-5
16-10

Valencia
1-7
10-16

Kennedy
0-7
8-16

Pacific Coast League
League
Overall

Sage Hill
6-1
13-12

Northwood
6-1
19-6

Woodbridge
4-3
15-9

Irvine
4-3
13-12

Beckman
4-3
13-12

Portola
3-4
7-18

University
1-6
7-17

Laguna Hills
0-7
1-22

Garden Grove League
League
Overall

Los Amigos
6-1
16-7

Santiago
6-2
13-13

Rancho Alamitos
5-3
16-10

Loara
4-3
16-9

Bolsa Grande
1-7
4-15

La Quinta
1-7
4-20

Golden West League
League
Overall

Godinez
8-0
20-6

Westminster
6-2
13-9

Segerstrom
4-4
8-17

Ocean View
2-6
13-13

Katella
2-6
7-16

Garden Grove
2-6
10-16

Orange League
League
Overall

Savanna
8-0
15-9

Western
7-1
13-13

Anaheim
3-4
7-18

Santa Ana Valley
2-4
11-11

Magnolia
2-5
4-19

Century
0-8
12-14

Academy League
League
Overall

Western Christian
4-0
17-6

Tarbut V’ Torah
2-2
10-7

Newport Christian
2-3
6-3

The Webb Schools
0-3
7-11

Western League
League
Overall

Calvary Chapel/Downey
4-0
8-12

Samueli Academy
7-1
16-8

Vista Meridian
3-4
4-10

Magnolia Science Academy
3-5
4-9

Liberty Christian
1-4
3-5

Orange County Christian
0-4
0-4

Express League
League
Overall

Avalon
7-1
8-14

Acaciawood
5-1
7-11

Anaheim Discovery Christian
2-4
4-5

Southlands Christian
1-2
3-14

Eastside Christian
0-3
1-12

Bethel Baptist
0-4
0-4

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How D’Anton Lynn and Eric Henderson will work together as co-DCs at USC

• January 27, 2024

LOS ANGELES – Loaf (verb): To idle away time. To lounge, or saunter, idly or lazily.

It sounds cliche, ultimately, but the foundations of the Gus Bradley-era Los Angeles Chargers’ defense were simple: critique effort first. It was the coaches’ guiding star in 2017, Bradley’s first season as a part of Anthony Lynn’s staff. Every practice. Every game. And if players were caught on tape not sprinting to the ball, as then-defensive line coach Giff Smith recalled, they’d be marked down with a “loaf.”

In meetings the next day, coaches would pull up a slide and read aloud the highest tallies. INSERT PLAYER had 12 “loafs,” for example.

“And he’s getting embarrassed in front of his peers,” Smith recalled, of those days. “Anybody can run to the ball if you got any character to you. So, if you’re not running to the ball, you’re choosing to be selfish.”

All the while, sharing time in meeting rooms, defensive assistants D’Anton Lynn and Eric Henderson quietly observed.

“Critique effort first,” Smith said. “I’m sure they’re both still doin’ that.”

This otherwise-innocuous season in Los Angeles football memory – 9-7, missing the playoffs, lost altogether to history – planted the seeds for the relationship between Lynn and Henderson, both serving secondary roles in the first few years of their coaching careers. Six years later, they’ve reunited on a Los Angeles staff, tabbed as co-coordinators by Lincoln Riley and taking on the challenge of completely rebuilding a struggling USC defense.

It’s an interesting alignment, particularly in timing. Lynn was hired as USC’s newest defensive coordinator at the beginning of December, tabbed after a year at UCLA as the young savant who would remold the Trojans around the personnel he could attract, his defensive ideals quickly drawing a slew of transfers and recruits alike. Then USC announced the hire of Henderson, a big-time defensive line coach with the Rams who’d helped mold Aaron Donald, in mid-January – as a co-defensive coordinator. Suddenly, the program has two highly-regarded minds sharing one job.

Thus, the Southern California News Group spoke with members of the 2017 Chargers’ staff – the lone year in which the two overlapped – for a picture of how Lynn and Henderson will work in tandem at USC. All remember the two as bright, inventive minds who routinely were trusted with more responsibility than their job titles entailed. And the key point: their philosophies and coaching strengths have always been complementing, not contrasting, two men with strong personalities who will challenge each other but do so without job-title conceit.

“There is no ego with Eric Henderson,” Bradley, now the Colts’ defensive coordinator, told the SCNG. “And there’s no ego with D’Anton Lynn. So will it work? There’s not a doubt in my mind it will work.”

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Anthony Lynn knew D’Anton and Henderson were more than coworkers, he said, when his son invited Henderson to his wedding in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

Still, it didn’t seem as though the young Lynn and Henderson were exactly the best of friends. They had separate, specific focuses on that staff: Henderson working on the defensive line under Smith, Lynn working more closely with linebackers coach Richard Smith (now working under Bradley with the Colts) as a quality control assistant. They were more close colleagues, perhaps, with a deep respect.

“You could just tell, there’s a natural connection and a natural trust between the two,” Giff Smith said. “And you always felt like they would wind up on a staff together some way. I’m not claiming I would say I knew they were gonna be co-defensive coordinators together at USC, but I think we always thought they would be on a staff.”

Everyone, of course, knew that Lynn was his father’s son. He never acted like it, though, keeping his head down and cards close to the vest. He’d started four years in the secondary at Penn State, and despite being all of three years into his coaching career, Bradley began consulting the young Lynn to evolve the Chargers’ defensive philosophy – formerly utilizing a great deal of Cover 1 or “single-high” coverages with just one safety, but Lynn suggesting more split-safety actions.

And Henderson’s coaching timeline, too, sped up in just his first year of coaching at the NFL level. Before long, Giff Smith attested, he’d entrust Henderson to put together play-tape for technique sessions – sitting down with the likes of Pro Bowler Joey Bosa as a rookie NFL coach to critique his film. Normally, Bradley said, position coaches don’t split up any group responsibility with assistants; but Smith challenged Henderson to mold rookies and lower-level draft picks like Isaac Rochell, a seventh-round pick in 2017. Within one year, Henderson turned Rochell into a five-sack presence in his sophomore season.

“What he has,” Smith said of Henderson, “is the unique ability to tap the inner part of a guy to make him work harder than he ever thought he could. And that’s a gift that only a few coaches have.”

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One man, in this alignment, will have the headset. Will be the one to call plays. Will be the mind ultimately controlling the show, even as the two split responsibilities.

“I guarantee you it’s going to be D’Anton,” Richard Smith said, “the one making those calls on (Saturday).”

But based on that year together with the Chargers, former mentors anticipate responsibility being shared simply by harmonious coaching styles. Lynn is described by everyone, from coaches to parents to his own family, as a poker-faced, calm, analytical mind who’ll rarely explode. Henderson coaches, as Richard Smith said, with a twinkle in his eye. A smile, too.

“But he can get after your ass on the field, you know what I mean?” Smith said.

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It’s a natural pairing: Lynn the analyst, Henderson the motivator. And both were prepared for this, too, by those shared meeting rooms back in 2017, where Bradley would mandate his entire defensive staff game-planned together – no separation between the front and secondary. Henderson is more than a defensive-line coach, Bradley said; he understands the back end. And Lynn, who has specialized in coaching secondaries throughout his NFL tenure before his year at UCLA, has come into USC with a clear vision for molding the Trojans up front.

“I think they’re very much on the same page with that,” Giff Smith said. “I mean, D’Anton did a great job with the outside edge rushers at UCLA and creating pressure on the quarterback, and being creative on his different simulated pressures that he brought, and Eric did that under Raheem (Morris) a bunch too. So I just really think it’s an easy fit.”

And there’s one sure thing, at least: there’ll be no loafs around Howard Jones Field come fall.

“I find myself pulling for ‘em,” Bradley said, “because you feel like, ‘Gosh, this is how it’s supposed to work out.’”

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Fullerton postal worker run over as mail theft suspects try to get away

• January 27, 2024

Three people were arrested after they were videotaped driving into a postal worker who was trying to thwart what police say was the theft of hundreds of pieces of mail from a Fullerton post office.

Police were called to the post office at 1350 E. Chapman Ave. around 4:50 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 23, Fullerton Sgt. Ryan O’Neil said Saturday. A caller said someone had taken a crate of mail off a loading dock and fled in a black sedan. As the sedan left the parking lot, a female employee stood in front of the car, was pushed backward and fell into the street. She quickly got up on her own.

Cell phone footage captured the moment mail thieves ran over a mail lady after stealing mail from the Fullerton post office. The suspects walked into the facility targeting mail trays of checks before fleeing the location. #fullerton pic.twitter.com/0DLgspOqWg

— OC Hoods (@ocxhoods) January 25, 2024

About a mile south, at Orangethorpe and Raymond avenues near the 91 Freeway, an officer saw a car matching that description and pulled it over.

“Luckily, officers were in the right place at the right time,” police said in a Facebook post. “Officers conducted a traffic stop, and what do you know, a USPS mail bin was inside the vehicle. Needless to say, all occupants were delivered to jail.”

The three were arrested on suspicion of mail theft, robbery and assault with a deadly weapon — the car, O’Neil said.

Police are trying to determine whether the suspects were responsible for other mail thefts and robberies.

Federal officials say there has been a nationwide increase in such crimes.

Stealing mail provides crooks with numerous opportunities to profit. In addition to acquiring anything inside that in itself is valuable, thieves can alter checks and cash them, and they can sell or trade Social Security numbers and other personal information discovered. Mail is often targeted by drug addicts who lack cash.

It’s also less risky than robbing a bank because few mail thieves face federal charges that can result in longer sentences.

These thefts are turning increasingly violent, according to the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General.

In a September 2023 report, officials wrote the Postal Service said in May that robberies — theft by force or fear — of letter carriers are increasing.

In a May 2023 news release cited by the Inspector General, postal authorities said 412 letter carriers were robbed during the 2022 fiscal year that ended in September 2022, and that 305 such crimes had been logged in the first half alone of fiscal year 2023 that ended in September 2023.

Also, postal authorities reported an increase in high-volume thefts from blue collection boxes and other containers from 38,500 in fiscal 2022 to 25,000 in the first half of fiscal 2023.

Thieves are particularly targeting arrow keys, which are skeleton keys that carriers use to open relay boxes, apartmentpanels, outdoor parcel lockers and neighborhood delivery and collection boxes. Those keys are used on more than 300,000 routes. The Inspector General report urged postmasters to improve the security of the keys.

In June 2023, Irvine police arrested an Anaheim man and said he possessed thousands of pieces of stolen mail, credit cards, passports and keys that could be used to open mailboxes.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) introduced legislation in 2023 that would allow the Postal Service to assign its police to the field. Currently, they are restricted to Postal Service property, Durbin told CBS Ch. 2 in Chicago in November.

As a way to stay on top of when important letters and packages are going to arrive, consumers can sign up for Informed Delivery, a free service from the Postal Service that emails them images of incoming mail.

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Orange County scores and player stats for Saturday, Jan. 27

• January 27, 2024

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Scores and stats from Orange County games on Saturday, Jan. 27

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The deadline for submitting information is 10:45 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 p.m. Saturday.

SATURDAY’S SCORES

BOYS BASKETBALL

NIKE EXTRAVAGANZA XXIX

Aliso Niguel 58, St. Margaret’s 54

St. M: Danz 15 pts, Cyr 14 pts, Frye 13 pts.

AN: Fujii 16 pts, Keys 14 pts.

Campbell Hall 57, Canyon 44

Can: Garcia 10 pts. Loreto 9 pts. Josh Goodall 8 pts.

CH: Bellamy 20 pts. Johnson 14 pts.

GIRLS WATER POLO

NEWPORT INVITATIONAL

Laguna Beach 16, Bishop’s 11

Oaks Christian 12, Carlsbad 9

IRVINE SOCAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Orange Lutheran 17, JSerra 5

Long Beach Wilson 14, Los Alamitos 6

Edison 9, Santa Margarita 8

JSerra 7, Schurr 4

CENTRAL ORANGE COUNTY TOURNAMENT

Woodbridge 12, Esperanza 6

Webb 13, Santa Ana Valley 6

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Both parties are lying to you. Democrats don’t really care about democracy, and the GOP doesn’t care about deficits.

• January 27, 2024

The government’s services keep getting worse.

Even their lies.

The Bushies told us we had to invade Afghanistan to catch Osama bin Laden and then to go into Iraq because Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. As the Pentagon knew, bin Laden was already in Pakistan; as Hans Blix and Scott Ritter told us, there was no evidence Saddam had proscribed weapons.

Sure, they were lies. But they were plausible lies. Theoretically, bin Laden might have snuck into Afghanistan. Saddam might have acquired WMDs. Those things could have been true.

Now they’re giving us implausible lies. Not only are their lies, well, lies — they say things that are untrue and can’t possibly be true and that no one, no matter how stupid or uninformed, could believe.

Democrats go on and on about how nothing is more important than defeating Trump. Democracy itself hangs in the balance! After Trump redux, the re-deluge. Like Hitler, but worse.

But they don’t really believe that. If liberals really actually thought Trump was going to suspend the Constitution and send his enemies — them — to camps, their sense of survival would have prompted them to select the most charismatic, brilliant, popular, vigorous, 2024 Democratic presidential nominee possible. Instead, they gave us Biden.

You can’t think Trump is dangerous and go with Biden-Harris. For Democrats, protecting their party’s corporatist status quo matters more than Trump’s purported threat to democracy. That’s the truth. We all know.

Republicans won’t shut up about out-of-control deficit spending and the $34 trillion national debt which, according to them, will tank the economy because, like a family that has to live within its means except for credit cards and student loans and car loans and home mortgages, the government can’t keep spending cash it doesn’t have even though it owns the U.S. Mint and has gotten away with it for, like, a century.

We know that the fake deficit hawks don’t actually believe what they are saying in real time, as they’re saying it, because while they’re threatening to shut down the government every few months, they keep throwing even more billions of dollars at the Defense Department than the DOD even asks for, so much that the military sucks up more than everything else the government does combined, and that’s not including the wars they put “off the books” and the proxy wars and the wars they charge to the State Department, not to mention debt service on old wars.

These diametrically opposed lines of rhetoric represent a dramatic shift away from old-fashioned political hypocrisy. If the military is your biggest expense by far and you keep raising it, and you claim to worry about spending, you are lying. No amount of cognitive dissonance can convince us otherwise. You know we know it’s crap, yet you keep right on going.

“Normal” communication by political elites has become prima facie impossible to take seriously.

We used to be able to accept the announcement by a defeated primary candidate that they would endorse their rival and tour for him because primary campaigns involved incremental ideological variations and hadn’t yet devolved to bloodsport.

No more. Even after Trump implied that Ted Cruz’s father assassinated John F. Kennedy and had his surrogates impugn Ron DeSantis as a eunuch and a fey cuck, he collected both men’s endorsements. Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden red-baited Bernie Sanders as an existential threat to the Democratic Party yet were rewarded with his fealty. This, we are supposed to think, is adults being adults, and maybe this is so, but more than that it’s proof positive that nothing any primary candidate claims to stand for or against should ever be trusted.

Everywhere we look, politicians are deploying lies whose obviousness is evident out of the gate. Elites will never be believed, they know it, and they don’t care.

Israel’s war cabinet tells its traumatized citizens that Oct. 7 came as a surprise at the same time countless specific warnings and the Israel Defense Force’s eight-hour response time (!) prove that cannot possibly have been the case. As people shout “bring them home,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he’s trying to do just that. But that’s a lie, and it has to be a lie because you don’t bomb a place where hostages you care about are being held lest you kill them and anger their captors.

Families of the doomed hostages cannot believe him and do not believe him, yet they do not demand that the bombs stop falling or that those who drop them be removed from power.

Ukraine, they say, is a fellow democracy even though it has canceled all elections forever and its press is censored and opposition parties are banned, and as a democracy it must be defended by us, who are not really much of a democracy either as Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson and others who have been denied access to ballots can attest. The idea that this famously corrupt post-Soviet republic could have posed as a democracy was cute on its face, of course — shut up and fly your blue-and-yellow flag.

Taiwan, Biden says, is a country that must be defended from a Chinese invasion. At the same time, Biden also says, Taiwan is not a country at all nor should it become one; China is the One China and Taiwan is part of it, so China can no more invade Taiwan than the U.S. can invade Ohio, but still, we’ll defend Taiwan, but really we won’t. “Realists” call this “strategic ambiguity,” but really, it’s just one of those lies you see coming.

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Gender identity, woke elites insist, is not merely psychological but physically real as well: A transwoman is a woman, period. This cannot be true; a transwoman swimmer is not generically the same as her cisgender woman competitors, but they tell us that we should tell cisgender woman athletes to chill. It’s not an issue when clearly it’s an issue, but the authorities don’t want us to take their ridiculous word for it, just as it is with diversity, equity and inclusion and its clumsy flip-replacement of one form of systemic discrimination with another. They just want us to shut up.

The era of the “lie you know from the start” may be over soon.

Next up: Insane truths without the thinnest varnish of deception.

Though not a renowned rhetorician, our president surely deserves historical credit as the first American leader to say, at the start of a war, that we will lose. Days after the U.S. military began what it plans to be a prolonged bombing campaign against Yemen, an effort to stop the Houthis from attacking ships in the Red Sea, Biden announced that future strikes would not succeed. “Are they [U.S. airstrikes] stopping the Houthis? No,” Biden told reporters. “Will they continue? Yes.”

They’re not even trying anymore.

Ted Rall (Twitter: @tedrall), the political cartoonist, columnist and graphic novelist, co-hosts the left-vs-right DMZ America podcast with fellow cartoonist Scott Stantis. You can support Ted’s hard-hitting political cartoons and columns and see his work first by sponsoring his work on Patreon.

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Get ready for fun with lovable Saint Bernard Paisley

• January 27, 2024

Breed: Saint Bernard

Age: 10 months

Sex: Spayed

Size: 95 pounds

Paisley’s story: Paisley came from a shelter bearing the characteristics that make people fall in love with Saint Bernards: She’s goofy, loving and full of fun. And she thinks she’s a lap dog! She adores everyone and everything she meets and could bowl you over with her enthusiast hugs. Some obedience training will be in order, as it is for all giant breeds. Paisley obviously knew love and care during her puppyhood, given how loving and affectionate she is.

Adoption cost: $495

Adoption procedure: Contact Great Pyrenees Association of Southern California Rescue Inc. at 909-887-8201 or [email protected]. Fill out an application on the group’s website.

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Embrace a joyful journey with Lab mix Lady Jane

• January 27, 2024

Breed: Labrador retriever mix

Age: 4 years

Sex: Spayed female

Lady Jane’s story: This resilient canine enchantress survived a high-kill Southern California shelter and has blossomed into a joyful, gentle creature who embraces every moment with infectious enthusiasm. Whether cuddling on the couch, going on an exciting car ride or strolling through the neighborhood, she’s on top of it, loving every minute. She is crate- and house-trained and meticulous about her potty habits. She learns quickly and has already picked up numerous cues. She promises to fill your days with warmth, love and serenity.

Adoption cost: $300, includes up-to-date vaccines and microchip

Adoption procedure: For more information or to submit and application, go to go to Labradors and Friends Dog Rescue’s website or email [email protected].

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