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Even without his reckless promise to buy off every American adult with $5,000, he was on track to break his first-term record for adding to the unsustainable U.S. debt.

If the billionaire's son wants to carve out his own story, he should be courting Hollywood talent and not Washington bureaucrats.

'Our society needs to thank defense attorneys. The right to competent counsel is one of the greatest privileges afforded to our citizens,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

'The dedicated bus lane makes the project outrageously expensive, penalizes automobile drivers and provides a negligible speed increase for the bus,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

'There are at least two ways to address this. One would be for the mayor to hold department heads accountable and institute a program to change the culture,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

'Rejecting proposed changes to the census would help prevent further distortion of what most of us have learned about social facts and social reality,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

'This is a very expensive solution, with just a single proposed hydrogen-ready power plant expected to cost close to $1 billion,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

There's no clean cut where the Good outdraws the Bad and rides off; all three traits ship in the same system.

Proposition 40, California's proposed wealth tax, takes aim at the ultra-rich, but critics warn it could erode the state's innovation edge and push entrepreneurs to lower-tax states.

It is utterly dishonorable to watch the president excoriate and victim-blame Ukrainians on a geopolitical scale.