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Opinion: In today’s pages: Villaraigosa drinks the Kool-Aid?

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Columnist Gregory Rodriguez offers his take on Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s marital woes:

Having followed his career, covered him and talked to countless others about him in the years since, I am not the least bit surprised by his current predicament. I also don’t think that his personal indiscretions disqualify him from being a good mayor.... My problem with Villaraigosa is that as he pretended to be something he was not, he began to believe his own news releases. He wasn’t alone. The media and his fervent supporters also drank the Kool-Aid....

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Columnist Niall Ferguson wonders if Britain’s new prime minister wants to create a United States of Britain, and Rutgers University’s David Greenberg asks why it’s taken so long to exorcise President Nixon’s ghost.

The editorial board weighs in on congressional bills to beef up sanctions against Iran, and mentions that now would be a good time to talk Iraq pullout, too. The board is grateful that the city actually managed to save one of its landmarks -- Dutton’s Brentwood Books -- from the wrecking ball.

On the letters page, readers weigh in on David P. Barash’s advocacy of science over ‘truthiness.’ Find out why Granada Hills’ Kun Jin Rhee thinks Barash might be ‘himself practicing ‘truthiness’ in his essay’.

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