From ex-editor Ron Kaye's new blog:

In my mind, it's time for people to make a stand for what they believe in, to act like the free people Americans are supposed to be....

Is love of America, love of freedom wrong in some way? Are those ideas obsolete? I think not, I think the liberal mind hears something that's loaded and politically repulsive when conservatives speak that way, obscuring the fact that it's unthinkable not to love the soul of this country or hold freedom for all precious.

And that's my point. We need to stop talking Democrat language and Republican language. We need to stop speaking conservative and liberal language. We need to give each other the benefit of the doubt a little and start speaking the common language that brings us together to work for making things better for ourselves and others.

I don't know how anybody can look at a world torn apart by hatred, at the looming environmental catastrophe, and the breakdown of the health care system and all the other tensions of the world and not think it's time, if it's not already too late, to start fixing what we have broken.

Long ago I figured out that I can't do much of anything about all those global issues but I can do something about what's broken in my community.

Kaye spoke this week to the Valley chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and attended meetings of the Canoga Park-West Hills Women's Republican Club and the Warner Center Kiwanis Club. (It's as if he were running for office in the Valley 25 years ago.) Kaye, newly free to speak his mind, gives his thoughts on the Daily News, the L.A. Times and the future of newspapers on "Deadline L.A.," with hosts Barbara Osborn and Howard Blume, Saturday at noon on KPFK (90.7 FM.)