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Anthony Pignataro: Wanna understand the 2010 midterm elections? Washington, DC-based Project Vote released a new report today to help explain all the hilarity, both national and state-by-state. According to the 26-page report, written largely by Dr. Lorraine C. Minnite, three
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Katy Grimes: More and more, we seem to be desensitized to the rights of individuals, versus the wants of many. Horrible examples of this are taking place everyday with the private property rights of individuals getting trampled on by local
Read MoreI'm Still Not Flying
John Seiler: One of my favorite columnists, Debra Saunders of the Chronicle, defended the TSA pat-downs at airports: TSA pat-downs prove it – Americans are whiners The latest controversy over Transportation Security Administration body scans and enhanced body pat-downs leaves no
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Katy Grimes: The dismal results California Republicans experienced in this last election are indisputable. But who is to blame? The California Secretary of State website has the election results listed on one depressing page each for the Assembly, and Senate. It’s too easy
Read MoreWhy Does Cal GOP Lose?
John Seiler Republicans are agonizing about why they keep losing in California, getting wiped out on every statewide race on Nov. 2. The Contra Costa Times yesterday ran a piece quoting a lot of Republican and other bigshots saying the
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Katy Grimes: The recent dumping of snow and rain on Northern California left more than 20,000 people in Nevada, El Dorado, Placer, Yuba and Sierra Counties without power. The reports have been all over the news. And many people have
Read MoreWhat Is The AG Waiting For?
Anthony Pignataro: Seriously people, what does it take for the Attorney General’s office to issue a formal opinion on a simple matter like whether Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle and LA County Metropolitan Transportation Authority board member Richard Katz violate the
Read MoreCalifornia, Land of Suckers
Steven Greenhut: When P.T. Barnum allegedly talked about suckers, he was no doubt referring to the gullible folks who would drop a few bucks on his sideshows. Too bad Barnum couldn’t spend some time in modern-day California, where voters —
Read MoreDo Not Boil The Turkey
Katy Grimes: My grandmother was Welsh. Her parents arrived from Wales during the gold rush, but never made it past Illinois. She was a lovely woman, well-educated, and schooled in all of the social graces, but she never quite mastered
Read MoreThanksgiving For Dummies
Anthony Pignataro: Well, it’s that time again: the time when fire departments across our great nation respond to 1,300 fires caused by out of control cooking, as opposed to the 420 such fires they usually deal with every day. That’s
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