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Unopposed races are bad for democracy
“It’s really important who’s mayor and who’s on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.” ~Musician and politician Jello Biafra Have you ever...
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Summer Olympics spotlight sports, schadenfreude, socialized medicine, more
The 2012 Summer Olympics are under way in London, and in just a few days, they’ve offered a wide variety of food for thought, much of which has little to do with sports competitions. • Just before the...
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In defense of politics junkies
With the once-every-four-years summer Olympics behind us, it’s time for the once-every-four-years political Olympics to move into full swing: The US presidential election. As an American politics...
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Tolerance: Such a simple idea, so difficult for so many
“Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.” ~ American statesman and orator Robert Green Ingersoll Tolerance is such a simple idea, but one that’s...
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Vote NO on deceptive, disingenuous, unfair, Orwellian Prop 32
This November’s general election ballots aren’t even printed, and I’m already hearing ads about Proposition 32. It’s clear that Prop 32 will be a heated issue in the upcoming election. Prop 32 asks,...
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Cost-benefit analyses: Vote YES on Prop 34 and Prop 36
“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.” ~ Martin Luther...
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Why I’m voting to re-elect President Obama
My sample ballot arrived in the mail last week, signaling that it’s time to write my once-every-four-years presidential endorsement column. Here’s why I’m voting to re-elect President Barack Obama....
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Anti-Obama display reminds us that racism is ignorance fermented with fear...
No sooner did South County finally get out of the news as a hotbed of bigotry — after the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors’ approval of a much-protested proposal for a Muslim worship center in...
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The politics of grasping reality
“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” ~ Carl Sagan One thing that writing opinion columns and serving on editorial...
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Moving on
More than a decade ago, I was the city editor for the Gilroy Dispatch. One of my responsibilities was laying out page A2, the main component of which was a column called Take 2. At the time, the...
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