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To The Valiant That Served
Dick Cheney, Warrior Emeritustheforbiddenknown.comLet's take a moment out of our day to salute the men and women that gave all in defense of our homeland. Memorial Day's purpose is just that (although...
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Obamacare works -- up to a point
The good news, as supporters of the president have been happy to point out, is that the insurance figures the state has released for the Obamacare benefits plans aren't really that awful. The naysayers...
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Lawyer who flipped Greenlining for Mercury considers run for office
When Mercury Insurance last year failed in its second attempt to fool voters into allowing the industry to raise rates on drivers that don’t maintain continuous car insurance coverage, resulting in the...
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Sarah Palin = REO Speedwagon
Kevin Cronin lookin' Sarah like, you betchaTimesDispatchOne of the more remarkable components of the so-called "Right Wing Entertainment Complex" (Fox/AM Radio/a gazillion reactionary websites) is the...
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Treasure Island 2013 lineup is out! Animal Collective, James Blake, Little...
The sun sets over Treasure Island.PHOTO FROM TREASUREISLANDFESTIVAL.COM.Hey look, it’s Animal Collective! Oh, and James Blake, Little Dragon, Tricky, Cayucas, Phantogram, Beck, and Deep Siver Diver,...
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Solomon: Our twisted politics of grief
By Norman SolomonNorman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning...
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Hasta La Vista, Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann (R-Unemployed in 2015)ProjectWashingtonMichele Bachmann, unsuccessful 2012 presidential candidate, subject of FBI inquiry, Congressman and wife of "Pray The Gay Away (Except For Mine)"...
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For your information
policemancartoon.jpegATTENTIONÂ I have been getting too many emails and IMs from readers that tell me that they'd like to weigh in on my blog posts but can't because the thread had degenerated into a...
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I agree with a three-star General
Not my problem -- but it should beI don't find myself in agreement with military leaders that often, but Lt. General Karl Eikenberry and historian David M. Kennedy have a fascinating piece in the New...
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Guardian event on Plan Bay Area
There's going to be profound change in San Francisco over the next 25 years. If regional planners have their way, we're talking 280,000 more people -- and massive displacement of existing populations....
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Short cuts
John McCainJohnMcCain.jpegLots of stuff in news worth looking at today.We bag on Texas and their generally idiotic governor a lot but recently, he and they did the right thing--under pressure from...
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Censored by Facebook and I don't know why
UPDATED Today I got banned from posting on Facebook and I don’t know why, but it has left me feeling very unsettled about this brave new world we find ourselves in, one where a few large technology...
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Ed Lee's "no social service cuts" budget
So Mayor Ed Lee is going to spare social services, and apparently at least part of the Department of Public Heath, from any further budget cuts. That's good. Lives will be saved.Lee -- like Willie...
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Here's your gentrification-eviction-displacement electro theme song. Let's...
"Hey gurl, where you moving to? Moving to the East Bay, living life the broke way. SF keep your money. FUCK YOUR MONEY!"In-our-face drag performer Persia has teamed up with phantasmic trio Daddies...
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Because facts mean nothing
Sheriff Joe Arpaiotheage.com.auThis hasn't been a good time to be Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff in America" lately. Federal courts have slapped down his "saturation sweeps" through...
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Clock ticks, ground breaks: SFMOMA kicks off its two years of renovations...
Download the "app-arition" that will allow you to see the museum's future at this week's Countdown Days celebration.IMAGE COURTESY WIL PAPENHEIMERThe students from SoMa's Bessie Carmichael Elementary,...
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Dianne Feinstein and 8 Washington: The letters
Here's a fascinating little bit of history that relates to the 8 Washington project.In 1984, the owners of Golden Gateway proposed to build a nine-story condo tower on the site, pretty close to where...
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The impending death of American conservatism
Ronald Reagan, conservative iconjinnysplace.comGallup released a poll May 24th with some remarkable new data. American liberalism--long thought to be dead and gone and receeding into New Deal...
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SF's first raw milk coffeeshop opens (raw milk pending)
Drip'd Coffee's gibraltar <3's you.After a successful Kickstarter campaign, Drip'd Coffee is pouring gibraltars and cappucinos on Ninth Avenue and Irving. But one piece of the puzzle remains. The...
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Prostitution and Mitt Romney
Italian Prostituteslanazione.itFour and a half years ago, San Francisco had the chance to make history as well as eliminate a major social problem. Measure K would have eliminated the prosecution of...
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