President Obama’s vacation coincided with a series of bad economic reports that left millions of Americans anxious about the future. One would think that Obama would seize upon his return with a national address calling for major new public investment,
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While San Francisco voters won’t get their handbooks for the November election for a few weeks, ballot arguments are now available for public view in the basement of City Hall – at the Department of Elections. It’s always fun for
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Since President Obama took office, the Republican Party’s agenda has dominated the public debate. FOX News and right-wing talk radio decide what’s news, and the traditional media either echoes the story or is criticized for not doing so, as occurred
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The netroots is ablaze at comments made by retired GOP Senator Alan Simpson, who President Obama appointed to his Deficit Reduction Commission. Simpson told a prominent women’s rights advocate to get a “real job” – and called Social Security a
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As a freelance writer, I thought I’d seen it all in exploitive contracts. When I was assistant director of the National Writers Union in the mid-1990s, fellow scribes flooded the office with examples of all-rights grabs by periodical publishers. One
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What could be more fun than a nasty cat fight between two right-wing leaders, especially when one of them is Ann Coulter, a columnist who attacks the “gay agenda” while claiming to be “the right wing Judy Garland?” The fur
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