Sunday’s New York Times opinion section carried this column by Nicholas Kristof about Backpage.com, an online classified ad site run by Village Voice Media which owns the OC Weekly. It’s a powerful column where the writer captures the story of a young woman sold into sexual bondage by pimps in New York City where...
Let me preface this by saying itsa long way to November, but the political scientists and data geeks at Yahoo are calling the 2012 election for President Barack Obama. From this story on Yahoo: The Signal predicts that Barack Obama will win the presidential contest with 303 electoral votes to the Republican nominee’s 235....
The nation’s newspaper of record covered the issues facing Downtown Santa Ana in the October 31th edition (editor’s note; the story appeared on the NYTimes website Sunday night Pacific time, so we got the date wrong in the original post. Our apologies/editor). While the story could have been significantly longer, some new information has come...
Rolling Stone Magazine political writer Matt Taibi is a brilliant progressive journalist. His latest book, Griftopia, is next on my reading list. He appeared on “Countdown with Keith Olberman” and has this advice for the OccupyWallStreet crowd — a crowd accused of having no message by the right wingers who promoted the Tea Party...
With a number of Orange County cities placing new laws on the books to ban sexual predators from city parks in addition to county parks raises some interesting questions — the most important being: do these new laws actually protect children from sexual predators or not? It seems like if you raise your voice...
In the late George Carlin’s classic bit on the Seven Words You can’t Say on Radio or TV, he laments that there really are no “bad words,” only “bad thoughts” associated with certain words. In 1994, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, employing a list of negative references to Democrats, Progressives and Liberals, was successful in...
The Sunday New York Times ran this story on how taxing junk food and soda pop could significantly reduce the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among Americans. And by taxing junk food, not only would we reduce these serious health risks but at the same time, be able to raise revenues and save...
RT @NBCPolitics: NBC/WSJ poll: Obama's gay-marriage announcement a 'draw' http://t.co/T75dnf7W - posted on 05/22/2012#TheLiberalOC Michele Martinez gets a $16K IE Targeting Vietnamese Voters - http://t.co/9zFQCUU1 - posted on 05/22/2012#TheLiberalOC Chickens Can Roost in Santa Ana, Homeless Not So Much - http://t.co/KQmZAtuR - posted on 05/22/2012#TheLiberalOC Deborah Pauly Ousted as OC GOP Vice Chair - http://t.co/fUuwhSHR - posted on 05/21/2012#TheLiberalOC It's Official: Paul Walters is named Santa Ana City Manager - http://t.co/4G9yv53k - posted on 05/21/2012
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