Worry, worry, worry
When the year started, I just wanted a Democrat -- any Democrat -- to get elected president. I would have taken any one of ours against anyone from the other team. In the run-up to the California...
View ArticleTop stories of ... some year!
Like many papers around the country, the San Jose Mercury News published its top 10 stories of the year just past. Imagine my surprise when I got down to number 10: Nancy Pelosi elected House speaker....
View ArticleRutherford Hayes' other legacy
Rutherford B. Hayes (president 1877-1881), when he is remembered at all, is known for his contentious election in 1876, which was finally decided by a Congressional commission after he agreed to end...
View ArticleRepublican districts in California won by Obama
Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson returned to his California stomping grounds to report in the Los Angeles Times that in the presidential election last year, "McCain carried just 11 of the...
View ArticleCave of 'Island of Blue Dolphins' Woman Found?
I just had to take a break from election and hurricane news and ran across this. Island of Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell is the story of a young Native American woman who becomes stranded on one of...
View ArticleA glimpse of the crazy
For a look into the mind of the reelection denialists, one need go no farther than the Twitter feed of @realDonaldTrump.Follow past the orange squiggle.
View ArticleAnother angle to the Christie scandal hinted at in news coverage
There seems to be another angle reporters are hinting at in news coverage of Gov. Chris Christie's Bridgegate scandal. It's not as serious as abuse of power and holding up of ambulances, school buses,...
View ArticleNew York Post and New York Daily News uncover only real news in Christie report
Most of the news media are going with some variation of: What a surprise! Gov. Chris Christie's friends and hand-picked investigators found that the governor did no wrong in Bridgegate,Leave it to the...
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