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On politics, money and the death penalty
The death penalty – telecommunications money – Donald Sterling – corruption – shifting politics – even abortion access – it was all in a day’s conversation for the popular Week to Week political...
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The Perpetual Presidential Campaign
We have HOW long until the next presidential election? Some of us just want to say, Give it a rest… but there seems little chance. Recently I rode the bus home with a new friend who had just attended...
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The Art of Listening
AS I WAS SAYING…….. “Can we talk?” – that phrase so famously and often asked by the late great Joan Rivers – actually had an implied second clause: “Will you listen?” And thereby hangs the problem....
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The Complete Speechmaker’s Guide
“Our strategic plan,” the speaker began, “is to make the city safer… improve the quality of life.” He went on to address issues of crime, senior citizen needs, funding and the difficulty of...
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Arguing With the Doctor – A plea for end-of-life choice
Does the doctor always know best? And in the case of one’s own precious life and death, is it wise to argue the point? “No One Here Gets Out Alive” – a quote from Jim Morrison – led the title of a...
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Men Against Women’s Rights
There is something unnerving about the rush of Republican presidential candidates to go on record as standing firmly against women’s reproductive rights. Addressing a recent gathering of the National...
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David Brock: Hillary’s the one
David Brock in San Francisco 10.12.15 If you don’t believe there’s a right wing conspiracy poised to take over the U.S. you haven’t been listening to David Brock. Not everybody does listen to David...
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Presidential Politics & P. J. O’Rourke
P. J. O’Rourke Journalist/satirist P.J. O’Rourke breezed through San Francisco on a recent book tour for his weighty new book (640-page Thrown Under the Omnibus) and left no presidential candidate...
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Power to the (Grassroots) People
Scary times, these. Advocates for reproductive justice, already battling restrictive laws in state after state, now have reason to fear an erratic potential president whose Supreme Court choices could...
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Signs of Our Marching Times
The March was intended to be about women’s rights – workplace rights, immigrant and minority rights, the right to make our own reproductive decisions, all those rights that suddenly seem threatened....
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