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Who killed Proposition 19?

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  Polls taken in California last year and earlier this year found a majority of the state’s voters favored the legalization of marijuana...

America needs more secret meetings

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I have a modest proposal for breaking the political paralysis that grips Washington like a cold, dead hand slowly contracting around Uncle Sam’s throat...

The Donald (a whining loser) and the caucuses

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Donald Trump is howling like a stuck pig over getting his ass kicked by the Cruz campaign last weekend, which won all 34 of...

Bulworth and the Honey Badger

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Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is a case of life following art. The art in this case is the 1998 movie Bulworth. The film is an over-the-top political comedy starring Warren Beatty as Jay Billington Bulworth, a liberal Democratic U.S. Senator from California ...

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (and...

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I couldn’t have been more than 6 or 7 years old at the time. Today I am 74, but the memory is still vivid. I...

The first marathon

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When Michael Phelps won his 13th individual Olympic gold medal last Thursday night, he eclipsed a 2,168-year-old record for the largest number of individual...

Real tax reform means everyone pays something

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Chances are the tax increases, cuts and fiddles President Obama proposed during the State of the Union speech Tuesday night are DOA in the Republican-controlled Congress. And chances are the tax cuts, increases and fiddles the Republicans will propose shortly are ...

The Donald better start feeling the Bern

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Here’s a curious little detail about this year’s presidential race that’s been hiding in plain sight in the polls since January and ignored by...

The race question

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The U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to expedited consideration of a case challenging the constitutionality of adding a citizenship question — Are you...

Ten years after 9/11

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Random thoughts on the 10th anniversary of 9/11...

Obama’s silly speech

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The most charitable thing that can be said about Barack Obama’s graduation address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy is that it was silly...

A modest proposal to end all the sexual tomfoolery in Congress

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I have a modest proposal to put an end once and for all to all the sexual tomfoolery going on in Congress and congressional offices....