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Next June, California will hold primary elections for Governor, 53 Members of Congress, and for Barbara Boxer’s Senate Seat and other state offices. Just to throw some mix into the process, California also has a process for placing propositions on the ballot. Propositions come in two forms: Initiatives and Referendums. The Initiative is the power [...]
Obama and California’s Proposition 8
Last fall, California voters approved, by a 52 to 47% “mandate,” Proposition 8, which was essentially the same as 2000′s Proposition 22, which was approved by the voters with a 61% victory, and then thrown out by the courts. The text of the proposition is very simple. In addition to keeping Marriage legally defined like [...]
Elizabeth Alexander is a poet?
In the style of Elizabeth Alexander, an “American Poet” this post will be in the modern poetry style. When I was in school, we learned that a poem was a an organized series of words with meter and rhyme (except haiku, which is zen, not rhyme). Apparently, that is wrong. After careful examination, I have [...]
Ronald Reagan’s First Inaugural Address
Twenty-eight years ago today, Ronald Regan gave us his First Inaugural Address. In 1981, the economy of the US was suffering. Slow growth, high inflation, some of the highest interest rates ever joined rising unemployment to make a sad time in US economic history. In 1980, the prime rate was above 20 percent. Today’s prime [...]
Geraldine Ferraro lets her emotions do the talking
In The Daily Breeze, Geraldine Ferraro is quoted as saying “I think what America feels about a woman becoming president takes a very secondary place to Obama’s campaign – to a kind of campaign that it would be hard for anyone to run against. For one thing, you have the press, which has been uniquely [...]
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