Hail to the Chief of Staff The first trumpet blast of change ushers in Rahm Emanuel as Obama’s chief of staff and gatekeeper. This is the man who arranges his schedule, staffs out the agenda,…
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The presidential campaign plummeted into imbecilic tedium last night in Nashville as Barack Obama and John McCain faced off in the second debate. The encounter took place against the vivid backdrop of economic catastrophe, the…
“Change” and “hope” are not words one associates with Senator Joe Biden, a man so ripely symbolic of everything that is unchanging and hopeless about our political system that a computer simulation of the corporate-political…
I'm a retired teacher and a reporter for the Sonoma County Free Press and have been investigating the bombing of Judi Bari since 1995. Below, I've prepared a summary of my investigation and a description of some new evidence
“I am running for President because I believe that to actually make change happen — to make this time different than all the rest — we need a leader who can finally move beyond the…
Rumors are as important as chow. Whatever the plans are for your unit have a lot to do with how long you live or keep your body parts.
In late August of this year, we were still cleaning up the last bales of hay from Navarro Ridge. There is no better place in the world to stack hay than up where the wind…
I recently spent seven weeks traveling from Tibet to Beijing, and through Shanghai, Hong Kong, and nine other cities, traveling and staying with locals. I observed many admirable things in China, things scarcely found here.…