Nine of California’s most read newspapers have come out against the political opportunistic recall, warning that recalling Gov. Gavin Newsom at this time and replacing him with an untested extremist would be a disaster for the state. Newsom attacked COVID early on while providing relief to those impacted and now the state’s economy is roaring …
Next week marks an anniversary that demonstrates how extreme today’s Republican Party has become. It will be the 15th anniversary of the passage of the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006 which reauthorized the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The bill passed the …
Also Available on Daily Kos. In light of Senator Marsha Blackburn’s (R-TN) Twitter attacks on the Biden Infrastructure Plan (The American Jobs Plan) for including more than “roads and bridges”, the President’s surrogates should consider giving the freshman Senator a tour of her home state to show the true extent of public infrastructure and the …
California Government Code Section 67 provides that the Governor shall proclaim September 28th to be known hereafter as “Cabrillo Day.”1 September 28, 1542 is the day that explorer Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo, sailing on the San Salvador and accompanied by two other ships, landed at Ballast Point in San Diego Bay. Over the next few weeks … Continue reading
On October 7, 2001, President George W. Bush announced that the U.S. had begun airstrikes against Al Qaeda and Taliban targets in Afghanistan in retaliation for the 9-11 attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center. Within weeks, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld mocked the notion that the U.S. involvement would become a quagmire, joking “[a]ll … Continue reading
My dog Gidget is a terrier-poodle rescue mutt from Tijuana. Since I moved to San Pedro less than a year before COVID, I have mainly discovered the area through her. We have two type of outings – fetch and power walks. Below are some of her favorite places for each. Fetch: Dog Parks and Dog … Continue reading
Spring is here. Southern Californians are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel after a long year in shutdown, as new cases have fallen dramatically and nearly forty percent of the population has been vaccinated. The Dodgers actually had (a somewhat limited) opening day. We breathe a collective sigh of relief. We have … Continue reading
I recently participated in Jubilee Media’s Middle Ground segment entitled “Who is Censored More? Liberals vs Conservatives.” It was a fun experience and the debate was interesting, as we talked about content moderation, combating abuse, hate and disinformation online over 90-minutes. The thirty-minute segment was posted on Sunday and, unfortunately, much of what I had … Continue reading
This week’s tragedy in Atlanta is part of an alarming trend of hate crimes against Asian Americans as a backlash fueled by racism over COVID. It is time for all Americans to stand united against such bigotry. THE CONTEXT: Hate Crime Against Asian-Americans Up 149% According to a report by the Center for the Study … Continue reading
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, I mean it really, really sucked“. With apologies to Charles Dickens, there is no getting around the fact that the end of 2020 was welcome with a global “good riddance” largely due to the pandemic ravaging the globe. But Dickens’ famous first paragraph, … Continue reading
Published OpEdNews and Daily Kos In 2009, sparked by a poll that asked voters to use one word to describe President Bush, I wrote a piece “The Bush Presidency in Four Words” to sum up the catastrophic failure that was the George W. Bush presidency (an assessment shared by historians who rank him only slightly … Continue reading
Wednesday’s despicable Trump-led coup attempt has put his Congressional collaborators in the spotlight, with calls for several Members to resign including Senators John Hawley (R-MO) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) (who led the Senate effortz) and glock-toting freshman Congresswoman Lauren Baubert (R-CO) (who was tweeting support for the insurrection and even revealed that Speaker Pelosi was … Continue reading
On January 2, 2021, Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX), Ron Johnson (R-WI), James Lankford (R-OK), Steve Daines (R-MT), John Kennedy (R-LA), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Mike Braun (R-IN), and Senators-Elect Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Roger Marshall (R-KN.), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) announced their intention to vote on January 6 (when the Electoral College results … Continue reading
Leonard Lazarick, Sr. died on November 30, 2020 from complications related to COVID-19 at the age of 97. Lazarick, was a three-time Purple Heart recipient who fought in the Pacific Theater in Leyte and Okinawa. He was part of the team of more than 130,000 mem from the Sixth Army who landed on Leyte on … Continue reading
Giving Tuesday, which was added to our lexicon in 2012 as a charitable coda to the consumerism of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, is here again. In 2019, Giving Tuesday generated $1.97 billion in donations in the U.S. alone. Given the current COVID-19 pandemic, I intend to focus my #GivingTuesday efforts on some organizations providing … Continue reading
A recurring theme on social media is that once Joe Biden won, we would stop hearing about COVID, implying that the Democrats concern over COVID was primarily political. Today, I noticed some of those same people were noting that nobody is talking about COVID now that the election has passed. To them I say, step … Continue reading
With election night here, I thought I would update this article I posted in 2014 providing a reflection on some of my favorite and least favorite memories from election nights past. BEST #1 – 1992: The Comeback Kid Wins Having been involved with the Clinton campaign since 1991, it was an up and down campaign … Continue reading
Below are my predictions for tonight’s results, based on the hour in which polls in a state close. Some states will be quicker than others in counting the totals, with Alaska, Nevada and Pennsylvania being states with close contests where results could be slow in reporting. I predict a strong Biden victory (369-169 in electoral … Continue reading
Below are my choices for election day. PRESIDENT / VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN & KAMALA HARRIS I have watched Joe Biden over the years and met him in a small gathering. He is the man you see – just Joe. He has the brains, the steel and the heart to face the daunting challenges ahead … Continue reading
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In 2018, the California Supreme Court’s Dynamex decision redefined the definition of employee v. independent contractor through an “ABC test” followed by many states, a year later California Governor Newsom signed AB 5 which codified the Dynamex decision with certain exceptions. Under AB 5, a worker is an employee and not an independent contractor unless the…
As Democrats, many of us view the conservative Washington Times as a political enemy and can recount a range of emotions after a conservative friend forwards one of their articles. Today was such a day, as a former Republican Congressional aide sent me the Washington Times announcement of the death of their longtime columnist Ralph … Continue reading
In 2016, only two of the nation’s 100 largest newspapers endorsed Trump (Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Review and the Florida Times-Union). The small number of endorsements received by Trump was unprecedented in American history for a candidate from a major party. History is repeating itself in 2020, but instead of dark warnings of what a … Continue reading
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