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Both sides DON'T do it

05.31.13 - 12:06 pm | Johnny Angel Wendell |
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As someone with a lot of friends and contacts in the real world and on the Net, I hear pretty much every opinion under the sun. From die-hard Communist all the way to equally didactic (and tellingly similar) Objectivist, I get it all day every day. Read more »

Lee budget avoids cuts, but some say too few benefit from the boom

05.31.13 - 11:42 am | Steven T. Jones |
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Mayor Ed Lee today released his proposed 2013-15 city budget in the Board of Supervisors Chambers at City Hall, a $7.9 billion spending plan that he said reflects the “San Francisco values of fiscal responsibility, social responsibility, and investment in our city’s future.”Read more »

Week Two

05.30.13 - 8:47 pm | Johnny Angel Wendell |
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Week two of blogging here in the books.

To paraphrase your most famous musical export, what a short strange trip its been so far.Read more »

Emulating Switzerland

05.30.13 - 2:34 pm | Johnny Angel Wendell |
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Today's "human nature is revolting" story comes from the state of Utah. Apparently, one the state's leading gun-rights activists was busted for threatening his ex-wife's family with a 2.5 tom Army surplus vehicle, as he intended to run over all of their cars with his. His lawyer says it's no big deal and he was just “having fun in his big boy toy.”. Read more »

Wal-Mart workers strike, rally outside Marissa Mayer’s SF penthouse

05.30.13 - 1:41 pm | Rebecca Bowe |
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There are no Walmart stores in San Francisco. And yet, four members of the company's board of directors are influential Bay Area residents. On May 29, a group of Walmart workers assembled outside the residence of Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, a Walmart director, who has a 38th floor penthouse apartment above the Four Seasons on Market Street in San Francisco.Read more »

Prostitution and Mitt Romney

05.30.13 - 11:06 am | Johnny Angel Wendell |
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Four and a half years ago, San Francisco had the chance to make history as well as eliminate a major social problem. Measure K would have eliminated the prosecution of sex workers in the city. Sensible, sane and prudent, this ballot initiative would have finally given some legal recourse to one of the city's biggest underground businesses. Because it is sex-based, however, hysteria ruled the day and the measure was defeated.Read more »

The impending death of American conservatism

05.29.13 - 5:55 pm | Johnny Angel Wendell |
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Gallup released a poll May 24th with some remarkable new data. American liberalism--long thought to be dead and gone and receeding into New Deal memory--is ascendant. 

According to Gallup, 30% of Americans consider themselves social liberals, an all time high. And only 41% of Americans consider themselves economically conservative, an all time low.Read more »

Because facts mean nothing

05.29.13 - 12:52 pm | Johnny Angel Wendell |
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This hasn't been a good time to be Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff in America" lately. Federal courts have slapped down his "saturation sweeps" through Latino neighborhoods as unconstitutional. Read more »

Ed Lee's "no social service cuts" budget

05.29.13 - 12:18 pm | Tim Redmond |
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So Mayor Ed Lee is going to spare social services, and apparently at least part of the Department of Public Heath, from any further budget cuts. That's good. Lives will be saved.Read more »