Loyal Opposition

Inaugural Doggerel, With Thanks to George W. Bush and Rudyard Kipling

2005-01-20T13:46:00.000-08:00

“Dubya Bush,” in the style of “Gunga Din” You may talk of your “blue states” When you eat your gourmet plates And you sip on wines from California’s valleys. But when all hell’s broken...

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One Week After

2004-11-10T18:05:00.000-08:00

George Bush's re-election was confirmed seven mornings ago by a modest but considerable margin of roughly three and a half million votes or three percentage points. Now there is a great deal of...

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Feeling Not So Gay?

2004-11-09T19:25:00.000-08:00

The great, big U.S. election is over and my blog has been silent for a week. Like many people across the political spectrum, I felt an exhausted relief after a winner was announced. I'll begin...

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Thank You, Citizen Journal

2004-11-09T16:51:00.000-08:00

William Lalor's new website was very kind to republish my assessment of pre-election advise from "The Nation". Much oliged. According to "San Francisco Chronicle" columnist the Night Cabbie, my piece...

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SF Television Newscaster Howler

2004-11-02T17:00:00.000-08:00

Belva Davis of KRON Channel 4 in San Francisco just said that those little states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida--with twenty, twenty-one and twenty-seven electoral votes, respectively--do not...

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Stop Carole Migden, Vote Felder

2004-11-02T13:57:00.000-08:00

Crooked and high-handed Carole Migden should not be elected to State Senate District 3. If you don't believe me, here's a story from "San Francisco Chronicle" columnists Phil Matier and Andrew...

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How Creepy is Ira Ruskin's State Assembly Campaign? A Liberal Democrat in Palo Alto Reports

2004-11-02T13:23:00.000-08:00

Andy Bayer hates George Bush and honestly believes that John Kerry and the left-wing of the Democratic Party will be America's salvation. Even Bayer has been put off by stealth-campaigning in...

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What About Congressional Races in California?

2004-11-02T13:12:00.000-08:00

A fancy lad asked me how straight-ticket Republican voting in fifty-three congressional races--the most in any state in this nation--could be centrist. That's fair question, and my brief answer:...

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Jim Sparkman, Thank You Again

2004-11-02T13:04:00.000-08:00

ChronWatch has republished my story on Claudia Bermudez and her challenge to semi-traitor Rep. Barbara Lee. Thank you again, Jim Sparkman, for giving my work a forum.

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Somebody Please vote Bill Jones for U.S. Senate.

2004-11-02T13:00:00.000-08:00

Please? Pretty please? Senator Barbara Boxer did not even know that the United States had enemeis prior to 2001--even though she chair a subcommittee on counter-terrorism. Bill Jones,...

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Speaking as a California Centrist.....

2004-11-02T04:35:00.000-08:00

I advise voting straight-ticket Republican in all state and federal races. Bush is not going to win this state, so if you are a moderate who does not like Kerry, why give the bastard a graveyard...

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Slate snapshot predicts a dead heat

2004-11-02T04:20:00.000-08:00

As of 2:30 AM Eastern Time, Slate's electoral college index forsees a presidential tie. (Okay, then it retracts the same suggestion.) How miserable a thought, but at least it would be over quickly...

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Thank You, CaliforniaRepublic.org

2004-11-02T04:14:00.000-08:00

The very good people at CaliforniaRepublic.org have posted my endorsement profile of Congressional candidate Jennifer DePalma and State Senate-hopeful Andrew Felder. Thank you, my fellow not-so-vast...

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Intimidation Tactics Against Republicans at San Francisco State University

2004-11-02T03:55:00.000-08:00

My colleague Lee Kaplan has a new story about the harassment of student Republicans at San Francisco State University. Does anybody know why the radical Left is so pathological on college campuses...

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Defeat Rep. Barbara Lee, and Elect Claudia Bermudez

2004-11-02T03:33:00.000-08:00

Claudia Bermudez is a fighter. Although the underdog, she has raised the strongest Republican opposition to Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland, CA) that the incumbent has ever seen. “The time is come for...

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Another Past Nader Voter Turns to George W. Bush

2004-11-02T02:35:00.000-08:00

In addition to my mother and my comrade Cinnamon Stillwell, I have now found a third individual who previously voted for Ralph Nader but now casts a ballot for George W. Bush: Texan Philosophy...

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Two Wonderful Republican Candidates in San Francisco: Jennifer DePalma for Congress and Andrew Felder for State Senate

2004-11-02T01:35:00.000-08:00

In an election year when Democrats and Republicans are considered polarized, local GOP candidates in San Francisco represent a moderate alternative to partisan extremes. District 3 State...

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How Could I Forget My Extended Family?

2004-11-01T18:42:00.000-08:00

In a recent post celebrating my mother's birthday and my parents' thirtieth wedding anniversary, I did not give much attention to my large, loving extended family, leaving one maternal uncle...

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"Who Can Save The Universe?"

2004-11-01T15:13:00.000-08:00

In a 1968 film by French director Roger Vadim, the answer was "Barbarella, Queen of the Galaxy" as portrayed by Jane Fonda at her most ravishing. CaliforniaRepbulic.org offers this "psychedella"...

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"It is to safeguard democracy in America"? Electoral delusions from "The Nation"

2004-11-01T14:54:00.000-08:00

The oldest progressive weekly in the United States has pronounced that this year's presidential election will decide the fate of constitutional democracy in its entirety. Just in case their partisan...

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Thanks Again, ChronWatch.com

2004-11-01T13:16:00.000-08:00

Cheers to the Bay Area's foremost dissident website for republishing my reflections on moving from Gore in 2000 to Bush this year.

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San Francisco Ex-Naderite for Bush

2004-11-01T03:44:00.000-08:00

My local neoconservative cyber-colleague Cinnamon Stillwell reveals that she voted for Ralph Nader in 2000. Some people thought I had made a severe shift from Bush-hating militaristic Democrat four...

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A Note for My Parents

2004-10-27T19:00:00.000-07:00

My mother and father celebrated their thirtieth wedding anniversary yesterday, and today is Mom's birthday. It might be ungentlemanly to put her in an unladylike predicament by revealing her age, so...

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Zell Miller, the South, and the Emerging Democratic Misery

2004-10-21T16:41:00.000-07:00

Although discussing him may seem “so two months ago,” controversial Georgia Democrat Zell Miller draws attention to a major development in American politics: his party’s divorce from the South. I...

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International ANSWER, My Answers and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

2004-10-18T18:36:00.000-07:00

My friends have had dueling objections regarding the clandestinely-researched opinion piece that I coauthored for FrontPageMagazine. On one end, some said that I should not judge the entire anti-war...

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