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You Really Must Want to Vote to Endure This Complicated Process


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Dateline Jerusalem — I voted for President via overseas absentee ballot.

Although I have been sick (sore throat and bad cough), I went out and walked to the Post Office in the thunderstorm we had here in Israel in order to mail my ballot.

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The Day the Democratic Process Left the Democratic Party


Op-Ed

Nov. 15, 2008, is a day that will live in infamy for America’s Military Veterans, as well as all patriotic Americans, because one member of the California Democratic Party blocked the “Resolution to Protect a National Sacred Trust,” which would protect and preserve the sacred land at the Los Angeles National Veterans Home, preventing it from being turned into a public park.

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Are Prisoners Doilies? A Few Questions for Hospital Czar Who Won’t Call Me Back


Op-Ed

The brand-new Ronald Reagan Medical Center on the campus of UCLA provides 520 standard beds and 61 short-term hospitalization beds. It contains 1,050,000 square feet and encompasses four kinds of treatment facilities: the Mattel Children's Hospital, the Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Institute, an emergency center treating all manner of traumas and a general hospital handling everything from organ transplants to cancer treatment, infectious diseases and general surgery.

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Arguing Why the Present Gas Prices Are Not Really Healthy for Us


Op-Ed
From John Cohn
The painful days of July seem like ancient history.

Gasoline prices near $5 a gallon.

It was traumatic just to go to the pump.

Yesterday, after filling up my car, I looked at the pump register. I thought there was a mistake. Less than 40 bucks to fill my tank.

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Of A. Lincoln and G. Silbiger


Editor's Essays

The Gettysburg Address,

Nov. 19, 1863


Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that “all men are created equal.”

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Diversity in the Obama White House, a Delicate Balancing Act


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President-elect Barack Obama’s close and longtime confidant Valerie Jarrett was emphatic when she told a group of black journalists that Obama would not waver one bit in his commitment to diversity in his administration. The journalists were nervous at the paucity of African-American names that have been repeatedly tossed around as likely Obama staff and cabinet picks. The list is top heavy with moderate to conservative Wall Street bank and corporate officials, ex-Clinton White House staffers, officials and advisors, and Democratic governors and senators.

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Democratic Process Takes a Beating in Council Chambers


Editor's Essays

If your child is running with The Mob, mama, do not fret. Your worries have ended. At least you know where to find him every Monday night — in Council Chambers.

To the consternation of true democrats (lower-case “d”) and other reasonable people, mob rule has hijacked the City Council the last two Mondays.

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Thank Goodness for Small Favors


Op-Ed
From John Cohn
One of the few bright spots of the economy is that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke can stop worrying about inflation.

For years, “job one” for Fed Chairmen has been to keep inflation in check. During the past couple of decades, inflation has been very tame, ranging from two to three percent.

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Finger-pointing After Prop. 8 Outcome Sharply Sours an Otherwise Sweet Election


Op-Ed

On Nov. 4, I had my own self-imposed media blackout. I turned off the TV and closed the web browser.

Like taking the college admission exam or studying for the bar, all the preparation, work, sweat, toil and tears had come down to just one day.

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Are The Gay Rights Protests Mob Justice?


The Recreational Nihilist
A Few Thoughts About The Tyranny Of Culture And Mormon Hypocrisy.
Although I’m not convinced that the protests serve a strategically useful purpose – and I wonder where the heck everybody was before Nov. 4 – I don’t buy accusations (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/) that these are mob justice or disrespectful of “the people’s will.” Insofar as the mob justice canard is concerned, Prop. 8 not only revoked a legal right, it did so on the basis of portraying gay marriage as harmful to children and a threat to social stability. When somebody calls you a threat, immoral and the like, then pulls a stunt like Prop. 8 to interfere in your life, getting upset and exercising free speech rights strikes me as a natural human response. Prop. 8 supporters may not like being the object of anger, they may not like being called intolerant and bigots, they may not like these protests and boycotts, but it shouldn’t come as a surprise. People don’t like to be insulted and treated like second-class citizens, and it was, after all, the Prop. 8 people – who don’t seem to understand or care about the pain they are causing – who started it. They could have left well enough alone, living their lives according to their beliefs and leaving others to theirs, but no.

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