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Here’s what Joe Biden can gift the nation this year: Its first female president

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The truth is out there about those New Jersey UFOs. Unfortunately, it’s boring

18.12.2024 2

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The discourse around Luigi Mangione shows how broken American society has become

11.12.2024 10

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Stuff the outrage over Hunter Biden’s pardon

. Spare me the outrage over the Hunter Biden pardon. Though Biden is no saint, he also has been clean and sober for 5½ years, paid his seven-figure...

03.12.2024 20

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Blame ‘Glacial’ Garland, not special prosecutor, for withdrawing charges against Trump

. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announces he will appoint a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department’s investigation into former...

28.11.2024 10

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Ranking Trump’s cabinet picks by their danger to the United States

21.11.2024 10

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California’s Trump resistance isn’t futile, but it might feel like it for awhile

Trump’s obsession with Gov. Gavin Newsom, Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi is expected to drive him to make...

15.11.2024 7

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What’s next for Kamala Harris? How does ‘Gov. Harris’ sound?

09.11.2024 8

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Here’s Trump’s ‘closing’ argument — don’t you wish that were really so?

. As we reach the final hours of the presidential campaign (it feels like it started in 1860 in more ways than one), the time has come for the closing...

06.11.2024 20

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Trump’s 15-minute stunt at McDonald’s: ‘Want lies with that?’

One in 8 Americans has worked at a McDonald’s at some point in their life, including, for real, Vice President Kamala Harris, when she was a young...

26.10.2024 10

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Leave it to Trump to get Adam Schiff back in the headlines

. Aside from lying about his golf game, Rep. Adam Schiff seems to be former President Donald Trump’s favorite hobby. Trump was speaking at yet...

22.10.2024 8

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How Ethel Kennedy personified dignity in American politics

11.10.2024 4

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Walz came to debate, Vance was just lying around

Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz participate in the...

02.10.2024 10

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Uff da! Face it: 49ers’ history in Minnesota is frustrating to the max

22.09.2024 9

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First, Harris shook Trump’s hand, then shook him to his core

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris greet as...

11.09.2024 10

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The shooting of Ricky Pearsall was shocking, but don't be surprised

My first reaction to the news that 49ers rookie wide receiver Ricky Pearsall had been shot during a robbery attempt in Union Square on Saturday...

04.09.2024 9

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If Harris wins, where will Newsom go next? My money is on late night TV

30.08.2024 3

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Harris comports herself like the president from a blockbuster movie. And it’s lighting Trump’s hair on fire

24.08.2024 8

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Harris selects Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as running mate

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz applauds as President Joe Biden speaks at Dutch Creek Farms in Northfield, Minn., on Nov. 1, 2023.  Vice President Kamala...

06.08.2024 4

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How Elon Musk and the 'very worst among us' are ruining the public square

. Elon Musk, meet Marc Murphy. I’m quite certain you’ve never met Marc Murphy. But you will now. You see, Murphy is an influential political...

02.08.2024 4

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Biden saved America in 2020 and saved it again on Sunday

President Joe Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris after deciding to withdraw Sunday as candidate for reelection. President Joe Biden did the...

22.07.2024 5

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All of Elon Musk's X’s are moving to Texas. Why that’s not bad for California

. Elon Musk is finally doing what he’s long threatened for years: He’ll be an X-San Franciscan and relocate his entire tech-bro shebang to Austin,...

18.07.2024 4

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Trump rally shooting is a déjà vu moment in American history. Will we learn from the past or repeat it?

The shooting at former President Donald Trump's rally in Pennsylvania Saturday brings back memories of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy leaning over...

14.07.2024 10

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Why is George Clooney the only major California Democrat calling for Biden to step aside?

President Joe Biden greets supporters at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta before he debated with Donald Trump on June 27.  As the Democratic Party pulls...

12.07.2024 30

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Why today might be the most important Fourth of July since 1776

. The late President Richard Nixon is cackling in his grave today. This week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the president of the United States of...

04.07.2024 4

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Gun Accessories

July 2, 2024

02.07.2024 4

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No lie: Biden should step aside so voters can dump Trump

29.06.2024 6

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Why it’s important to remember Uncle Hal and all D-Day veterans, 80 years later

World War II veterans arrive Tuesday at Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, for a commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the June 6, 1944, D-Day...

06.06.2024 6

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Steve Garvey is ‘The Invisible Man’ of California Senate race. Why is he even running?

. You remember Steve Garvey. He used to be a solid first baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers back in the 1970s and ’80s, but where is he now? Oh,...

24.05.2024 30

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What impact is Trump’s trial having on polls? Unclear or disgusting, depending on your politics

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Marjorie

09.05.2024 10

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Dog shooter Kristi Noem is probably out, but Trump still has many questionable people angling to be his veep

. As the presidential primary season winds down, presumptive GOP nominee and guy-in-courtroom-sketches former President Donald Trump is looking for a...

09.05.2024 30

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Adam Schiff’s car was burglarized in San Francisco. He joins a crowded club

    Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from California who looks like a guy born in a blue suit, had an experience...

28.04.2024 30

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A squirrel named Furry Boi won a UC Berkeley student Senate seat. I’ve seen worse decisions in politics

. In other election news,  a squirrel has been elected to the UC Berkeley student Senate. According to an article by Kent German at SFGate, the...

21.04.2024 10

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How RFK Jr. misses the point about who his father was and what he believed

. The saddest thing about the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy was that he left 11 children fatherless, one of whom was 14-year-old Robert F....

19.04.2024 8

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Once upon a time, veteran newsmen hosted Sunday TV talk shows

Not just journalists anymore.  A few Sundays back, viewers of ABC News’s “This Week With George Stephanopolous” were treated to a comical...

12.04.2024 20

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After a controversial end to her failed Senate run, what’s next for Katie Porter?

. Rep. Katie Porter’s career whiteboard is now freshly wiped clean in a not wholly unexpected way but, at 50, she’s still got a lot of blank space...

01.04.2024 40

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What do RFK Jr.’s running mate choices tell us about him? ‘That boy ain’t right’

Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura and New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers are on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s shortlist for running mates....

16.03.2024 30

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Why Steve Garvey is the perfect representative of California’s current GOP

Republican Senate candidate Steve Garvey admires Ronald Reagan but did virtually nothing to emulate him other than color his hair similarly.  In his...

15.03.2024 6

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Undecided about U.S. Senate race? Rep. Katie Porter wants you

Rep. Katie Porter needs an influx of “undecided” votes to qualify for the November run-off for the late Dianne Feinstein’s seat in the U.S....

23.02.2024 20

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California's second Senate debate was a game show disguised as a policy discussion

. An AI bot named Steve Garvey wandered onto the second U.S. Senate debate set Monday, and he gave the words “artificial” and “intelligence” a...

15.02.2024 10

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What in the world happened to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?

. Curb your enthusiasm for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Hot take: He’s the next Donald J. Trump, but even less politically accomplished and I didn’t...

12.02.2024 7

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California’s U.S. Senate candidates have started reaching for mud to sling

The race for the U.S. Senate seat among Reps. Barbara Lee, Adam Schiff and Katie Porter is turning into a catfight.  This was the week that the U.S....

06.02.2024 40

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California’s U.S. Senate candidates reaching for mud to sling

The race for the U.S. Senate seat among Reps. Barbara Lee, Adam Schiff and Katie Porter is turning into a catfight.  This was the week that the U.S....

05.02.2024 6

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Describing Garvey’s debate performance as deer in the headlights is a disservice to deer in headlights

23.01.2024 10

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Can Biden be ‘fun enough’ for young voters?

How President Biden might play to young voters. President Joe Biden, born in 1942 during the onset of U.S. entry into World War II, is having...

21.01.2024 40

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Porter shapes up as the mother of all U.S. Senate candidates

There are no single mothers in the U.S. Senate. There is one in the House of Representatives, and that’s Katie Porter. By most accounts, the 2024...

17.01.2024 30

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Doddering

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At 91, John Burton still has a few choice words

A classic John Burtonism from John Burton. John Burton represented San Francisco in the Assembly, state Senate and the House of Representatives during...

20.12.2023 6

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So you’re planning to chase cheap housing in Sacramento? We locals have just one demand first

The Tower Bridge is a Sacramento icon. Will S.F. miscreants sneak out at night and repaint it like their magnificent international landmark?  San...

14.12.2023 30

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