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Abigail R. Hall: Hegseth’s war on leaks is a war on accountability
1+ day, 59+ min ago (190+ words) This has drawn ire for several reasons. The task force isn’t just relevant for those concerned with press freedom or hypocrisy. It takes direct aim at others who are important for checking governmental misdeeds—namely, whistleblowers. A whistleblower is an…...
Matt Fleming: Newsom discovers the working class on his way out the door
1+ day, 50+ min ago (707+ words) Gavin Newsom is promising to do something he’s never accomplished before: Improve the lives of the working class. Newsom has been campaigning for president most of the time he’s been California’s governor, with all his national and international appearances, podcasts…...
Jon Coupal: With friends like these
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (430+ words) In both California and the nation at large, there is a perception that Republicans are more fiscally conservative than Democrats. While voting records and position statements generally confirm this, there are times Republicans can disappoint their constituents as badly as…...
Column: Popular words fill our vocabularies – if only for a short time
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (621+ words) Recently I noticed my daughter uses the word “like” at lot in her everyday speech – like every fourth or fifth word in a sentence. I pointed this out and she responded with something like “I speak Californian. Like, this is…...
John Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead: While the political circus distracts us, Flock builds the digital police state
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (885+ words) While Americans remain transfixed by the political circus—cheering for their preferred party, jeering at the opposition, obsessing over every manufactured outrage and waiting for the next spectacle—the Surveillance State continues its steady march forward. The government is watching....
Larry Wilson: Climate change: We broke it; we bought it
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (510+ words) I was trying to push in the glass front door of the wine shop to get a look at its wares, but it wouldn’t budge. Locked, I figured. Closed for the early-afternoon siesta, or whatever they call a mid-day nap…...
Susan Shelley: From license-plate readers to phone taps, privacy rights are vanishing
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (747+ words) You have to say this for the U.S. mail: it’s private. Sure, it’s slow, and the postage rates keep going up, and communicating with ink on paper in a stamped envelope is already as archaic as riding a horse to the…...
Steve Smith: California shouldn’t punish Coast Guardsmen for serving their country
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (506+ words) On any given weekend, thousands of Californians head onto the water expecting that if something goes wrong, help will come. These stories make headlines because they bring to mind something easy to overlook: the United States Coast Guard is one…...
Analysis: Have progressives peaked? The next few weeks will be crucial in Democrats’ tug-of-war
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (56+ words) Daily Democrat By STEVE PEOPLES, AP National Politics Writer It depends upon who you ask within a Democratic Party that is undeniably locked in a tug-of-war between emboldened progressives demanding radical change and the party’s pragmatic establishment....
John Seiler: Trump’s forever wars are wrecking America First – Daily Democrat
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (740+ words) Although I don’t have a TV, on YouTube or X sometimes the algorithm pops up videos of Sean Hannity, Jesse Watters and other Fox News hosts. They glory in what’s called, excuse the phrase, “war porn.” While boosting President Donald…...