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THE TRUTH IS ALWAYS SUFFICIENT: PART TWO (END)
September 11, 2015, marked the 14th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on United States soil. Inevitably, this was a time to remember those 3,000 Americans whose lives were so cruelly snuffed...
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HELL IN THE RENTERS’ PARADISE: PART ONE (OF THREE)
To hear slumlords tell it, San Francisco is a “renters’ paradise,” where obnoxious, lazy, rent-evading tenants constantly take advantage of hard-working, put-upon landlords. Don’t believe it. And in...
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HELL IN THE RENTERS’ PARADISE: PART TWO (OF THREE)
The “war on drugs” has some valuable lessons to teach the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection (DBI) which is charged with protecting tenants against predatory landlords. Consider: At least...
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HELL IN THE RENTERS’ PARADISE: PART THREE (END)
Slumlords would have everyone believe that San Francisco is a “renters’ paradise.” A place where hard-working landlords are routinely taken advantage of by rent-avoiding bums who want to be constantly...
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COMBATING SLUMLORDS: PART ONE (OF THREE)
To hear slumlords tell it, San Francisco is a “renters’ paradise,” where obnoxious, lazy, rent-evading tenants constantly take advantage of hard-working, put-upon landlords. Don’t believe it. And in...
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COMBATING SLUMLORDS: PART TWO (OF THREE)
The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection (DBI) has long been outmaneuvered by predatory, law-breaking landlords. And San Francisco renters–many of them elderly, poor and/or disabled–have...
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COMBATING SLUMLORDS: PART THREE (END)
City agencies need to see landlords for what they truly are–as, at best, potential predators, if not actual ones. And to act on that knowledge. As Niccolo Machiavelli warned: “All those who have...
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SALUTING THE AMERICANS WHO GAVE US 9/11: PART ONE (OF THREE)
It’s that time of year again–yet another anniversary celebration of September 11, 2001. The day when Islamic terrorists slammed two jetliners into the World Trade Center and a third into the Pentagon....
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SALUTING THE AMERICANS WHO GAVE US 9/11: PART TWO (OF THREE)
September 11, 2016, marks the 15th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on United States soil. Inevitably, this is a time to remember all those whose lives were so cruelly snuffed out. But it...
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SALUTING THE AMERICANS WHO GAVE US 9/11: PART THREE (END)
Colonel Brandt: “I wonder what we’ll do after we lose the war.” Captain Kiesel: “Prepare for the next one.” –-“The Cross of Iron,” film by Sam Peckinpah On September 12, 2001, President George W. Bush...
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WHY THE POOR VOTE REPUBLICAN: PART ONE (OF TWO)
On July 22, 2011, ABC News carried the following story: The Pew Foundation, analyzing voter identification, found “the electorate’s partisan affiliations have shifted significantly” since Barack Obama...
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WHY THE POOR VOTE REPUBLICAN: PART TWO (END)
Republicans have long tried to prevent or eliminate programs that aid the poor and middle-class, including: Social Security (since it began in 1935) Medicare National health insurance Food stamps WIC...
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THE AMERICANS WHO GAVE US 9/11: PART ONE (OF THREE)
It’s that time of year again—yet another anniversary celebration of September 11, 2001. The day when Islamic terrorists slammed two jetliners into the World Trade Center and a third into the Pentagon....
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THE AMERICANS WHO GAVE US 9/11: PART TWO (OF THREE)
September 11, 2017, marks the 16th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on United States soil. Inevitably, this is a time to remember all those whose lives were so cruelly snuffed out. But it...
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THE AMERICANS WHO GAVE US 9/11: PART THREE (END)
On September 12, 2001, President George W. Bush attended a meeting of the National Security Council. “Why shouldn’t we go against Iraq, not just Al-Qaeda?” demanded Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of...
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THE ROAD TO DECLINE STARTS IN IRAQ: PART ONE (OF THREE)
“Many of the people who work in American foreign policy today were shaped by the experience of the 1990s, when the United States was ascendant. The Berlin Wall came down. Democracy was spreading across...
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THE ROAD TO DECLINE STARTS IN IRAQ: PART TWO (OF THREE)
September 11, 2018, will mark the 17th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on United States soil. Inevitably, this is a time to remember all those whose lives were so cruelly snuffed out. But it...
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THE ROAD TO DECLINE STARTS IN IRAQ: PART THREE (END)
On September 12, 2001, President George W. Bush attended a meeting of the National Security Council. “Why shouldn’t we go against Iraq, not just Al-Qaeda?” demanded Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of...
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LIES HURT, BUT TRUTH HURTS MORE: PART ONE (OF TWO)
You don’t ever have to frame anybody, because the truth is always sufficient. –Willie Stark, in All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren When one politician wants to truly hurt another, the weapon of...
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LIES HURT, BUT THE TRUTH HURTS MORE: PART TWO (END)
September 11, 2018, marked the 17th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on United States soil. Inevitably, this was a time to remember the 3,000 Americans whose lives were so cruelly snuffed out....
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