Proud to be an American, ashamed to be a Californian

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 9:12 AM PST

2008/11/05 · 09:12

Last night a cloud that had descended eight years ago when an election was stolen in Florida was finally lifted. We Americans took a major leap forward to repudiate the destructive policies of the last 8 years, and of the last 400....

But another cloud descended on us here in California, when voters appear to have passed Prop. 8, institutionalizing into our very state constitution discrimination and bigotry against gays and lesbians.

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Wednesday October 15, 2008 · 2:31 PM PDT

2008/10/15 · 14:31

As incoherent as the arguments are connecting Barack Obama to the alleged criminal or terrorist activities of Bill Ayers, it may be useful to compile some of the most obvious counter-arguments that can be mustered at the occasional cocktail party or family gathering where you may be forced to talk politics with Republicans running high on self-righteous anger and short on actual facts.

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Proud to be an American, ashamed to be a Californian

Obama, Ayers, and Guilt by Association — Some Counter-Arguments