Articles Posted in the Opinion Category
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A Failed War on Crumbs:
SFPD Chief Gascón’s Crackdown in the Tenderloin
is the Wrong AnswerGascón’s plan won’t work, targets the wrong people and wastes valuable public resources: you simply cannot win the “War on Drugs†one or two crack rocks — or crumbs — at a time.
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The Time Has Come for a United Ireland
Our task now is to lobby our elected officials and government so that they, in turn, can influence governments across the world to support a united Ireland. This is an issue that concerns all people, regardless of background. We now have an opportunity to seize the high moral ground and respect the wishes of the Irish people. It is time for a new approach to be adopted.
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Growing Poverty and Despair in America
Perhaps more than anything, increasing homelessness and hunger highlight the growing problem as, in the face of deteriorating economic conditions and growing human needs, administration policies are indifferent, counterproductive, uncaring and hostile.
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Why Are The Drug
and Health Insurance Companies Smiling?What did President Obama give in return for this $80 billion? Reportedly, Obama agreed not to bargain down prices for Medicare purchases and promised that the U.S. would not buy less expensive drugs from Canada. What will that cost us? Well 13 European nations successfully regulate the price of drugs, reducing the average cost of name-brand prescription medicines by 35 percent to 55 percent.
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Universal Healthcare: A Necessary Headache
The most frightening thing about the SF Bay Guardian’s article was the leak from a high-level congressional staff member indicating “many lawmakers won’t back a single-payer system in part because they ‘don’t want to have to respond to being accused of being a socialist by the right wing.'” If that is the kind of petty personal-political impediment to the kind of healthcare system this country needs, then we are all doomed.
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Health Care: A Right, Not a Privilege
Socialized medicine is coming!! Lock your doors and shutter your windows. Why is the dreaded “S” word used to oppose health care reform? Those who use the dreaded “S” word never really define what they mean by socialism. To some, it is an expansion in government spending. For example, they deemed the stimulus bill socialist – even though the architect of such policies, John Maynard Keynes, advocated a capitalist economic system. Thus, President Obama who is trying to save capitalism from itself must be a socialist.
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Fog City Kids Baseball Night
h. Brown Photos by Luke Thomas By Harold Brown August 1, 2009 An early sportswriter named Henry Chadwick is credited with first using a ‘K’ in scoring a strikeout in recorded box scores. He also…
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