The Art of the Deal – by Kim Jung Un
June 16, 2018 | No Comments
Speaking impulsively without consulting South Korea or the U.S. military, Trump handed a gift to Kim on that proverbial silver platter – an unprecedented give-away with his unilaterally deciding to end joint military exercises with South Korea.
Paul Ryan – The Statesman He Could Have Been
April 13, 2018 | No Comments
Yet after the Orlando massacre, Ryan barely addressed the attack on the LGBTQ community by a Muslim, who pledged allegiance to ISIS.
Giving Priority to Homeless with Mental and Health Conditions
March 29, 2018 | No Comments
The mentally ill and those with physical conditions should be a priority in any plan to homelessness in San Francisco.
Modest Proposals to Address Gun Violence
March 01, 2018 | No Comments
The state of our gun laws is not because of the Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller that established the “right of an individual to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, but rather the power of the NRA on its members, Congress, and many politicians across the country.
An Open Letter to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Students
February 28, 2018 | 1 Comment
Because of you, companies are already scrambling to disassociate themselves from the NRA. Best of all, it is becoming deliciously obvious with each passing day that politicians have finally – finally – met their match.
Adachi Allies Threaten Cuts to Public Defender Budget over Pension Reform
July 09, 2010 | 75 Comments
The move is a retaliatory strike over Adachi’s pension and healthcare reform measure, SF Smart Reform, which aims to rein in unsustainable pension and healthcare costs projected to exceed $1 billion by 2016.
How Do You Spell Chutzpah? M-E-X-I-C-O
July 08, 2010 | 5 Comments
Arizona’s governor recently had to call off a border conference scheduled to take place in Phoenix because Mexican governors planned to boycott it, saying that Arizona’s new immigration law violates civil rights and is based on ethnic and cultural prejudices. No mention is made of their citizens violating the laws of our country.
Adachi’s Pension Deception:
Billionaire Speculators Pricing Kids
out of Health Care
July 06, 2010 | 47 Comments
The common wisdom in conservative economic circles as trumpeted by FoxNEWS these days in serious, stentorian tones, is that the economy is broke rather than broken, and that we are saddled with massive unfunded pension and health care liabilities, which are deemed unaffordable and unsustainable. The solution, according to those whose economic ideology got us into this mess, is to cut wages, pensions and health care, and to welcome these austerity measures and our new status as serfs as inevitable. The unacceptable alternative to austerity for them would be that those responsible for the economic mess be wiped out in a wave of bankruptcies, which would mean them. To avoid this, they will spend lavishly to convince us that we are to blame for their errors and convince us to transfer the meager resources of hundreds of millions of us into their coffers to make them not just whole, but to further enrich them.
Cell Phone Health Hazards: Better Safe Than Sorry
July 06, 2010 | 10 Comments
On May 6, 2010, the President’s Cancer Panel reported that “the true burden of environmentally induced cancers has been grossly underestimated” and named cell phones and other wireless technologies as potential causes of cancer that demand further research and precaution.
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Adachi Ready to Submit Pension Reform Petitions
July 05, 2010 | 1 Comment
“I am confident that we have the 46,000 signatures needed today to qualify for the November ballot,” Adachi said in a statement released to FCJ. “The voters of San Francisco have overwhelmingly responded to the need for sustainable pension reform by signing these petitions. Now the Department of Elections has up to 30 days to confirm our effort to take this critical budgetary issue to the entire electorate.”
God Bless America
July 05, 2010 | 3 Comments
Every few years, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence updates its God Bless America poster to show the alarming difference between the number of gun murders in other developed countries vs. the number in the United States.
BP, US Government Suspends First Amendment?
July 04, 2010 | 4 Comments
July 4, 2010 As BP makes its latest attempt to plug its gushing oil well, news photographers are complaining their efforts to document the slow-motion disaster in the Gulf of Mexico are being thwarted by…
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