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California Counts For Nothing – Again

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH I got my absentee ballot in the mail, which reminded me: We have an election next Tuesday. The excitement is hard to bear. Oh, wait. There is no excitement. The ballot is still sitting in the pile on the kitchen table. I intend to fill it out because that’s what good citizens […]

A New Species Of Jumping Beans

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER When I was about six years of age, my uncle showed me something that made my eyes bug and my mind boggle: four beans that moved on their own. Leaping legumes! It wasn’t trickery, but an odd twist in the natural world that creates the novelty of “Mexican jumping beans.” They’re not […]

Suckers For Trump Need To Believe

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BY FROMA HARROP Here is how Donald Trump suckers the little people. What follows is a telling of his methods, not commentary on his lack of scruples. The Question: Why didn’t the trail of wreckage left by Trump’s failed businesses deter students from forking over as much as $35,000 for a class at Trump University? […]

R-e-s-p-e-c-t

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BY DON NELSON Tis a thin line I’m treading with this post. That said, I am tired, no, I am sick and tired of the “but...