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AP / Ben Margot
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By Bill Boyarsky — In throwing out California’s notorious Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage, appellate Judge Stephen Reinhardt showed the heart of a romantic and humor in a ringing defense of the often-scorned institution of marriage.
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AP / Charles Dharapak
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By Bill Boyarsky — Pity the poor mainstream news media, confronted with many debates, demands for instantaneous coverage, competition for website traffic and the specter of ever-multiplying super PACs.
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AP / Charlie Neibergall
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By Bill Boyarsky — Given time and enough money, the super PACs and other secretive political campaign funds are capable of causing corruptive influence that could reach from the presidency down to the lowest ranked members of the House.
Posted on Jan 20, 2012
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AP / Mary Schwalm
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By Bill Boyarsky — The Affordable Care Act, the health reform signed into law by Obama, is now best known by the Republican label “Obamacare.” Romney hopes to ride that misleading word to the presidency.
Posted on Jan 13, 2012
22 COMMENTS
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AP photos by Chis Carlson and Charlie Riedel
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By Bill Boyarsky — Of the two top finishers in the Iowa Republican caucuses, it’s hard to tell who is worse: Mitt Romney, the eight-vote winner, or Rick Santorum.
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AP / Jim Cole
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By Bill Boyarsky — While the Iowa Republican caucuses might not tell us much about who will win the party’s presidential nomination, they already reveal plenty about how the new world of unlimited campaign contributions is corrupting politics.
Posted on Dec 23, 2011
22 COMMENTS
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AP / Rich Pedroncelli
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By Bill Boyarsky — Senator Bernie Sanders has a much more sophisticated take on political corruption than the conventional view of campaign reformers.
Posted on Dec 16, 2011
46 COMMENTS
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AP / Mark Boster, Pool
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By Bill Boyarsky — In its two months of existence, Occupy L.A. showed a resiliency and purpose that could make some of its participants leaders in a great confrontation over economic injustice in the 2012 election.
Posted on Nov 30, 2011
19 COMMENTS
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AP / David Goldman
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By Bill Boyarsky — The courageous people who work day and night in overcrowded urban emergency wards are forced to confront society’s failures.
Posted on Nov 28, 2011
24 COMMENTS
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AP / Ric Francis
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By Bill Boyarsky — The U.S. attorneys who have declared war on California’s medical marijuana industry remind me of the prohibition agents in the HBO show “Boardwalk Empire.”
Posted on Nov 13, 2011
66 COMMENTS
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AP / Thomas Watkins
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By Bill Boyarsky — While Occupy Wall Street and similar movements around the country take aim at financial institutions and their political cronies for taking the country into recession, let’s not forget those at the very bottom who were victims of economic depression long before the current collapse.
Posted on Oct 28, 2011
22 COMMENTS
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AP / Isaac Brekken
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By Bill Boyarsky — Almost 20 miles from the Occupy L.A. encampment and 265 miles from the Las Vegas Republican presidential debate, the state employment office in Norwalk, Calif., was a sad, quiet reminder of what the presidential campaign should be about—unemployment that is dooming the prospects of this generation and its children.
Posted on Oct 21, 2011
90 COMMENTS
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AP / Andy Wong
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By Bill Boyarsky — A recent trip to China made me think about the way life can go on in a police state when people are much more preoccupied with economic survival than with civil liberties.
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AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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By Bill Boyarsky — As was the case in 2008, the racial divide in American society is a huge obstacle to President Barack Obama’s chances of electoral victory in 2012.
Posted on Sep 20, 2011
86 COMMENTS
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