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By Bill Boyarsky — Contrary to conventional wisdom, the media fascination with the potential presidential campaign of the great American phony, Donald Trump, has been helpful to the Republican Party.
Posted on Apr 27, 2011
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By Bill Boyarsky — Such areas contain the dispirited middle that Obama will have to win over to be re-elected, people whose struggles with daily life are so consuming that the national political debate over the budget and the deficit seems far away and irrelevant.
Posted on Apr 21, 2011
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White House/Pete Souza
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By Bill Boyarsky — In his eagerness to compromise with the Republican right, President Barack Obama has forgotten the still-suffering victims of the recession: the long-term unemployed who range from the poorest Americans to those barely holding on to their place in the middle class.
Posted on Apr 12, 2011
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Bill Boyarsky — With all the evil people in the world, why are public schoolteachers being villainized? And how did they attract such powerful enemies?
Posted on Mar 29, 2011
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AP / Reed Saxon
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By Bill Boyarsky — With a liberal, anti-war candidate, Marcy Winograd, in the race, the vote to replace Rep. Jane Harman in Southern California is likely to be the year’s first national electoral test of support for the Afghanistan War.
Posted on Mar 8, 2011
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AP / Bret Hartman
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By Bill Boyarsky — Is rudeness a crime, punishable by prison? Yes, says a district attorney as he pursues the prosecution of 11 Muslim students who disrupted a speech by the Israeli ambassador.
Posted on Feb 15, 2011
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Bill Boyarsky — Eighteen years ago, the late Betty Friedan called her friend Ann Reiss Lane, a prominent Los Angeles civic activist. She was angry about the gun industry’s latest outrage—high-fashion ads marketing guns with grips made for a woman’s hand.
Posted on Jan 31, 2011
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AP / Charles Dharapak
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By Bill Boyarsky — The selfish negativity expressed by Republicans in the House health care debate last week showed why we should fight hard for President Barack Obama’s re-election in 2012.
Posted on Jan 24, 2011
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AP / Cliff Owen
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By Bill Boyarsky — Republicans have their biggest statehouse majority in more than 80 years, and they’re taking orders from a man who wants to take government and “drown it in the bathtub.”
Posted on Jan 17, 2011
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AP / Rich Pedroncelli
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By Bill Boyarsky — Covering the statehouse or city hall is regarded as the minor leagues of political journalism. But this year, these too-often-unappreciated scriveners are in the middle of one of the most important domestic stories in decades.
Posted on Jan 11, 2011
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AP / Rich Pedroncelli
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By Bill Boyarsky — At a discussion after the last debate between the two California candidates for governor, a man wondered whether his children would want to continue to live in the state where they grew up.
Posted on Oct 18, 2010
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AP / Rob Carr
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By Bill Boyarsky — It’s comforting for liberals to view the conservative world through the MSNBC bubble and mitigated by the opinions of Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow. But it’s not the real world.
Posted on Sep 20, 2010
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By Bill Boyarsky — The evil side of America is on display in the form of a media-fueled Islamophobia that recalls some of the worst bigotry in the nation’s past. This is not what we hoped for in the days after Sept. 11, 2001, or the election of President Barack Obama in 2008.
Posted on Sep 13, 2010
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carlyforcalifornia.com
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By Bill Boyarsky — The nation’s problems—war and unemployment—are badly damaging the Democrats, even on the Pacific Coast, which President Barack Obama won easily in 2008. And Obama himself, reacting slowly and indecisively, is contributing to the challenges his party faces in November.
Posted on Sep 7, 2010
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By Bill Boyarsky — It’s easy to laugh off the weekend’s Glenn Beck-Sarah Palin show at the Lincoln Memorial. But don’t laugh just yet. The rally was a major event in the right wing’s effort to take over Congress and the presidency.
Posted on Aug 30, 2010
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