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Interesting muni election they’re having up in my former home town…
One proposition on the ballot would name a sewage plant after President George W. Bush, something I’m sure is getting big yuks around certain circles in Sodom-By-The-Bay. Another, Proposition K, would effectively legalize prostitution by prohibiting local authorities from investigating, arresting or prosecuting anybody involved [...]

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As you know, San Francisco has been engaged in all-out warfare against it’s Junior ROTC program. The latest effort to wipe out the program is to offer a “first aid class” (yes, really), to help those kids who want to do something meaningful with their lives. In a story deeply interlaced with local politics [...]

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Another Reason Why Liberal Politicians Can’t Be Trusted with Your Money
Mark this down as reason 1692169271 that socialists are proposing European style tax policies under the guise of “change”.
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge may soon be rigged with a safety net to deter people from jumping to their deaths from [...]

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“If students really love the program, they’ll take it anyway,” - San Francisco School Board President Mark Sanchez
In another of those hastily called School Board meetings — a tactic used to ensure that JROTC supporters will be less likely to attend the meeting — the SF School Board cut the legs off the JROTC program [...]

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The San Francisco Examiner online has a big section on Gay Pride Week.  It reminded me of why I’ve always found gay self-identification strikingly different from all other major group identifications.
There is no doubt that people tend to try to find like people, and this is true whether they group themselves by religion, ethnicity, profession, [...]

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Everybody around me was having fun, but I was not. Instead, I found the whole thing very depressing. Oh, I forgot to tell you what I’m talking about.
We went to see the crowd at the San Francisco Bay to Breakers race — a race that was started 96 years ago to commemorate the San Francisco [...]

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Sin taxes: the unusually high taxes we impose against disfavored activities in the hope that, if the activity becomes way too expensive, people will think twice about engaging in that particular sin. Cigarettes and alcohol are the two major targets of sin taxes.
In California, in 1998, California voters passed Prop. 10, a sin [...]

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