We can’t figure why this story hasn’t been all over local media,  but here it Is:
A Republican State Senator from Bakersfield was busted on a DUI after-bar hours closing Tuesday, the facts of the DUI, not so unusual, were reported on the news wires. The back story came up in the gay press – the [...]

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Tom Graff
1944-2009
By Mike Marshall
Tom Graff, the former Regional Director of Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) passed away on November 12th, after a long battle with cancer. The environmental movement, and the campaign to restore the Hetch Hetchy Valley, which Tom energetically supported, lost a great friend, a great advocate and a great strategist.
“He was a [...]

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(California now has a budget, and faces the consequences: There will be Draconian cuts in state services and irreparable holes in the social safety net – many will fall through, and be unable to get back up – and of course the counties are keen to sue the Capital for taking monies from them. The [...]

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by Warren Hinckle, Matt Gonzalez, Jello Biafra
If we can learn from history, attention should be paid to Black Bart. The legendary gentleman stagecoach bandit robbed only the strong boxes, not the passengers. He was always polite, apologized for any inconvenience, and even left a poem on his departure. Many call eminent domain robbery, which may [...]

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(Ed. Note: As I confessed clipping junkie, I constantly rip stuff out of newspapers and magazines and one of the keepers was this pre-presidential piece last fall in the Village Voice by Wayne Barrett on Sarah Palin. It is a classic of shoe-leather investigative reporting, and if the muse takes you to peruse it you [...]

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Whats she hanging on to?
 His stimulus package?

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Marilyn Chambers

Warren Hinckle

When Dianne Feinstein was mayor, she tried cleaning up the strip joints, particularly the Mitchell Brothers’ Theater which is located only three blocks from City Hall. In February 1985, the cops raided the theater and arrested porn movie star, Marilyn Chambers, in the middle of her nude act. Prior to becoming [...]

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By Warren Hinckle

(Marilyn Chambers, who died last week at 56, is an icon to generations of San Franciscans. The former Ivory Snow (“99 & 44/100 % Pure”) soap box cover girl starred in San Francisco’s the Mitchell Brothers mega-porn hit movie “Beyond The Green Door.” The following is excerpted from Warren Hinckle’s forthcoming book, [...]

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By Warren Hinckle

At the end of the day, the Republican Party would have been better off with a ticket of Joe the Plumber and Sara the hockey mom. Joe just wants his money and wants government to keep his sticky fingers off it. Sara wants the rough justice of the frontier for the [...]

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By Warren Hinckle
The Republicans are the finest ambush artists in political historie. Give credit where credit is due.
The Rep’s sneak thieves  stole Jimmy Carter’s briefing book before his big debate with Ronald Reagan, and brought us the October Surprise -  whereby in 1980 Republican operatives cut a secret deal with Iran to delay the release [...]

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