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Mailbag: Poseidon is no good for H.B.
[The Huntington Beach] Poseidon Desalination plan is a boondoggle plan like every one they have proposed since Tampa Bay [in Florida]. They sold the idea of a desalination plant to the Huntington Beach City Council by promising it would never cost the...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Barack Obama, Interior Policy, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Military Equipment
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City Lights: Time to leave the 'colors' out of voting
There's a hilarious song by the Orange County folk singer Michael Ubaldini called "World Peace in 10 Easy Lessons," in which the narrator journeys from one potential guru to another in hopes of discovering the secret to a strife-free world. At one...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Time (magazine), Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control
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City Lights: 'Just remember, it's mostly good'
Once in a while, you hear a simple statement that lodges itself permanently in your way of thinking. One of those, for me, came in a conversation I had with a high school friend who was savvy for his age on global politics. We had been talking about...
Tags: Sikhism, Politics, University of California, Irvine, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control
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Mailbag: Plastic bag problem starts upstream
Perhaps we should have a reasonable informative/educational community outreach rather than yet another attempt of nanny government by our city and a set of comments by a council member to create another piece of legislation that, in idealistic terms, is...Tags: Politics, Tiger (animal), Personal Weapon Control, Social Issues, Fishing
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House passes gun bill over Quinn, Emanuel objections
SPRINGFIELD — Over objections of Gov. Pat Quinn and Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the House approved a concealed weapons bill today that is aimed at ending Illinois’ status as the last state in the nation without a law to allow its citizens to carry...
Tags: Mental Health, Pat Quinn, Behavioral Conditions, Health, Assault
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Quinn, Emanuel lash out at Madigan gun bill
— Gov. Pat Quinn, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Senate President John Cullerton decried a bill to legalize concealed firearms that is backed by powerful House Speaker Michael Madigan, contending it would invalidate strict local gun laws like Chicago's...
Tags: Michael Madigan, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Pat Quinn, Illinois Governor
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One man's pride in himself is inspiring
I am writing this in response to David Whiteman's May 11 letter. He complains about the great deal of media coverage received by Jason Collins, an NBA player who made history as the first active male athlete in a major North American sports league to come...Tags: Politics, Iraq, Barack Obama, Interior Policy, U.S. Congress
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Editorial: 'The big problem with the Illinois House gun bill'?
Under orders from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Illinois legislature is trying to craft a law that will allow responsible gun owners to carry concealed weapons in public. The court said the legislature has to do this, but the court didn't say...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Firearms, Politics
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Carroll County's gun law nullification fantasy
Nullification fever is spreading across the rural counties along the Mason-Dixon Line, with Cecil, Harford and Carroll counties passing resolutions in the last month declaring their view that Maryland's new gun control law is unconstitutional. Cecil's...
Tags: Antonin Scalia, Conservation, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, United Nations
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Stan Van Gundy: 'It's been a year since I've been fired, and it still stings'
It is time for sportswriters and sportscasters everywhere to fly their notebooks and tape recorders at half-mast. Stan Van Gundy says he likely won't return to coaching next season and even says there's a possibility he may never return to coaching at...
Tags: Interior Policy, Orlando Magic, Personal Weapon Control, Brooklyn Nets, Atlanta Hawks
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Obama beats up the media; media returns favor
If President Obama was the darling of that so-called liberal media, he is certainly its biggest enemy today. Instead, he’s basically a lame duck pariah who now has the full attention of every broadcast analyst, Internet blogger and newspaper...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Newspaper and Magazine, Interior Policy, Barack Obama, Journalism
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Stephen Goldstein: Real scandal is how lobbyists get away with what they do
These days, the country is consumed by scandal-mania — real, or mostly trumped-up, partisan allegations of violations of the public trust, the truth of which no one knows for sure because we don't have all the facts and probably never will. We...Tags: Politics, Elections, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Lobbying
Feb 20, 2013
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May 24, 2013
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May 24, 2013
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May 24, 2013
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May 24, 2013
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May 23, 2013
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May 23, 2013
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May 23, 2013
|Column| Imperial Valley Press Online
May 24, 2013
|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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