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The Democratic Primary states

Partisanship in Jackson County, Oregon

Another Russian falls to his death

Tesla lost its coolness

Candidate quality is (nearly) irrelevant to winning elections

A serious talk with grownups.

Merry Christmas!

Nativity Scene

Vietnam Christmas 1965

Cheating.

A strange series of accidental deaths.

News blackout.

Elon Musk is the boss

Easy Sunday: Stay alive

Celebrity

This is real.

Dare Democrats re-think Krysten Sinema?

Inflation snapshots

Re-Send, December 7, 2022 post

Twitter Troll

Chatting with Artificial Intelligence

Easy Sunday: A bird files by color.

Christmas morning

Hunter Biden's Laptop

Oregon redistricting, Part One

Inconvenient truth

World Cup

Never can say goodbye to Trump

Humans are not machines.

Peter, what did you do?!!!!

Climate Science Disagreement

Boston Massacre

Crowds matter.

What's the fuss with this Fuentes guy???

Victim Stance

A Gathering Storm

I'm grateful I don't own Tesla stock

Hunter Biden is a mess.

Bad News: Nuclear war will kill us.

Goodbye, Twitter

Easy Sunday: Good things to enjoy on a quiet Sunday

Redneck

Veterans Day Reflections

Trump's tears

Trump is back. He never left.

"The existential threat of climate change"

White Phosphorous

Easy Sunday, Part Two. Google "Peter Sage"

Easy Sunday, Part One. A Christmas e-mail from Donald Trump.

1944: A veteran's story.

State Senator Jeff Golden won re-election.

Downstate Democratic Blues

Quick election takeaway

Midterms 2022: Red Wave

Trump 2024: God's agent on earth

Easy Sunday: Mean Joe Green Coke ad

Brooks Brothers riot

Heads up: Election day chaos.

I may be an outlier.

The bully pulpit

Who is this Tim Ryan guy?

Trolling Paul Pelosi

Campaign report: The race for Congress in Alaska

Easy Sunday: Halloween costume

Get real on oil

Curt Ankerberg

A human zygote

Secret Service: "Troubling behavior patterns."

Cue the scary music: campaign attack ads

The sad truth about inflation

Grass roots politics

Easy Sunday: Hello, teacher

Herschel Walker is an insult

It's the inflation, stupid

Economic War with Russia

"Joe Biden is president."

Candidate forum on KOBI-TV

Sparacino's ads hurt him.

Easy Sunday: Internet Dog Fight

Something rotten at the Secret Service

The news that isn't fit to print.

Oregon governor race

Investigate and prosecute Hunter Biden.

GOP backpedals on Jeff Golden

Fed pain ahead. Stagflation.

Easy Sunday: Bird. Bird nest. Bird Eggs. Baby Birds. Empty nest.

"I'd rather die than be vaccinated."

The GOP doubles down

Sleaze returns to Southern Oregon

No debates. No joint appearances. No show.

We already knew that.

The Guilt of Bystanders

Goodbye, printed newspaper

Easy Sunday: An American propaganda film

Republicans in hiding

Republican Jesus

More and better

A Multicultural Fair and the future of Illiberal Democracy.

Unequal justice

Abortion: Who decides?

The birth of an elephant

Goodbye printed newspaper

The Al Capone thing.

Pain ahead

Note: Yesterday's post.

The elephant in the room.

Heads up for Southern Oregon readers

"I'm in with the in crowd"

Easy Sunday: Punking those migrants.

No appointments available.

Oregon, sweet Oregon

Oregon 71--Eastern Washington 17

Why College, Part Three. Trade School Kid.

Why college? Part Two.

Why college?

Easy Sunday: Ambassador of corn

We were warned. The Big Lie didn't just happen.

The Queen is dead. Long live the King

I still don't get crypto-currencies.

Who is deplorable?

Labor: An up close view

Enjoy the weekend!

Easy Sunday: Oregon Duck football

The tragedy of Serena Williams

Don't fight the Fed

Re-writing pro-life history

College loans: Part Two

College loan bailout

California leadership

Easy Sunday: Body language

JFK: A negative view.

Democrats did well, Part Three: 15% corporate minimum tax

Democrats did well, part two. Re-empower the EPA

Democrats did well. Part One: the IRS

Big Shot

Classified Documents

Sunday: The verdict of history

Veggi Tray

Ambition

Pay the price

Liz Cheney launches

Sacco and Vanzetti: Execution Song

Tit for tat

Easy going Sunday: Melon update

Summer BBQ

Oregon is the Saudi Arabia of wind.

GOP: Defund the police!

The AG must explain FBI search. Not later. Explain now.

FBI Searches Trump home

Why I don't give campaign help to national Democratic party organizations.

Easy going Sunday: Rebound COVID

A GOP Town Hall

Biden's problem

How Kansas did it

Kansas surprise

We hereby proclaim. . .

Jackson County GOP: "We reject the certified votes of the 2020 Presidential election."

Response from David Dotterer, Jackson County Commissioner

GOP courage and cowardice

Guns for kids.

How I will spend my megabucks lottery winnings.

Censure Trump

Will Abortion change the 2022 election?

"I've got to admit it's getting better."

Continued: "What's wrong with West Coast cities?"

What's wrong with West Coast cities?

Easy going Sunday

California echoes Texas abortion law

Liz Cheney, Masculinity, and January 6

Guest Post: In praise of Betsy Johnson

Southern Oregon GOP has gone full-on MAGA crazy

Kind words for Joe Biden

Yes, Donald Trump is running in 2024

Easy-going Sunday

The January 6 rioters are criminals

Elon Musk: Bad Boy Billionaire

Request for good content

Talking points

An inconvenient truth: We aren't ready.

Hints, flirts, and intimations.

Political typologies: Fool, Knave, Hero

Dividing by zero

How Democrats lose elections they should win

Modes of knowing

Vietnam: We were burning children

2024

Patriotic Duty

God help us.

Pyrrhic victory

Sportswashing with Golf

Shame

Excuses. Excuses. Excuses.

Money and happiness

Prohibition of abortion

Sacrificing democracy to save babies

Sacrificing Democracy to Save Babies

The new abortion reality

Trump: A very, very close look

Three-way race for Oregon governor

2024 Already.

Campaign event: Oregon governor

Democratic Plan B

Mike Pence is choosing failure

Shaming Trump's enablers

Bear market

"Real classy, Boston."

Good bye, San Francisco

Banana Republicans

COVID watch

Biden asks Saudi Arabia's help

Liz Cheney, candidate for president

Prime time

Reunion

Melon tourism

365 Days in Vietnam

In defense of woke

F.U.

The right not to publish

Melon-planting time

The oil companies are doing great

Oregon Candidate for Governor: Betsy Johnson

In defense of the Uvalde police.

Memorial Day, 2022

Sacrificing innocent lives

Let's stop perpetuating gun culture

Vandalizing childhood

Thoughts and prayers

Election denial

The MAGA King

Non-Fungible Tokens

Stuff: Keepers and Throwers

John Fetterman is very tall.

How a medical abortion works.

Trump the barbarian. Of course he cheats to win.

Running as an Independent

The shooter's manifesto

Good Old Days

A good news, chill-out Sunday

Abortion and the Pottery Barn Rule

Election corruption

Protecting the vote: Part Two

Counting mail-in ballots

Sharing the Promised Land

Life begins at conception. Doesn't it?

Irony is not dead.

Leaks! Leaks!

Abortion debate: cherry-picking the extremes.

It is the 2024 election pre-season

Privacy and Autonomy

"Mr. Infrastructure."

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.

Storm clouds for Democrats: Oregon is a blue- state microcosm.

Manliness.

Pence: "I'm not getting in the car."

Red State Abortion Bans

Bill Barr's Book: One Damn Thing After Another.

What to do with PAC contributions.

Scenes from a Biden event

I get 20 campaign solicitations a day. Maybe more.

Campaign to be Oregon's governor: 34 choices.

"Gender is a social construction."

The Upcoming French Election

Con Man

Twilight of democracy

Community newspapers.

Oregon candidates for governor: Ads by Democrats.

Hunter Biden and Jared Kushner

Cut Hunter Biden loose.

COVID: Spring forward, fall back

Democracy and authoritarianism

Women's sports

Oregon Campaign for Governor: Democrats

Goodbye marijuana industry

Pedophilia

I have stopped giving campaign contributions to advocacy groups.

Two short videos: Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ben Affleck

Deep Fake

Not Biden's fault (not that that matters.)

Shoot the moon.

What Democrats want.

America is at war

Tulsi Gabbard is still here

Globalization's End.

Reversing an "activist" court.

Clarence Thomas

Profile in courage and compassion

KA-POW. Poor Mo Brooks.

Return to States' Rights

Jon Stewart for President

MAGA vs. RINO

Ukraine Maps. Part Two

"Vagrancy" and slavery.

Ukraine maps.

Zelensky and Liz Cheney

Force majeure

Buy American

Taxonomy of political partisans

Sacrifice for Ukraine. Seriously?????

$5 gasoline. Some history.

Excess.

$5 per gallon gasoline

Al Densmore for Jackson County Commissioner

Don't buy Bill Barr's book

Save Democracy. Spend more for gasoline.

Zelensky

Democratic message. Democratic messenger.

Tee shirt president.

Refugee story.

How this ends for Ukraine

Guest Post: Putin, Time is up.

Fog of War

Community, at a time of War, Politics, and COVID.

Don't get your hopes up

Trump: "I would like you to do us a favor though."

Age and Experience

How to create a national hero

Can't we all get along?

La Bamba

Those who don't remember the past...

Good borders. Good Fences.

"That dream of hegemony hasn't worked out."

Part Two: Dems wise up. GOP gets stupid.

Democrats wise up. GOP gets stupid.

Atop Mount Stupid

Birds of a feather flock together

"U are a blind monkey."

End Mandates. Declare Victory

Redskins become Commanders

Facebook isn't cool.

Trucker "Freedom Convoy" Continues

Search Warrants in Southern Oregon

Wife Swap: Oregon Governor Race Shakeup

Cancer. The big C.

No knock warrant.

Press reset for Democrats: Pete Buttigieg

News silo. Don't look up!

News silo. Don't look up!

Trump asks too much of GOP candidates.

The very best. But not Harvard or Yale.

Did Biden legitimately win in 2020?

Stages of COVID grief.

"He could have overturned the election!"

Socially responsible investing

I own Exxon and Chevron

Climate Versus Democracy

Where your food comes from.

People of Color

Oregon and Utah

Culture Shock

1962: Back of the bus.

Help Wanted

Long-haired hippy student radical

Look who got COVID. Ha!

Who is Ray Epps?

Trump 2024

Breakthrough COVID

Chicken Pox Party

Hometown newspaper for Ashland, Oregon

Oops. Who knew?

Hot news! Cannabis prevents COVID.

"Moron." "Jesus Christ."

Big Fat Greek Texas Wedding

The outrage!! Biden said the unvaccinated might die.

Omicron at Costco

Tucker Carlson 2024

Deja vu.

Good Republicans: the thin red line

Cause of death.

Joint Resolutions to condemn the January 6 insurrection.

Florida: Lies, Damned Lies, COVID

The Unvaccinated are dying.

Things are great!