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Cal won its last two games against good teams, one close and today’s running away, so I have to retract the snarky aside about Tedford’s record in this post. It will have a winning season, probably win its last game as well, and will end up in the upper division of the conference. ...
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Turkey
Foreign Policy
It’s not just higher education, of course, nor UC campuses: Cal State and community colleges are hurting worse. K-12, foster kids services, kids in trouble and kids at risk, you name it.
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Don Young
Another couple of shoes have dropped in the story of screwed-up values and national humiliation at Berkeley. The good news: readers will recall that the faculty senate passed a resolution demanding that subsidies to the intercollegiate athletics program stop going up, and quickly go back to ...
World
Foreign Policy
Right now, there look to be four Republican Presidential candidates for 2012: Palin, Huckabee, Romney, and Pawlenty.
Romney, despite the doubts about whether he’s actually a flesh-and-blood human as opposed to an improbably pretty android, is the only one of the four who can plausibly be ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Mike Huckabee
Mitt Romney
Not every Democrat who voted "no" on health reform deserves a primary challenger, and the leadership deserves the benefit of the doubt until the game is over.
Congress
Nancy Pelosi
Many years ago I had a chance to do some work on health care policy and turned it down because it looked too hard. I’ve never regretted the decision, but never acquired any special expertise.
Watching the current debate, I’m a little mystified that most of the discussion of ...
Other
Health care
A listserv I belong to had an admiring post about the Pacquiao-Cotto fight (you don’t need a link, one guy beat the sh*t out of the other one, and the ref had to stop the fight in the 12th), and I rose to the bait with some snark about people who get off on that [...]
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Doesn't the Convention Against Torture mean we don't have to hear that song? Especially before Thanksgiving?
Other
Bill O'Reilly
If it's good enough for B of A and Chase, then it is good enough for the Treasury Department. No questions asked.
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Bank of America
Washington, D.C
Can you break up an epidemic of fraudulent loan-brokerage the same way you break up a street drug market?
Other
"If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?"
White House
Sarah Palin
Walter Shapiro says yes: under Republican winner-take-all rules, a candidate with 35% backing can go all the way.
White House
Sarah Palin
Republican National Committee
The right way to make a trivial, easy-to-reverse decision is quickly.
The right way to make a decision with thousands of lives at stake is carefully.
World
Afghanistan
The author of the end-of-life counseling provision in the health care bill reflects on the Great Blood Libel of 2009.
Congress
Earl Blumenauer
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