The citizens’ initiative is a procedural piece of legislation invented by progressives to divest power from elected representatives to the hands of the masses. This structural mutation is a significant step away from the initial intent of the founder’s vision. Though not unconstitutional by any means, it is an underhanded subversion of the principles of […]
December 2016
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Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: I’m a 50- something single man living with my elderly mother. My father passed away a while ago, and the only members of my family left are me, my mom and my older sister, who has a 27-year-old son, “Jeff.” They do not live with us. My sister has been divorced for 10 […]
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Yahoo’s big breach helps usher in an age of hacker anxiety
SAN FRANCISCO Yahoo has become the worst-case example of an unnerving but increasingly common phenomenon — massive hacks that steal secrets and other potentially revealing information from our personal digital accounts, or from big organizations that hold sensitive data on our behalf. On Wednesday, Yahoo disclosed a gargantuan breach affecting more than a billion user […]
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Closings expected in South Carolina church shooting trial
CHARLESTON, S.C. In the days after nine black worshippers were killed in their Charleston church at the end of Bible study, President Barack Obama called Dylann Roof blinded by hate and Charleston’s mayor said he was “pure, pure concentrated evil.” Now some 18 months later, the people asked by the government to judge Roof will […]
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From Trump and his new team, mixed signals on climate change
WASHINGTON He brushed off climate change as a Chinese hoax, then called it the real deal and finally declared that “nobody really knows.” Donald Trump is sending mixed signals on whether or how he will try to slow Earth’s warming temperatures and rising sea levels. Since he was elected, Trump has met with prominent climate […]