Jeff Pelline's Sierra Foothills Report

The S.F. Giants are now one win away from a World Series championship after beating the Texas Rangers 4-0. •Twenty-something Madison Bumgarner won tonight’s game, making him the fourth youngest pitcher to win a World Series game. •”Rosey Posey” — a shoe-in for Rookie of the Year — hit a home run. •And “I’ll Huff [...]

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“California is poised once again to compete for the crown as the nation’s leading graveyard for business superstars trying to make the jump into politics,” writes Michael Hiltzik of the L.A. Times. The commentary is here. Why do big-time CEOs — Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina, for example — make such terrible politicians? Much of [...]

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A Tea Party Patriot tries to explain how our freedoms are in jeopardy. Though a little longer than the normal clip here, this is an interesting discourse.

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In Sunday’s New York Times, Frank Rich does a good and humorous job of pointing to the cabal (such as Rupert Murdoch at Fox News and The Journal, as well as Pollster Scott Rasmussan) that has “been arduous in promoting and inflating Tea Party events and celebrities to this propagandistic end.” We’ve discussed it on [...]

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“What’s wrong with being an advocate?” asks Bruce Brugman, the longtime editor and publisher of the Bay Guardian. “Advocating for the First Amendment, sunshine laws, for public power – what’s wrong with that?” Bruce is profiled in Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle. The profile is here. “The mainstream press looks down from the top of the [...]

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