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With the passing of Senator Dianne Feinstein last week, the responsibility of replacing the late Senator falls on Governor Gavin Newsom of California. Newsom’s nominee will serve until a Senator is elected in 2024 and sworn in in January 2025.
Democratic California Sen. Dianne Feinstein recorded her last vote in the U.S. Senate less than 24 hours before dying Thursday at 90 years old. In the last years of her life, she clearly struggled mentally and physically to keep up with her day-to-day life.
In a country that is supposed to be color-blind and all-inclusive, why is it necessary to specify the race and gender of the person needed for a particular position? If a private organization used such a practice, they would be sued for civil rights violations. So why is it okay for our Government to do …
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Another aging and in ill-health US Senator for Life, Dianne Feinstein, has died at the age of 90. DiFi, who will be remembered for working diligently to rob people of their right to self-defense and for having a Chinese spy as a driver, passed away from an undeclared cause of death.
I’d love to take the Temperature of New Hampshire Democrats on this one. Donald Trump had nominated Patrick Bumatay to the Ninth Circuit Court. Democrats blocked the gay Filipino’s appointment. He’s been nominated again.
Courtesy of the Steve Sanchez Show (Video 2+ min.)
You’ve heard of the Streisand Effect. Wikipedia defines it as “a phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely.” Streisand sued a photographer working on a coastal erosion project for posting a picture of her home online. Before Babs outrage, six …
by The Editors Judge Brett Kavanaugh was accused of some sort of misbehavior thirty years ago by a woman no one had heard of until this past week. So, what do we know and what do we need to know? GraniteGrok is here to help.
Dianne Feinstein has a problem. Sorry. We could fill a blog with everything with which Dianne Feinstein has a problem and, wait. I think we…anyway. Today’s “problem” is common use with regard to what the California Senator refers to as “Assault Weapons” and Judge Kavanaugh’s response regarding ‘semi-automatic’ weapons, precedent, and the second amendment. The Senator thinks that he and …
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Much of the media bais that occures is subtle. From choosing what stories to cover and what to ignore to how issues, ideas, and people are framed in context, word choice and tone convey connotation, intentional or not, to the reader. Here’s a classic example from Yahoo! News. Claudine Zap, writing for The Lookout – …
