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COMMENTARY - Conspiracy theories are powerful forces in the U.S. They have damaged public health amid a global pandemic, shaken faith in the democratic process and helped spark a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol in January 2021.

COVID POLITICS - The common accusation hurled at proponents of covid-19 vaccines, like me, is that we are carrying dirty water for Big Pharma.

COMMENTARY - In 1930, John Dos Passos wrote that America is many things: it is a “slice of a continent”, “the world’s greatest river valley”, and “a set of bigmouthed officials with too many bank accounts”.

COMMENTARY - “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride” was my grandmother’s favorite phrase when I asked for anything. 

OP ED: HUMAN TRAFFICKING - Law enforcement officials are warning that the upcoming Super Bowl will attract human traffickers to our region.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - The fact that the Left can dredge up some White Supremacist who hates Asians does not mean America hates Asians. 

WAR WATCH - The last thing any of us need is a war with Russia over the Ukraine.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - The most oppressed group in America is Generic Americans. 

MARC’S ANGLE- Christy Gravitt is a 25-year veteran teacher at Artesia's ABC Unified School District.

COMMENTARY - On January 3rd of this year, the five nuclear-armed states with the largest nuclear arsenals issued a joint statement declaring that they “consider the avoidance of war between Nuclear-Weapon States and the reduction of strategic risks as our foremost responsibilities.”

MARC’S ANGLE - A California Republican is a rare sighting in elected office, but a quarter of the California Assembly members are Republican, and one of them is Assemblyman Heath Flora (R-Ripon), who hails from the almond capital of the world in the Central Valley.

DENIALISM - The liberal economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman put things well on the morning of January 7, 2021, in a column titled “Appeasement Got Us Where We Are”:

WORLD WATCH - As Moscow signals its apparent readiness for war over Ukraine, the U.S. government seems determined to ignore Russia’s not-so-ridiculous concerns over the military alliances of neighboring states and the prospect of nuclear weapons on its borders.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Cowards do not go down in history as heroes.  Who wants to receive the Neville Chamberlain Award? 

COMMENTARY - Guess what? I direct the following insight to, among others, the U.S. Congress, which annually and without comment, with only a few objectors, passes a trillion-dollar (and growing) military budget, by far the largest such budget on Planet Earth.

VOTING RIGHTS - Trump set off a disastrous domino effect in 2020. Here are some of the biggest inaccuracies and myths being told about the Senate's vital voting rights legislation. 

COMMENTARY - There are elements in this country pushing to make it a Christian nation even though America’s founders crafted a constitution that specifically separated church from state.

COMMENTARY - President Biden starts off his second year in office with a press conference, and is raked over the coals on his answers.

MARC'S ANGLE - So the Golden State Warriors billionaire decided to have a moment of honesty and say he doesn’t care about the Uyghur situation in China.

ANIMAL WATCH - In the past few months, there has been major progress in the fight against the torture and killing of dogs and cats in South Korea, in the Dog Meat Trade. 

LABOR VIEW - There is one last hope for the United States. It does not lie in the ballot box.