We're a bit late to the party on this one, but it's too good not to post. Bill O'Reilly sent one of his ace reporters to explore the "dark underbelly" of San Francisco that, according to him, will only get worse now that Obama is in office and the radical left has been "emboldened."
Keeping it classy, O'Reilly uses man-on-the-street interviews with the homeless and sex workers for humorous effect. O'Reilly, of course, is well known for his tireless advocacy for transitional housing and rehab
Those of us lucky enough to still have gainful employment as the George W. Bush years stumble to their ignominious thud will be clocking in tomorrow around the time President-elect Barack Obama knocks the "elect" off his title.A rollicking article in the current New Yorker notes that while presidential inaugural speeches dropped from collegiate to junior high school reading levels from the span of Washington to W., one shouldn't assume they're getting worse. They've always been lousy; now they j
Bay Area residents rejoicing over the historic inauguration of Barack
Obama might want to take heed of an assessment of their elected
representatives featured yesterday on Politico, the political news Web site. Writer Glenn Thrush posted a top-ten list
of Democrats who pose a threat to Obama's agenda. As it turns out, this
elite group is stacked with legislators from the Golden State. Three
Californians are on Obama's potential "White House Frenemies List," including Sen. Dianne Feinstein (No. 2
Some working moms face job discrimination, while others encounter barriers to success. They're all potential activists for the new grass-roots group, MomsRising.
The GOP's last-ditch message to voters before the midterm elections was a tirade against our fair city. How do you feel about San Francisco values in the political spotlight?
EKAphotographyAli Chagi-Starr, Van Jones (c), and Ron Dellums at Silence the Violence Day, 2007
By now, everyone and they mama has heard that controversial green jobs adviser Van Jones has been forced to resign from his white house job. There are many differing takes on the subject, from ultra-rightwing commentators like Glenn Beck and his Fox News cohorts, to the liberal lefties over at HuffPo and Alternet.
Whatever your take on Jones as an individual and green jobs in general, there's
We're not exactly unaccustomed to paranoid political thinking in the pages of our rival weekly here in San Francisco. But the journos at the Bay Guardian have taken their conspiracy theories to new levels -- and depicted them in bolder-than-ever graphics -- in this week's issue.Appearing alongside an article by Guardian reporters Rebecca Bowe and Sarah Phelan about the "media machine behind the assault on progressive ideas" is a spiderweb conspiracy chart that puts John Nash's scribblings in A B
