http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:34:02 -0700 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:34:45 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m11d9-1989-Twenty-years-of-triumphalism-and-nothing-to-celebrate?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner Twenty years ago in November 1989 I had been six months a new graduate from Washington University, moved to San Francisco (on a coin toss, New York City being tails), and landed my first professional job at an international publishing company as a pr... Decline of the West Democracy Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:34:45 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m11d9-1989-Twenty-years-of-triumphalism-and-nothing-to-celebrate?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Reflections-on-a-year-of-living-with-Obamas-change-has-been-a-police-state?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner I have been away for awhile, feeling as many Barack Obama supporters must: a bit disappointed to say the least. While I was admittedly not an Obama supporter but voted rather for Ralph Nader, I am equally grim about where this newest Augustus has dri... Education Decline of the West History Rebels The Barack Obama Presidency Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:18:26 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Reflections-on-a-year-of-living-with-Obamas-change-has-been-a-police-state?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m10d21-Westminster-Ca-school-dstrict-official-leads-the-charge-to-keep-US-in-the-Dark-Ages?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner While the Pope conspires to "poach" good Anglicans back into the Roman Catholic Church, leaving both the head of the Anglican communion, Rowan Williams, and the head of the Church of England, Queen Elizabeth II, speechless, another religiou... Education California State Politics Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:31:53 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m10d21-Westminster-Ca-school-dstrict-official-leads-the-charge-to-keep-US-in-the-Dark-Ages?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m10d10-National-Equality-Farce-on-Washington-Oct-10?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner Equality or liberation? This weekend LGBT activists will stage a National Equality March and continue their demand to be equal to those heterosexuals so unimaginative as to continue to feudal wedding rites.Of course, Martin's March on Washington come... LGBT Rights Civil Rights Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:50:55 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m10d10-National-Equality-Farce-on-Washington-Oct-10?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m10d8-Is-a-socially-just-civilization-possible?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner Despite the real elation behind the Barack Obama presidential victory, the US has installed the Goldman-Sachs candidate to run the country: old wine in new bottles. Progressive historians will look back at this and hopefully note the real elation sho... Decline of the West The Barack Obama Presidency Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:35:56 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m10d8-Is-a-socially-just-civilization-possible?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m9d24-An-HIV-vaccine-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner I admit for more of my adult life I was a hardcore HIV dissident than not. Only in the last few years have I "fair and balanced" my views to complement them with Western Medicine. I have not thrown the dissident baby out with the bathwater.... LGBT Rights Democracy Universal Health Care Reform Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:08:11 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m9d24-An-HIV-vaccine-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m9d16-It-is-time-to-break-up-the-Democratic-Party?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner While the DiVinci Code's Dan Brown is on the task to uncover national secrets, he might expose the one that has kept the Democratic Party together. It is not so much a big tent as it is a sprawling concentration camp of all sorts of candidates for a ... LGBT Rights Civil Rights Decline of the West Labor Organizing Democracy Universal Health Care Reform The Barack Obama Presidency Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:19:41 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m9d16-It-is-time-to-break-up-the-Democratic-Party?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m9d15-Obama-sticks-the-middle-finger-to-his-base-and-keeps-US-blockade-against-Cuba?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner Barack Obama defied the odds and with a pertinent message to a broad, liberal and progressive base, was elected president. But what's in a message? One must be as good as any other: or so it would seem this increasingly mediocre creature, President O... Decline of the West Democracy The Barack Obama Presidency Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:20:56 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m9d15-Obama-sticks-the-middle-finger-to-his-base-and-keeps-US-blockade-against-Cuba?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m9d10-Let-all-workers-have-tenure?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner The education reform debate has inadvertently pointed to a solution for all workers while it has a the same time attacked them. As Queen Marie Antoinette might say: LET THEM HAVE TENURE.Tenure commonly refers to a secured job for life, usually a... Post-imperial Economics Labor Organizing Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:04:47 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m9d10-Let-all-workers-have-tenure?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m9d2-Whats-wrong-with-our-public-education?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner Pres. Barack Obama's Secy of Education, Arne Duncan, was formerly head of the Chicago public schools, but he persists in the cause du jour of "teacher accountabililty" for student performance. Dangerously, he now has a Hero-President a... Education Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:11:07 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m9d2-Whats-wrong-with-our-public-education?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m8d27-Death-of-a-Liberal-Lion-but-when-will-a-workerled-party-be-born-in-the-US?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner The tributes have been coming from all corners of the conquering world for the late Edward M. Kennedy. The oft-noted moniker is Liberal Lion, Champion for the working class, Health Care Reformer. Defender of Children. I do not know what this must mea... Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:21:49 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m8d27-Death-of-a-Liberal-Lion-but-when-will-a-workerled-party-be-born-in-the-US?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m8d22-Republic-UK-campaign-highlights-what-we-all-miss-in-populist-politics?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner 6th Duke of Westminster, richest man in the UKThe Republic UK group may be unknown to most in the United States. This country achieved this organization's aims over 200 years ago. Republic UK wants to end the British monarchy and replace it with a de... Post-imperial Economics Decline of the West Democracy Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:11:50 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m8d22-Republic-UK-campaign-highlights-what-we-all-miss-in-populist-politics?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m8d21-Newsflash-elite-schools-ranked-as-Best-but-fail-to-rank-their-contribution-to-public-democracy?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner United Press International (UPI) has filed a strange story from US News & World Report: our elite institutions still rank themselves among themselves as surely as a chain of command exists under the British Aristocracy.During my nearly 10 years a... Education Post-imperial Economics Decline of the West Democracy Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:34:10 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m8d21-Newsflash-elite-schools-ranked-as-Best-but-fail-to-rank-their-contribution-to-public-democracy?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m8d18-2010-or-2012?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner Our LGBT Establishment is in a dust up over whether to put gay marriage back on the California ballot in 2010 or 2012. This same establishment had earlier dissuaded other activists from taking their case to the US Supreme Court for fear that the augu... LGBT Rights Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:52:42 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m8d18-2010-or-2012?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m8d13-Radical-Prince-The-Richard-Dimbleby-Lecture?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner Has the heir to the British throne gone cuckoo and turned on his class, like a scorpion poisoning itself, or is he shining a bright light into the future?To mention the Prince of Wales, Charles Windsor, is to stir up many things, especially in progre... Post-imperial Economics Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:48:15 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m8d13-Radical-Prince-The-Richard-Dimbleby-Lecture?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m8d6-US-Supreme-Court-Justice-Sonia-Sotomayor?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner Puerto Rican independence fighter, Lolita Lebron, Like a good person of color I am supposed to celebrate the nomination and confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the nation's High Court. And I do not miss the enormous symbolism of a woman, ra... Post-imperial Economics Decline of the West History Rebels Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:34:52 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m8d6-US-Supreme-Court-Justice-Sonia-Sotomayor?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m8d6-Ending-term-limits-wont-restore-the-best-public-democracy-but-build-a-better-one?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner Former San Francisco mayor, Willie Brown, and I don't have much in common. I lived in San Francisco during his tenure, and witnessed the further ruination of a beautiful, multi-ethnic city - The City - I called home for 15 magical years. I could be a... California State Politics Democracy Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:03:04 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m8d6-Ending-term-limits-wont-restore-the-best-public-democracy-but-build-a-better-one?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m7d30-Will-the-gaybasher-in-chief-have-a-Coors-beer-to-discuss-his-assault-on-LGBT-rights?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner Would you have a beer with a gay basher?For the 100th time, I do not share many of my LGBT comrades in my advocacy for "Gay Marriage." But as long as our civil society assigns a myriad of rights and privileges based on this useless institut... LGBT Rights Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:23:40 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m7d30-Will-the-gaybasher-in-chief-have-a-Coors-beer-to-discuss-his-assault-on-LGBT-rights?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m7d28-Our-liberal-elites-in-Hollywood-show-shallow-support-for-progressive-cause-while-real-economy-booms?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner The LA Times reports that the star-hosts of the reality show, "American Idol" [NBC] are in contractual negotiations for higher salaries. Paula Abdul is asking for $12 million. Ryan Seacrest for $30 million. Simon Cowell for $45 million.Our ... Post-imperial Economics Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:59:12 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m7d28-Our-liberal-elites-in-Hollywood-show-shallow-support-for-progressive-cause-while-real-economy-booms?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m7d26-July-26th?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner Vietnamese liberation fighter, Ho Chi Minh, said that despite the successes of the anti-imperialist movement to wear down French occupiers in Indochina, the VietCong belief in itself was at a low ebb by the late 1950's.Then he got a boost from halfwa... Post-imperial Economics Decline of the West History Rebels Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:00:36 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10190-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner~y2009m7d26-July-26th?cid=exrss-Long-Beach-Populist-Examiner