Date Archive: 07-21-2013

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Speak out

President Hon. Barack Obama, The White House, Washington, D.C., 20502; 202-456-1111; fax: 202-456-2461; email: [email protected] U.S. Senate Sen. Barbara Boxer, 112 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3553; email: visit http://boxer.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 331 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; fax: 202-228-3954; email: visit http://feinstein.senate.gov/email.html House of Representatives Rep. John Garamendi (3rd District), 2438 Rayburn […]

Napolitano tried, failed to unify unwieldy Homeland Security

By Ann McFeatters WASHINGTON — Well, well, well. Janet Napolitano is quitting and heading west. She leaves behind the most mammoth government bureaucracy created in modern times. And she is likely to go down in history as someone who tried hard, but ultimately failed, to make a success of unifying it. A truly daunting task it […]

Pat Oliphant cartoon

So many disturbing events

It’s hard to know where to begin. I’ve been sputtering for weeks, waiting for one crisis to calm down so I could write a letter to the editor with a cool head. But they keep on coming. First, a lovely elderly Davis couple is murdered in their home, and a formerly heroic teenage boy is […]

Smile. Your license plate is on candid camera

The issue: Forget privacy; that’s so 20th century One of the last venues offering any kind of privacy in this country is — or was — your car. No longer. According to a study by the American Civil Liberties Union, law enforcement agencies across the country using automated scanners are able to pinpoint in real […]