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On July 1, Fox News host Sean Hannity brought his viewers to tears. Regardless of your politics or news preferences, I encourage you to watch the rerun on YouTube. In

These times? They’re odd. Crazy was 47 train stops ago. It’s like some mad scientist from another universe squished “Alice in Wonderland,” “Frankenstein” and George Orwell into a blender and

In 1948, George Orwell completed his last book, titled “1984.” Within the pages, he tells of life under an authoritarian state, controlled by Big Brother.  In fact, he foretold of

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The choice for president this November deservedly has garnered a lot of attention. While most of us have already made up our minds about whether to vote for Donald Trump

By David Hegg  I recently met a man who was the epitome of post-modern thought in that he did not believe in absolute truth. All definitions of right and wrong

The check’s in the mail just doesn’t cut it in these unprecedented times; but that is about all millions of Californians know about the whereabouts of their unemployment claims when

In recent years common wisdom has dictated that Democrats believed that Republicans were evil, and Republicans believed that Democrats were simply wrong-headed. Despite fundamental policy disagreements, in times of crisis

Joseph Campbell was the delightful mythicist who spent a lifetime studying religions, tribes and cultures. A rarity, he was a non-pompous intellectual. He wrote the ground-breaking book, “Hero With a

It all started about 30 years ago, when the CEO of the company I was working at decided to outsource circuit card design and manufacturing. While many of the company’s

You may recall Proposition 67, which was on the November 2016 ballot and narrowly passed. That measure banned the use of single-use grocery bags by grocers and certain other retail

One of the most common arguments against racial justice from whites goes something like this: Sure, history has been unfair to Black folks, but why should I take responsibility for

If we are to believe the polls, Joe Biden will win in a landslide in November. This is coming from the very same pollsters that showed Hillary Clinton with an

President Donald Trump has sent his Imperial Storm Trooper goons up to Portland to show America what his brand of “Law and Order” looks like. Bunches of military-grade, dressed-for-Armageddon, dubiously

Ironically, there’s one thing I haven’t heard a lot about in the recent school discussions: learning. There’ve been debates on teacher and child safety; discussions about meals and socialization, concerns

By David Hegg  To quote Martin Heidegger, the German philosopher and Nazi party leader, is often to evoke wide-scale criticism and rightly so. But in an important area he was

The restaurants took great care to create a sense of ambience, which is a challenge when you’re setting up shop not in your usual space, but on the sidewalk and

During elections, suburban women like me get quite a bit of attention from the political pundits. In suburban Santa Clarita, women make up about 50% of the population, which means

Years ago, a brilliant friend offered an observation I’ve never been able to shake: “We learn through science or we learn through suffering.”  Lessons come through traditional sources: books, art,

I do not know about you, but until very recently, I thought our country had progressed beyond a time when our citizens overtly discriminated by race. Gone are racially segregated