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SF Chronicle sports writer poll asks: play the national anthem on "special occasions" instead of every game?

Video of confrontation between John Dennis and Antifa thug who treatens him. Retweeted by President Trump

What the mainstream media doesn’t bring you about the Democrat missteps as they beg for votes in NH brought to you by two real NH residents and voters who dog and selfie these candidates even though Trump is getting their vote. They’re hilarious!

Rush said in hour 2 of today's broadcast that the word is that John Bolton may be the Whistleblower on Trump's call to the Ukrainian President

This just in from the California MAGA underground: "You have probably all heard that ICE Agents are rounding up Illegal Aliens in the San Francisco Area tomorrow. RESIST groups are forming "Rapid Response" teams to warn people if ICE Agents are seen in the area. They will try to go to where ICE Agents are forming and interfere by doing stuff like puncturing their tires, etc. Check the link below. If you have a "Rapid Response" team in your area for Criminal Aliens then please take a minute and send them to Dairy Queen or some other place in your...

The San Francisco Chronicle did not cover the story in full, so I will!

A panel discussion of California Republicans: Catherine Baker, FORMER Assemblywomen R-16; Kevin Faulkoner, Mayor of San Diego; Kristin Olsen, FORMER Minority Leader, California State Assembly, etc. etc.; Matt Shupe, Director John Cox for Governor and Chair of Republican party in Contra Costa county (East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area); Snarky Moderator Scott Shafer, KQED (PBS) Senior Political editor. All discussed how evil Trump was and how he cost them their races! I attended and feel obligated to report on this pathetic exercise.

Charles Harrison, an industrial designer who rethought hundreds of ordinary items, including a plastic trash bin on wheels, a see-through measuring cup and the 3-D View-Master, which were then snapped up by the nation’s burgeoning postwar middle class, died on Nov. 29 in Santa Clarita, Calif. He was 87.

As a member in good standing, I received the following request and duly filled out the survey. However, once that survey was completed, I was then asked to fill out yet another political survey! The second survey asked about my political affiliation (the first time the AJLI has asked this), how I felt about Donald Trump, where I got my news and then asked me which woman among three I would prefer to see challenge Donald Trump. The women were Kirsten Gillibrand, Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama! The assumption in all the questions was that AJLI members were anti-Trump. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________...

JOIN THE SFGOP ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4TH AT 2:00PM TO PROTEST THE GAS TAX INCREASE On the Divisadero side sidewalk of the ARCO station at the corner of Fell & Divisadero Streets. The California Republican Party is declaring Saturday, November 4, 2017 as #GasTaxtrophe Day! On November 4th, activists from across the state will gather in their communities to demonstrate against the Democrats' harmful new gas tax. We want everyone to know the California Democrats' gas tax is a #GasTaxtrophe.

How is the divide between truth and authenticity affecting this presidential cycle? So we have this culture where you understandably value the people you perceive to be truth-tellers in order to avoid liars and manipulators—and then what? The best way to manipulate a crowd very quickly becomes explicitly arguing that everyone who disagrees with you is a lying manipulator. I call this hyper-sincerity. There were versions of it in ancient Athens and we have our own version now. We see it most clearly in speakers who claim their opponents are full of rhetoric and that they alone can be trusted...

Watching the NBA finals and noticed that the fans, rather than holding up head shots on sticks of the players, are holding up Obama and Hillary head shots!

I'm sure I wasn't the only one, but I asked Rush to give Freeper Buckhead credit and he just did! (Called him Burkhead! Oh well!)

Be there or be square! I'll be there.

I jumped at the last-minute invitation to hear P.J.O'Rourke comment on current events and tout his new book on the Boomer generation at the Commonwealth Club last night in San Francisco. What a disappointment! He unleashed a scathing---and not funny to me----attack on the Tea Party and Ted Cruz. He said, "This is why politics should not be left to amateurs. Boehner is an adult. Ted Cruz is not." Also added "The Tea Party is a big tree and unfortunately big trees attract a lot of squirrels." In the past I have relished his writing, from National Lampoon's High School...

Not sure it's legit to actually post the cartoon, but here's the basics: He depicts a right-winger debating the "good guy" a.k.a. the cartoonist himself about cutting government spending. Right-winger sez when a family spends too much they cut back to balance the budget. The "good guy" sez "Or they can get a job which makes more money".

Heard this as I watched the Giants' Victory celebration. Nancy Pelosi introduced to the crowd and after some perfunctory applause, you can hear a lot of BOOS from the crowd and I don't think THAT was related to Halloween!!

Heard through my sources: Romney's plane supposedly en route to pick up Paul Ryan....he's the veep choice.

Was robo-polled by Rasmussen yesterday. Asked if I were a Tea Party "member" I said yes. Then the question was whether I was an Evangelical!!! So much misunderstanding of grassroots activism. The crux of the poll was whether Bachman could beat Perry or Romney in the primary. Although over 16 candidates were offered for one to choose from, PALIN was curiously omitted from the options!!!

Gov. Palin rocked the place! Tickets were sold out months in advance. The ballroom seated 4,000. I decided to wait in line an hour and a half before the doors opened to get a good seat, and there were already 200 people in line when I got there. I felt I was there with "my peeps". I imagined that this felt what a Freeper convention would feel like! People were really happy, excited, thrilled to be going and I imagine if anyone had wanted to sell their tickets, they could have made a tidy sum. This audience, however, wasn't selling!...