Followers of San Francisco political warfare will savor the following: There has been a spot of a Cold War for some time between former Chronicle editor Phil Bronstein and legendary campaign manager Jack Davis – who first elected Mike Hennessey Sheriff, defeated incumbent Mayor Art Agnos for reelection with political neophyte Frank Jordan, then defeated […]

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 Art by Sandow Birk, From “In Smog and Thunder: Historical Works from The Great War of the Californias.” (Published by Last Gasp of San Francisco)   { The following front page editorial in the Nov-Dec print edition of The Argonaut has prompted considerable comment, as well it should. San Francisco voters agreed with the Argonaut, […]

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As a threatened SEIU national takeover of the Oakland-based Healthcare Workers West appears imminent; the national press is beginning to pay attention. The Wall Street Journal reported that SEIU national president Andy Stern met privately with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich around the time that federal prosecutors say the embattled governor was discussing ways to sell […]

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From our City Hall Correspondent, A group of families and friends in the Mission District are organizing a march against the escalating violence in the Mission. Seems the idea here is ‘enough is enough”. Their announcement is below. Day of the Dead March November 1st 2008  Calling all families in San Francisco Come join the […]

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Anyone Care to Make Sense of This? Luke Thomas at fog city journal captured this beaut of city life and posted it on You Tube. To look at it for yuks, or horrors (just how close is Halloween, and how scary is this?) go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj_14oIxaPA to watch the carny”

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From our City Hall Correspondent: Former San Francisco Board of Stupidvisors President Matt Gonzalez, who grew weary of the City’s political divisiveness and said sayorona to the Board, then at the witching hour abruptly dedided to run for mayor against Gavin Newsom and came a shave’s close to beating him, started a law practice and […]

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By Paul Krassner The viral photo of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in her stars and stripes bikini, proudly gripping a rifle, flooded Internet wires-only to spread once more when the photo proved to be a fake. But the image’s influence holds, even though it’s a fraud. And 2006 research by John Bullock of Yale University […]

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By Warren Hinckle At the end of the day, the Republican Party would have been better off with a ticket of Joe the Plumber and Sara the hockey mom. Joe just wants his money and wants government to keep his sticky fingers off it. Sara wants the rough justice of the frontier for the Wall […]

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By Our Argonaut Legal Correspondent Certain waging, legal tongues are speculating that Mayor Gavin Newsom’s decision to spend city taxpayer dollars to educate undocumented workers (and/or illegal aliens) about San Francisco’s sanctuary policy and the fact that city services are available to them, was the act that triggered the convening of a Federal Grand Jury […]

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