Go, go women! Until you threaten the democratic establishment that is. When Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) was asked about the astounding drubbing that 28 year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez handed to a 30-plus year veteran of New York democratic politics (Joseph Crowley), her response was not entirely...
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David Weinshilboum
Columnist - August 14, 2019 in Columnists, Uncategorized
My bigoted grandma, in all her glory
A few weeks ago, I penned a story about my mother, how she emigrated from China and endured duress in America, some of it at the hands of her mother-in-law. Yes, my grandma – my father’s mother — was a bigot. She viewed Chinese people...
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David Lacy
Columnist and iPinion co-founder - July 4, 2018 in Uncategorized
The Not So Curious Case of Ocasio-Cortez
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Carolyn Wyler
Columnist and C.O.O - February 26, 2018 in Uncategorized
Fairy tale day
In honor of Fairy tale day, several of our great writers of iPinion have written a fairy tale in celebration. Make this day magical!
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Stephen Cooper
Columnist - January 16, 2018 in Fiction, Uncategorized
The New Era
Those who survived the holocaust never said “heat” when describing what happened in 2049. Instead, they called the aftermath of the apocalypse The New Era. When temperatures on the planet broke 140 F, millions died and civilization descended into chaos. “Hot” and“heat” became terms of...
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Donald Sanders
Columnist - October 3, 2017 in Columnists, Uncategorized
Police officers feel the fear too
Yesterday was a normal day here in Winters, California. I went out in the morning to pick up trash that people toss out their windows as they drive along Putah Creek. I was surprised at the amount of trash I found, because only about a...
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Tom McMasters-Stone
Columnist - July 28, 2017 in Columnists, Uncategorized
No, POTUS cannot pardon himself
Ostensibly, I am the political science writer for these pages. Certainly, others dabble in politics all the time, but if I had to categorize my own assignment and/or status, it would be the Poli Sci Guy. The problem is that “science” implies logic. Common sense....
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Tom McMasters-Stone
Columnist - June 1, 2017 in Columnists, Uncategorized
Make America Grate Again
“A disaster beyond your imagination will occur.” When the Phantom has uttered those words so many fabulous times, he, of course, was not talking about the current POTUS. Could he have been? Maybe. I wrongly preached a wait-and-see approach after the election — after all,...
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Judith Newton
Columnist - May 3, 2017 in Columnists, Uncategorized
What’s corn got to do with it?
At the beginning of my new novel, Oink. A Food for Thought Mystery, Emily Addams, foodie professor of women’s studies at Arbor State—a land grant university in Northern California — finds herself an unlikely suspect in the poisoning of Peter Elliott, professor of plant biology...
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Tom McMasters-Stone
Columnist - April 5, 2017 in Columnists, Uncategorized
Too many family ties
So, Ivanka Trump is moving into an “unpaid” position in the West Wing. Of course, after telling the world she would have no position in her father’s White House. With only real estate experience, son-in-law Jared Kushner has also assumed a key role in the...
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