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Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive President Joe Biden is back in the Bay Area and we’d be remiss in not reminding everyone that it’s another fundraising trip in which the president will only rub elbows with wealthy donors.  Last time Mr. Biden was in the area, he helicoptered into … [Read more...] about Again, President Biden visits the wealthy in the Bay Area; bypasses everyday people living under his policies

By Derek Royden According to a myth about the founding of Athens, the city’s king, Cecrops, held a contest to decide which god or goddess would be the city’s namesake and protector. Two were chosen for the honor: Poseidon, the god of the sea and Athena, the goddess of wisdom.  Going first, … [Read more...] about Opinion: Of olive trees, Bison and the dispossessed

Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick Secrecy is never good. No better example than the shooting in Kansas City at the end of the parade celebrating the Super Bowl victory for the Kansas City Chiefs.  Two 17-year-old kids were arrested and charged. They may be tried as adults, but for … [Read more...] about Opinion: Charge the 17-year-old KC shooters as adults; secrecy in this case does no public good

By Winslow Myers What is the exact length of an inch, or the weight of an ounce? In this world of relativity, how do we gauge absolute standards? Nations employ whole bureaus with sophisticated methods of calibrating the measurement of a meter, or the weight of some discrete quantity of atomic … [Read more...] about Opinion: Navalny’s Value

Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick President Joe Biden will soon have his annual physical, but the White House spokesliar says it will not include a cognitive test. And, everyone knows why: Joe doesn’t live here anymore.  We know this beyond a shadow of a doubt in a number of … [Read more...] about Joe doesn’t live here anymore

By Tom H. Hastings Vidkun Quisling was a Norwegian leader who capitulated to Hitler. He was Norwegian, and he was taller than our Austrian dictator, which made him smile obsequiously when in the presence of his Fuhrer boss. Norwegians came to despise Quisling. Even today, his name is eponymous … [Read more...] about NATO as provocateur: Trump as Pawn

Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick We’re way beyond stuttering now.  After last week’s meltdown on national TV in which President Joe Biden’s diminished mental capacity took center stage, the only way Democrats can keep the White House in 2024 is to cut the old man loose and tee-up … [Read more...] about A bonfire of doubts

Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick In the winter of 1976, I walked into the newsroom of the Las Vegas Review-Journal fresh from the U.S. Navy and a brief stopover at the Northern Arizona University School of Journalism. I arrived full of confidence. But, I found out quickly that as a … [Read more...] about A cub reporter and Tarzan in Las Vegas

Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick Last week’s headline here read: “Say it ain’t so, Fani.” It referred to Georgia’s Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis facing accusations she hired her boyfriend to prosecute former President Donald Trump and others.  The evidence the two … [Read more...] about Lawyers in love