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San Francisco Diary: Black Eggs, Black Ops, Tail of Two Headless Torsos, Broken Beams, Broken Dreams, and Don’t Forget the Lucky Dog!
SAN FRANCISCO – Passing the bustle and grime of Fifth street with its soot wafting down on the dingy Hall of Justice and its asbestos-ridden caves of crooks and cutthroats and where idling autos queue to sail past a plaque marking the end of the Eisenhower Interstate and Defense Highway System, one turns past a
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Confucius, Sprint & The State
The philosopher Confucius was reportedly once asked what he would do if he were a governor. He responded that he would first “rectify the names” to make words correspond to reality, for “If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success, proprieties and music do not
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Libertarians Condemn Raid on Independent Journalist, Support Press Freedom and Government Transparency
Responding to press reports about a joint SFPD-FBI raid on Bryan Carmody, a local journalist, today, the Executive Committee of the Libertarian Party of San Francisco, as authorized by its members, passed a resolution in support of journalism, freedom of the press, journalist shield laws, and government transparency. This resolution follows a statement by
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The Right to Tweet?
Free speech is crucial and must be defended. The founding fathers recognized this and gave us the first amendment as a guard against tyrannical government, so that we are free to spread ideas even when those ideas are not popular with those in power. Many influencers with outspoken political views—especially Conservatives—feel that their voices are
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Where Good Ideas Go To Die
It’s common knowledge that San Francisco has thousands of homeless people living on the streets and a shortage of not just housing, but even temporary shelter space. San Francisco also has a government-run school system that includes over a hundred schools occupying public space, each with multiple buildings that are vacant and unused at night.
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Dissecting SF Media Propaganda: Development Impact Fees
Ida Mojadad’s wretched March 28th San Francisco Weekly article on San Francisco’s “Development Impact Fee” is so factually erroneous that it deserves to be deconstructed for the propaganda it is. Far too often, reports in San Francisco are P/R repeaters, and I have noticed this type of fake news seems to crop up quite often
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When History Repeats Itself
On a warm Summer day in July 1916, over one hundred thousand residents descended on Market Street in San Francisco to witness a parade for civic “preparedness” – an ostensibly grassroots and patriotic movement for American involvement in War in Europe, the Pacific, Mexico, or all three organized and funded by the “Law And Order
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San Francisco Libertarians File an Election Contest to Invalidate November’s Proposition A Election Due To Violations of New Law
“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.” – Aristotle There has been an ongoing problem of collusion between government officials and municipal bond advisors who often actually write the bond bills for profit. And then deceptively work with government to sell them to an unsuspecting
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Our Defender, Jeff Adachi
Last month San Francisco lost one of its best leaders, perhaps the only elected official in the city truly worthy of that description. “Prosecutors, with near unlimited resources and the full backing of the government, are trying to take away a citizen’s freedom. That’s a big deal and something we want to get right,” he
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When will they be happy?
I feel like I keep repeating myself. Last month, I wrote that Government Thinks You are Fat and Stupid and so they need to set hard rules to keep all of us lemmings from walking off cliffs. In that article, I discussed proposals by the state of California to further regulate and tax sugary beverages