When the votes are counted on Tuesday night in California, Democrats will easily sweep the top contests. Senator Barbara Boxer is likely to defeat challenger Carly Fiorina, 51-46 per cent (Nate Silver’s projection at 538.com), and last week’s California Field poll shows Democrat Jerry Brown ahead of Republican Meg Whitman in the gubernatorial race by 10 [...]
As Californians prepare to vote Tuesday on a statewide initiative to legalize marijuana, The Jewish Journal, Los Angeles’s Jewish weekly, features a cover story on whether legal pot is good for the Jews. The answer, in brief: the rabbis are ambivalent. . . . continued at TheNation.com HERE
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Six days out from the midterm elections, the punditocracy predicts massive losses for Democrats in the House. California, however, remains the exception – Republican candidates Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina seem to face certain defeat. What explains California’s exceptionalism? We’ll ask HAROLD MEYERSON — he writes [...]
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As WikiLeaks prepares to release 400,000 Iraq war documents, a former FBI agent argues that WikiLeaks could have prevented 9-11, if the website had been around in 2001. . . . Continued at TheNation.com HERE.
Sarah Palin is coming to California this weekend, but the state’s top Republican candidates, Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina, don’t want to bee sen with her. . . . The reason can be found in the new polls: most Californians don’t like Sarah Palin. According to last week’s Field Poll, 69 percent of the state’s [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Campaign update: Michelle Obama campaigned in Milwaukee today for endangered progressive Senator Russ Feingold — and our JOHN NICHOLS was there. He says she was terrific. John is Washington Correspondent for The Nation and writes “The Beat” blog at TheNation.com. And 84-year-old ELMORE LEONARD has just [...]
KPFK kicks off a special twelve-hour Lennon 70th birthday celebration Saturday Oct. 9 at noon, and I’ll be hosting the first hour. We’ll be listening to my interview with Yoko last week, plus the new “Stripped Down” versions of the great songs on “Double Fantasy”— remixed to bring up Lennon’s voice and remove some of [...]
On what would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday, a list of my top five Lennon solo records–and they included audio and video links to Lennon’s performances of each: Audio and video HERE. 5. “God”: “I was the Walrus, but now I’m John” . . . 4. “Imagine”: We’ve heard it a thousand times, but [...]
How do you explain the value of a rock musician to the Immigration Service? Bob Dylan tried, in his letter opposing the Nixon Administration’s move to deport John Lennon. “John and Yoko,” Dylan wrote, “inspire and transcend and stimulate,” and thereby “help put an end to this mild dull taste of petty commercialism which is [...]