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What California Could Have Done with the $30 Billion Lost by the EDD (californiaglobe.com)
by Eric Holder on 27 Jul 2021 2 comments, latest 12 hours ago
All 40 million Californians could dine at the French Laundry with Gavin NewsomBy Thomas Buckley, July 19, 2021 6:14 pmIt is, sadly, a fact of life that the public has...

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Urban Law 101 (amren.com)
by Eric Holder on 22 Jul 2021 17 comments, latest a day ago
I grew up in a suburb of a large northern city, and had no real contact with blacks until I became a lawyer. After I got my law degree I...

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San Francisco's shoplifting epidemic gets out of control (sfgate.com)
by Eric Holder on 21 May 2021 99 comments, latest 5 days ago
Soon after moving to San Francisco in 2016, I walked into a Walgreens in North Beach to buy an electric toothbrush.As I was paying for it, a man walked into...

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'Eaten alive': Hawaii bars reportedly receive backlash when asking for vaccination proof (sfgate.com)
by Eric Holder on 20 Jul 2021 10 comments, latest 7 days ago
Bars and restaurants in Oahu were recently told they can lose all social distancing restrictions, but there was a catch: Under the order, staff are required to ask customers to...

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The Culture War Must Go On (archive.is)
by Eric Holder on 7 Jul 2021 6 comments, latest 18 days ago
I happened to mention the phrase “culture war” in a 1996 conversation with Irving Kristol, who was a contributor to these pages and always a penetrating observer of contemporary American...

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Paying traffic tickets is now optional in CA (sacbee.com)
by Eric Holder on 8 Jul 2021 10 comments, latest 19 days ago
The California Department of Motor Vehicles restored more than half a million driver licenses that were suspended as a result of the drivers’ failure to pay traffic fines or appear...

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"Defund the police, they said, would could go wrong... (nytimes.com)
by Eric Holder on 6 Jul 2021 3 comments, latest 21 days ago
Not long after the coronavirus bore down on New York last year, gun violence surged, rising 75 percent or more in some of the state’s largest cities. But even as...

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CNN: "Putin got exactly what he wanted from Biden in Geneva" (cnn.com)
by Eric Holder on 17 Jun 2021 7 comments, latest a month ago
What Putin walked away withThe optics of the summit were almost tailored to suit Putin's domestic needs. The meetings were requested by the US, which as far as the Kremlin...

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Identity crisis: how the politics of race will wreck America (spectatorworld.com)
by Eric Holder on 16 Jun 2021 4 comments, latest a month ago
The American experiment is fragile. It has always been fragile and always will be fragile because it is so extremely unnatural. ‘Unnatural’ in this context means in conflict with human...

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Take Covid money - say goodbye to your private museum. (sfgate.com)
by Eric Holder on 16 Jun 2021 3 comments, latest a month ago
Small museums and private institutions that accept federal CARES Act money or other stimulus funds could be forced to relinquish thousands of Indigenous items and ancestral remains now in their...

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Federal judge blocks Biden's pause on new oil, gas leases (sfgate.com)
by Eric Holder on 16 Jun 2021 Posted a month ago
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Biden administration’s suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal land and water was blocked Tuesday by a federal judge in Louisiana who ordered...

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Babylon Bee demands retraction from NY Slimes.
by Eric Holder on 7 Jun 2021 5 comments, latest a month ago
June 2, 2021Re: Demand for Retraction of New York Times Article by Mike IsaacDear Ms. Brayton:We represent the Babylon Bee in this matter and write on its behalf. Please direct...

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Why I Stopped Hiring Ivy League Graduates (archive.is)
by Eric Holder on 15 Jun 2021 9 comments, latest a month ago
Even those who aren’t woke seem damaged by the experience, and they’re deprived of role models.I’m not inclined to hire a graduate from one of America’s elite universities. That marks...

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Plexiglass Is Everywhere, With No Proof It Keeps Covid at Bay (bloomberg.com)
by Eric Holder on 15 Jun 2021 4 comments, latest a month ago
Sales of plexiglass tripled to roughly $750 million in the U.S. after the pandemic hit, as offices, schools, restaurants and retail stores sought protection from the droplets that health authorities...

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Suddenly-2. (yahoo.com)
by Eric Holder on 11 Jun 2021 1 comment, latest 2 months ago
People are scared' as gang activity fuels Portland violenceORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — When Oregon’s most populous city had a rampant gang problem 30 years ago, Portland detectives were stunned if...

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Opinion: How Trump can flip the Senate with one phone call (archive.is)
by Eric Holder on 10 Jun 2021 3 comments, latest 2 months ago
Opinion byMarc A. ThiessenColumnistJune 10, 2021 at 10:12 a.m. PDTWe are told that there are two types of Republicans today: those who accept that Donald Trump is the leader of...

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Yet Another Media Tale -- Trump Tear-Gassed Protesters For a Church Photo Op -- Collapses (greenwald.substack.com)
by Eric Holder on 9 Jun 2021 1 comment, latest 2 months ago
That the White House violently cleared Lafayette Park at Trump's behest was treated as unquestioned truth by most corporate media. Today it was revealed as a falsehood.For more than a...

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What Happens When Doctors Can't Tell the Truth? (bariweiss.substack.com)
by Eric Holder on 7 Jun 2021 2 comments, latest 2 months ago
I’ve heard from doctors who’ve been reported to their departments for criticizing residents for being late. (It was seen by their trainees as an act of racism.) I’ve heard from...

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A 43.4% Capital Gains Tax? Make that more than 55% if you live in New York or California. (wsj.com)
by Eric Holder on 23 Apr 2021 13 comments, latest 2 months ago
The one consistent theme of the Biden Presidency so far is that he nearly always chooses to side with the Democratic left. So it was again on Thursday as Biden...

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Kamala Harris Bombs at the Naval Academy (wsj.com)
by Eric Holder on 2 Jun 2021 8 comments, latest 2 months ago
Ms. Harris’s attempt at gender-inclusive, environment-friendly comedy elicited an appreciative and raucous peal of laughter—but only from her. The rest of the audience looked like they wanted to crawl under...

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They don't like their own tactics when the tables are turned. (fivethirtyeight.com)
by Eric Holder on 26 May 2021 2 comments, latest 2 months ago
The video still exists on some of the darker corners of the web. Filmed in Michigan from the driver’s seat of a slow-moving car, the fall 2019 clip shows a...

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SF Walgreens plagued by brazen shoplifting will close (sfgate.com)
by Eric Holder on 19 Oct 2020 23 comments, latest 2 months ago
Another Walgreens is permanently shutting down in San Francisco.The drugstore at 790 Van Ness Ave. had been dealing with rampant shoplifting, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, amounting to up...

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"Those who threaten Israel also threaten us" (lefigaro.fr)
by Eric Holder on 20 May 2021 1 comment, latest 2 months ago
FIGAROVOX / TRIBUNE - Faced with tensions between Israel and Hamas, 76 personalities including Manuel Valls, Philippe Val and Renée Fregosi affirm their solidarity with the Israeli people and call...

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The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot (greenwald.substack.com)
by Eric Holder on 16 Feb 2021 4 comments, latest 2 months ago
Insisting on factual accuracy does not make one an apologist for the protesters. False reporting is never justified, especially to inflate threat and fear levels.What took place at the Capitol...

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Vox: The inadequacy of the term “Asian American”
by Eric Holder on 12 May 2021 7 comments, latest 2 months ago
"The label aspires to unify a wide range of communities with common cause and shared experiences. But many feel it flattens and erases entire cultures."

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MOAR free shit! (sfgate.com)
by Eric Holder on 10 May 2021 7 comments, latest 3 months ago
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced at a Monday press briefing a proposal to expand the existing stimulus program for low-income residents to middle class families, with two out of every three...

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Jen Psaki says the quiet part out loud about Joe Biden (msn.com)
by Eric Holder on 10 May 2021 2 comments, latest 3 months ago
Jen Psaki made a stunning admission in a patently flippant way last week during a conversation with CNN's David Axelrod. The White House press secretary openly admitted that President Biden's...

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German judge admits CO2 reduction policies lead to "comprehensive limits to freedom" (apnews.com)
by Eric Holder on 30 Apr 2021 6 comments, latest 3 months ago
https://apnews.com/article/eur

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(Idiots) Samsung Lost More than $268 Million During Power Shutdown in Texas (news.slashdot.org)
by Eric Holder on 3 May 2021 13 comments, latest 3 months ago
https://news.slashdot.org/stor Samsung's Austin fab was offline for more than a month after it was shutdown due to power outages during the freeze... About 71,000 wafers wereaffected by production disruptions, said...

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The Woke Mob: my survival story (threadreaderapp.com)
by Eric Holder on 3 May 2021 1 comment, latest 3 months ago
Maybe I shouldn’t be proud of it, but I also learned to use their woke rules against them. When a staff member said I couldn’t speak to a topic bc...

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CRAZY: Washington DC Is Paying $1.6 Million In Settlements To Rioters At Trump’s Inauguration (thegatewaypundit.com)
by Eric Holder on 3 May 2021 Posted 3 months ago
The double standard of justice continues.Washington D.C. is going to pay $1.6 million in settlements to those who were arrested for rioting at Trump’s inauguration.The city of Washington has reached...

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WTF is happening in India?
by Eric Holder on 29 Apr 2021 88 comments, latest 3 months ago
They were doing pretty good and suddenly all hell breaks loose? It almost feels like CCP has unleashed a new, improved "strain" of CPP virus after observing the original one,...

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New census numbers shift political power south to Republican strongholds (sfgate.com)
by Eric Holder on 26 Apr 2021 5 comments, latest 3 months ago
WASHINGTON - Political power in the United States will continue to shift south this decade as historically Democratic states that border the Great Lakes give up congressional seats and electoral...

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Kamala's kids book 'Superheroes are Everywhere' is included in welcome packs for unaccompanied children at border (dailymail.co.uk)
by Eric Holder on 27 Apr 2021 3 comments, latest 3 months ago
Vice President Kamala Harris's children's book Superheroes are Everywhere is being included in welcome packs for unaccompanied migrant children entering America at the Mexico border. Images taken at a California...

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This is how no cops, no weapons paradise looks like. (twitter.com)
by Eric Holder on 25 Apr 2021 6 comments, latest 3 months ago
https://twitter.com/BillyCorbe

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If so-called "black leaders" care so much about their people being killed by police...
by Eric Holder on 25 Apr 2021 2 comments, latest 3 months ago
... why the fuck not a single one urged them to NEVER resist arrest? If "hero lawyers" like John Burris care so much about black lives and not about payouts...

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Anticop Movement Wants Road Anarchy Too (wsj.com)
by Eric Holder on 23 Apr 2021 Posted 3 months ago
Traffic laws didn’t kill Daunte Wright, but critics of the police are using his death to call for an end to their enforcement. Likewise with George Floyd and laws against...

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Protesters set up guillotine outside of Jeff Bezos’ DC home (fox5dc.com)
by Eric Holder on 1 Jul 2020 7 comments, latest 3 months ago
WASHINGTON - Protesters have set up a guillotine outside a complex in Washington, D.C., where Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos reportedly has a home, according to social media and multiple reports.A...

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Why do blacks behave the way they do? (It’s More Than IQ | Jared Taylor (AmRen) April 2021) (youtube.com)
by Eric Holder on 19 Apr 2021 21 comments, latest 3 months ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?

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Satire and "real" press finally conflate. (The life of George Floyd: ‘He knew how to make people feel better’) (theguardian.com)
by Eric Holder on 20 Apr 2021 10 comments, latest 3 months ago
The life of George Floyd: ‘He knew how to make people feel better’How a gentle giant beloved by family and community became a man who would ‘change the world’https://www.thegu