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Author: Thomas Buckley

Thomas Buckley is the former Mayor of Lake Elsinore and a former newspaper reporter. He operates a small communications and planning consultancy and can be reached directly at planbuckley@gmail.com. Read more of his work at his Substack ‘The Point.’

Doctors Without Ethical Borders

December 19, 2022   2:54 pmDecember 19, 2022   3:04 pm
Since the time of Hippocrates, medicine has had one common thread – first, do no harm. Often, the harm done is only clear in retrospect – bloodletting, various treatments involving toads, the “humours” system of diagnostics all seem just plain...
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Is ‘Acting’ in Eric Garcetti’s Future?

December 15, 2022   6:50 amDecember 15, 2022   9:30 am
With Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley Tuesday announcing his adamantine opposition to former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti being conformed as the next ambassador to India, it appears the only way he’s going to get to New Delhi now is...
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‘Your Ass and a Hole in the Ground’ – A Comparative Study

December 14, 2022   2:45 amDecember 13, 2022   8:54 pm
So “Your Ass and a Hole in the Ground” is from David Letterman’s “Top 10 Courses Taken by Basketball Players at UNLV”  from decades ago about basketball players take. That nasty great aunt you haven’t talked to in years has finally...
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California High Speed Rail: Low Speed Fail

December 11, 2022   2:30 amDecember 12, 2022   2:10 pm
Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice as she grew taller and taller in Wonderland. Curiouser and curiouser, said everyone paying even the slightest attention as the high-speed rail fantasy grew bigger and more expensive and further behind schedule and more incomprehensible...
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GLOBE EXCLUSIVE – EDD Has Paid Billions to Feds in Interest Alone

December 3, 2022   7:52 amDecember 3, 2022   8:14 am
Since 1990, California’s unemployment agency – the EDD – has paid the feds $1,793,665,930 in interest alone to help keep its doors open and claimants paid. That approximately $1.8 billion dollar figure does not include what the state currently owes in...
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Newsom Vows No White House Run in 2024… Sort Of

November 29, 2022   7:56 amNovember 29, 2022   7:28 pm
California Governor Gavin Newsom told Politico that he will enthusiastically support President Joe Biden in his bid for-re-election in 2024. He also added, though it seems with less vigor, that he would not run if Biden chooses not (or simply...
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California’s EDD Continues to Borrow Hundreds of Millions – about $13 million PER DAY – To Meet its Obligations

November 28, 2022   2:30 amNovember 27, 2022   4:24 pm
Though much of the Sacramento bureaucratic blob was exposed as the simultaneously incompetent and corrupt menace it is during the pandemic, one agency stood apart by proving itself the most inept and cruel organization in the capitol – the Employment...
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