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Midterm election runs blood red

You just elected a bunch of terrible human beings to the United States Congress, America. Congratulations. You did it. You made sure last night’s midterm election sucked. Despite all kinds of real measurable progress we’ve made as a nation in the the…

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Time for millennials to sleep right through another election

By the time you read this, another election week will nearly be upon us. As sure as I am that there will be elections, I’m equally as sure that somewhere around 90 percent of you reading this will not care about…

Fresh Takes Opinion by LPC Express October 6, 2014

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The A’s are killing me softly

Travis DannerSPECIAL TO THE EXPRESSM y life is ruined. At least it feels that way after the Oakland A’s lost the Tuesday, Sept. 30 12 inning Wild Card playoff to the Kansas City Royals after pretty much blowing at least two golden opportunities…

Fresh Takes Opinion by LPC Express September 19, 2014

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LPC’s super liberal replies to a reader’s response

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Editor, I had to respond to your editorial on the controversy surrounding the Ferguson, Missouri shooting (08/29/14, Vol. 26, No. 1). Like many reviewers, you are focused on the troubles that occurred after the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed…

Fresh Takes Opinion by LPC Express September 5, 2014

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The lack of humanity is just one click away

It was a good week for creepy internet shut-ins or jihad-waging terrorists. If you’re a decent person who believes in privacy and the value of human life — eh, not so much. Over the past week, two separate groups of people (each…

Fresh Takes Opinion by LPC Express August 29, 2014

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“Post-racial society”? Yeah, right.

Ongoing crises in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip. Robin Williams’ suicide. The (considerably less important cosmically but nonetheless significant to me) 8-month-struggle of the Oakland Athletics. Turning on the TV or checking Twitter was not a pleasant occurrence in the month of…

Fresh Takes Opinion by LPC Express May 9, 2014

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Hushed climate change crisis helps companies make profit

Travis DannerSpecial to The ExpressThe human race has been having the debate about climate change for decades and I’ve never heard or read a definitive answer to the question most commonly posed to its deniers — why would scientists lie? According to NASA,…

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Donald Sterling makes Americans face palm

Travis DannerSpecial to the ExpressDonald Sterling, you are an idiot. You’re about to lose your sports franchise, the Los Angeles Clippers, because of the fact that you’re an idiot. You told your mistress that she shouldn’t be publicly associating with black people, and she…

Fresh Takes Opinion by LPC Express April 25, 2014

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The A’s need to stay in the Bay Area

Travis Danner Special to The ExpressMy love affair with the Oakland A’s started on a warm July night at the Coliseum when I was 10 years old. In some ways, part of me has been frozen in the moment I first saw that…

Fresh Takes Opinion by LPC Express April 10, 2014

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Republicans point U.S. in the wrong direction

Not to make light of the tragic disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 — but lately I have an even bigger mystery top-of-mind. How do people in this day and age continue to vote for Republicans? Seriously. On Wednesday, April 8, the “Grand Old Party”…

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