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- Letters to the editor
Regarding “Court Overturns Ban on Same-Sex Marriage” (A1, May 16):
Just two very simple questions about gay marriage: How does such a marriage have any effect upon anyone else's marriage?
- AN AUDITOR FOR SAN DIEGO?
A way to improve San Diego's audit grades
San Diego voters will soon decide the fate of Proposition C – a city charter amendment to overhaul how city books are audited. Proposition C is an important step to restore taxpayer credibility and investor confidence.
- AN AUDITOR FOR SAN DIEGO?
A political scheme to centralize power
Not long ago, San Diego was a scandalized city. We were dubbed “Enron by the Sea” because of fraudulent financial activities and cover-ups. Proposition C is the city's latest scandal. While voters often settle for second or even third best, Proposition C scrapes the bottom of the barrel.
- DAVID BROOKS THE NEW YORK TIMES
McCain, not Obama, is real reformer
Oh, never mind. In 1965, Mancur Olson wrote a classic book called “The Logic of Collective Action,” which pointed out that large, amorphous groups are often less powerful politically than small, organized ones. He followed it up with “The Rise and Decline of Nations.”
- ROBERT J. SAMUELSON NEWSWEEK
Losing our sense of entitlement
We middle-class Americans are in a funk. “The overarching economic narrative of the 2008 campaign is the idea that life for the middle class has grown more difficult,” writes Paul Taylor of the Pew Research Center, which recently published a massive report on middle-class anxieties.
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