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POLITICAL REFLECTIONS: THE PEOPLE'S POPE?
By Mark Gabrish ConlanApril 11, 2013 (San Diego) – I can remember the first time I experienced a Papal conclave. No, it wasn’t a real one; it was the one depicted in the 1969 film The Shoes of the...
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POLITICAL REFLECTIONS COLUMN: MARRYING YOUR GAY FIRST COUSIN?
By Mark Gabrish ConlanApril 7, 2013 (San Diego)--On March 26 and 27, the U.S. Supreme Court heard two major cases over whether same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry.On March 26 they...
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POLITICAL REFLECTIONS: THE INTERBLOB
By Mark Gabrish ConlanApril 14, 2013 (San Diego) -- I recently started a new job in downtown San Diego, and that means for the last three weeks I’ve been witnessing the slow death of an old friend. No,...
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POLITICAL REFLECTIONS COLUMN: HIGH COURT ON RIGHTS: 1 WIN, 1 LOSS, 2 DRAWS
By Mark Gabrish ConlanColumnist's elation over marriage equality rulings is tempered by dismay over high court's ruling on Voting Rights ActJune 26, 2013 (San Diego)--The sun is shining this...
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POLITICAL REFLECTIONS: FILNER - MAYOR BEHAVING BADLY
By Mark Gabrish ConlanJuly 19, 2013 (San Diego) – Just when you thought the current sex scandal involving San Diego Mayor Bob Filner couldn’t get any weirder, it did. On July 17 KGTV Channel 10 broke...
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POLITICAL REFLECTIONS COLUMN: GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN-- TRIUMPH OF THE RAND
by Mark Gabrish Conlan for East County Magazine, www.eastcountymagazine.orgI will not live my life for any other man, nor ask any other man to live his life for mine. — Ayn Rand, Atlas ShruggedOctober...
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COLUMN: POLITICAL REFLECTIONS: 2013 - THE YEAR OF CRASH AND BURN
By Mark Gabrish Conlan January 5, 2014 (San Diego) -- If nothing else, 2013 will go down in history as a year that showed up just how silly the whole notion of punditry is. People read columns like...
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POLITICAL REFLECTIONS COLUMN: THE MAKING OF THE RIGHT- -50 YEARS LATER
Why Goldwater Didn’t Become President: He Was Ahead of, Not Behind, the TimesBy Mark Gabrish Conlan• for East County Magazine, www.eastcountymagazine.orgFebruary 1, 2014 (San Diego)--Not long ago, I...
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POLITICAL REFLECTIONS COLUMN: THE BIONIC MAYOR
By Mark Gabrish Conlan• for East County Magazine, www.eastcountymagazine.orgFebruary 19, 2014 (San Diego's East County) - There’s an old saying, variously attributed to the Greek fabulist Aesop and...
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POLITICAL REFLECTIONS COLUMN: HOBBY LOBBY-- THE CORPORATION AS PROPHET
By Mark Gabrish Conlan • for East County Magazine, www.eastcountymagazine.orgApril 2, 2014 (Washington D.C.)--The U.S. Supreme Court sure picked a weird way of celebrating the 50th anniversary of the...
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