Posts tagged: uspol

SCOTUS and the facts

Last week The New Republic published an article by Melissa Gira Grant titled, "The Mysterious Case of the Fake Gay Marriage Website, the Real Straight Man, and the Supreme Court" about how the request for a gay wedding website underpinning the 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis case was supposedly fake.…

On Jim Acosta

Two weeks ago, CNN Chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta came to my university and received the 2018 William Randolph Hearst Award for his work. I'm not really the biggest fan of CNN, but I've been impressed with Acosta's work, and getting to hear him speak was a real treat.…

My letter to the Boy Scouts of America

The following is a letter I just mailed to the Boy Scouts of America, following President Donald Trump's speech at the National Jamboree. I implore my fellow scouts to also contact the BSA to express their feelings. 25 July 2017 Boy Scouts of America PO Box 152079 Irving, TX 75015-2079…

Working the polls: reflection

As I said earlier, I worked the polls from 6 a.m. to roughly 9:20 p.m. We had one voter come in at the nick of time at 7:59 p.m. I was glad to see that we had a lot of first time voters, as well as some who just filled…

Working the polls

After being generally frustrated by this election cycle and wanting to contribute to make it less so, I decided to sign up to work at the polls this year, and help facilitate the election. Yesterday, we had election officer training by the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voter's office. It…