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Speaker Saiki cites Obama to explain failure to raise the minimum wage. Really???

Posted on June 5, 2019 by freecatholic808 — Leave a comment

While Speaker Saiki’s recent OpEd (Honolulu Star Advertiser 5/27/2019) makes passing reference to “a blue state like Hawaii,” his arguments for why the legislature failed to ensure a raise for working people are more likely to make them see red.…

Remembering my mother, the political junkie

Posted on November 5, 2018 by freecatholic808 — 4 Comments

As I think of my beloved mother on the eve of her passing into eternal life, I revisit notes I shared with my children from my last visit with her: Here is my mother, the Magpie: I noticed her on…