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Stephen H. Provost is an author of paranormal adventures and historical non-fiction. “Memortality” is his debut novel on Pace Press, set for release Feb. 1, 2017.

An editor and columnist with more than 30 years of experience as a journalist, he has written on subjects as diverse as history, religion, politics and language and has served as an editor for fiction and non-fiction projects. His book “Fresno Growing Up,” a history of Fresno, California, during the postwar years, is available on Craven Street Books. His next non-fiction work, “Highway 99: The History of California’s Main Street,” is scheduled for release in June.

For the past two years, the editor has served as managing editor for an award-winning weekly, The Cambrian, and is also a columnist for The Tribune in San Luis Obispo.

He lives on the California coast with his wife, stepson and cats Tyrion Fluffybutt and Allie Twinkletail.

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Be an absolutist on free thought, not free speech

Stephen H. Provost

All thoughts are created equal… as long as they remain thoughts. It’s when they become words or actions that they become dangerous, especially if we fall into the trap of substituting polls for evidence and peer pressure for common sense. False, mean, and defamatory declarations aren’t the same as wise and true words; destructive behavior isn’t the same as constructive action.

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Anti-vaxxers, you don’t have the freedom to kill me

Stephen H. Provost

Hey, anti-vaxxers, since you’re all about freedom, try this on for size: Try spending your life with chronic bronchitis, recurring asthma, and occasional bouts of pneumonia? Imagine for just a moment that the chance you’ll die by drowning in your own body fluids is a good deal higher than it is for most people. How’s that for freedom?

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GOP's conservative coalition is falling apart

Stephen H. Provost

Republicans are in the same kind of pickle Democrats found themselves in during the 1960s, when Southern conservatives started leaving the party for the GOP because they couldn’t stomach being in the same party with Northeastern aristocrats. … But this time, it’s worse. Here’s why.

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4 dirty tricks Republicans learned from Trump

Stephen H. Provost

Pundits have focused a lot of attention on how much Republicans have done to protect Donald Trump, regardless of how outrageous or destructive his behavior has been. But less has been said about the things Republicans have learned from Trump about how to engage in that behavior themselves. Here are four ways they’ve done just that.

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How "cancel culture" is fueling the collapse of civilized society

Stephen H. Provost

Those fixated on loyalty at the expense of facts obsess night and day on a single objective: canceling the enemy, by hashtag, by accusation, or if that doesn’t work, by more violent means. The impulse to “cancel” someone can’t get more brazen than QAnon lady rep Marjorie Taylor Greene suggesting that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should be executed for treason.

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