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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.
Ruminations and provocations.
Filtering by Tag: rigged election
There’s always been a tendency of losing teams to blame the ref, but it’s gotten worse over the years, and that has seeped into politics, as well. Pre-emptively. Any election that’s lost is automatically viewed as the result of some imagined fraud, and those that are won must have been clean as a whistle.
Read MoreCensorship of hate speech doesn’t violate the “marketplace of ideas” principle. That concept assumes you’re talking about rational ideas, not incitement to hatred and violence. If someone enters a marketplace and starts making false accusations about a vendor and whipping the crowd into such a frenzy he can’t do business — or inciting them to overturn his stand — THAT’S what suppression looks like. That’s REAL censorship.
Read MoreWhile most of us have forgotten, were too young to pay attention (like yours truly) or hadn’t been born yet, it was Democrats who torpedoed the only real chance to get rid of the Electoral College.
Read MoreYou can’t rely on a system to empower you and seek to discredit it at the same time. Well, you can, but it’s not a very smart thing to do. Contradictory messaging doesn’t work, even on supporters who are “all in.” If you ask someone to pick something up at the store, then immediately return it, they won’t bother to make the trip at all.
Read MoreCourt after court has thrown out Trump’s challenges to the election results, but because the courts keep hearing them, that must mean there’s something of substance worth considering. Or so we think. The seed of doubt has been planted. The more recounts we undertake, the less confidence we have in the original count, because even if the result only changes by a few votes, that proves there was something wrong the first time.
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