Tag Archives: E Mail

Legalized pot or bust

I wrote a month ago about the mixed message being sent to Costa Mesa residents through the enforcement of the city’s medical marijuana dispensary ordinance versus the mandate in Proposition 215, which California voters passed in 1996 (“Adult consistency has gone to pot,” March 9). I also discussed the widespread use of marijuana nationally and … Continue reading

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Communicator-in-chief: How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House

Communicator-in-Chief examines the role of new media technologies such as e-mail, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, blogs, video games, texting and the Internet in the historic 2008 presidential campaign. Politicians of the twenty-first century will use the obama campaign’s new media technology strategy to not only communicate with the electorate, but also raise money and motivate … Continue reading

Question on Obama's auto-biography if you've read it?

Someone sent me a disturbing e-mail about a passage in Presidential Candidate Obama's auto biography. He is a college student and brings some white classmates to a party where there are mostly black people. On the way home in the car after the party, one of his white friends says something like, "Jeez, now I … Continue reading