The esteemed Sonoma Valley Sun columnist Bob Edwards is also a cynophile and cynophilist, endowed with intense canophilia. He is also a notable retired attorney licensed to practice law in the State of California and ipso facto (a Latin legal term which only professionals like... Continue
Letter From The Editor
By David Bolling While Donald Trump continues to behave with the emotional maturity of a hormone-addled, poorly educated, over-privileged teen, continues to demean virtually anyone and everyone who disagrees with him, criticizes him, or simply tells him things he doesn’t want to hear, and has... Continue
Donald Trump, who has demonstrated neither interest in nor aptitude for knowing and understanding world history, has seized on the word “communism” as a favorite pejorative to define many of his most prominent political enemies. He insists in countless email messages that, “Known Communists, like... Continue
Fighting Communism and the First Amendment I have a painful confession. Donald Trump and I are buddies. He tells me so repeatedly. In fact he says he loves me. Really LOVES me. (I should explain that in some of my communications with Donald I have... Continue
I was standing in the Cherry Block vineyard, once the pride and legacy of the Sebastiani family, reaching back 100 years into a family history every non-family resident knows by heart, as if they owned it. It was mid-August and Sam Sebastiani had just pulled... Continue
There’s a convoluted conversation unraveling through the shadowy corridors of political conversation about the need to tone down hateful rhetoric as violence bleeds out of the twisted psyches of deeply tortured people with guns. Which brings us first to Charlie Kirk, whose assassination by a... Continue
It is instructive that when you consult Wikipedia for the definition of the word “scope” you are informed that it refers to “the extent of the area or subject matter that something deals with or to which it is relevant; the opportunity or possibility to... Continue
There are at least 200 words or terms in a list compiled by the New York Times, and first published in March, that are being purged from the official vocabularies of federal agencies at the behest of President Trump and his lockstep, quavering minions. Included... Continue
Me too Yes, I know. If you are by now sick and tired of reading the Sun’s alarming reportage, opinions, rants and tired reminders about the plan to build a thousand-home subdivision in the middle of the former Sonoma Developmental Center, on the edge of... Continue
By David Bolling Among the compelling excuses espoused by American policy makers and warmongers for the extraordinary cost in lives, treasure and domestic tranquility invested in the Vietnam War, was the alarm frequently sounded by conservative politicians and from Christian pulpits that “losing” Vietnam would... Continue
