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Barbara Simpson, "The Babe in the Bunker," as she's known to her KSFO 560 radio talk-show audience in San Francisco, has a 20-year radio, TV and newspaper career in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.
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Round 1: Lawmen face off with feds

by Barbara Simpson -- Barack Obama and Eric Holder may be relishing their power, but they're in for a good, old-fashioned American pushback. I can't wait. Two names to remember: Larry Dever more…

Post-racial, my foot!

by Barbara Simpson -- We all heard it. The election of a black man as president would put us on a new path to racial harmony in this country. Anyone who believed more…

Obama's shell game

by Barbara Simpson -- After suffering through the platitudes, inaccuracies and falsehoods of Barack Obama's immigration speech last week, I'm not holding my breath to hear what he'll say about Independence Day. more…

Obama's growing racist government

by Barbara Simpson -- For a president and an administration with the media in its pocket, it's amazing they haven't convinced the American public that it's OK to protect lawbreakers by racial more…

He's his own PR disaster

by Barbara Simpson -- Poor Barack Obama. He wants so much to be accepted, liked and revered as president – even though he has trouble being proud of the United States. Just more…

D.C. stench is getting thick

by Barbara Simpson -- I remember my mother telling me about the old Lifebuoy Soap radio commercials that talked of the dreaded "B.O." – meaning body odor and the need for a more…

This is my country

by Barbara Simpson -- The president of the United States spends too much time and wind power dissing my country – the country he supposedly represents. To clarify: The country he represents more…

We will remember

by Barbara Simpson -- Memorial Day is the day we honor the men and women who died protecting this country. They were citizens who volunteered or were drafted, and who went willingly more…

What a deal – for Mexico

by Barbara Simpson -- So the president of Mexico comes to my country, visits with our president at the White House and speaks before Congress. It was all quite an occasion – more…

Academic overkill

by Barbara Simpson -- You have to wonder what's going on at St. Mary's College in Moraga, Calif. – just across the bay from San Francisco. It is by definition a Roman more…