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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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The criminal next door

by Barbara Simpson -- The news probably didn't make your newspapers or evening news, but if it had, would you have paid attention? Brandon Mendoza's family noticed; it changed their lives. Mendoza, more…

Kill the killers

by Barbara Simpson -- How did we get to the point that we care more about a killer than we do his victims? Do you know who Stephanie Nieman was or what more…

Thought police on the loose

by Barbara Simpson -- Have you noticed the change? It's not only what you say, but what you think – or what people think you think – that determines your worthiness to more…

Hey Harry, you're the terrorist!

by Barbara Simpson -- [caption id="attachment_548523" align="aligncenter" width="596" caption="Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev."][/caption] When I was a kid – when things got testy as to what was allowed or not – the immediate more…

We have met the enemy, and he is U.S.

by Barbara Simpson -- Walt Kelly's "Pogo" had it right, back in the '70s, when he said, "We have met the enemy and he is us." Updating it a bit, "We have more…

Bang, bang. You're dead

by Barbara Simpson -- Life is strange. Last Sunday, after my KSFO radio program, I saw a short report on the Internet that authorities were on the alert concerning an Army soldier more…

Human garbage – living and dead

by Barbara Simpson -- What happens to aborted babies? Are they sold, experimented on, used in retail products, sent to a landfill, burned or buried? Do you know? Do you care? The more…

Witches fight the drought

by Barbara Simpson -- It's not often that one gets the chance to call a member of one of the world's most renowned wine families – a "witch" – more specifically "a more…

Media ignore domestic radiation leaks

by Barbara Simpson -- Amazing, isn't it, how selective we and the media are about our worries – or, as the case might be, our panic? It was barely a week ago more…