By Rinaldo S. Brutoco September 17, 2025 It is with a heavy heart that I am recirculating three articles originally published in the Montecito Journal in 2021. These pieces were written in response to remarks by Marjorie Taylor Greene suggesting that Red States should secede from Blue States. In those articles, I advanced the view … Continue Reading
Perspectives: Secession Revisited
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Perspectives: “Conscious Uncoupling”
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Perspectives: Marjorie Taylor Greene–Leaving???
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Perspectives: Charles Blow is Right!
Today’s “Paul Revere Moment” BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO …
Perspectives: The Real “Right to Life”
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Special Edition of Perspectives: Psychedelics and Mystical Experience
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Perspectives: Western Rivers, the Salton Sea & Us
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Perspectives: Water, Water… and Not a Drop to Drink
Santa Barbara’s Solution BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO …