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It's football season and Attorney General Jerry Brown is a no-show for the kickoff. The time of year where small schools play up, thousands of miles travel to take on the 'big schools' for nothing more than the guaranteed sharing of gate revenue. But don't tell that to the players who tighten their chin-straps, nor the coaches who prepare their squads for the big win. Each small school shows up, plays the game to the best of their ability and expects to win - knowing deep inside that the odds are stacked against them, and the possibilities are best described as remote ... but they show, play and fight for the right to be accounted for.

What is Senator Barbara Boxer is really up to with her "outsourcing jobs" attack against Carly Fiorina? It seems a bit hypocritical to me. Senator Boxer is chiding Fiorina for off-shoring jobs to China in order to save a company's competition (inside of an economical downturn), as the tenured senator rides around California touting her votes on TARP, stimulus, company bailouts with dollars seized at gunpoint (taxes) in order to - as the senator says - 'save' government sector jobs from an economical downturn. Isn't Senator Boxer, in essence, outsourcing our tax dollars to government unions? And if Carly is going to be smeared over outsourced jobs to China, when does the media begin to dust for Senator Boxer's fingerprints on California's future similarity to Greece?

Senator Barbara Boxer may not fell the need to apologize to the Brigadier General, but she should be very sorry for her vote buying at the expense of the taxpayers' military budget. Back on August 20th the senator's 'job tour' stopped by Boeing's C-17 plant in Long Beach, California. During her stump speech Senator Boxer made a promise to the 5,000-plus plane manufacturing employees, "I cannot tell you how proud I am that we have surpassed 200 planes, and that this magnificent aircraft is built right here in California by American workers - the only place the C-17 should ever be built is in California."

Carly Fiorina should not agree to another debate ... without the format including a longer rebuttal with free flowing crosstalk. Rule number one of debate: When you own the position of expert - or in the case of politics an incumbent - you structure the debate's format as tight as you can to shield yourself from the challenger's missives. The burden of proof in each argument is always upon the challenger. The expert (again, an incumbent in this case) willingly agrees to a structured '90 answer/60 rebuttal' window, for the simple fact that it forces the challenger to explain religious doctrine in a fast food drive through.