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Stephen H. Provost is an author of paranormal adventures and historical non-fiction. “Memortality” is his debut novel on Pace Press, set for release Feb. 1, 2017.

An editor and columnist with more than 30 years of experience as a journalist, he has written on subjects as diverse as history, religion, politics and language and has served as an editor for fiction and non-fiction projects. His book “Fresno Growing Up,” a history of Fresno, California, during the postwar years, is available on Craven Street Books. His next non-fiction work, “Highway 99: The History of California’s Main Street,” is scheduled for release in June.

For the past two years, the editor has served as managing editor for an award-winning weekly, The Cambrian, and is also a columnist for The Tribune in San Luis Obispo.

He lives on the California coast with his wife, stepson and cats Tyrion Fluffybutt and Allie Twinkletail.

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An unpopular opinion of Taylor Swift

Stephen H. Provost

Regardless of anyone’s views on Swift’s music or even her social views, it’s come down to a very simple and primitive equation: If the “other side” likes her, we don’t, and if the other side hates her, we love her. If you’re on the left and don’t like her music, there must be something wrong with you. If you’re on the right and do like it, you’d better not admit it.

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How Trump sold the Big Lie with just one word

Stephen H. Provost

Faith is just another word for loyalty, and one with similarly positive connotations – except for one small detail: Blind faith is never a good idea. Putting your faith in the wrong person can be disastrous. And Trump was definitely the wrong person.

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How evangelical faith justifies the Big Lie

Stephen H. Provost

There’s a fundamental difference in how Trump’s base looks at things and how thinking individuals view the world. And the nature of evangelical religion — how it operates — holds the key to identifying it. There’s long been a tension between faith and science: not just faith in the sense of religious piety, but in the sense of belief without evidence.

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Accountability is for the poor and the powerless

Stephen H. Provost

Accountability. It’s a word you hear a lot these days, often uttered alongside the catchphrase “no one is above the law.” That’s about as absurd as saying “all men are created equal” in a society that creates — and amplifies — inherent advantages based on skin color, inherited wealth, and genetic predispositions. Catchphrases have a way of sounding good on paper but being nearly worthless when the rubber meets the road.

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Biden pushes us back to the office — even if we don't want to go

Stephen H. Provost

Biden used his State of the Union address to call for “Americans to get back to work and fill our great downtowns again.” First of all, this is insulting. We HAVE been working, and if Biden hasn’t noticed, he hasn’t been paying attention. Second, how and where employees work should be a decision made by those workers and their employers — not by government. Third, it’s just plain clueless.

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Trump’s biggest lie isn’t about the election: It’s this

Stephen H. Provost

Donald Trump’s lie about the 2020 election being “stolen” is about as big as they come, but it’s still not the biggest or even the most dangerous one he’s told. If his followers hadn’t fallen for this other lie, the election so-called “big lie” wouldn’t even have been possible.

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