Attorney General candidate Reagan Dunn began his recent Times opinion piece in support of the death penalty with this paragraph: “The most important function of local government is to protect the public through enforcement of the rule of law. It is what separates a civil society from lawlessness, keeps our neighborhoods safe and establishes an…
I took a break to enjoy the holiday, as I’m sure many of you did, but my inbox kept busy, and on Friday came a doozy, courtesy of the Washington Post. You remember that little bit of a banking crisis we had a couple of years back, where banks around the world might have possibly,…
Because of tax cuts and loopholes favoring the rich. Because of outsourcing of jobs overseas. Because of union busting. Because they’ll cut Social Security and other social programs to pay for his tax breaks and subsidies, as well as for the profitable imperialist wars of aggression. Because of the Citizens United ruling declaring corporations to…
In The message from Rick Perry’s book: Repeal the 20th Century Seattle P-I columnist Joe Connelly describes the extreme anti-government views of Rick Perry. The 1930s are in the crosshairs. Social Security has been America’s most successful social program in lifting our seniors out of poverty. In Perry’s view, however, it is “a crumbling monument…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14768574 The editor of a science journal has resigned after admitting that a recent paper casting doubt on man-made climate change should not have been published. The paper, by US scientists Roy Spencer and William Braswell, claimed that computer models of climate inflated projections of temperature increase. It was seized on by “sceptic” bloggers, but…
The attitude of conservatives nowadays is: “I have a gun and I’m not afraid to use it.”  They have lots of power and they’re willing, in fact, eager to destroy much of what we hold dear. They believe or pretend that they’re doing God’s work and that they’re saving the People from the evils of…
While shopping in Issaquah today, I stopped at Barnes & Nobel to look for the book “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power” by Jeff Sharlet. Â Â As I looked through the Current Affairs section I was struck by the large number of right wing propaganda books — by Glenn…
Thanks for the tunes and the soul, Joe Zawinul! I know there have been a lot of covers of this tune, but I like the Cannonball Adderly version with Joe at the keyboard. Knocks me off my feet.
Thom Hartmann exposes the real story behind the Tea Party: it was an anti-corporate movement motivated by tax breaks for the East India Company.