In a recent Rolling Stone article, The GOP War on Voting, author Ari Berman writes, “In a campaign supported by the Koch brothers, Republicans are working to prevent millions of Democrats from voting next year.”  While agreeing with many of the concerns expressed in that article, Black Box Voting director Bev Harris points out omissions and calls…
Many activists on the Left want Medicare for all. But the way things are going, it seems we’re more likely to get Medicare for none.  Many conservatives believe that last year’s health care reform bill, with its mandated participation, is unconstitutional.  “Federal Judge Roger Vinson of the Northern District of Florida, in a lawsuit by 26…
The Young Turks have an entertaining video up from a town hall meeting with Representative Hultgren. It’s short and tells the story. The woman asks the right question about the Bush tax cuts, prosperity and job creation. The same question could/should be asked in a broader time frame. Since 1980, the tax table has been…
They drowned Uncle Sam in the bathtub Here’s how they did it: Twelve-step GOP program.
I’ve been absent from the public eye for nearly four months, involved one of the most comprehensive examinations of voting information since 2005. I analyzed a sequential set of 80 voter history lists, 1,000 electronic poll book reports, a dozen master electronic poll book records, 50 participating voter lists, internal worksheets on purges, transaction logs…
$42 Million From Seven Foundations Helped Fuel the Rise of Islamophobia in America This is not to say there aren’t legitimate problems with Islam or with immigration, but some people have an ideological or economic interest in fanning the flames of racial hatred. Without an enemy, how can you justify a police state and massive…
How Joe Biden aided Clarence Thomas The New Yorker has an article on Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni. The article describes how the Court has moved to adopt many of his hard right views. And it summarizes the case corroborating Anita Hill’s testimony against Thomas: Thomas was confirmed in the Senate by a…
Wednesday Media was asked if it could cover a meeting of Act For America (http://actforamerica.org/) in Chehalis on August 27th. [Editor’s note: ACT! for America is an organization devoted to speaking “the truth about radical Islam, terror and jihad.”] We tried, but it was a hard slog. Here are some notes from the meeting and…
At a forum on low income housing and homelessness prevention Friday, August 26, Sen. Maria Cantwell discussed the bill that she is co-sponsoring with Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe to extend and strengthen the affordable housing tax credit. The forum took place at the Salishan housing development in Tacoma and was attended by about 300 people…