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Our regressive tax system serves the super-rich 1

Our regressive tax system serves the super-rich

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy report Who Pays? A distributional analysis of the tax systems in all 50 states shows just how regressive the tax system is, both nationally and, especially, in...

Occupy CEHKC, April 24-25, to end homelessness 1

Occupy CEHKC, April 24-25, to end homelessness

Occupy CEHKC, April 24-25 24-hours to change how Seattle sees homelessness Real Change, SHARE/WHEEL, and Nickelsville are calling upon the broader community to join us this April 24-25 in a 24-hour wake-up call to...

Obama prosecutes torture whistleblower 0

Obama prosecutes torture whistleblower

(Sure, the Repugs are worse, but that doesn’t excuse Obama from prosecuting the whistleblowers but not the torturers.  If this news is accurate — and I assume it is — it is sickening indeed. ...

US House wants laxer gun laws 0

US House wants laxer gun laws

Mayors against Illegal Guns is reporting: Before he shot and killed Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman had been arrested for assaulting a police officer and subject to a court order for domestic violence. But thanks...

More dirt on the Newsmax article attacking Islam 0

More dirt on the Newsmax article attacking Islam

Yesterday I reported in Conservatives love to hate Islam that Newsmax (a conservative blog and website) had published an anti-Muslim article Muslim Marriage Guide OKs Wife Beating.  I was skeptical of the story because...

Rep. Adam Smith at Drinking Liberally Bellevue 4

Rep. Adam Smith at Drinking Liberally Bellevue

A large crowd showed up at South Bellevue’s Drinking Liberally tonight, due to the special guest: US Congressman Adam Smith. Because of redistricting, South Bellevue, Renton and South Seattle have become part of the...