Under control
by Mark Hurwitt
Heist: Who Stole The American Dream? — Sunday at Olympia Film Society
Date:    Sunday 3/18/2012 Time:    2:30 pm Where: The Capitol Theater. 360.754.6670 | 206 5th AVENUE SE, OLYMPIA WA, 98501 Sponsor: Olympia Film Society Notes:    Dir: Francis Causey, Donald Goldmacher / 2011 / US / 90 min / High Definition digital A new, groundbreaking feature documentary about the roots of the American economic…
If money is speech
Then Charles Koch’s voice is on the left. My voice is on the right.
Washington military base Lewis-McChord blamed for Afghanistan troubles
The LA Times is reporting: Soldier held in Afghan killings was from troubled U.S. base Dozens of recent cases of killings, suicides and assaults have been linked to combat troops from sprawling Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state. Reuters reports:Â U.S. home base of Afghan massacre suspect scarred by scandals And CNN: Washington base back…
Computer-generated articles based on the statistics of news feeds
Over the past two and a half years I have daily been collecting news feeds from about 70 news organizations and blogs, including Fox News, The Nation, NewsBusters, OpEdNews, NewsMax, Washington Post, CNN, Truthout, ThinkProgress, and the Wall Street Journal. All together, there are over 636,000 articles (some consisting of only the abstracts, some having…
Superior Court Judge Hears Challenge to Eyman’s Two-Thirds Rule
See Publicola’s article Superior Court Judge Hears Challenge to Eyman’s Two-Thirds Rule. It’s telling that the AG is defending I-1053. If the courts rule that I-1053 is unconstitutional, I bet Eyman will try to amend the constitution.
Repugs celebrate destruction
(except that Republicans wouldn’t admit they broke it — they’d try to blame others) And, yes, some Democrats too helped and are helping break things even now. In Washington State, the budget crisis is a Republican wet dream. Here’s their chance to destroy public education and the social safety net, so they can further enrich…
Support SHB 2762 — a bill to expire tax loopholes
Please ask your legislators to support SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2762 This bill “Declares an intent to: (1) Periodically expire all nonconstitutionally required tax preferences that are not already subject to expiration; and (2) Require corporations that continue to benefit from tax preferences to disclose the value of the tax preferences claimed and to disclose data…