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http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/02/poor-white-and-republican.html This article is reminiscent of Thomas Frank’s “What’s the Matter with Kansas?”. It describes how many poor whites in the South depend on government handouts but, at the same time, are attracted to...
The Environmental Priorities Coalition says: SB 6406 would gut the Growth Management Act (the law that protects our state from sprawl), make several major policy changes to the State Environmental Policy Act, and now...
Exciting news! The Washington House passed the Reproductive Parity Act (HB 2330) last night by a vote of 52-46! This victory would not have been possible without your calls and emails and your attendance at...
Let’s Get Bradley Manning the Nobel Peace Prize
We are more than halfway through the short 60-day election-year legislative session, which is scheduled to end March 8th. Whether or not the Legislature will close the $1.4 billion budget gap, and put us...
Quoting from the video page: (In this Moyers & Company segment, Bill Moyers talks with conservative economist Bruce Bartlett, who wrote “the bible†for the Reagan Revolution, worked on domestic policy for the Reagan White...
CBS News published an informative article, Q&A: Obama and the birth control controversy, that dispels some myths about the abortion care coverage required by Obama’s plan. As the article says: Q: Was the Obama...
The Seattle P-I reports that the WA Senate passes bill to rein in tax breaks “Approved by a 45-3 margin Saturday, the measure would put five-year sunsets on all new and extended tax breaks...
[Yesterday I posted to OpEdNews the article copied below. Contributors to and readers of OpEdNews tend to be quite progressive or socialist. Many of them refuse to support the Democratic Party, saying that it’s...
http://www.watkinsforcongress.com/ Watkins appeared at the MDC candidates forum a couple of weeks ago in Seattle, as I discussed here: Darcy Burner and Roger Goodman shine at MDC candidates forum. Watkins likes to chat with...
