They have no qualms about doing nasty things such as polluting air and water and not paying their fair share in taxes. They’re called corporations, conservatives, and Koch brothers. And if, as right-to-lifers claim, embryos are people, then embryos too lack feelings and conscience since they have undeveloped nervous systems and are the size of…

See this concise exposé of private-equity funds in the New Yorker:  Private Inequity. As a result, private-equity firms are increasingly able to profit even if the companies they run go under—an outcome made much likelier by all the extra borrowing—and many companies have been getting picked clean. … The real reason that we should be…

The January 30th New Yorker has an article by  Ryan Lizza on the “Obama Memos.”  It tells that depressing story of how President Obama really believed that he could unite the country and rise above partisanship.  Again and again he chose to move to the right, in a futile effort to appease conservatives and try…

Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice

(Source: Occupy Wall Street, on facebook) Someone pointed out that Dems are guilty of war-mongering and corruption too. Yes, many Dems are so centrist that they don’t count as liberal. But the Repugs are worse and true liberals are progressive. Not all Dems are true liberals.

From Conservatives Consider Impeachment If They Lose To Obama. Grover Norquist of Americans For Tax Reform told National Journal that if Obama is re-elected and refuses to re-authorize the Bush-era tax cuts for millionaires, “Obama can sit there and let all the tax [cuts] lapse, and then the Republicans will have enough votes in the…

In 2010 Washington State voters rejected I-1098, which would have established an income tax on the wealthiest 1 or 2% of citizens. And the voters approved I-1053, which makes it very hard for legislators to eliminate unfair tax exemptions that benefit the richest corporations.  In this video a middle class guy explains his votes against…

Yesterday evening the Metropolitan Democratic Club of Seattle held a Forum for First Congressional District Candidates at Seattle City Hall. Six candidates spoke, five Democrats (Darcy Burner, Suzan DelBene, Roger Goodman, Darshan Rauniyar, and Laura Ruderman)  and one Republican (James Watkins).  They are  vying to fill the Congressional seat now held by Jay Inslee, who…

https://www.voterocky.org/node/14 The Jan 17 interview is good. Anderson says the right things. Reminds me, in fact, of some of the things that Pres. Obama said. But one gets the sense that Anderson really means it. Could he even pull it off if, somehow, he got elected? In November if the election seems close in Washington…