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Washington State reps' votes on preserving NSA surveillance 0

Washington State reps' votes on preserving NSA surveillance

Democratic Representatives Adam Smith, Derek Kilmer, Rick Larsen, and Dennis Heck voted with 134 Republicans to help defeat the Amash Amendment to shutter the NSA’s surveillance function.  (Boo!) Jim McDermott and Suzan DeBene voted...

Advice from Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's leader 0

Advice from Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's leader

I read Lee Kuan Yew: The Grandmaster’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World. You might call Yew a benevolent dictator. There’s no freedom of the press in Singapore, and people who...

Protect Social Security, not the 1% 0

Protect Social Security, not the 1%

Representatives Rick Larsen and Jim McDermott have signed the Ciccline letter “Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Chained Consumer Price Index should not be used to calculate cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security...

Letter to the editor in right wing newspaper 0

Letter to the editor in right wing newspaper

The editorials and cartoons of the local newspaper, the Bellevue Reporter, almost always have an anti-government and anti-taxation message. During the 2010 election cycle, when the high earner’s income tax initiative I-1098 was on...