Author: admin
Golly, what the Pentagon spends on public relations!
I’m reading Michael Hastings’ The Operator: The Wild and Terrifying Story of America’s War in Afghanistan. He reports that during the Iraq War “the Pentagon had launched a searching, multi-billion dollar effort to overhaul...
WA legislators propose standardized tax rates for all marijuana
Two House Democrats introduced legislation today that would standardize tax rates for all sales of marijuana. Sponsored by Appropriations Committee Chair Rep. Ross Hunter (D-48) and House Finance Committee Chair Reuven Carlyle (D-36), HB...
Washington State Democrats formally censure Senators Rodney Tom and Tim Sheldon
See Resolution to Censure State Senators Rodney Tom and Tim Sheldon
Should we call gun nuts "gun nuts"?
The minister at my local Unitarian Universalist church said in a sermon that left-leaning folks should stop calling gun-rights advocates names such as “gun nut” and “moron.” She said that it sure is tempting...
Rep. Adam Smith and military spending
Washington’s Rep. Adam Smith of the 9th Congressional District is the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee. Smith figures prominently in the Jan 28 issue of the The New Yorker, in the...
Bill Maher on Obama and on America's obsession with guns and sports
“Mr. President, there are two ways to look at your 51 to 48 percent victory. 1. We love you. 2. We like you 3% more than Mitt Romney.” “But it is now the job...
Thomas Jefferson's opposition to standing armies
“There are instruments so dangerous to the rights of the nation and which place them so totally at the mercy of their governors that those governors, whether legislative or executive, should be restrained from...
Charter Schools foundation associated with ALEC, Jeb Bush, corporations that benefit
E-mails link Bush foundation, corporations and education officials: The e-mails are between the Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE) and a group Bush set up called Chiefs for Change, whose members are current and...