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 to insult them, but it’s counter-productive. Her words got me thinking. After the sermon, I asked her about it. I said,…

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 article “The Force” about the power and cost of the military-industrial complex and about America’s obsession with violence and militarism. At…

“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 of progressives to hold his feet to the fire for causes important to us.” The Liberal Agenda He he he he!…

“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 keeping such instruments on foot but in well-defined cases. Such an instrument is a standing army.” –Thomas Jefferson to David Humphreys,…

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 former state education commissioners who support Bush’s agenda of school reform, which includes school choice, online education, retention of third-graders who…

The Southern Poverty Law Center reports: Ron Paul Invites Neo-Confederate Witness to Testify in Congress This morning, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) hosted his first hearing as chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve, the nation’s central bank. Paul wants to look at the institution’s impact on job creation and the unemployment…

Check out King Tom Watch That page is the work of Fuse Washington; see http://whois.domaintools.com/kingtomwatch.com Similar to my idea from Dec 14:

I saw a facebook post by gun nuts who suspect the Sandy Hook massacre was faked in order to restrict gun rights. Here’s the image they posted: “This whole SANDY HOOK situation is really the event which sparked the latest restrictions on whether people can or cannot protect themselves using firearms… I am very interested…

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz made his baristas in Washington DC write political slogans on their customers’ cups. His goal was to push the 1% message—lower tax rates for the rich and cut budgets for everyone else. We got our own message for Schultz and his 1% buddies. We don’t want the 1% pushing their agenda…

On Tuesday, I attended a forum in Issaquah on education funding, organized by the League of Education Voters.  The main speakers were Rep. Ross Hunter  — Democratic chair of the House Ways and Means (budget) Committee — and Republican State Senator Steve Litzow of the 41st LD. Ross Hunter (D-48th LD) Steve Litzow (R-41st LD)…