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I’m reading Thomas Frank’s Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right. Great book! Depressing. It tells the vivid story of how right wingers were able to quickly recover...
Below is the text of a resolution signed by 60 Washington State legislators, plus 8 candidates. The letter calls on the US Congress to end corporate personhood and to overturn Citizens United. As reported...
Progressives, Democrats, and others on the Left need to plan their post-election strategy. 1. If Obama loses If Obama loses, there will be panic and outrage on the left. Many people will claim that...
The current issue of the New Yorker has an article that well describes the culture of corruption in Washington, D.C. “Washington Man” by George Packer tells of Jeff Connaughton’s trajectory through our nation’s capital...
(Video courtesy of Fuse Washington) See John Koster, GOP House Candidate: ‘The Rape Thing’ Does Not Excuse Abortions
Somebody wake me up from this nightmare. In 2008, an amazing 45% of voters chose John McCain and Sarah Palin, despite the recession and the disasters of the Iraq War and the rampant corruption...
On the Washington State ballot, there is confusing wording for “Advisory Vote No. 1:Â Engrossed Senate Bill 6635” : The legislature eliminated, without a vote of the people, a business and occupation tax deduction...
Maybe the megastorm threatening the East Coast is punishment from God for ignoring global warming, for militarism, and for economic policies that favor the rich and cause tremendous death and suffering.
