Though I’m definitely not libertarian, this video makes a good point about the desirability of allowing third candidates besides Romney and Obama into the presidential debates. The same argument could apply to Justice Party candidate Rocky Anderson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein.

Conservative Favorite Things (lyrics and vocals by Don Smith) I wrote this about five years ago but re-recorded it with a voice track over an orchestral accompaniment. If you have a good voice, please contact me. Click here for an animated version of this with guitar and vocal, sung by Scot Lee. Tax cuts for…

“Real entitlement programs are ones where beneficiaries do not contribute, like when we working taxpayers pay bankers hundreds of billions of dollars “interest” on their reserves, or pay for puffed-up and no-bid government contracts or farm and oil subsidies, or pay pharmaceutical companies full retail price instead of negotiating discounts, or “borrow” money from the…

Faithful America writes: We’ve all seen how right-wing extremists have given Christianity a bad name by twisting Jesus’ message of love and reconciliation into a hateful political agenda. But the truth is that they don’t represent the overwhelming majority of Christians. And there are literally millions of us who are ready to take on the…

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Yesterday, I wrote that all the crocodile tears that the Right Wing sheds for the supposed insolvency of Social Security are just a cover story for what they really want to do, i.e., destroy Social Security. My Tea Party opponent is a perfect example of this: he calls Social Security a “Ponzi scheme”; he calls…

The right wing think tank Washington Policy Center is proposing an amendment to the Washington State Constitution to make a permanent 2/3 super-majority requirement on raising revenue. See Citizens’ Guide to Initiative 1185: To Affirm the Two-thirds Vote Requirement for Tax Increases.  Duch an amendment will be needed if the State Supreme Court rules I-1153…

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