MoveOn's email in support of Darcy Burner
[This was in my email inbox this morning.] There’s one critical primary in Washington State this year—and with just 8 days left, it’s crunch time.  The ballots are in voters’ hands, and candidates...
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Scalia Suggests ‘Hand-Held Rocket Launchers’ Are Protected Under Second Amendment
Scalia Suggests ‘Hand-Held Rocket Launchers’ Are Protected Under Second Amendment The Onion can’t beat that for absurdity.
Link: GOP Poverty Creators Plan to Increase Taxes on 22.9 Million Poor and Middle Class Families
“Senator Orin Hatch and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed raising taxes on working families by $11 billion to make room for tax cuts for the wealthy.” GOP Poverty Creators Plan to Increase Taxes on...
Reasons to prefer Darcy Burner over Suzan DelBene
Democrats Suzan DelBene, Laura Ruderman, and Suzan DelBene are battling it out for the chance to run against Republican John Koster for the 1st CD seat. Burner took an early lead, with strong support...
How Dems Ross Hunter and Suzan DelBene helped Microsoft avoid taxes
According to the well-documented article Microsoft Wins Nevada Royalty Tax Cut and Tax Amnesty; Reports Record Revenue, in 2010 the Washington State legislature gave Microsoft an effective $100 million annual tax cut by revising...
Who voted to waste more money on the bloated defense budget?
Peace Action reports that House Roll Call No. 495, an amendment that effectively freezes military spending at this year’s level, passed the House with bipartisan support. Reps. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) and Barney Frank (D-MA)’...
The End of Loser Liberalism
Economist and Co-Founder of The Center for Economic and Policy Research Dean Baker has released a free, online edition of his book The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive “Progressives need a fundamentally...
Quickie link: Romney in London to raise money from scandal-ridden bankers
Mitt Romney’s Bankster Ball “Mitt Romney will show his true colors tonight, when he slips behind closed doors in a foreign capital to collect money from international bankers who are mired in scandal.”
Bloomberg: The U.S. Economic Policy Debate Is a Sham
The U.S. Economic Policy Debate Is a Sham “In reality, there’s remarkable consensus among mainstream economists, including those from the left and right, on most major macroeconomic issues. The debate in Washington about economic...
Bloomberg On Gun Control: Police Should Strike Until Government Acts On Gun Violence
Bloomberg On Gun Control: Police Should Strike Until Government Acts On Gun Violence (VIDEO) Also: Seventy-five percent of NRA members believe that concealed carry permits should be granted only to those applicants who have...