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A non-partisan, blue-ribbon task force sponsored by the Washington-based Constitution Project issued a report on US treatment of detainees in the wake of the September 11 attacks. The task force, after a two-year investigation,...
Source: The Mind Unleashed.
The state in the current biennium budget period gave out 176 tax breaks for B&O taxes totaling some $7.5 billion while collecting only $6.5 billion in revenue. The exemptions were 54% of the potential...
Walt Disney World and Darden Restaurants (which owns restaurant chains like Olive Garden and Red Lobster) both have happy-looking public faces regarding the health of the people they employ. But behind the scenes, they’re...
We should offer our students better and more reliable online educational opportunities, but … Online education has tremendous potential to help some students in some situations. But online education also requires very careful oversight...
Bush oversaw forty-eight drone strikes in Pakistan during his two terms. Since 2009, Obama as authorized more than three hundred. In Mazetti’s telling, CIA leaders repeatedly pushed Obama for more expansive authority to used...
One can only imagine the humiliation it must be that a black man is in the White House for all those bigoted rubes who were the target of Nixon’s divide and rule “Southern strategy”. ...
My daughter is really good with little kids. She can really get them to open up. She engages with them – about who they are, what they want to do, what they could do....
When it comes to the current health care system here in America, Dr. Jerrold Milstein relishes repeating his mantra, “The emperor has no clothes!†A strong supporter of the Affordable Health Care Act, or...
Part three in a series: “Special Legislative Session: The Big Picture.†At a time when children and families need job training, affordable housing and other economic supports the most, Washington state’s investment in economic...
