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2012 East King County Candidate Forums
I promised you I would give you a schedule of this fall’s campaign forums when they were all arranged in case any of you have the time to attend any of them. There are six forums this year. Two are in Issaquah, two in Maple Valley, one on Snoqualmie Ridge and one in Bellevue. Most…
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Barack Obama's grand, ravaging bargain
“In exchange for ravaging the most popular and successful programs Democrats have ever produced, and for a vital chunk of nearly every American’s retirement savings, Barack Obama’s grand bargain would have meant accepting an entire economic philosophy diametrically opposed to the one he had run on. For the most basic principles of public life to…
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Notes on the Washington Investment Trust Forum
Co-authored with John Repp, both members of Washington Public Bank Project For those of you unable to attend the forum last Thursday, Sept 27, 2012 sponsored by PSARA -“Would a State Investment Trust (AKA a public bank) Benefit the People of Washington”? We submit here our notes and comments. The forum was very well attended. Interest…
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Greg Palast – How Billionaires Steal Elections
In this video, Greg Palast talks about his book Billionaires and Ballot Bandits, where he teams with fiery editorial cartoonist Ted Rall to name and shame the billionaires buying up our democracy, and the disenfranchisement of millions through voter-ID laws, list purges, and other assaults to our civil rights. http://seattlecommunitymedia.org/series/pirate-television-web-version/episode/greg-palast-how-billionaires-steal-elections-web
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Does the data have a liberal bias? Tax cuts don’t lead to economic growth
A new report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) – Congress’s nonpartisan research arm – touched a nerve among free-market ideologues, who reacted to the wonky policy brief by accusing CRS of partisanship and calling their analysis into question. But politicians from both parties, as well as these same ideologues, often cite CRS data and…
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On the myth that both sides are equally at fault
From FAIR‘s Ted Koppel’s Terrible Media Criticism: Â KOPPEL: The bifurcation is really extreme. I mean, the left is further left and the right is further right. MAHER: The left is not further left. The left is further right. See, this is the problem that the media makes. The left is not further left. The Republicans…
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Tide for Mormons: The detergent made just for Mormons and their magic underwear
Published on Sep 28, 2012 by EdwardCurrent The detergent made just for Mormons and their magic underwear. With special Purity Crystalsâ„¢
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$1.6 trillion of military spending per year
including $400 billion in interest payments on debt from prior wars. Where do 53% of your Tax dollars go? To fund the most enormous war machine the world has ever known. Our defense budget is larger than the next 26 countries’ combined.
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Ann Romney concerned about her husband's mental well-being
“I think, umm, my biggest concern obviously would just be for the — ummm– his emotional well-being. I have all the confidence in the world in his ability, in his decisiveness, in his leadership skills … So for me it would just be the emotional part of it.”