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...
The State is a Condition
“The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another…” Gustav Landauer Have to pack and...
Area Retirees Take to the Streets: No Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security!
Seattle — To mark the 47th birthday of Medicare and Medicaid, area retirees with the Washington Alliance for Retired Americans, Physicians for a National Health Program, and allies, celebrated in full force in downtown...
Health Care Is Not Just About Insurance
We have to take the profit motive out of providing health care. Insurance companies are corporations required by law to produce maximum return on investment for their shareholders. This leads to excluding people with...
Chicken-Hawks, NRA, drive GOP agenda of fear, anger
Does the Second Amendment guarantee our right to kill? GOP plays on fear disguised as freedom. Image credit: Â http://ladilex123.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/gun-violence.jpg At least a dozen people shot dead in the Colorado slaughter, and the RepubliCorp Party...
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)’...