Washington Liberals

Rocky Anderson’s message on Medicare for all now from VoteRocky.org

State House Budget Chair Ross Hunter (D, 48th LD) sent out an email today to constituents and supporters. I’m writing to ask for your support to help continue our work: to reform and adequately fund Washington State’s education system, finish the 520 bridge, re-work the state budget so that it is more resilient to economic…

I had never heard of the LIBOR rate before today.  Mattt Taibbi calls this the scandal of scandals.  Basically, sixteen banks get together every morning to decide the LIBOR rate, that is, the rate at which they loan to each other. Every interest rate is determined by LIBOR.  The banks are lying about the rate…

Andrew Boyd of TheOther98%  is calling for the impeachment of Clarence Thomas. Enough. Is. Enough. It’s time to impeach Clarence Thomas. (Change.org petition) We have a right to expect our Supreme Court to be impartial, fair, non-partisan and uncorrupted by money and access – but Associate Justice Clarence Thomas has so flagrantly betrayed these expectations,…

Don’t be confused, and don’t let anyone tell you that you shouldn’t talk about this. TO BE CLEAR: THE PUBLIC HAS BOTH THE RIGHT TO INSPECT BALLOTS AND THE RIGHT TO A SECRET BALLOT We have a right to BOTH. Some election officials have been conflating these two issues, claiming that if we examine ballots…

Happy Birthday America! “[T]hese truths are self-evident…all men are created equal…they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…among these…Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…Governments derive their powers from the consent of the governed…” That’s our democracy, challenging the English monarchy with a new concept of equality for all. John Burbank, Executive Director…

I have noticed that the foolish and/or dishonest folks who remain interested or reimbursed to disseminate misleading information about anthropogenic global warming are repeating the story about the fall in US CO2 emissions. That misleading presentation is being framed as evidence that the burning of fossil fuels and emission of C02 is not a real…

In a brilliant article, Steven Jonas, Professor of Preventive Medicine at the School of Medicine, Stony Brook University (NY) Is Homophobia Curable?.  Don’t misread that. He’s asking is homoPHOBIA curable. This suggests another question: is conservatism curable?  For conservativism is clearly a moral disease of character, leading people to think it’s OK to: enrich the…

OpEdNews is reporting in Bain Bombshell Bottom Line: ROMNEY LIED that Mitt Romney and Bain Capital falsely claimed that he had broken ties with the company. But Mother Jones reports: documents filed by Bain and Stericycle with the Securities and Exchange Commission–and obtained by Mother Jones–list Romney as an active participant in the investment. And…