“Negative political ads work. A majority of Americans form political opinions from ads in their entertainment programming. 51% of the adult population of the United States is barely functionally literate. 94% have varying degrees of difficulty “synthesizing” complicated concepts.” Click here to read the article.

We’ve heard it all before, over and over and over again: “Obama’s a Kenyan/Moslem/Socialist who’s bent on taking away our liberty/guns/free market by encouraging illegal immigration/building secret FEMA detention camps/wielding unconstitutional executive powers!” Those Americans who actually take the time to become informed instead of inhaling viral conservative emails, absorbing Fox News propaganda, and plugging…

Microsoft Tax Dodge has published its Dummies Guide to Microsoft’s Nevada Tax Dodge, a great, informative article. Here’s how it starts: In 1997, Microsoft et al. lobbied to reduce Washington State’s Royalty Tax from 1.5% to .5%, a threefold reduction. This wasn’t low enough. The company decided to open a small Reno, Nevada office to…

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 28, 2012 Contacts:, James Squire, MD, PNHPWW President, 206-465-6340; David McLanahan, MD, PNHPWW Coordinator, 206-963-6534 COURT UPHOLDS “OBAMACARE,” BUT THOUSANDS OF UNINSURED WA RESIDENTS WILL STILL GO BANKRUPT, SUFFER AND DIE In the wake of the Supreme Court decision, Obama and Congress must act now to implement ‘an improved Medicare for all,’ physician…

Real Change News and Rev. Richard Lang  report: Jesuit priest, poet and activist Daniel Berrigan once said, “If you want to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.” With a multitude of arrests and prison confinements for his radical stand against war, Berrigan was a role model for words. Cindy Sheehan, who once worked as…

The campaign to get the Thurston County Public Power Initiative on the ballot is rumored to have collected more than 11K signatures!   It should be assumed that there are hundreds of invalid, duplicate signatures, so the campaign continues.  We need to round up a couple thousand more signatures to make sure that the public power…