Washington Liberals

On Friday, March 2, 2012, Washington State Democratic Senators Rodney Tom, Tim Sheldon, and Jim Kastama voted with 22 Senate Republicans to approve a regressive budget that favors the 1%. See Outrage as Road...

This bill would guarantee due process. Seattle University Law professor, Lorraine Bannai, a Japanese American, spoke about her family’s ordeal during internment. Stephen Bradburg, former BushCo official who helped install US torture policy, testified...

“King County Executive Dow Constantine today expressed grave concern over the Republican-led budget proposal adopted in the early hours of this morning in the state Senate:“  See: Constantine condemns State Senate meltdown

Goldy reports on The Stranger’s Slog: Republicans Just Seized Control of the Washington State Senate.   Road Kill Democrats Jim Kastama, Tim Sheldon and Rodney Tom team up with Republicans to try and push through...

Republicans believe and promote some pretty crazy and destructive ideas.  How many of them actually believe their own rhetoric? Not sure Most believe it. About half believe it. Few believe it.

Yep, it’s snowing again in Western Washington. Very pretty, just an inch or so here in Chehalis. I expect it will be gone soon, but as daylight appeared, the neighborhood was especially appealing to...

My email buddy Austin Kelly gathers and distributes some really amazing stuff. Here’s something that I got from him today under Gender and Liberation: Critique of Liberal Anti-Racism: A Way Forward or Regression on...

‘Reform” is usually considered a good thing — but some education advocates talk as if a handful of charter schools and firing teachers based on their students’ test scores are the magic bullets that...

See Why Democrats Have a Problem with Young Voters from Rolling Stone.

See Main Street vs. Wall Street: Ground Zero in Ohio: March 6, 2012 , Marcy Kaptur, Dick Cheney and the Death of Social Security Can Ohio Residents Afford Marcy Kaptur?. Marcy Kaptur, Have You...