Washington Liberals

Source unknown Ayn Rand (conservative hero): “I am against God. I don’t approve of religion. It is a sign of a psychological weakness …. I regard it as evil.” Jesus Christ: “It is easier...

They have no qualms about doing nasty things such as polluting air and water and not paying their fair share in taxes. They’re called corporations, conservatives, and Koch brothers. And if, as right-to-lifers claim,...

See this concise exposé of private-equity funds in the New Yorker:  Private Inequity. As a result, private-equity firms are increasingly able to profit even if the companies they run go under—an outcome made much...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ American Spring: Strategies for Growing from Occupation to Liberation Kazu Haga and Bill Moyer lead interactive strategy presentations and dialog THIS Saturday, February 4, Noon-4pm in Seattle Sunday – Kingian Nonviolence Intro Training...

Good day yesterday in Cascadia as the Washington State leglislature moved gay marriage forward through Senate vote. The gov put her weight behind this legislation, apparently trying to establish some kind of legacy public...

We’ve had a lot of talk about the privilege of the top 1 percent, and how they are grabbing more and more of our national income. Once, productivity increases were proportionally shared between corporations...

    Why was North Dakota the only US State not affected by the banking crisis? (It’s not the oil.) Because it was the ONLY State with its own Public Bank! The State Bank...

The January 30th New Yorker has an article by  Ryan Lizza on the “Obama Memos.”  It tells that depressing story of how President Obama really believed that he could unite the country and rise...

On January 25 and January 26, 2012 there were hearings in Olympia on SB 6310 and on HB 2434, the bills to establish the Washington Investment Trust (WIT), a publicly owned state bank. This...