The Jan 12, 2012 edition of Fortune has this to say about Mitt Romney: The last thing Romney is concerned about is income inequality. “I want to make everybody richer,” he says. “I don’t want to make the few rich poorer and make everyone else poorer at the same time.” It’s an argument that Republicans…
“CNN contributor and Big Journalism editor Dana Loesch cheered on an Internet video reportedly showing U.S. Marines urinating on what appear to be dead Afghans, saying she would ‘drop trou and do it too.’” Loesch is also editor in chief for one of Andrew Breitbart’s discredited websites. Source.
The following resolution has been submitted for approval to the King County Democrats. Whereas the platforms of the King County Democrats and the Washington State Democrats specifically oppose publicly funded charter schools and vouchers; and Whereas the voters of Washington State have defeated charter measures three times; and Whereas peer-reviewed research shows that 83% of…
David Horsey, who moved from the Seattle P-I to the LA Times at the beginning of this year, is getting high profile notice. His cartoon and article about Limbaugh freaks as Romney lays claim to Obama’s bailout was shown at the very top of the list of articles at http://news.google.com. Horsey is intelligent and progressive.  …
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We need transcendent, transformative politics in this country and the world, but the mainstream paradigm remains a struggle between established power bases – one, a social democrat model as epitomized in Scandinavian models and the other, a Thatcher/Reagan model of social darwinism wearing a mantle of trickle down, supply-side economics. There is no question that…
New Hampshire: 1. Removed safeguards for its same-day registration system. 2. Ignores the law on ballot-stuffing safeguards 3. Breaks the chain of custody 4. Conceals vote-counting from the public, in violation of Article 32 of its own Constitution 5. Removed candidate recount rights (2009) 6. Made it illegal for public citizens or members of the…
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Please attend a community meeting to STOP Social Security Field Office closures. When: Friday, January 13 1:30-3:p.m. Where: International District/Â Chinatown Community Center, 719 8th Avenue S. Seattle The Social Security Administration (SSA) , plans to close nighborhood offices in the International District and Belltown-replacing them with an office in the high-security Jackson Federal…
Washington State has one of the most regressive tax systems in the nation. Due to the lack of an income tax, due to tax exemptions for large corporations, due to the reliance on the sales tax, and due to decades of tax cuts for the well-to-do, the wealthiest 1% of Washingtonians pay an average of…