Medicare for none?
Many activists on the Left want Medicare for all. But the way things are going, it seems we’re more likely to get Medicare for none.  Many conservatives believe that last year’s health care reform...
Washington Liberals Blog
Ask the Right Question – on jobs and the tax code
The Young Turks have an entertaining video up from a town hall meeting with Representative Hultgren. It’s short and tells the story. The woman asks the right question about the Bush tax cuts, prosperity...
Poor Uncle Sam! They drowned him in the bathtub.
They drowned Uncle Sam in the bathtub Here’s how they did it: Twelve-step GOP program.
New Report Series on key public safeguards: "Who can vote?" – "Who did vote?"
I’ve been absent from the public eye for nearly four months, involved one of the most comprehensive examinations of voting information since 2005. I analyzed a sequential set of 80 voter history lists, 1,000...
Quickie: Fanning the flames of racial hatred for profit
$42 Million From Seven Foundations Helped Fuel the Rise of Islamophobia in America This is not to say there aren’t legitimate problems with Islam or with immigration, but some people have an ideological or...
The Injustice of Justice Thomas
How Joe Biden aided Clarence Thomas The New Yorker has an article on Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni. The article describes how the Court has moved to adopt many of his hard...
News from the Stealth War Front
Wednesday Media was asked if it could cover a meeting of Act For America (http://actforamerica.org/) in Chehalis on August 27th. [Editor’s note: ACT! for America is an organization devoted to speaking “the truth about...
Sen. Cantwell sponsors extension of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit
At a forum on low income housing and homelessness prevention Friday, August 26, Sen. Maria Cantwell discussed the bill that she is co-sponsoring with Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe to extend and strengthen the affordable...
Quickie: Reichert wimps out
On Friday evening Republican Congressman Dave Reichert was supposed to attend a fundraiser in Bellevue, but he canceled — probably because of the protests that MoveOn had planned for the event.