Washington Liberals Blog

Reichert, Republicans, Declare war on AARP 0

Reichert, Republicans, Declare war on AARP

AARP opposes privatization of Social Security, supports the Affordable Care Act, and its executives give disproportionately to Democrats. Now Dave Reichert and other Congressional Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee are going...

Top Ten Reasons Rob McKenna Should Not Be Governor 2

Top Ten Reasons Rob McKenna Should Not Be Governor

#10) Indifference to racism in our criminal justice system Last year, during a KZOK radio interview regarding Farrakhan v. Gregoire, Attorney General Rob McKenna appeared to dismiss the problem of racial discrimination in our...

Favorite Guitar Player? 3

Favorite Guitar Player?

I love Jerry Garcia, Carlos Santana, Joe Pass, Duane Allman and Dickie Betts as a duo were very fine, but I will choose Pat Metheny.  Pat’s collaboration with Lyle Mays has produced some great...

Can Libya Turn Out Well? 0

Can Libya Turn Out Well?

I think from the start of the intervention, the military attack, the outcome in Libya has depended on removing Qaddafi from power. If he stays, he will crush his Libyan opponents at a future...

Joe Bageant has Gone Deer Hunting with Jesus 0

Joe Bageant has Gone Deer Hunting with Jesus

Joe Bageant died yesterday. He fought a good fight against cancer the past 4 months and kept writing and posting. Here is part of a piece he wrote not too long ago: AMERICA: Y...

We Are One, Put People first: Week of Action, April 5-8 1

We Are One, Put People first: Week of Action, April 5-8

Washington Community Action Network is holding a Week of Action to demand that our legislators and the governor do the right thing.  Close corporate tax giveaways and stop balancing the budget on the backs...