Washington Liberals Blog
Closing tax loopholes could do a lot of good
Our state’s public structures and services are the oil of our economic engine. From roads to bridges, preschool to college, veterans’ benefits to senior services and protections for our air and drinking water, we’re...
Apparent anti-semitic headline on TheMarketBusiness, recommended by google
On April 25, the news aggregation site news.google.com included among its top headlines a link and summary to an article from TheMarketBusiness.com with the following headline. To Meet Jew Donors, Ted Cruz heads to...
Can conservatives manage what baboons can do?
Robert Sapolsky — MacArthur fellow and professor of biology, neuroscience, and neurosurgery at Stanford University — pursued decades long research into baboon societies. He found that most baboon troops were dominated by aggressive alpha...
How extreme is the GOP?
The Koch brothers are major donators to the GOP.  As Bernie Sanders reports here: Here are just a few excerpts of the Libertarian Party platform that David Koch ran on in 1980: “We urge...
[Breaking] Kayaktivists Confront Shell's Arctic Destroyer
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kayaktivists Take Action, Now It’s Your Turn! Register for the 100% Corrected Kayak Training Dates & Times ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today, Kayaktivists from the sHellNo! Action Council confronted Shell’s Arctic Destroyer in the Port Angeles....
Drawbacks of the Ross Hunter – Randy Dorn Extend and Pretend School Funding Plan
This is a report on the Education Funding Press Conference held by the Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn from 10 am to 11 am on Tuesday April 14 2015. In short,...
Voting Rights Act would level election field
One hundred and fifty years ago today, Robert E. Lee surrendered his troops to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, bringing to an end the Civil War. What had begun as a sectional war by which the...
Why We Need To Restore Tax Fairness to Restore School Funding
Recently, both the House and Senate have proposed “band-aid†budgets that ignore a direct order from the Washington Supreme Court to fully fund public schools. Both budgets also ignore the will of the voters...