Washington Liberals Blog
It’s Time for Religion to Get Out of the Healthcare Business
When you have to make hard medical decisions, who do you want in the room? Religious belief is on the decline in the U.S., and medical knowledge is on the increase. This makes it...
Cathy McMorris Rodgers lied about her upbringing
Cathy McMorris Rodgers sure gave a feel-good speech in response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address. But it turns out she lied about her upbringing. As HuffPost is reporting in Mrs. Rodgers...
Video of Progressive Talk Radio speech of Norman Goldman
Here is a video of the Norman Goldman speech in Seattle. Party On for Progressive Radio with Norman Goldman was the first major event sponsored by Progressive Radio Northwest (PRNW). The evening was a...
Tennessee Republicans are Anti-Business and Anti-Union
The VW worker unionization vote was the dirtiest union election of the 21st Century and all the dirty tactics were coming from outside anti-union political forces. Without the intimidation and lies of elected Tennessee...
Is Thomas Frank's pessimism about the Democrats premature?
In the Salon article The matter with Kansas now: The Tea Party, the 1 percent and delusional Democrats,  Thomas Frank writes: It wasn’t until several years later that I began to understand what a fascinating,...
Video: How Oil Trains Put the Northwest At Risk
This post is 17 in the series: The Northwest’s Pipeline on Rails Why should the Northwest worry about the oil-by-rail projects that are cropping up around the Northwest? In three-and-a-half minutes, here’s your answer:...
Derk Kilmer's town hall meetings: ask him about TPP
Sixth CD Representative Derek Kilmer is holding two town halls over the next week. (See dates and locations below.) Â If you live in his area, please attend and ask him to oppose TPP,...
Bias in headlines about Bill and Hillary Clinton
I often visit news.google.com to see top stories, and I often notice the bias in headlines. Today, there are grossly conflicting headlines about Mitt Romney’s interview with NBC’s David Gregory. The Daily Caller’s headline...
Freedom Foundation tactics
The Freedom Foundation is bad news. It’s a libertarian think tank based in Olympia whose mission is “to advance individual liberty, free enterprise, and limited, accountable government.” Recently, they’ve been mounting a sustained attack...