Guide to Earth Day 2009 events Looking for something to do on Earth Day? You’ll find a long list of events at the Washington Department
LaunchWe need your service right now, at this moment in history. I’m not going to tell you what your role should be; that’s for you
LaunchBut you were always wrong… — Jon Stewart to Dick Cheney on the April 21st edition of The Daily Show, asking why anyone should bother
LaunchWe lost the special election in New York. It’s gone. — Former National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Davis, conceding defeat in the special election
LaunchGood vs. bad lobbyists
Good vs. bad lobbyists Slate writer Jacob Weisberg writes about the problems with President Obama’s lobbyist edict, mainly that it doesn’t differentiate the high-rolling corporate
LaunchEven one-time naysayers now back national parks
Even one-time naysayers now back national parks The Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Joel Connelly files a must-read column about a new series by renowned filmmaker Ken Burns,
LaunchI’m surprised Americans aren’t more panicked. Americans seem to accept a level of insecurity in their lives that Europeans wouldn’t tolerate. — Nobel Prize winning
LaunchWhy there shouldn’t be a White House Press Corps
Why there shouldn’t be a White House Press Corps Air America correspondent Ana Marie Cox writes in an Op-Ed to the Washington Post about the
LaunchRepublican presidents cause financial crisis’
Republican presidents cause financial crisis’ for the last 100 years at least. Multiple terms of Republican presidents in a row have ended in financial panics
LaunchWhich house is more efficient?
The Tacoma News Tribune’s Joe Turner reports that the Washington State Senate so far has passed two hundred and eighty nine of the House’s bills.
Launch[T]he grand total of all of the tea party demonstrators… [was less than the number] …at that immigration rally in 2006 in the city of
LaunchHouse puts ‘poison pill’ in plan to rewrite I-937’s energy standards
House puts ‘poison pill’ in plan to rewrite I-937’s energy standards Via Pacific NW Portal, The Olympian’s Brad Shannon reports that some House Democrats teamed
LaunchIt cannot be argued that marriage between people of the same sex is un-American or threatens the rights of others… On the contrary, it seems
LaunchTime Warner Cable backs off
Negative publicity has apparently convinced telco giant Time Warner Cable to back off its plans to start introducing bandwidth caps and meters for customers in
LaunchWashington State set to join National Popular Vote Compact
Yesterday, Washington took a big step closer to becoming the latest state to join the National Popular Vote Compact with the State House’s passage of
LaunchWhat a game…
Last night’s Mariners game was one for the ages, and a great escape from all of the right wing’s teabagging madness. Endy Chavez and Ken
LaunchAnother snapshot from the Bellevue “tea party”, this one showing a sign sneering, “Stop Terrorists – Vote Them Out”. There’s right wing American spirit for
LaunchAnother snapshot from the local right wing’s “tea party”, this one showing the most ironic scene from the event – right wingers protesting socialism on
LaunchA snapshot from the local right wing’s “tea party” at Bellevue City Hall earlier today. Yes, why not go back to the tax rates under
LaunchYou know what…being a little bit Socialist is like being a little bit pregnant … Pretty soon you give birth to a full blown Marxist.
LaunchRight-wing complains about report focusing on right-wing terrorism
Right-wing complains about report focusing on right-wing terrorism Over at Salon.com Glen Greenwald deals with the recent cries of protest stemming from a report released
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