A few moments ago, NPI’s news crawler alerted me that the Associated Press has just dumped another half-baked — no, make that quarter-baked — “story” out on the wire, glorifying an announcement Tim Eyman supposedly made about attempting to qualify an initiative for the ballot this year. I say supposedly because I haven’t seen any other […]
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Tim Eyman gloms onto another anti-red light camera measure — this time in Redmond
I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve been asked (usually in conversation) what motivated me to create Permanent Defense more than nine years ago. Regular readers are undoubtedly familiar with the story of PD’s founding, because I’ve told it or referred to it many times over the years. The catalyst, of course, was Tim […]
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Republicans continue assault on emergency preparedness, even after Tohoku megaquake
Readers may recall our ire was raised during the Republican response to President Obama’s 2009 State of the Union Address, when Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal dismissed funding for volcano monitoring as a triviality. As residents of the Pacific Northwest, we are all too aware of the presence of volcanoes in our region and the destruction […]
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Aftermath of Tohoku megaquake demonstrates the folly of nuclear power
Two days have elapsed since Japan was pummeled by one of the largest earthquakes humanity has ever documented. In that time, we’ve begun to see the tragic and painful extent of the disaster. The earthquake (which registered 8.9 on the moment magnitude scale) and the ensuing tsunami it spawned have laid waste to several previously […]