The Stranger Blog
- The Anti-Candy Man[Mar 15, 10:15 PT] See's Candy is encouraging its customers to call State Rep. Jamie Pedersen (D-43) and ask him why he hates our traditions, our occasional candy treats, our Easter, our Jesus, our children, etc. Pedersen responds: I'm a co-sponsor of the original ...read more PubliCola
- $67 Million Loophole[Mar 15, 08:35 PT] [Image] 1. Protesters will be gathering outside the Chase Bank at 2nd and Union in downtown Seattle today at 11 to protest the $67 million state tax loophole that big banks get on mortgage loans. As the legislature begins its special session today ...read more Strange Bedfellows
- Poll: Income tax in Washington good idea[Mar 10, 16:29 PT] A bill introduced in the state Legislature would introduce an income tax on high earners and lower the sales tax by a penny a dollar. It's highly unlikely anything will happen with this bill this session, but a recent poll found people in Washington ...read more Politics Northwest
- Gregoire to Idaho: Bring it on![Mar 9, 15:01 PT] OLYMPIA -- Gov. Chris Gregoire responded Tuesday morning to Idaho Gov. Butch Otter's "love letter" to Washington businesses, in which he suggested Idaho could lure away firms turned off by tax increases here. "I'm not an expert on Idaho," Gregoire ...read more Politics Northwest
- Watch Thursday's income tax hearing[Mar 5, 10:46 PT] OLYMPIA -- As Andrew Garber reported in this morning's paper, Senate Democrats had a hearing Thursday on a bill that would impose an income tax on the wealthy while cutting the sales tax. You can check out TVW's video of the fairly entertaining Ways ...read more
Chad Lupkes' Soapbox
- I'm from Seattle[Mar 15, 08:47 PT] Went to a concert last night with two of my favorite artists, John Gorka and Patty Larkin. Here's a filk: Inspired by John Gorka's "I'm from New Jersey" on his album "Jack's Crows" I'm from Seattle I probably expect too much If the world ended today ...read more Seattle Transit Blog
- A New Business Opportunity for You*[Mar 13, 17:31 PT] [Image] Community Transit is auctioning off some old DART and paratransit vans on March 20th: The auction will include 13 El Dorado 14-passenger mini-buses, as well as three 15-passenger vans and one eight-passenger van. The El Dorados are equipped ...read more Seattle Transit Blog
- Ferry News Roundup[Mar 12, 14:30 PT] Bremerton ferrywas once again down to one boatdue to the M/V Kitsap having a crackedhull, discovered during a maintenance inspection. The route is back on a two-boat schedule with the90-car M/V Sealthon the Bremerton run and the 34-car M/V Hiyu on ...read more Seattle Transit Blog
- Scans from the Central Link EIS[Mar 12, 06:00 PT] [Image] Elevated Alaska St (Columbia City) Station on MLK I wasn’t around for the public process of Central Link and I was curious to what was being considered before the preferred alignment was selected. I found a book of drawings from the ...read more Seattlest
- The Zoo's Night Exhibit Orphans Need Your Help![Mar 9, 12:15 PT] The Woodland Park Zoo forever closed their popular Night Exhibit on March 1, 2010, part of a series of cost-savings measures to reduce annual zoo expenses by $800,000 to $1 million. While some of the nocturnal animals were shuffled to other ...read more Seattlest
 The Sound Up[Mar 12, 17:30 PT] [Image] "Sign of the Times" by JB Scott , from our Flickr pool So what happened this week? Well, it was beautiful, and then it wasn't. It freakishly snowed and we collectively shook our fists at the sky. King County Executive Dow Constantine ...read more Politics Northwest
Feel free to feed the deer[Mar 9, 16:01 PT] OLYMPIA -- Want to share your lunch with Bambi? Nobody will stop you, though some members of the state Legislature had wanted to try. House Bill 1885 would have put in place a law that told people not to feed "potentially habituated wildlife," ...read more NPI Advocate
- Eric Liu ends challenge to Adam Kline[Mar 9, 10:53 PT] Looks like State Senator Adam Kline won't have to worry about facing a serious challenge from a fellow Democrat this year: Author and activist Eric Liu, who declared his intention to run against Kline in the 37th District (and was to be to Kline's ...read more The Daily Score
- WA Approves First Copper Brake Pad Ban[Mar 9, 09:37 PT] [Image] Washington is now the first US state to restrict the amount of copper in brake pads used in cars and trucks. On Monday the state Senate approved the final version of the legislation (SB 6557, with analysis here), which now goes to Gov. Chris ...read more Politics Northwest
- Life as a Republican in Olympia[Mar 8, 14:02 PT] Ask Washington Senate Minority Leader Mike Hewitt what it's like to be a Republican in Olympia and his answer is simple: "It's not very much fun." [Brightcove Video] Hewitt leads a caucus of 18 senators, a slim number compared to the 31 Democrats. ...read more OlyBlog
- Wall Street Casino Running Amok[Mar 14, 14:22 PT] Start: Mar 17 2010 - 6:30pm End: Mar 17 2010 - 9:30pm Banks in failure, foreclosed mortgages, people out of work. How would a de-regulated Wall Street translate into these effects? Learn and teach others at a community discussion on the current ...read more PubliCola
- Education Reform Bill Goes to Governor[Mar 12, 17:20 PT] We’ve been pretty focused on the education reform bill this session, so we should certainly mention that it passed both the House and Senate last night and is now on its way to the governor’s desk. There was a lot of noise about the ...read more RoguePundit
- Recruiting More Non-Residents[Mar 11, 00:51 PT] So often, we hear our university leaders here in Oregon worrying about finances. It's understandable though that they'd want to sound more positive when selling the merits of our institutions elsewhere. The following is from a somewhat schmoozy ...read more 5/17
- No Curriculum Left Behind[Mar 10, 20:31 PT] The last time I blogged about the nationalization of American education: a year ago, almost exactly. A year ago, it was ratch eting-up-rhetoric. But words have a way of translating into action: Maryland and several other states are pushing rapidly ...read more NPI Advocate
- Low-performing schools face tough love[Mar 8, 12:09 PT] What's not to love about President Obama's focus on turning around our nation's lowest performing schools? Most Americans would agree that a good education makes us better workers and citizens. Our future labor force and voting public need strong ...read more The Rambling Taoist
- Pushed Around[Mar 5, 11:18 PT] There is a story coming out of Eastern Washington that a recently arrested 17 year old high school student had been plotting a Columbine-like massacre at Chelan High School. As is too often the case in plots and actions of this sort, the youth ...read more The MountainGoat Report
- Ravings of a Lunatic[Mar 10, 08:13 PT] Apparently, in the nether regions of Glennbeckistan there's a commie or Nazi hiding under every bushel and churches who do good works, you know helping the poor, the afflicted, the downtrodden, well, they're probably using, gasp, "code words" to ...read more Ft. Boise
- Glenn Beck is coming after ME now[Dateline Unknown] [Image] Will this man stop at NOTHING?! This CNNBC news report has the details from the broadcast of Le Bebe-Homme Pleurant. (Sorry about the volume too loud and the lame controls on the Flash... this is the best I could do. Thank me for not ...read more |
Boise Guardian
- BOI Airport Admits Parking Not Needed[Mar 14, 15:36 PT] Nice little Q&A by Tim Woodward in the DAILY PAPER Sunday. Seems the Boise Airport didn’t really need the $29 million five story parking garage stopped by the GUARDIAN editor five years ago. In fact, there isn’t even demand for a ...read more 43rd State Blues
Cause to be Alarmed[Mar 13, 17:39 PT] I just talking to our Idaho legislators as they toured the state as part of the "Legislative listening tour" and is alarmed. No, downright scared for Idaho's future.I am not sure people have yet gathered the implications of the Idaho budget. On ...read more RoguePundit
- The Potential New Antiquities[Mar 13, 00:40 PT] Last month, we heard about leaked internal documents from the Department of Interior that outlined a number of prospective national monuments in western states. The kicker was that most of these areas could be designated by President Obama under the ...read more morialekafa
- Taxes[Mar 12, 22:34 PT] Woman in reverse runs over husband; unaware, she goes forward, runs over him again. It is that awful time of year again when taxes become due. Income taxes, that is, other taxes go on all the time. Gas taxes, taxes on clothes, taxes on booze, ...read more The Political Game
- Boe Not Seeking Re-election[Mar 11, 08:45 PT] [Image] On the heels of Ruchti's announcement that he would not be seeking re-election, Rep. Donna Boe has announced she will not be running again for the District 29 seat she has held for fourteen years. In a statement released to the local press, ...read more The MountainGoat Report
- Do They Endorse Violence?[Mar 5, 11:40 PT] Who could vote against condemning a terrorist attack on U.S. soil? Two U.S. Congressmen did. One is coming to Idaho in three weeks. Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on a resolution condemning the terror attack by suicide plane on ...read more Boise Guardian
- Mayor Hotline February 20 ' 26[Mar 5, 07:41 PT] DOGFIGHT WITH F-35, TRASH TALK, PHOTO OP AT REDLIGHTS, SNEAKY SMOKERS Dan Buerstetta 5473 S. Broad Wing Way Boise, ID 83716 336-4464 F-35: I attended the meeting that the government put on regarding the F-35, I've read articles,and I'm very much ...read more
Boise Guardian
- Bruneau Dunes Could Be Abuzz with ATVs[Mar 9, 08:15 PT] During the Vietnam War an Army officer explained a village had to be burned 'in order to save it.' [Image] Idaho Parks Director Nancy Merrill finds herself in that same situation today as she considers allowing dune buggies to chew up the tallest ...read more RoguePundit
- Selfishly Avoiding Protests[Mar 9, 00:10 PT] I'd begun to think that most major media outlets had given up covering protests. Ahhh, but campus protests bring fond flashbacks to many who are now part of the establishment. However, the following is from a somewhat more acerbic take on the ...read more Preemptive Karma
- Intel Forgot To Leave Oregon Too[Mar 7, 09:24 PT] Via Kevin in the comments of the last missive, it's clear that Intel doesn't understand they're supposed to cry and leave Oregon either: The potential $25 billion Intel will spend upgrading its Hillsboro and Aloha facilities will be spread over the ...read more Seattle Examiner
- State senate leader talks taxes - again[Mar 4, 17:19 PT] [Image] Senate Majority Leader, Lisa Brown (D-Spokane) Photo: Leg.Wa.Gov Well it would appear that State Senate Majority Leader, Lisa Brown is at it again. In a blog post publish today, the Spokane Democrat, with less than two weeks remaining in the ...read more |
The Oregon Economics Blog
- Study Economics to Be Happy![Mar 15, 10:15 PT] As if higher employment rates, higher salaries and the admiration of your peers isn't enough (okay, perhaps not admiration of your peers) researchers in Germany have found that studying economics (at least in Germany) makes you happy (HT: Economix). ...read more BlueOregon
- KPOJ's Carl Wolfson Rocks the House[Mar 14, 11:01 PT] Well over 100 supporters of Lynn Howe, candidate for State Representative HD 6 poured through the doors to enjoy an evening of political comedy with none other than the very funny Carl Wolfson. Carl has bee n performing stand up comedy around ...read more Jack Bog's Blog
- The plan-o-cratic mind[Mar 13, 17:19 PT] Commuting home last evening at rush hour, we were amazed at how little traffic there was on the freeway. At least the anemia affecting the economy is good for something, we thought. Then we opened an e-mail message from a reader, which linked us to ...read more PubliCola
- Big Pink Thing[Mar 13, 12:35 PT] [Image] [Image] Of all the residential buildings that went up in Seattle during the last development cycle, the Mirabella senior housing project at Denny and Fairview (pictured above) easily takes the award for most bulky, stocky massing. The ...read more Boise Guardian
- Liquid Lunch Creates Ada Job Openings[Mar 12, 13:06 PT] Ada County has a couple of openings in the Development Services Division, thanks to the "at will" employment policy. Word on the street is a building inspector and Planning and Zoning administrator were AWOL from the office at mid afternoon ...read more RoguePundit
- Third Time's a Charm[Mar 12, 00:29 PT] Late last week, both the Oregon AFL-CIO and Teamsters endorsed former Governor Kitzhaber in his campaign to regain the job. Sounds like they're trying to make a weakness into a strength. Starting here... "John Kitzhaber understands the pressures ...read more The Daily Score
- The Maine Lesson of Cap and Trade[Mar 11, 13:43 PT] [Image] Last week, I referenced an official from Maine saying: "The investments we are seeing in renewable energy, in energy infrastructure, appear to be the largest wave of capital investment in the state's history." Which is obviously great news ...read more BlueOregon
- OLCV endorses Cogen, Collymore[Mar 11, 09:52 PT] [Image] [Image] After Tuesday's flurry of office filings in Multnomah County (and the looming voter's pamphlet deadline), the Oregon League of Conservation Voters held early endorsement interviews for the May Primary. This morning, OLCV announced ...read more Hominid Views
- The Republican War on the Unemployed[Mar 10, 23:34 PT] Given their reckless stewardship of the economy for the eight years leading up to America’s second most catastrophic economic downturn, you’d think Republicans would have some remorse. Some empathy. Some guilty sense of shame. Nope! ...read more Progressive Alaska
- The Drummond Resolution - AR No. 2010-91[Mar 9, 17:18 PT] Submitted by: ASSEMBLY MEMBER Drummond For reading: March 23, 2010 ANCHORAGE, ALASKA AR NO. 2010'91 A RESOLUTION OF THE ANCHORAGE MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY TO AUTHORIZE ENGAGING THE SERVICES OF INDEPENDENT LEGAL COUNSEL TO REVIEW AND REPORT TO THE ASSEMBLY ...read more Boise Guardian
- All Public Records Should Remain PUBLIC[Mar 7, 11:35 PT] Freedom of Information in Idaho is being attacked by some of the people who have taken an oath to uphold the constitution and the laws of Id aho–coppers. The police bill approved last week by the senate state affairs committee would allow ...read more The Daily Score
- Juice Hawgs[Mar 5, 12:46 PT] [Image] Mmmm. An electric bike. Zipping through the city. Surging up hills without gasping for breath. Riding in business dress and arriving fresh and dry. Healthy, moderate exercise. No traffic jams. Free parking. Huge load-hauling potential. ...read more
The Stranger Blog
- What He Said[Mar 15, 09:14 PT] Neil Steinberg on Constance McMillen: This is actually progress, in that five years ago the school would have simply barred McMillen. But with legal rulings emphasizing that discrimination against blameless individuals is bad, even if you're ...read more RoguePundit
- Random Nature #254[Mar 15, 03:23 PT] Not Very Prudish: From an article published last month... ...child pornography legislation introduced in 1999 [in Japan] applies only to photographic or live-action video content of real children, and not to manga, anime and video games. Russia and ...read more Chuck for ...
- NRO, Some Places You Don't Go[Mar 12, 18:19 PT] If you purport to be a Democrat there are some places you don't go to in an effort to make your case. Rush Limbaugh might be one such place, another very sure to make the list outfit is National Review. NRO isn't a kind of middle right sort of ...read more Faith NOT Freedom News
- Only Anti-Gay Gays Are Acceptable[Mar 12, 16:49 PT] Well, usually the forces that stand against families and the Bibles accuse those of us with more wholesome values of being bigots. Just because we want to deny the equality and rights (excuse me. . . SPECIAL RIGHTS!) of others. It is a foolish ...read more morialekafa
- Outwitted?[Mar 11, 22:31 PT] Korean man marries his huggable pillow in special wedding ceremony. Now there is an international 'to-do' about the slap in the face Biden experienced in Israel. Headlines are proclaiming that Netanyahu outwitted President Obama again, that the ...read more Hominid Views
- Another Gay Conservative Republican?!?[Mar 8, 23:47 PT] It goes without saying that it is okay that this gentleman is gay. In fact, we should celebrate that he no longer has to live pretending to be somebody he isn’t. What is wrong is the sheer hypocrisy: In 2005, Ashburn, like all but one other ...read more Boise Guardian
- Time To Send Legislature Home[Mar 4, 15:59 PT] Silly season has arrived at the Idaho Legislature with the Antichrist Dems voting in lockstep against God of all things. This comes after a resolution to encourage God and English passed the House Thursday on a 50-17 vote, according to a story by ...read more Blog Town, PDX
- Good Morning, News![Mar 15, 09:00 PT] Obama launches overhaul of Bush's pet project "No Child Left Behind" because… well… it doesn't work. Meanwhile, Obama is making his final push for health care in preparation of the big vote this week on Cap Hill. But he better work ...read more Seattlest
- Around the -Ists[Mar 14, 17:45 PT] [Image] Photo by Remi Ca rreiro/Torontoist. Torontoist investigated some onomatopoeias ("OUCH!" "THUNK!" "OOF!" "YIPE!") painted along a road, pointing to potential hazards for cyclists. Gothamist had its fill of salt-related news: There was "salty" ...read more RoguePundit
- Problems with Healthcare Solutions for Seniors[Mar 14, 00:12 PT] Avamere Group is an Oregon company in a demanding business. Before getting to how it's failing to live up to expectations in some of its facilities, here's a short description of the company. Avamere Group, Inc. provides healthcare solutions for ...read more Hominid Views
- Unpacking the Polls[Mar 13, 23:15 PT] Obama’s pollster unpacks polling details that Republicans must find mighty inconvienent: … a significant number of people who oppose current plans do so because they don’t go far enough rather than because they go too far. Not only ...read more Chuck for ...
- Break The System - Vote GOP ?[Mar 12, 16:21 PT] Along with the "qualified" endorsement of the Senate HCR bill came a question - doesn't passing these kinds of band aides and electing so-what Democrats just extend the mess we're in? That wouldn't electing good solid GOP majorities advance the ...read more howieinseattle
- Kucinich: "Last Holdout on the Left"[Mar 12, 15:56 PT] [Image] Benjamin Sarlin (The Daily Beast):As House leaders prepare for a final vote on health-care reform, Rep. Dennis Kucinich looks like the lone liberal 'no' vote. Benjamin Sarlin on Obama's 11th-hour campaign to win him over. ---As House leaders ...read more The Political Game
- You Don't Say[Mar 12, 12:20 PT] "I suspect that I will be as the vote gets closer. But I'm reasonably set in my ways ." -- Congressman Walt Minnick (D-Idaho) speaking to Erika Bolstad of the Idaho Statesman on whether or not he has been spoken to by Democratic leadership regarding ...read more Seattlest
- The Weekend in Charitable Events[Mar 12, 09:35 PT] Seattle Children’s Health Fair:This Saturday from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m., the Seattle Children's Health Fair will teach kids how to stay safe and healthy through a variety of fun activities. The hands-on event hopes to encourage children ...read more morialekafa
- Greed[Mar 10, 22:45 PT] A New Jersey 'Midnight Knitter' Is covering tree branches and lampposts with miniature sweaters. It must be just plain greed. I have no other explanation for much of human behavior, especially the kinds of behavior we are seeing at the moment here ...read more Chuck for ...
- Make Or Break Health Insurance Bill[Mar 10, 18:20 PT] If you think this blog is going to get used to call the Senate's pile of steaming crap something good, you need a box of rocks to improve your IQ. It reeks of stupidity and short-sightedness and corporate greed. If health insurance and more largely ...read more 43rd State Blues
- Idaho's Health Care Idiocy[Mar 10, 13:15 PT] UPDATED BELOW 3/11 Gang, its a target rich environment out there and I just don't have the time to address all the lunacy coming out of the legislature. In order to clear some space on the browser I'll share some links. The senate passed the Idaho ...read more The Daily Score
- I (Don't) Want Candy[Mar 10, 12:51 PT] [Image] Seeing the Easter candy displays pop up in my local grocery two weeks ago'immediately replacing Valentine's Day candy, which immediately replaced Christmas candy, and so on'has got me thinking about the seemingly arbitrary lines we sometimes ...read more Seattlest
- Can't Miss It: Wednesday[Mar 10, 06:00 PT] [Image] "Orson Welles 1937.jpg" by Carl Van Vechten ME AND ORSON WELLES: Early on in the Prodigal Sons, we learn that the director, Kimberly Reed, was once known as Paul, a star quarterback in high school before her sex-change operation. Reed's ...read more HinesSight
- Jim Huffman out of touch with Oregonians[Mar 9, 21:35 PT] I doubt that our senior senator here in Oregon, Ron Wyden, is losing sleep over Jim Huffman's announcement that he's seeking the Republican nomination to challenge Wyden next November. At least, I assume Huffman is running as a Republican. ...read more The Left Shue
- 2009-2011 WA Budget - What would you do?[Mar 8, 13:36 PT] With just over a week to go before the scheduled close of the 2010 legislative session in Olympia, proposals for balancing the 2009-2011 biennial budget are flowing at a frantic pace - as is the rhetoric surrounding those proposals. I wrote just the ...read more IdaBlue
- Mallard Fillmore[Mar 11, 06:51 PT] I torture myself daily by reading "Mallard Fillmore" in the Statesman. It's put on the opinion page along with "Doonesbury," the idea being to counter the supposedly liberal Doonesbury. Well, there's certainly no question that MF is conservative. A ...read more EFFin' Unsound
- Focus on a Pun[Mar 10, 18:22 PT] Post by Carl Ken Hutcherson has a commentary on Focus on the Family. I didn’t even realize there had been a shakeup. Because a lot of it is boring, here are some excerpts: Of all the people I know, in an effort to find some semblance of ...read more Hominid Views
- More Details on the BushCo Torture Crimes[Mar 9, 19:23 PT] Salon has a detailed piece on the waterboarding techniques used by the CIA during the Bush administration (with consent of the White House): Interrogators pumped detainees full of so much water that the CIA turned to a special saline solution to ...read more born live love die
- Word[Mar 6, 06:54 PT] As a veteran, one of the things that has irritated me the most is the speed with which the US Government, under the Bush Administration so speedily turned into depraved psychopaths and started directing individuals to be tortured. This torture was ...read more Progressive Alaska
- At the Wasilla Coffee Party Event[Mar 13, 13:16 PT] Just as Progressive Alaska covered the first Wasilla Tea Party event, on April 15th, 2008, I went to check out and possibly participate in the first Wasilla Coffee Party event, held this morning at the fairly new, and very cozy Metro Cafe , on ...read more HinesSight
- Health care reform will save money and lives[Mar 11, 15:17 PT] Talk about a no-brainer. Why shouldn't the United States save lots of money and help tens of millions of people? Today the Congressional Budget Office released an updated analysis of the Senate's health care reform bill, which will be the ...read more NPI Advocate
- Grayson strikes a blow for real Americans[Mar 10, 11:33 PT] Yesterday, U.S. Representative Alan Grayson introduced a bill that would provide a buy-in option allowing access to Medicare for anybody who wants it. Read that again, and let it sink in. It's an amazingly simple bill. Not even four pages long, and ...read more NPI Advocate
- Coffee Party meetups this weekend[Mar 9, 18:34 PT] This weekend, the recently formed "Coffee Party USA" is holding nationwide meetups around the country to bring Americans who believe in a functioning democratic government (what a concept!) together, face to face. (For readers unfamiliar with the ...read more Hominid Views
- Divine Palms[Mar 6, 23:15 PT] Oh…that explains it. Now Sarah Palin is suggesting she was being like God when she wrote talking points on her palm. [YouTube Video] But…would God need a TelePrompTer or graven hands to address a Teabagger convention?!? (Via Political ...read more morialekafa
- Single Issue Voters[Mar 4, 22:59 PT] Swiss condom manufacturer designs small condoms for the 12 year-old crowd. I am wrestling with the problem of single-issue voters, or voters who consider one or two, or perhaps even three issues to override all else. Granted there are many, many ...read more Ft. Boise
- The gang that couldn't shoot straight[Dateline Unknown] Speaking of alternative realities, my weekly fix of Frank Rich got off to a chuckle with his mention of "the new right-wing noise machine" (and "crackpot hit squad") Keep America Safe, "invented by Dick Cheney's daughter Liz and the inevitable ...read more |
PERRspectives Blog
- The Chutzpah of Israel[Mar 15, 10:42 PT] The United States and Israel share common interests, but not identical ones. That reminder was brought home last week by Israel's stunning announcement of expanded East Jerusalem settlements even as Vice President Joe Biden arrived to reaffirm the ...read more OlyBlog
- Afghanistan Presentation, Thursday March 25[Mar 15, 09:05 PT] Start: Mar 25 2010 - 5:00pm End: Mar 25 2010 - 7:00pm [Image] On Thursday March 25, from 5 to 7 pm, (Joseph) Dana Visali will be at the Olympia Timberland Regional Library (313 8th Ave. SE Olympia, WA) to present information about Afghanistan, ...read more morialekafa
- The Ground Truth - book[Mar 14, 22:48 PT] The Ground Truth The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9/11, by John Farmer (Riverhead Books, N.Y., 2009) John Farmer was senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission. Now that further information has surfaced about the unfortunate tragedy of 9/11 he ...read more The Left Shue
- Another swing and a miss[Mar 12, 10:22 PT] You are certainly forgiven if you had no idea this vote even occurred in the US House on Wednesday: H CON RES 248 YEA-AND-NAY 10-Mar-2010 6:22 PM QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Resolution BILL TITLE: Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) ...read more howieinseattle
- "Washington's Cult of Narcissism and Iraq"[Mar 11, 07:07 PT] Tom Engelhardt (TomDis patch.com):Hubris? We're bigger than that! We've now been at war with, or in, Iraq for almost 20 years, and intermittently at war in Afghanistan for 30 years. Think of it as nearly half a century of experience, all bad. And ...read more The Left Shue
- Obama's War[Mar 11, 05:29 PT] Afghanistan Body Count: 03/11/2010 Americans Killed: 1,017 Americans Wounded: 9,496 Post Obama Inauguration Americans Killed: 387 ''We will finish the job'' Pres. Barack Obama Latest Confirmed Casualties: *Sgt. Marcos Gorra, 22, of North Bergen, NJ ...read more morialekafa
- Suckered Again?[Mar 9, 22:35 PT] Reviewing his cell phone history, she reaches for knife and stabs ex-husband. Dennis Kucinich is apparently refusing to vote 'yes' on the Health Care Bill. He says it is merely a huge gift to the Insurance companies who are themselves the problem. ...read more
Blog Town, PDX
- Read the Book![Mar 12, 16:34 PT] [Image] Green Zone is out this week, an Iraq war action-thriller starring Matt Damon, directed by Paul Greengrass, and carrying the curious credit of being based on the book Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran. Chandrasekaran ...read more Progressive Alaska
- Thoughts on Early Coverage of the Rachel Corrie Civil Trial in Israel[Mar 12, 12:37 PT] [Image] (Craig Corrie, Cindy Corrie, Philip Munger, in London - November 3, 2005) Nobody who is aware of the history of U.S. media coverage of the death, on March 16, 2003, of American college student and peace activist, Rachel Corrie, on the eve of ...read more The Oregon Economics Blog
- A Lesson in Opportunity Cost[Mar 10, 13:00 PT] Without making a judgement on the benefits of the wars in Iraq and Afganistan, here is an interesting take on the opportunity cost of the wars. I chose Portland as a reference point, you can go and choose your own. [Image] Hominid Views
- Student Protests[Mar 4, 22:52 PT] Today it felt like I was in Madison in 1970 again. From my fourth story office at the University of Washington I could hear chants, bullhorns, cheers, and boos. Apparently, it happened all over the place. It is good to see students charged-up and ...read more |
