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Domestic Policy

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Gun Nutty: State Pistol Permits Reportedly Hit Record Numbers, Thanks to Boogyman Barack

    "The fear of not being able to buy guns," Stephen Colbert said last month, "has led to buying so many guns that now they can't buy any guns, just like they feared." He was referring to the run on guns that followed the Trayvon Martin shooting and NRA claims of a "massive Obama conspiracy" in which t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    Third Child Shot in Three Weeks. Who's to Blame? Parents.

    Parents are supposed to keep their children out of harm's way. Some parents purchase handguns to protect their children, but irresponsible gun safety is solely to blame for two deaths and one near-death of local children in the past three weeks. This isn't rubbing salt in a wound. This is returning ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    You Can Keep Packing Heat In Seattle Parks, Supreme Court Overrules Gun Ban

    Two Seattle mayors have now tried to ban guns from public parks and community centers. But this week the Second Amendment Foundation, National Rifle Association, and five permitted gun owners who sued the city were vindicated in Washington State's Supreme Court.

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    Gil Kerlikowske, Federal Drug Czar and Former Seattle Police Chief, Makes Up Fake Numbers in Call to Escalate Drug War

    ​Speaking at the ninth annual U.S./Mexico Drug Demand Reduction Conference in Washington D.C. this week, White House Drug Czar and former Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske made it clear that he thinks the failed War on Drugs is not only successful, but should be escalated. In arguing for m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2011

    Alan Gottlieb, Bellevue Gun Nut, Finds Exploiting Tucson Tragedy 'Unconscionable' . . . Unless It's His Group Doing It

    Gottlieb​That was fast. Save for a few TV talking heads, chatter about new gun controls has faded away just a week after the anti-gun rage over Jared Loughner's extended-cartridge Glock 19. Duke professor Philip Cook told Salon it's likely because "Those who favor a modicum of gun regulation a ... More >>

  • News

    December 22, 2010

    Return to Sender

    What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the Feds got off their duffs?

  • News

    December 1, 2010

    FAIR-y Tales

    Russell Pearce and other illegal-immigration populists rely on misleading right-wing reports to scapegoat immigrants and terrify penny-pinching Americans.

  • News

    October 20, 2010

    Reichert "Not Familiar" With Much-Debated Glass-Steagall Act

    A congressman may need financial literacy help.

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    Fewer Washington Guns Are Winding Up In Mexico

    ​In the last four years, authorities have successfully traced 19,000 guns used in crimes in Mexico back to United States gun dealers. That's the news from Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), whose just-released report (pdf) lists the states from which those guns are being trafficked. Given the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    Dave Reichert Endorsed by Stimulus-Backing Union Over Democrat Suzan DelBene

    ​Eastside Republican Congressional Representative Dave Reichert said "nay" to the 2009 federal stimulus bill. But in spite of that, this morning the Dem-loving, stimulus-supporting International Union of Painters and Allied Trades gave him its endorsement over challenger Suzan DelBene. Talk ab ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    Supreme Court Approves Bellevue Gunners' Second Amendment Challenge to Chicago Ban

    Steven DeWallGottlieb​As most court observers predicted - even getting the score right - the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 today that the right to keep and bear arms applies to states, counties and cities, which will lead to elimination of most local gun bans but could also result in new gun-co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    Starbucks' Decision to Allow Guns in Coffee Shops Getting Shot Down, Says Brady Center

    ​More than 35,000 have now signed the Brady Center's petition urging Starbucks to ban guns in its coffee stores. Additionally, a wide-ranging Brady poll taken after Howard Schultz chose to let customers openly wear guns in his stores (while barring employees from doing so because it could be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    Tax the Rich and They'll Disappear? Not Hardly

    ​Raise taxes and watch 'em scatter. That's the gist of the argument against all kinds of usury-hikes. And it's one you'll hear often from conservative groups in Washington this year, thanks to Bill Gates Sr.'s I-1098, an initiative that would make the country's most regressive tax system more ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2010

    Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske's "New Direction" in Drug Policy Looks A Lot Like the Old One

    Gil Kerlikowske doesn't seem to be calling off the war on drugs yet.​A Congressional subcommittee held a hearing today entitled: "Are We Still Funding a War on Drugs?" Essentially, the answer by federal Drug Czar and former Seattle police chief Gil Kerlikowske was: yes. That's not exactly the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    City's Parks Gun Ban Upheld. But Supreme Court Is Poised to Overrule

    Justice Anthony Kennedy may let you pack heat in the park.​The city's controversial (to some) 2008 ban on guns in parks has been upheld in a U.S. District Court ruling today, which overturns a contrary decision in King County Superior Court last month. Former Mayor Greg Nickels implemented the ... More >>

  • News

    January 6, 2010

    Weed Takes Root

    Marijuana’s steady creep toward legalization nationwide.

  • News

    December 30, 2009

    Gun Love Stronger Than Sense

    Pols are noncommittal on a gun-control bill—even in the wake of three recent police shootings.

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2009

    Three Cop Killings Are Insufficient to Win Support for Proposed Assault Weapons Ban in Washington

    The gun used to kill Officer Timothy Brenton​You would think that if ever there was a political climate favorable for gun control legislation, it would be here. With the state reeling from the third police killing in two months, legislators surely feel the need to do something. A proposed ass ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    Second Amendment Brief Filed by Bellevue Gun Nuts

    ​The question before the U.S. Supreme Court, as asked by Alan Gottlieb's Second Amendment Foundation of Bellevue in a challenge to Chicago's gun ban, is whether the right to keep and bear arms applies to all states under the Fourteenth Amendment's privileges, Immunities, or due process clauses ... More >>

  • News

    November 11, 2009

    Cover Story: Barack & Load

    Alan Gottlieb’s challenge to a gun ban in the President’s adopted hometown has made it all the way to the Supreme Court, and fattened the ex-con’s wallet in the process.

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2009

    Will a Cold-Blooded Cop-Killing Convince Legislators to Ban Assault Weapons?

    State gun control advocates are still trying to bury these​Tragic as it was, the cold-blooded drive-by shooting of Officer Timothy Brenton over the weekend handed supporters of a proposed state assault weapons ban with a compelling case to take to Olympia. Even though police say they have not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2009

    Do Only a Few Support Seattle Parks Gun Ban?

    ​Just how popular is Mayor Nickels' parks gun ban in lefty Seattle? Alex Gottlieb of Bellevue's pro-gun Second Amendment Foundation says only eight percent of Seattlites back the ban, according to figures he obtained from the mayor's office, while just two percent of outsiders support it. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    Second Thoughts on Mayor Nickels Gun Ban

    On Wednesday we posted a little item on Mayor Nickels' gun ban and what the current mayoral candidates thought of it. Showing a picture of a gun-toting squirrel; calling gun-owners "nuts"; it was, to say the least, a little kneejerk. I don't own a gun. I've only fired a rifle a few times in my life ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2009

    Is Mayor Nickels Backing Off On Gun Ban?

    Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels might be having second thoughts about moving forward with his controversial "dangerous weapons" ban. The executive order would effectively prohibit the possession of firearms on most city-owned properties. The ban has naturally drawn the criticism of Second Amendment right ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2009

    Obama's Immigration Policy May Look to Bellingham

    The immigrant rights group OneAmerica kicked off a campaign for immigration reform at a City Hall press conference today, setting the stage for a package of initiatives expected by the Obama administration. One speaker at the event was Leandro Barranco-Morales, a worker detained in the raid at Yama ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    Nickels' Stimulus Plan: More Parking Tickets

    Among the projects Mayor Greg Nickels has sought to fund with the Obama stimulus money is the purchase of $412,540 worth of new devices to issue parking tickets in Seattle. It's a proposal that has some asking what hizzoner is thinking since, for one, it adds no new jobs, and two, appears to stimula ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2009

    Nickels Pulls a Fast One?

    Updates Below That's what Councilmembers Rasmussen and Licata say happened with yesterday's vote to approve funding for the Mercer corridor project, which many council members thought would get federal stimulus money. Today, the legislature announced the recipients of the state's share of stimulu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Sen. Murray on the Stimulus Package

    The U.S. Senate passed its version of the stimulus package as pushed by the Obama Administration. It was no surprise that both of Washington's Democratic Senators voted in favor of the $838 billion measure. The House version of the bill is $19 billion less and the difference between the two will be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 2, 2009

    Eyman to File Property Tax Initiative

    Maybe it doesn't qualify as news, per se, but as expected Tim Eyman, the man whom Olympia politicians love to hate, will be filing a new Initiative with the Secretary of State on Monday. Per the press release sent out today... "We have a proposal for 2009 that aggressively tackles our stat ... More >>

  • News

    December 31, 2008

    The Strong Get Stronger

    It’s not the state’s struggling financial institutions that are benefiting from the feds’ $700 billion bailout package.

  • News

    December 24, 2008

    Should We Tax Our Way Out of Recession?

    A small, vocal chorus thinks we should.

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    Citizens to Nickels: Hands Off Our Guns

    "Nickels takes fire from gun rights activists". "Second Amendment supporters take aim at City". Make all the cute little headlines you want about last night's public hearing about Mayor Greg Nickels' proposed firearms ban on city-owned property, but the issue has caught the att ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2008

    A Tale of Two Firearms

    I'm afraid of guns. A few years ago, while covering crime in the rural southwest, the local cops laughed hysterically at my reaction to an elderly woman trembling as she signed out her pistol at the station. They claim I dove under the nearest table in fear; I maintain I dropped my pencil just as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2008

    Did McDermott Draft Bailout Amendment at WaMu Theater Last Night?

    I'm afraid of guns. A few years ago, while covering crime in the rural southwest, the local cops laughed hysterically at my reaction to an elderly woman trembling as she signed out her pistol at the station. They claim I dove under the nearest table in fear; I maintain I dropped my pencil just as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2008

    The End is Nigh

    I'm afraid of guns. A few years ago, while covering crime in the rural southwest, the local cops laughed hysterically at my reaction to an elderly woman trembling as she signed out her pistol at the station. They claim I dove under the nearest table in fear; I maintain I dropped my pencil just as ... More >>

  • News

    September 3, 2008

    Stay Together, Carry a Gun, Protect the Hill

    Frustrated by what they view as police indifference, a group of Beacon Hill residents takes to the streets packing heat.

  • Diversions

    July 2, 2008

    Love Thy Neighbor, Even Immigrants

    Frustrated by what they view as police indifference, a group of Beacon Hill residents takes to the streets packing heat.

  • News

    March 5, 2008

    Three Seattle Guys Want to Bar-Code Bullets

    Second Amendment junkies hate that idea

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2006

    Yet Another Gun Debate In The Times

    Second Amendment junkies hate that idea

  • News

    April 26, 2006

    They Could Be Citizens and They Might Be Deported

    The government has jailed family-supporting, lifelong U.S. residents who seem as American as the next person—but can't prove it.

  • News

    April 6, 2005

    Obscenely Stupid

    The government has jailed family-supporting, lifelong U.S. residents who seem as American as the next person—but can't prove it.

  • News

    March 9, 2005

    Staving Off Message

    The governor faces a $2.2 billion deficit, but she's proposed neither budget cuts nor new revenue. Hmmm.

  • News

    January 12, 2005

    Donkey Kong

    Democrats control state government, but the challenges facing Washington will severely test their ability to govern.

  • News

    December 1, 2004

    HIV: Criminal Intent

    Anthony Whitfield was recently convicted in Olympia in one of the nation's worst HIV assault cases. But his prosecution raises serious questions about who is being charged with spreading the AIDS virus and reveals the problems of trying to police private behavior for the public good.

  • News

    October 6, 2004

    Taxing Times

    Political death and taxes are still a reality, leaving voters with a slate of poor choices.

  • News

    October 8, 2003

    Facts Revolt

    Can a Democrat win the White House by promising to raise taxes? New York Times columnist Paul Krugman doesn't know, but he says raise taxes we must.

  • News

    March 5, 2003

    Whose Media?

    The Federal Communications Commission's debate over ownership rules comes to Seattle.

  • News

    November 20, 2002

    The Toll-Free Call

    The Federal Communications Commission's debate over ownership rules comes to Seattle.

  • News

    October 9, 2002

    Tim Eyman: Uncensored, Uncorked, Unapologetic

    The Federal Communications Commission's debate over ownership rules comes to Seattle.

  • News

    October 9, 2002

    Forget the Seattle Way— Try My Way

    What would it be like if "Mayor Eyman" were in charge? You may be surprised.

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