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December 22, 2010
Return to Sender
What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the Feds got off their duffs?
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December 29, 2010
Grethe Cammermeyer: Mission Unaccomplished
Repealing DADT is just a start, says the decorated lesbian colonel.
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January 5, 2011
McGinn Goes Bass Fishing
The mayor's proposed noise rules may ruffle music-loving minorities.
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January 7, 2011
Rep. Jay Inslee on Reading the Constitution: We Haven't Been Able to Review It Yet (VIDEO)
The new Republican-infused Congress wants to prove once and for all that despite their previous talk about removing birthright citizenship, direct election of Senators, and the government's ability to regulate the economy from the U.S. Constitution, they actually love the treasured document w ... More >>
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January 17, 2011
Poll: Which MLK Day Press Release Doesn't Belong?
Today's holiday honoring the late, great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. isn't a day off for everyone. Some people embrace the spirit of the occasion by doing community service, while others are still stuck behind a desk at their day jobs. For media-relations professionals, it's one of the busiest ... More >>
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January 18, 2011
Alan Gottlieb, Bellevue Gun Nut, Finds Exploiting Tucson Tragedy 'Unconscionable' . . . Unless It's His Group Doing It
GottliebThat 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 >>
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January 28, 2011
Mayor Mike's Office Raps Former U.S. Attorney Mike McKay, Accuses Him of Calling Police Chief 'A Liar on the Front Page of the Paper'
Mike McKayThe mayor's office obviously wasn't happy last week when former U.S. Attorney Mike McKay told the Seattle Times he thinks the Department of Justice should fully investigate the Seattle Police Department. Though Mike McGinn says he welcomes such a probe, he and his staff didn't parti ... More >>
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February 2, 2011
Mike McGinn to Lawyer: Who You Callin' a Liar?
The e-mail spat between the mayor's office and a former U.S. attorney.
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February 3, 2011
Mike McGinn Proposes to Double the City's Education Funding; Is He Also After More Control?
Every mayor wants to be the "education mayor," just as every governor wants to be the hero who will save the public schools. So perhaps it's no surprise, even in this time of government austerity, that Mayor Mike McGinn is seeking to double the amount of city funding for schools in a renewed ... More >>
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February 8, 2011
Sen. Patty Murray is Least Obstructionist Senator in Washington
Actually, she's tied with 15 other senators as having filibustered the fewest amount of times in the last two years. But who knows, after next year she could be part of a minority party and then it'll be obstruction-fest 2013!
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February 9, 2011
Mike McGinn: Education Mayor?
Is McGinn's levy a play for more money, more control, or both?
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March 16, 2011
The War on Mexicans Strikes Ellensburg
One of the largest immigration raids in state history rocks Rodeo City.
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March 24, 2011
Matt Richardson, GOP's Missing Bad Boy, Tossed from His Sumner City Council Seat
Two years ago he ran for mayor of Sumner and lost. One year ago he ran for the state senate--in a mud-slinging blowout with Pam Roach--and lost. Now this will be remembered as the year Matt Richardson lost his Sumner council seat, if not his political career altogether. The pol who was portra ... More >>
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March 30, 2011
Ask a Mexican!
Two years ago he ran for mayor of Sumner and lost. One year ago he ran for the state senate--in a mud-slinging blowout with Pam Roach--and lost. Now this will be remembered as the year Matt Richardson lost his Sumner council seat, if not his political career altogether. The pol who was portra ... More >>
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April 7, 2011
Boeing and Microsoft: Two of America's Top-Ten "Biggest Corporate Tax Cheats"
It's time to play America's favorite game show, Why Being a Corporation is Better Than Being a Person! Today's theme is: taxes--specifically, how the phrase "death and taxes" may apply to people, but certainly not to big companies.
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April 18, 2011
Kix: Kid Tested, Atomic Mutant Approved
Cereal Philanderer is a weekly feature in which Jason Sheehan talks about cereal more than he probably should. Cereal du Jour: Kix, America's Favorite Cold War breakfast treat! History: There is nothing at all interesting about the history of Kix. No, seriously--nothing. It's background inf ... More >>
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April 21, 2011
Mike McGinn Upgrades His Spokesperson for $20,000 Extra, While Budget-Wide Cuts Are Ordered Elsewhere
It's out with the old and in with the new for Mayor Mike McGinn's chief spokesperson. Longtime mouthpiece Mark Matassa is leaving the mayor's inner circle to go to work for the Seattle Public Utilities Department. Replacing him is current Seattle Channel General Manager Beth Hester. So what c ... More >>
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May 18, 2011
Staff Sgt. David Bram Becomes Second Squad Leader to Be Charged With Murdering Afghanis
BramArmy Staff Sgt. David Bram has now joined four other Joint Base Lewis-McChord Stryker soldiers facing charges of murdering Afghan civilians last year. Bram, 27, from California, who had faced lesser charges, is now accused of solicitation to commit murder, the Army announced yesterday. He ... More >>
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May 24, 2011
Jeanne Kohl-Welles: Failed Medical Pot Bill "The Greatest Disappointment of My Legislative Career"
State Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, the driving force behind the push to overhaul Washington's murky medical pot policies, announced this morning that she has "decided not to pursue further attempts this year to strengthen our state's voter-approved medical marijuana law."
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May 25, 2011
Medical Marijuana Follies: Steve Sarich Finds that Even Filing a Referendum is a Messy Business
It seems a fitting indication of how messed up the medical marijuana landscape has become that even a referendum filed yesterday on Senate Bill 5073--a once liberalizing piece of legislation that was utterly transformed by the governor's red pen--says the opposite of what was intended. Dispen ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
Tea Party Patriots Want Idaho's Uber-Christian Take on the Constitution Taught to Kids Nationwide
Constitution Week may be four months away, but it's never too early to try and hone the indoctrination message that the nationwide event will hammer into America's children. First out of the gate are the Tea Party Patriots. The Georgia-based conservative group doesn't want just any Constituti ... More >>
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June 6, 2011
Boeing Makes List of Top 12 Corporate Welfare Queens
Boeing, tax cheat, Fortune 500, Citizens for Tax Justice
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June 17, 2011
Patty Murray's Afghan Question to Robert Gates: What About the Human Cost of War?
BarrettMost of the testimony on defense spending yesterday at the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee hearing in D.C. focused on Barack Obama's planned 2012 Afghanistan war drawdown, particularly the timing and politics of ending a war we can't win. For some, withdrawal can't come too ... More >>
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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 >>
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June 23, 2011
AP: Jay Inslee to Finally Announce Campaign for Governor; Sonntag "Still Mulling"
The gubernatorial match-up everyone knew was coming, but which hadn't actually fully materialized, has finally done so.
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June 28, 2011
Washington State Legislators: We Have Enough Votes in the House to Pass Same-Sex Marriage Today
State Rep. Jim Moeller says he's "never been more optimistic" about getting a same-sex marriage law passed in Washington state.
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July 19, 2011
Anti-Nuke Group Fights "Manhattan Project" National Park Plan for Hanford, Other Nuclear Sites, Because It "Glorifies Bombs"
Greg Mello, the leader of the anti-nuke organization the Los Alamos Study Group, says that national parks are great--just not at places where nuclear weapons were developed.
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July 27, 2011
Nowhere-Near-the-Border Patrol in Forks
How a flush government agency found trouble in the coastal home of Twilight.
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August 11, 2011
Loren Nichols, Kennewick City Council Candidate: Kill Illegal Immigrants, Outlaw Spanish
Loren NicholsKennewick City Council Candidate Loren Nichols has a simple plan for dealing with illegal immigration: Kill all illegal immigrants. Also, Spanish? Yeah, no more that either.
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August 18, 2011
Loren Nichols, Kennewick's 'Death-to-Illegals' City-Council Candidate, Skates Through Primary, Now Faces Off Against Mayor
It would appear that Loren Nichols' political platform of killing illegal immigrants who don't leave town within 30 days, is resonating with Kennewick voters.
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September 8, 2011
'Tea Party for Idiots': Terresa Hobbs Explains Who the A**es Are (Surley Not the B***ers!)
The Code of Conduct for the Whidbey Island Tea Party Patriots cautions its members not to start fights with opponents, although "If you choose to get close to them physically, do so in friendship as fellow Americans only." Likewise, "Do not offer lewd gestures, call people names, tell them to ... More >>
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September 9, 2011
Comment of the Week: Tea Bagging Is Not Just for the Gays
This week the great Rick Anderson told you about Whidbey Tea Party organizer Terresa Hobbs and the open letter she posted to Sound Publishing. The letter berates SP and others about how they supposedly know nothing about the Tea Party and its members. It also details Hobbs' claim that she h ... More >>
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September 21, 2011
Iraq 2007-2011
This week the great Rick Anderson told you about Whidbey Tea Party organizer Terresa Hobbs and the open letter she posted to Sound Publishing. The letter berates SP and others about how they supposedly know nothing about the Tea Party and its members. It also details Hobbs' claim that she h ... More >>
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September 21, 2011
Afghanistan 2001-2011
This week the great Rick Anderson told you about Whidbey Tea Party organizer Terresa Hobbs and the open letter she posted to Sound Publishing. The letter berates SP and others about how they supposedly know nothing about the Tea Party and its members. It also details Hobbs' claim that she h ... More >>
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September 21, 2011
Iraq 2003-2006
This week the great Rick Anderson told you about Whidbey Tea Party organizer Terresa Hobbs and the open letter she posted to Sound Publishing. The letter berates SP and others about how they supposedly know nothing about the Tea Party and its members. It also details Hobbs' claim that she h ... More >>
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September 26, 2011
Pfc. Andrew Holmes, Member of Fort Lewis "Kill Team" Stryker Brigade, Receives Seven-Year Sentence for Murder
Pfc. Andrew HolmesArmy prosecutors convicted a third member of the infamous Fort Lewis-based "Kill Team" Stryker Brigade last week when Pfc. Andrew Holmes pleaded guilty to charges that he murdered an unarmed Afghan teenager in a poppy field outside of Kandahar in January 2010, and later poss ... More >>
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September 28, 2011
Rick Perry's Washington State PAC Staffer Caught Trying to Censor Anti-Immigrant Group
Marble-mouthed presidential candidate Rick Perry doesn't want to build a fence along the border, he thinks Arizona's immigration law SB 1070 is wrong, and he supports an in-state tuition program for illegal immigrants that would help keep them off welfare. These positions might seem downrig ... More >>
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October 5, 2011
Rick Perry: Miracle Faker
Texas' governor paints a pretty portrait of his state. Pretty inaccurate, that is.
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October 26, 2011
PETA Sues SeaWorld for 'Enslaving' Whales, Citing 13th Amendment That Ended Black Slavery
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." So says the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. And according to PETA, that ... More >>
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November 10, 2011
Sgt. Calvin Gibbs, 'Kill Team' Leader, Faces Court as Instigator of Civilian Deaths (Update)
GibbsUpdate: Concluding a two-week court martial, "Kill Team" ringleader Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs was found guilty of all specifications and charges today, says Joint Base Lewis McChord spokesperson Joe Kubistek.
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November 4, 2011
Deportation Drop May Be Linked To New Judges, Not Less Enforcement
Immigration lawyers were puzzled late last month when news came out that, contrary to what was happening in the rest of the country, the number of deportations had dropped dramatically in the Pacific Northwest. "That doesn't quite comport with what we're seeing," Jorge Baron, executive direc ... More >>
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November 9, 2011
Sen. Patty Murray's Staff Retreat Brought to You by Your Local Lobbying Firm
I just checked and "tone deaf" is two words, not one. I just want to make sure I'm grammatically correct in case I need to reference the aforementioned auditory condition.
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November 25, 2011
Immigration Lawyers' Survey Shows Feds Are Not Following Their Own Policy
Last summer, Immigration and Customs Enforcement director John Morton issued a memo directing his staff to exercise "prosecutorial discretion." ICE prosecutors were not to go go after every illegal immigrant who crosses their path. A new survey, however, shows that most continue to do so.
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November 28, 2011
'Occupy the Capitol' Demonstrators Urge State to Repeal Tax Exemptions of the 1 Percenters
Occupy the Capitol protesters officially kick off events today with speeches and demonstrations in Olympia and what will be, for the first time, a concerted public effort to force legislators to tap into that sacrosanct $15 billion worth of corporate tax exemptions doled out over the years ... More >>
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November 30, 2011
Mas Dinero, Mas Problemas
The more money spent on immigration enforcement, the worse it gets.
News
December 21, 2011
Let the Right One In
The Border Patrol has just made it against the law to give an illegal immigrant a ride.
Blogs
January 31, 2012
Howard Schultz Won't Give to Politicians, While Starbucks Shells Out $860K to Influence Them
SchultzThe pledge by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to no longer contribute to presidential or congressional campaigns drew a lot of sympathetic publicly for him and his corporation last year. But while Schultz's money boycott was aimed at persuading pols to tackle the deficit, his company was ... More >>
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February 1, 2012
Howard Schultz's Broken Promise
How Starbucks' campaign cash is making its CEO look bad.
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February 3, 2012
Gay Marriage Opponents Bank on Referendums To Stop It -- But Is That Wishful Thinking?
The gay marriage opposition led by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) believe that the best course of action in derailing same-sex weddings is to mobilize like-minded detractors, fund expensive ad campaigns, and fight like hell to get the issue on the ballot -- here in Washington an ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
Breaking News: California's Gay-Marriage Ban Ruled Unconstitutional
A three-member panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has just ruled that California's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional. The federal court said the state cannot prevent gay couples from marrying just because a majority of voters said so. The 2-1 decision is a huge victory for gay-ri ... More >>
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