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  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Comment of the Day: Liberal Bias Strikes Again

    Last week we published what was intended to be a humorous reaction piece to the now-dead Seattle School District proposal to save money by altering school start times and school-bus pickup times - an idea that could have led to school children being forced to catch the bus at completely ungodly hour ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    Super Tuesday: Pressers, Primaries, and Political 'Forecasts' Galore

    This is considered a big day in American politics. Before we pick our president every four years every single state hosts candidates from each party and then holds a caucus or a primary vote. Those are a lot of primaries to keep up with, not to mention the countless debates, public events, fundraise ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2012

    Romney 'Wins' State GOP Straw Poll

    It's a non-binding straw poll that doesn't officially determine who gets most of Washington's GOP presidential delegates. But Mitt Romney will take it. By notching a roughly 38 percent plurality vote in today's state Republican caucus and finishing ahead of Rick Santorum and Ron Paul, Romney at leas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2012

    Want to Found Out How to Vote for a Republican Saturday? Here Are Help

    What does it say about the Mitt/Rick/Ron/Newt bandwagon rolling into Washington for Saturday's caucuses when the state Republican Party welcomes visitors to its website with this greeting: "Do you want to defeat Obama? Contact your county party to found out how you can help!" Is it an ungrammatical ... More >>

  • Music

    February 29, 2012

    69 Local Record Reviews

    Our take on every new release.

  • Diversions

    February 1, 2012

    Ask a Mexican!

    Our take on every new release.

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    Bet You $10,000 When Mitt Romney Comes To Seattle On March 1 He High-Tails It To the Eastside

    The last time Willard Mitt Romney was here about 50 Occupy Seattle protesters converged on his hotel, the Grand Hyatt. They carried signs that read, "This is class warfare," "Make Wall Street pay," and "Romney is the 1 percent." The party wouldn't have been complete without ribbing chants of "Corpor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Newt Gingrich: Kill National Labor Relations Board for Boeing Complaint

    ​In last night's Mitt-Romney-makeout of a Republican primary debate, Newt Gingrich attempted everything possible to try and reanimate the corpse of his candidacy. And packed within his talk of space stations on the moon and the "Obama depression," he threw some bloody meat to his party's raven ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2010

    Bill O'Reilly and Newt Gingrich Give Us the Fox Version of Seattle Election News: Lefties Bad!

    ​From The O'Reilly Factor Tuesday, celebrating another fact-free night in which Bill O'Reilly and Newt Gingrich offer up their highly regarded political assessments on the 2010 mid-term elections:

  • News

    April 7, 2010

    Limiting Inslee

    A Microsoftie challenges the veteran Congressman with that old standby: term limits.

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    Jay Inslee Challenger James Watkins Offers Unconvincing Term-Limits Pledge

    James Watkins wants term limits, but if no one else has to leave Congress after six years, don't expect him to. Before he can run for Governor against Rob McKenna in 2012, seven-term Congressional Representative Jay Inslee has to fend off a challenge by former bank manager James Watkins. Watkins ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2009

    Rush Is Right on Open Primaries

    Krist Novoselic's column runs every Tuesday on the Daily Weekly. Rush Limbaugh is the Republicans' most senior member (in spirit), and has the largest audience and the loudest voice. So it only makes sense that he's the leader of the Republican Party. Limbaugh helped make Newt Gingrich and the Rep ... More >>

  • News

    March 5, 2008

    Will the Youthquake Endure After the Elections?

    The responsibility rests with youth themselves. They need to claim what’s theirs.

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2008

    Will The Youthquake Endure After the Elections?

    The responsibility rests with youth themselves. They need to claim what’s theirs.

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2007

    Brokaw on Boom! at Town Hall

    The responsibility rests with youth themselves. They need to claim what’s theirs.

  • News

    December 5, 2007

    Obama's Back in Town; Remembering Sam Brown; McDermott and the Supremes

    Selections from the Daily Weekly, our news, politics, and media blog.

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2007

    Supremes Turn Down McDermott

    Selections from the Daily Weekly, our news, politics, and media blog.

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2007

    Gore 2.0 Holds Court, Pimps New Book

    Selections from the Daily Weekly, our news, politics, and media blog.

  • Diversions

    May 2, 2007

    Blessed Are the Refried

    Selections from the Daily Weekly, our news, politics, and media blog.

  • Music

    September 27, 2006

    Free Willie!

    What they didn't find on the Red Headed Stranger's tour bus.

  • News

    August 16, 2006

    Club Pot Med

    Livid over the vague voter-enacted state law allowing use of medical marijuana, a crusading lawyer tries to untangle unintended consequences. The law has driven the supply system underground, pot patients are getting busted, and some cops, prosecutors, and judges just don't get it.

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2006

    Sunny Jim's Court Date

    Livid over the vague voter-enacted state law allowing use of medical marijuana, a crusading lawyer tries to untangle unintended consequences. The law has driven the supply system underground, pot patients are getting busted, and some cops, prosecutors, and judges just don't get it.

  • News

    October 19, 2005

    A Child of Scoop

    William Kristol talks about Bush, Plame, the state of the GOP, and the godfather of the neocons, Henry M. Jackson.

  • Film

    August 10, 2005

    The Aristocrats

    Also: Four Brothers, The Great Raid, Junebug, Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, Sequins, and Writer of O.

  • News

    August 25, 2004

    The New Abolitionists

    Freeing 'sex slaves' is now at the top of the human rights agenda, thanks to Christian evangelicals, the Bush administration, and two former Washington politicians, Linda Smith and John Miller. How did the anti-trafficking crusade evolve, and is it being overhyped?

  • News

    March 3, 2004

    Mentality Challenged

    An ignorant GOP state senator kills a popular bill that would have required insurers to cover mental-health treatment and counseling.

  • News

    May 22, 2002

    Who Said It?

    An ignorant GOP state senator kills a popular bill that would have required insurers to cover mental-health treatment and counseling.

  • News

    July 26, 2000

    Xtreme straight talk

    Eating babies, picking over bones, and presidential politics.

  • News

    May 10, 2000

    Szwaja for Congress!

    Eating babies, picking over bones, and presidential politics.

  • News

    April 19, 2000

    The Seattle Police Department takes—and fails—the police intelligence test.

    Eating babies, picking over bones, and presidential politics.

  • Arts

    April 5, 2000

    Full steam ahead

    The vast right-wing conspiracy that could.

  • News

    December 29, 1999

    1999: Year of the Liar

    Meet the people who helped make this the year of the whopper: Would you like lies with that?

  • News

    November 3, 1999

    ". . . the conservative right constitutes a formidable component in the contemporary rush toward all things sleek, swift, and electronic."

    Meet the people who helped make this the year of the whopper: Would you like lies with that?

  • News

    October 13, 1999

    Techno-tyrants

    Led by renowned "visionary" George Gilder, Seattle's Discovery Institute is hard at work making sure the future stays in the hands of good ol' white boys.

  • News

    March 10, 1999

    Nine more to go

    Led by renowned "visionary" George Gilder, Seattle's Discovery Institute is hard at work making sure the future stays in the hands of good ol' white boys.

  • News

    December 30, 1998

    Lists of the '90s

    Instant Nostalgia issue

  • News

    November 18, 1998

    Blowholes and Blowhards

    Instant Nostalgia issue

  • News

    November 11, 1998

    The Dunn Run

    Jennifer Dunn rises from her party's ashes.

  • News

    November 11, 1998

    Right wingback

    In fostering Steve Largent's pro football career, Seattle unleashed a lunatic force on the nation.

  • News

    November 4, 1998

    Misspeakings

    Every campaign has its mal mots.

  • News

    October 21, 1998

    Inside out

    The nation's eyes—and the nation's dollars—are on the race between Cammermeyer and Metcalf.

  • News

    October 14, 1998

    The Beltway's Worst Nightmare

    A look at Linda Smith

  • News

    October 14, 1998

    Filling Patty's Shoes

    With the consummate timing of a successful politician, Patty Murray has missed the rain.

  • News

    October 14, 1998

    Maud's last stand

    With the consummate timing of a successful politician, Patty Murray has missed the rain.

  • News

    September 9, 1998

    McDermott

    Keeping clam works

  • News

    August 26, 1998

    Scraping off the Barnicles

    Keeping clam works

  • News

    August 26, 1998

    Life is shopping

    Keeping clam works

  • News

    June 24, 1998

    The unbearable lightness of Jim McDermott

    On the trail with the congressman-for-life: What's the safest seat in the House worth if you don't have any power?

  • Arts

    April 22, 1998

    'Who's It Screw, and Who's Doing the Screwing?'

    Jawin' with Molly Ivins, America's funniest hell raiser.

  • News

    January 21, 1998

    Networking protocol

    Dealing with Washington, DC, Microsoft lends a whole new meaning to the word "network."

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