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Borking John Roberts
“Borking” is a political term that has entered our discourse in recent years thanks to the right wing.…
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Closing the Credibility Gap
While attending an antiwar rally Saturday, March 19, I had profoundly mixed feelings. From an organizer’s standpoint, the…
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Arson as Political Speech
On Martin Luther King Day, 17 people were arrested in Kitsap County for blocking an entrance to the…
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Twenty Years of Neglect
Remarkably, last month, our Legislature passed a transportation bill, a long-stalled package that will provide for money to…
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Trevor survived
LAST WEEK, Seattle activist Trevor Baumgartner was near death because of a two-week-old hunger strike while in Israeli…
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Impeachable Offense
FINALLY, AND FAR too late, national media are discovering that the Bush administration’s case for invading Iraq was…
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In defense of Tim Eyman
MAYBE IT’S THE contrarian in me. But I’m finding the enormous brouhaha this past week over Tim Eyman’s…
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Missing in Action: $20 Billion
The CEO and founder of Adelphia Communications has been convicted of looting his company of hundreds of millions…
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Still running
THE FAITHFUL still believe. But does anyone else care? Ralph Nader came through town last week, hawking his…
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Gorebot, Shrub, and Ralph
This week, demonstrators gather in Los Angeles to protest the Democratic National Convention and the coronation of Al…
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Food first
HUNGER IS HAUNTING this year’s Thanksgiving. Before U.S. bombing began, respected food aid groups—Oxfam, the International Red Cross,…
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Outpouring of Nonsupport
I WASN’T THE ONLY person in the room mentally rolling my eyes. This was a couple of weeks…
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News That Wasn’t
EVERY YEAR, I SURVEY some of the year’s most overhyped and underreported stories. But this year, along with…
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Slade is right!
It doesn’t happen very often that I completely agree with Skeletor, but Slade Gorton is absolutely right this…
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Beating up on Schell
BAD NEWS travels fast. It also travels a really long way. So I’m sitting on the back deck…
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Seattle can’t learn
LAST WEEK, at least 60 reporters and other wielders of symbolic megaphones crowded into the mayor’s conference room…