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This month, two state senators – Jim Kastama of Puyallup and Margaret Haugen of Camano Island – committed to supporting the marriage equality bill now in the state legislature. That brought to 25, the minimum needed to pass, the number of senators that have publicly committed to supporting the bill. With the previously stated public support
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The State of the Obama Presidency
The annual State of the Union address is the president’s laundry list for Congress: what he wants to see them do in the next year. Except, of course,
Stupida Ad Infinitum
Oklahoma (natch) state senator Ralph Shortey has introduced a bill that would ban the use of aborted fetuses in food products. Seriously. Sen.
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Mitt Romney’s Wealth and What It Means
The mainstream media has been full of news reporting on Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s finances. First, let’s thank the Occupy Wall
We Could Each Be Dr. King
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been 83 this year. He has been dead for longer than he was alive. As his living memory fades, replaced by a feel-good
Winds of Change in Olympia
For over a decade, Tim Eyman has offered the same disingenuous answer to critics who complain that he has wrought havoc with the state budget and not offered
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Nature & Politics: Newt Gingrich: Here He Comes Again
Newt Gingrich is a one-man, made-in-America melting pot. Here’s a committed devotee of tooth-and-claw capitalism, vultures perched on both shoulders,
Goodbye to 2011, Year of the Rabbit, Welcome 2012, Year of the Dragon
January 5 Torture is now solidly installed in America’s repressive arsenal, not in the shadows where it has always lurked, but up front and central,
Farewell to C.H.
I can’t count the times, down the years, that after some new outrage friends would call me and ask, “What happened to Christopher Hitchens?”–the
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Reclaim Our History Jan. 16-31
| Special Black History Month Preview Jan. 16, 1776: Continental Congress approves Washington’s order to enlist free Negroes. 1941: Formation of Tuskegee Airmen, first black Army Air Corps squad of |
Reclaim Our History: January 1-15
| Jan. 1, 45, B.C.E.: Julian calendar takes effect, assigning this day as New Year’s Day. 1942: “Uncle Joe” Stalin proclaimed “Time” magazine’s “Man of the Year.” Jan. |
Reclaim Our History: Dec. 16-31
| Special History of Christmas Edition! Dec. BCE: Slaughter of livestock to be consumed through the winter in Europe, so they would not have to be fed over the cold season. This fits with solstice celebrations, |