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posted on
December 10th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Olympia

Get Well Card For Ragnar's Husband

I hope that he has a rapid and complete recovery....

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posted on
December 7th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Olympia

Senator Murray Was Against The Bush Tax Cuts Before She Was For Them

In fact, she voted against them in 2001 and 2003. But by 2010, she had decided they were a good idea after all, and voted for them. And now she says that she is in favor of those tax cuts...< ...

posted on
December 5th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Olympia

Open Letter On Tax Fairness To Senator Murray

Dear Senator Murray: Thank you for writing. At your suggestion, I watched your interview on ABC's "This Week" and read the articles in The Hill and the National Journal. And I am still not su ...

posted on
December 1st, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Olympia

Why Are Our Broadcasters So Positive About Our State-Run Numbers Rackets?

If you watched TV news in the last day or two, you must have seen one or more of our broadcasters celebrating an extreme case of redistribution from (mostly) poor and working class people to a few ...

posted on
December 1st, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Olympia

Costco, Tax the Rich, Fiscal Cliff

Whether Congress passes Obama's tax the rich or we go over the fiscal cliff, taxes are going up in 2013. So if you are rich, especially if dividends constitute a significant portion of your income, ...

posted on
November 28th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Seattle

My Sympathies To Jim Walker's Friends And Family

I only met "the Orb" a couple of times, but enjoyed both encounters. More importantly, over the years I came to value the considerable contribution he made with his web site. According to the notic ...

posted on
November 28th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Seattle

Benton Versus Probst

The final count gives Don Benton the win, with 27,538 votes to Tim Probst's 27,460 votes. It's likely there will be a recount, since the two are not good friends. Feel free to speculate about a pos ...

posted on
November 27th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Seattle

Why Did The Washington Poll Miss So Badly On The Presidential Race?

Almost all the votes have been counted here in Washington state, so we can look at just how close "Wave 2" in the Washington poll came to the almost-final result. And what we find is genuinely puzz ...

posted on
November 26th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Seattle

Bellevue wants a train, but not the ugly place to store it

Bellevue thinks it would be really cool to have a light-rail train coming to it from Seattle. (Or vice versa; they are very sensitive about comparisons to Seattle.) But they want the ugly place to ...

posted on
November 25th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Seattle

Guess which country lowered its carbon emissions most

Would you guess the United States of America? Yes. The USA lowered its carbon emissions the most over the past six years; that's the years since Kyoto Protocol went into effect. Blame Bush. Preside ...