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Seattle Times Publisher Frank Blethen waving the piece of paper upon which Chinese Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Yizhong promises only to persecute dissidents a little. As tough as I am on them, I have to admit that the Seattle ...

topics: government, political

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Eleven Republican state senators filed a bill yesterday, SB 6883, that would bar legislators from collecting a per diem during the coming special session, which I suppose might be taken as a serious attempt to protect the interests of taxpayers, if n...

topics: committee, democrats, elected, political, republican

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Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) is down for his. And by that, I mean his constituents, whose side he's jumped in on in the ongoing political slapfight between the Port of Newport (Oregon) and ......

topics: political, senator

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From an infamous, leaked, 2005 Citigroup memo, declaring the U.S. the world s leading plutonomy:[T]he top 1% of households in the U.S., (about 1 million households) accounted for about 20% of overall U.S. income in 2000, slightly smaller than the sha...

topics: conservative, political

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Rep. Eric Massa, D-NY, who just resigned yesterday amidst charges of sexual harassment, and who went insane on a New York radio station over the weekend, is supposed to appear on the Glenn Beck cable television show today. Some righties think this wi...

topics: committee, conservative, democrat, democrats, political

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That guy who shot two cops outside the Pentagon last night? Guess which side of the ideological divide he hailed from:The California man who opened fire last night outside the Pentagon was a property rights extremist who railed against the government...

topics: government, political

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A debate that many Democrats and Republicans in Olympia hoped to avoid began in earnest Thursday as lawmakers discussed asking voters to approve an income tax for the richest Washingtonians. Republicans fear that such an incremental step could eventu...

topics: democrats, political, republicans

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A bill cruising through the state Legislature would eliminate the requirement that candidates and political action committees file reports with Seattle's election watchdog....

topics: election, political

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When people blithely talk about how only a moderate can win down here in WA-03, I feel like pulling my hair out. But then I m reminded that the machinations of politicians often mean little compared to what the public actually thinks.From The Colum...

topics: campaign, committee, government, health-care, political

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Rod Arquette, the program director who cancelled my show at 710-KIRO, has himself been canceled, according to a report over at BlatherWatch.Of course I feel empathy for Rod, as I would for just about anybody losing their job, but sympathy& not so muc...