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posted on
September 19th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Olympia

State Bankruptcy Bad, National Bankruptcy No Big Problem

Our local monopoly newspaper, the Seattle Times, sometimes puzzles me, by taking stands that seem inconsistent. The newspaper has been, on the whole, responsible about our state's budget problems. ...

posted on
September 19th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Olympia

Look at the Silly Monkey

In September 2012: * Obama's Fed chairman has been printing a lot of money, which has directly resulted in another credit downgrade. A couple of years ago, Obama said that a credit downgrade was on ...

posted on
September 19th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Olympia

Romney and Obama On Open Mike

Mitt Romney in remarks made at a private fund raising function last May, spoke about the forty seven percent of Americans who get some direct monetary payment from the government and the likelihood ...

posted on
September 18th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Olympia

Congratulations To Governor Gregoire And Speaker Chopp

Washington state is number eight among the states for highest taxes on gasoline, according to an article in today's Wall Street Journal. It would be hard to get to first place in this contest &mdas ...

posted on
September 17th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Olympia

Balance At Newspapers And Broadcast News Organizations

The new public editor at the New York Times, Margaret Sullivan, worries that newspapers, including the Times, try too hard to be balanced, to give both sides, even when one side is obviously right. ...

posted on
September 17th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Olympia

Will John Edwards Be The Next To Campaign For Jay Inslee?

In February, disgraced former governor Eliot Spitzer — or as we like to call him, Client #9 — held a fund-raising event for gubernatorial candidate Jay Inslee. Yesterday, disgraced form ...

posted on
September 13th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Olympia

Another Scandal At The Holder Justice Department

A minor scandal, granted, but one that may tell us something about the quality of the people Attorney General Eric Holder has hired. On Sunday, I picked up a copy of J. Christian Adams's Injustice, ...

posted on
September 12th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Olympia

What To Do About The National Debt

Dr. Tom Coburn, M.D. is a U.S. Senator from Oklahoma. If one accepts the Wikipedia writing about him, people will have opposing opinions concerning some of his views, especially on such hot button ...

posted on
September 11th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Olympia

One Example

I want one example. Please. Just one. Just one example of when the Republicans in Congress, under Obama, opposed legislation just because they wanted to hurt Obama. The left keeps throwing out this ...

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

Welcome Back, Carlson

As almost all of you know, John Carlson is back at a revived KVI. And he has already shown me why we need him on the air, at a time when he is likely to be heard. For example, this...

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