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posted on
November 1st, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Seattle

President Obama Is A Pro-Abortion Extremist

For some months I had been planning to write a post making that point, but then Timothy Carney did it for me, and did it better than I could have done. In this detailed column, Carney shows that Ob ...

posted on
November 1st, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Seattle

Things and Things

We now live in a world where it is "disturbing" to call something a "thing." Maybe if I were a lot dumber I could understand how this is "disturbing." John Koster simply said that a living human ch ...

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posted on
October 31st, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Seattle

Voting On Same Sex Marriage

Three states will vote November 6 on the issue of same sex marriage. In the State of Washington, the legislature passed a bill that would allow same sex couples to marry. The vote was 28 to 21 in t ...

posted on
October 30th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Seattle

Which Newspaper Endorsed Jay Inslee?

If you have been listening to the campaign commercials, you have probably heard that Rob McKenna has 12 newspaper endorsements, and former congressman Jay Inslee, just 1. Which made me wonder, whic ...

posted on
October 29th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Seattle

What The Heck Is Denny Thinking?

In every election year I see a few campaign commercials that leave me puzzled. The arguments made in those commercials seem so implausible that I hope none of my fellow voters respond to them ...

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

Vote tampering in Florida

Someone in Seattle is interfering with the election in Florida!? Registered Republicans in at least 14 Florida counties have received mailings questioning their citizenship and voter registration. ...

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

How Will Would-Be Legislators Vote On The Single Most Important Vote?

Here's a suggestion for journalists, here and elsewhere: Ask would-be legislators, people running to be congressmen, senators, and state legislators who, if they are elected, they will vote f ...

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

Open Thread Friday

In which you can say whatever you like about our elections, as long as you keep it family friendly....

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posted on
October 20th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Seattle

Gay-marriage proponent harrasses woman opposed and attacks bystander

A man attacked a woman who had anti-Referendum-74 signs on her car in a Safeway parking lot in Burien Sunday, October 14. He first tore a sign off her car and tore it up. When another woman got out ...