Posted Mon, Nov 1, 12:05 a.m.

David, A quick correction to what you wrote: "Together, the three government-employee unions will have spent nearly $172 million campaigning for Democrats in the course of this election cycle. That outstrips by more than $30 million what the Chamber of Commerce and the Rove network combined are pouring into the ...

Posted Thu, Nov 5, 8:02 p.m.

Any hope that Mr. St. Clair was going to provide insight vanished with the screed "King County...high taxes, big-government regulation, and an increasingly business-unfriendly climate again carried the day". I would suggest that Mr. St. Clair wander over to Nate Silver's 538.com for a better explanation of why New Jersey ...

Posted Tue, Sep 16, 1:07 p.m.

RE: Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelick Made Millions!: Who else is on the list? < href="http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/09/update-fannie-mae-and-freddie.html">Read this. Number six: Spencer Bachus. Ranking Republican on the House Committee on Financial Services, former Chairman of the Banking Oversight Committee. Number seven: Roy Blunt. House Minority Whip. In fact, if you look at the ...

Posted Tue, Sep 16, 12:41 p.m.

RE: No, it's worse: I call -ahem- bullshit. From wikipedia: "In dollar terms, American exports declined from about $5.2 billion in 1929 to $1.7 billion in 1933; but prices also fell, so the physical volume of exports only fell by half. Hardest hit were farm commodities such as wheat, cotton, ...

Posted Mon, Sep 15, 9:12 p.m.

RE: OBAMA next speech "I am Third": Man, that astroturf really gets around, don't it? Why you would think Obama had anything to do with the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac takeover, I'll never know. Wasn't that Sect. Paulson of the Bush administration orchestrating that? No real congressional role their that I ...

Posted Mon, Sep 15, 7:02 p.m.

RE: Palin More Qualified Than Obama: His comment about lipstick on a pig in the context of his speech was clearly a reference to Gov. Palin. Watch the video - the audience got it It is clearly a reference to Gov. Palin's speech, but it refers to the policies of ...

Posted Mon, Sep 15, 6:58 p.m.

RE: No, it's worse: Mr. Breneman, It may be that Roosevelt's policies deepened or extended the Great Depression - I don't think that's correct, but I admit that it could be possible - but there is no way that Roosevelt had anything to do with getting us into the Great ...

Posted Thu, Sep 11, 7:11 p.m.

RE: Article II section2: "The President shall be Commander in Chief . . . ": That's my son, there, Pilgrim. Marines are supposed to be...Proud, that is. He may be your son, but overweening pride is still a sin.

Posted Thu, Sep 11, 7:09 p.m.

RE: Article II section2: "The President shall be Commander in Chief . . . ": You said it yourself Mr. Berger, Are we to think that Washington Governor Christine Gregoire is doing John Wayne duty by calling on the state guard to sandbag flooding rivers? That sounds like a commander-like ...

Posted Tue, Sep 9, 4:29 p.m.

RE: You miss the point entirely: Gov. Palin has true executive experience -- more than Obama, more than Geraldine Ferraro -- as both a mayor and a governor. Your claim of Obama not having any 'true executive experience' is only true if one disregards running an organization that never had ...

Posted Tue, Sep 9, 4:15 p.m.

RE: Usual red herrings from Obamabots.: No one is equating commander of Ntl guard with military experience. It's part of the executive's responsibilities to be informed about security that in her case has international ramifications. She is probably in briefings with her officers and is knowledgable about the strengths and ...

Posted Mon, Sep 8, 10:14 p.m.

RE: esponse to Firedad: What an odd thing to say: Sorry you're so unhappy with Sarah Palin. You probably know her approval rating is 86% in Alaska and 75% among Democrats in Alaska. You seem to be in the minority of people unhappy with Governor Palin's performance. Kind of makes ...

Posted Mon, Sep 8, 10:09 p.m.

RE: Moore = Michael, not Roger: If at first you don't succeed, try, try again: This woman sounds like a female Roger Moore. YOU MUST MEAN MICHAEL Moore, not the actor, Roger. A useless comment the first time you said, doubly so the second.

Posted Mon, Sep 8, 10:06 p.m.

RE: personal opinion vs. facts: First you say: But, PERSONAL OPINIONS (*perhaps* by someone w/ axes to grind - who knows) have little validity and are not the same as FACTS. Then you say: Also, just before I read this letter - and since - I've listened to quite a ...

Posted Mon, Sep 8, 10:03 p.m.

RE: To see the light, open your eyes: Palin turned out to be an electrifying mix of intelligence, passion, energy, optimism and plain speaking. If by that you mean 'a well coached speaker who offered no substance, nothing beyond "rhetorical haze", and told some light jokes to a handpicked crowd', ...

Posted Thu, Sep 4, 1:37 p.m.

RE: We need more than a change Osama! Ooops, I mean, Obama: We need more than a change Osama! Ooops, I mean, Obama I think we can effectively disregard anything you say, and miss not an iota of fact or meaning.

Posted Tue, May 13, 11:36 a.m.

RE: CHANGE IS NOT EASY. NEVER HAS BEEN.: Ah, a skeptic, always measuring the cost, but never the benefit. Well, you might ask, where has the United States low tax rates taken us over the past thirty years (that's right, the US has one of the lowest tax rate structures ...

Posted Thu, Oct 11, 3:07 p.m.

RE: 50 measly miles: I think I will let your words speak for themselves: If we looked at the pattern of the last ten years for everything, we would spend all our time walking with our backs to the future. Neither history nor technology are that specific. Whether it's deriding ...

Posted Wed, Oct 10, 5:59 p.m.

RE: 50 measly miles: Technology, I assume, continues to advance in pollution control, alternative fuels, composite materials, and other areas, so why assume that cars 10 years from now couldn't be environmentally neutral? That the furious argument that casts them as Satan's instrument of our environmental destruction won't be rendered ...

Posted Mon, Oct 8, 11:59 a.m.

RE: 'Lies?': You know, that's a valid point; if Mr. Medved can claim that what happened to Native Americans or the deaths that occurred in slavers holds were not genocide because of a lack of intent, then he should also stop using the term 'lie', which also goes to intent. ...

Posted Fri, Oct 5, 1:29 p.m.

Reject the RTID as a basic tax fairness issue.: As a resident of Seattle and a driver, I already pay for the port with a property tax, the highways with my gas taxes and Sound Transit with my car tabs. Why should I be asked to pay more for the ...

Posted Fri, Oct 5, 12:33 p.m.

RE: Yes. The ports drive the economy: You might recall that there are other ports in Washington, and that not all trade goes out through a port before assuming that 'based on trade' is inextricably linked with Seattle. BTW, in B.C, a port is under development which will focus on ...

Posted Tue, May 22, 3:34 p.m.

RE: NEWSFLASH: Conservative shill finds 100s of improper votes!: Here's a huge difference between me and you: I want KC Records and Elections fixed because I don't want a repeat of the Rossi - Gregoire fiasco, while you are content with that scenario being replayed over and over because it ...

Posted Thu, May 3, 3:40 p.m.

RE: An editor and rider defends his writer: I expect the worst from autos, and I don't think having to think that way is any burden. It's just smart. Plan a safe route, stay out of others' space. No big deal. And I'm supposed to be delusional? You sir, labor ...