Media roundup: With Washington's legislature almost certain to go into a special session, commentary is focusing on the time and expense the lawmakers will use reaching agreement on a state budget.
For those who don't find Tea their cup of politics and who prefer civility to shouting, Facebook provides the launch pad for a Seattle event to parallel a D.C. rally on Oct. 30.
America has long had thinkers who bring the insights of theology and their spiritual traditions into the debate about public affairs. The person who does that best today is, I think, columnist David Brooks.
The Democrat won the special Pennsylvania congressional election to fill a seat in just the kind of district Republicans will have to win to take back the House. It adds a certain question about the GOP's big hopes for November.
Gov. Chris Gregoire says she told legal community members she wasn't interested in possible vetting for the Supreme Court, even though the White House was ready to welcome her name. But she isn't flatly ruling out the possibility of being nominated as solicitor general.
Former state Sen. Dino Rossi says his schedule for making a decision on challenging U.S. Sen. Patty Murray is 'between now and June 11th,' the filng deadline.
We create polarities in our minds. Rather than deepening the Culture Wars by reinforcing such thinking, religion at its best can cause us to ask deeper questions.