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Jon Stewart 'Restore Sanity' rally to be cloned in Seattle
Posted Fri, Oct 1, 2 a.m.
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.
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On 9-11, eight ways to counter extremism at home
Posted Fri, Sep 10, 11:45 a.m.
What can those of us who believe extremism is harmful do to stop it? Quite a bit.
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David Brooks is go-to guy for bringing theology into today's public sphere
Posted Wed, Jul 21, 2 a.m.
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.
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How GM's bankruptcy contains lessons for all
Posted Wed, Jul 14, 2 a.m.
The U.S. auto industry missed the turns and took a crash. A Pulitizer Prize winner has looked at some of the underlying factors.
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Does God have to pick a side?
Posted Fri, Apr 23, 1:06 p.m.
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.
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A man of his time, WaMu's Killinger ignores reality
Posted Thu, Apr 15, 2 a.m.
Beyond a ritual incantation about accepting responsibility, Kerry Killinger seems to think he had no blame in the WaMu disaster. He has been using his time to figure out how to blame others.
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Glenn Beck advises leaving your church. What gives?
Posted Fri, Mar 12, 2 a.m.
What is it about our lives today that this kind of distortion of simple truths about the church, and its commitment to "social justice," sells so well?
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The 'crazy pills' election
Posted Fri, Oct 17, midnight
How democracy expresses its irrationality, from McCain and Palin to Dinocrats to Obama's audacity of hope.
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How much time should legislators take to adopt a budget?
Posted Thu, Apr 21, 2 a.m. 2011
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.
MOREExplaining big gaps in this year's election polls
Posted Mon, Sep 27, 11 a.m. 2010
The key is how pollsters are screening for likely voters, a tricky science at best.
MORESurvey suggests Adam Smith could have election trouble
Posted Tue, Sep 21, 5:55 p.m. 2010
The 9th Congressional District representative is barely leading his Republican challenger, according to a poll KING 5 released.
MORECrosscut Week in Review: Will Seattle be all-tunnel, all the time?
Posted Sat, Jul 24, 6 a.m. 2010
Seattle is fighting about the replacement for the Alaskan Way Viaduct. It's getting to the point that the single issue is dominating city politics.
MORERepublican tsunami in 2010: still inevitable?
Posted Wed, May 19, 9:15 p.m. 2010
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.
MOREGoing or staying? Gregoire rejected Supreme Court talk
Posted Tue, May 18, 1:15 p.m. 2010
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.
MOREWhat will legislature do without UW's Emmert to kick around?
Posted Tue, Apr 27, 5:08 p.m. 2010
The UW president is leaving to run the NCAA. At least he won't have to be insulted in Olympia any more.
MORERossi is coy but signs point to a run for Senate
Posted Tue, Apr 27, 3:23 p.m. 2010
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.
MORECouncil vs. mayor on panhandling, adding officers
Posted Thu, Apr 22, 9:03 p.m. 2010
City Council accuses mayor of holding on new police officers. But mayor says he will veto the council's aggressive panhandling ordinance.
MORERemnick's 'most intelligent' interview
Posted Wed, Apr 21, 10 a.m. 2010
UW Professor David Domke and 'New Yorker' editor David Remnick turned on the charm, and smarts, for a packed Town Hall audience.
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Memorial ceremony focuses on losses Speakers and many in the audience focused on the loss of human life in the 9-11 attacks.
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Stieg Larrson: The mysteries behind the Swedish mystery author With the exception of a certain book series involving Hogwarts, Americans haven't awaited a new book so impatiently since Charles Dickens' time. In Larrson's Sweden, trying to figure out the late author and his phenomenally successful Millennium novels has become a journalistic subindustry.
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State is shortchanging its future with weak higher education Bill Grinstein of the Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board predicts the state will suffer a work force shortage because too few young people are earning college degrees.
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Five reasons why Sarah Palin won't be the GOP nominee in 2012 1. She has no organization of loyal political operatives. 2. She is already receiving criticism from other conservatives. 3. She won't be able to deflect criticism as easily as she does now. 4. Better candidates. 5. Novelties die fast.
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Testimony ends in the Ted Stevens trial The longest serving Republican senator is accused of failing to disclose more than $250,000 in gifts and free labor. Closing arguments will begin on Tuesday.
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