Posted Fri, Mar 14, 8:44 a.m.

Common sense and values: Brad Owen is well-qualified for Lieutenant Governor even if he "never made it past high school." He is smart, quick-witted, a friend of small business, a great role model and influence on kids, and someone who knows there really is right and wrong, in sharp contrast ...

Posted Thu, Feb 28, 3:06 p.m.

Lost track: dbreneman: Indeed you lost track. Look at your previous posts, that include, along with the perjorative "religious right," these non-judgmental terms -- Post #1: "the bible-thumping segment of the conservative movement", "unenlightened adherence to scripture," "non-questioning dispensers of dogma"; Post #2: "emotional hope for a utopian outcome", "in ...

Posted Thu, Feb 28, 2:09 p.m.

name calling cont.: Breneman: There is no "lock step" among the so-called "religious right" or "fundamentalist crowd" any more than there is among liberals or "progressives." One thing William F. Buckley and many others including our current Presidential candiates have shown is that words matter, so when I read someone ...

Posted Thu, Feb 28, 11:47 a.m.

Name calling: As with every other misdeed, name-calling is not the exclusive province of the left, right or center. But it always amuses me that the "You're too smart to believe in God crowd" gets so intensely outraged at peope who don't share their very narrow and misguided point of ...

Posted Thu, Nov 29, 9:47 a.m.

You're being Seattle-centric again: Peter Callaghan of the News Tribune is at a minimum head and shoulders above Westneat, and far more over most other Seattle columnists. Even though he writes about Pierce and Tacoma-centered stuff occasionally as required by where he works, more often than not he weighs in ...