OK, so it’s not really fame, but another blogger did happen to quote one of my blog entries in a popular national blog. The Daily Kos is one of the 30 most viewed blogs in the country, and offers a variety of blog entries by many contributors every day on national political subjects.
My only claim [...]
If you see the television ads or read the statements in the voter’s pamphlet in opposition to Oregon Ballot Measures 66 & 67, you would have the idea that if you vote yes on these measures that employers will have to lay off some number of their employees. This is not the case. In most [...]
Most Oregon corporate businesses have been getting a free ride on their state tax bill for many years. Oregon Ballot Measure 67 is an effort to fairly correct the loopholes that have allowed most every business to essentially avoid state corporate taxes. It is time that we approve this common sense measure already passed by [...]
For at least the last 18 years, and historically for just about forever, we have heard the mantra for lower taxes. I am sure that everyone would love to pay as little in taxes as possible. It is natural: We really want to pay out as little as possible for anything and everything. There is [...]
In all of the modern countries of the world, we the inhabitants of those countries can enjoy a variety of public services, paid for by our own tax money. We all seem to recognize a common need for police and fire protection, as well as crews of paramedics. For the common good, we educate our [...]
Well, it’s likely not the bubonic plague or anything like that. It might feel like it, of course, but it isn’t.
Really, I think I have the common cold. In my 47 years of experience as a human, the symptoms I have seem to match up with that scenario. But I have one other concern. What [...]
Yes, I don’t live in King County or Seattle at the moment, but I have spent nearly half my life ’round those parts. I am not going to get too original here, but I have noted that the folks over at Seattle Transit Blog have made the same choices for the Seattle City Mayor & [...]
I have been thinking a lot about the health care “debate” that has been going on in this country lately. The most significant part of the debate is not IF we need health care reform, but how to do it, and just how soon it can happen.
In my opinion, this is one of the most [...]
On Tuesday, the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8, the November referendum that took the right to marry away from California gays and lesbians. As a small consolation, they did not invalidate the legal marriages of around 11,000 couples that were already married.
Proponents had based their support of the taking of rights from their fellow [...]
After eight years of President George W Bush and his unwillingness to admit any kind of mistake, I was getting used to the fact that perhaps our leaders were al so set in their ways that they could admit no wrong. Bush would rather have seen the country dissolve into a mess than admit a [...]
