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(22 comments) SHARE        Friday, August 14, 2009
Where's the music? In the 1960s protest songs inspired the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement. Where are the popular protest songs for the current progressive movements?

(28 comments) SHARE        Saturday, August 7, 2010
Are the Democrats as bad as the Republicans? Should progressives form their own party? Common sense thoughts about how progressives should deal with evil Republicans, mixed Dems, and a mysteriously wimpy President Obama.

(63 comments) SHARE        Saturday, September 15, 2012
Are anarchists in Occupy aiding Grover Norquist? Like Tea Partiers, many Occupiers hate government. The Occupy movement has raised awareness about gross injustices in our political and economic system, but the anarchist tendencies perplex me. I explain why and solicit feedback from Occupiers about why they're attracted to anarchism.

(18 comments) SHARE        Friday, August 26, 2011
How to stop the Tea Party: a response to Sam Harris To stop the Tea Party, progressives need to both take over the Democratic Party and market the ideas of good government and fair taxation. To win that argument, progressives need to frame the issues correctly.

(21 comments) SHARE        Thursday, August 2, 2018
Socialism, even democratic socialism, is quite different from progressivism Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez call themselves democratic socialists, but lots of experts agree that they they are just social democrats. Democratic socialists want public ownership of the means of production. Social democrats are OK with private ownership as long as it's well taxed well regulated and well balanced by an ample safety net. Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez should be less sloppy in their choice of words.

(29 comments) SHARE        Friday, December 20, 2013
Five Political Ideologies, in one easy image A concise image explaining the competing political ideologies in the US at this time.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 27, 2010
Report on the 2010 Washington State Democratic Convention On the weekend of June 25 I attended the Washington State Democratic Convention, in Vancouver, WA. Here's a report of some of what I observed and learned.

(18 comments) SHARE        Saturday, September 19, 2009
Arguing with conservatives about health care My response to a conservative's call for more "market-based competition" in health care. Market-based competition is unlikely to work, and Singapore is a poor example. This article summarizes the case against Big Insurance and Big Pharma.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 13, 2010
Centrists and Progressives Fight for Control of Washington State Democrats A report on Democratic politics in Washington State.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 24, 2011
Kucinich, Ron Reagan, Jr, Randi Rhodes and others speak at forum, mostly defend Obama On Saturday about a thousand people went to the Showare Center in Kent, WA to hear speeches and a panel discussion by Dennis Kucinich, Ron Reagan, Jr., Norman Goldman, Randi Rhodes, Stephanie Miller, Mike Malloy, and Mike Papantonio. They both criticized and defended President Obama and the Democrats.

(8 comments) SHARE        Sunday, February 20, 2011
Name-calling works, if you can make it stick How can we prevent the slide into theocratic banana Republicanism?

(5 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 27, 2010
The banal evil of predatory capitalism Many left-wingers decry the evilness of corporations. Yes, they're often evil, but not necessarily in the black-and-white way that left-wingers often portray them. The evil is mostly a banal, bureaucratic evil that arises not, typically, from any malice towards others so much as from uncontrolled greed. On the other hand, some actions by politicians and corporations are evil in an active, non-banal way.

(5 comments) SHARE        Saturday, October 16, 2010
US Congressman Dave Reichert doesn't know what the Glass-Steagall Act is At a candidates' forum in Washington State, US Congressman Dave Reichert admitted that he's not familiar with the Glass-Steagall Act.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, June 27, 2011
Coverups concerning former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel There are credible allegations of a coverup concerning former Republican US Senator Chuck Hagel. He hid his ownership in AIS (a voting machine manufacturer), even though his machines counted the votes in the election that Hagel won in an upset. Someone removed this story from the wikipedia article about Hagel.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 15, 2011
Washington State's Unconstitutional Initiative: I-1053 Constitutions exist to protect the People from unjust laws and initiatives. The Washington State Constitution specifies that a bill becomes law if a majority of legislators support it. Hence I-1053 (the voter initiative requiring 2/3 majorities of legislators to approve tax increases) would appear to be unconstitutional, as would many or all of Tim Eyman's similar initiatives.

(11 comments) SHARE        Saturday, February 12, 2011
The Market for Progressive Groups and Websites The sale of HuffPost to AOL raises questions about corporate ownership of progressive infrastructure. House Republicans' efforts to defund NPR and CPB further threaten the Left's ability to get its message out. How can the left build an effective media and political infrastructure outside the market system?

(16 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, December 17, 2019
How conservatives and evangelicals are smarter than Dems and progressives Progressives and Democrats like to look down on conservatives, including evangelicals. But the facts suggest that it's the progressives and Democrats who aren't so smart. This article has some painful truths for progressives and Dems.

(50 comments) SHARE        Saturday, October 17, 2015
Is Sanders' democratic socialism compatible with capitalism? Bernie Sanders has said that he's a democratic socialist and that he's not a (casino) capitalist. And he lists Scandinavian countries as models that the U.S. should emulate. But Scandinavian countries have private wealth and corporations. Does Sanders support capitalism as long as it's regulated? Or does he want to do away with private ownership unless the owners are worker cooperatives?

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, September 4, 2009
Close friendships: why so few? Many Americans have trouble maintaining close non-romantic friendships. Why is that?

(18 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 5, 2009
Holding Dems like Baucus and Cantwell Accountable on Health Care Senator Maria Cantwell and other "moderate" Democrats are coming under increasing criticism within the Democratic Party for their wishy-washy stance on health care reform and other issues.

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