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A second look at Washington school rankings finds signs of statewide decay
February 11, 2011 – 8:38 am | No Comment

Last April, the Washington State Board of Education published its Public School Accountability Index, a measure of how the state’s 2,000-plus public K-12 schools are educating more than half a million children. Earlier this week, …

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From the mailbag…
March 3, 2010 – 8:41 am | 2 Comments
From the mailbag…

Wednesdays are made for Photoshopped political satire.

Twelfth-hour bipartisan effort rescues Patriot Act
February 26, 2010 – 1:54 pm | No Comment
Twelfth-hour bipartisan effort rescues Patriot Act

Since Inauguration Day 2009, a firestorm of scorn has scorched the op-ed pages of the nation’s dailies extolling the evils of partisanship in Washington, D.C. as typified by “black hat” Republicans and their stubborn refusals …

Breitbart CPAC kerfuffle is a pleasant lesson in true democracy
February 24, 2010 – 9:00 am | 4 Comments
Breitbart CPAC kerfuffle is a pleasant lesson in true democracy

Ordinarily I like my politics like my martinis, dry and not over-ginned. The business of setting policy is one that directly affects the lives of individuals, sometimes in life and death ways, and it …

Gov. Gregoire to sign suspension of I-960 into law
February 23, 2010 – 10:28 pm | 2 Comments
Gov. Gregoire to sign suspension of I-960 into law

Gregoire has indicated she will sign SB 6130 on Wednesday, just in time to do a little free-wheeling tax raisin’ and for Democrats to figure out how to legally kill off the I-960 spending restraint law while it sleeps, like a vampire story in reverse.

Successful conservative revival begins with rediscovering heritage
February 22, 2010 – 2:24 pm | 2 Comments
Successful conservative revival begins with rediscovering heritage

Just as a large part of Western culture’s great scientific leap forward during the Renaissance was little more than a relearning of earlier knowledge and theory of mathematics and the physical universe — or at least picking up the baton where it was dropped during the collapse of the Greek and Roman empires — the current revival of conservatives must also reconnect with lost knowledge.

I-960 on ice: Murder on the Olympia Express
February 18, 2010 – 8:02 pm | 2 Comments
I-960 on ice: Murder on the Olympia Express

By moving to suspend voter-mandated tax restraints, Democrats in the Washington state Legislature sent a clear message to the people: We are the governors and you are the governed, and there is no reciprocity in that relationship.