Not The Be-All, End-All

Conservative Republicans tout school choice – school vouchers and charter schools – as the means to liberate low and moderate income families from failing public schools. While I don’t disagree that vouchers and charter school offer an excellent short term solution, the question is, will they hurt more than they help?
School choice, as promoted by [...]

This Should Do the Trick. Yeah.

I see that RNC Chair Mike Duncan and Co-Chair Jo Ann Davidson are going to be making appearances in Georgia on behalf of Saxby Chambliss.
That’s very kind of them and I’m sure Senator Chambliss appreciates their efforts, but who are they kidding? No disrespect intended, but these are not household names.
We know the importance of [...]

“Bloggers Beware!”

According to the Seattle Times, “State regulators are wondering whether online political activism amounts to lobbying, which could force Web-based activists to file public reports detailing their finances.” (Can Blogging Be Lobbying?) If it’s determined that blogging can, indeed, be classified as lobbying, bloggers would be required to make public financial disclosures naming their backers. [...]

Opportunity Lost – Update

As I mentioned in my post, Opportunity Lost, a few days ago I e-mailed the Snohomish County Republicans in disgust over the sorry state of their website. I was looking for inspiration and an action plan and all I found was pre-election news.
After having received no response, this morning I e-mailed a few people on [...]

Republicans Make Me Tired

First it was the anonymous campaign aides, now it’s the Republican governors. Why is it that everyone feels the need to talk anonymously about Sarah Palin behind her back? Why does everyone find her so threatening?
I started a petition to send to the Republican governors, asking them to please stand together and refrain from backstabbing [...]

Language Abuse Alert: US Military to Abandon Iraqi Cities

Abandon: to leave completely and finally; forsake utterly; desert
The AP would have us believe that the US Military is abandoning Iraqi cities to a cruel fate (AP Article). At best, their headline could be considered a gross exaggeration.
Here’s the first sentence of the article:
The U.S. military in Iraq is abandoning — deliberately and with little [...]

Opportunity Lost

I visited the Washington State Republican Party’s website yesterday, eager to see their plan for mobilizing for 2010. I was surprised to find that the site had not been updated since before last Tuesday’s election.
What’s up with that?
I would have expected that a pro-active, net-savvy organization would have had a plan for updating their website [...]

Words Do Matter

“Sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can never hurt me.”
I’m usually a staunch defender of old sayings. My thinking is, they got to be old sayings for a reason; they very often convey hard-earned cultural wisdom and truth. Some of my favorites include, “Pretty is as pretty does,” “There’s no great loss [...]