My best friend in high school was one of those enviable people who seemed to have everything: beauty, brains and…
Just when you think the stock market has hit bottom, it drops another 1,000 points, as it did the week…
In case you don’t recognize her name, it’s Sherril Huff who is running the King County Elections Division. Her charge?…
I come from a patchwork neighborhood, in a patchwork town. Oh, sure, Butte, Montana had a reputation, verified by history,…
We’re all getting them – the pleas from agencies and universities and other non-profits to help stem the budget bleeding,…
See the picture of the goofy-looking guy that accompanies this column? Well, that’s nothing. You should have seen his first…
We’ve always suspected some elected officials of having tunnel vision. How right we were. The latest example is the “deal”…
So, the P-I is for sale. Its parent company, the Hearst corporation, says that it it doesn’t find a buyer…
With the Legislature now meeting in Olympia, and Barack Obama preparing his inaugural address, now might be a good time…
There’s enough inherent drama in next week’s presidential inauguration that you might think it wouldn’t be necessary for the TV…
By Andy Wappler As my spine begged for mercy after another day recently spent shoveling snow, I asked myself a…
I am not saying it is an opportunity of a lifetime. . . . . .but there is a good…
Lenny and I have been asking each other if Christmas happened yet. We both worked long hours throughout December, and…
I was at a convenience store the other day buying the usual – beef jerky and Mountain Dew – when I noticed the pen at the checkout counter. The storeowner had Scotch-taped a white plastic spoon to the pen, figuring that customers will be less likely to forgetfully leave with the pen after signing a check or credit card slip.
The push to cut man-made CO2 emissions is exemplified by the current flood of advertisements for “clean energy” to replace all fuels that burn carbon within 10 years. The ads are aimed primarily at eliminating the use of coal as a power source.
I have to comment on John Carlson’s “Winners who lost in 2008.” As a new participant in the Washington State Republican Party, I have been amazed at the ability of party leadership to shrug off massive rejection at the polls with bland remarks such as “We did amazingly well” and “We will sweep back into power when the Democrats fail over the next two years.” These are the aspirations of losers.
Would anyone have predicted last January that the stock market would plunge from 13,000 to 8,500 by year’s end? That the Huskies would be the only major college football team to not win a game? That John McCain would be the Republican nominee for president, that his running mate would be the almost unknown governor of Alaska, and that Barack Obama would be president? That more Americans would die violently in Chicago than in all of Iraq in 2008? That Washington Mutual, once as mighty a local institution as Safeco and Weyerhaeuser, would crash and burn and be picked up for pennies on the dollar by Chase?
The actions of an Iraqi moron in Baghdad illustrate what likely was the biggest mistake that President Bush made, believing that Iraqis would treasure freedom and know how to function as a free country. If that had been true, our troops could have left years ago.
It is astonishing that Washington state unions are suing Governor Gregoire for suspending salary increases while thousands of private sector workers are being laid off, receiving no salary raises and having their 401(k) matches set aside, not to mention a huge impending deficit for the state budget. It seems that unions spend more time ungratefully strangling their employers while attempting to myopically serve their members.
