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1 'The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped The Cold War' Arts
Communism had many friends in the 1940s, and came to have a bad name in the West only after much evidence had been piled on. "The Anti-Communist Manifestos" is the story of the piling-on and the resistance to it. It contains four essays, each about the public battle over a book.
11/22/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
2 Cogswell's Screed and the Seattle Left Opinion and Editorial
The Stranger has an interesting piece this week. Its cover story, “Death to the Old Machine,” is a 5,200-word political screed—the equivalent of five pages of text—by Grant Cogswell.
11/19/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
3 A Movie About the Valerie Plame Case Opinion and Editorial
Over the weekend I watched the movie, “Nothing but the Truth.” It’s a year old, but not that many people saw it, and it’s an interesting film. A political film. I often don’t care for the politics of Hollywood movies, and I didn’t for this one, either.
11/15/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
4 Shock! Alan Gottlieb makes a living! Opinion and Editorial
Yes, folks, the Seattle Weekly has discovered this. The paper's cover story by Rick Anderson, "Armed & Litigious," is subtitled, "Ex-Con Alan Gottlieb is taking the fight against gun control to the Supreme Court--and fattening his wallet in the process."
11/12/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
5 We owe our soldiers a war worth fighting Opinion and Editorial
Today we honor the American soldier. That is not the same as saying, "Support our troops." The aim of that slogan is not to encourage Americans to support their nation's soldiers; it is to enlist them in support of their government's war.
11/10/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
6 Vote-by-mail means "get ignored" by national media Opinion and Editorial
One of the downsides of Washington's vote-by-mail system is that to delay the result is also to put it out of the national media spotlight. Consider Referendum 71. Basically it's gay marriage, and the voters of Washington favored it.
11/9/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
7 Ayn Rand: goddess of the market, gateway to the American right Arts
Two biographies are being published this fall of Ayn Rand. Both are remarkably evenhanded, given that opinions about the author of "The Fountainhead" (1943) and "Atlas Shrugged" (1957) rarely run lukewarm.
11/8/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
8 1 dog = 1 Land Cruiser = 5.6 cats Opinion and Editorial
A medium-sized dog has twice the carbon footprint as a Toyota Land Cruiser, according to a New Zealand study conducted by environmentalists. The comparison is in terms of land: how much it takes to feed the dog versus feeding the truck. I assume it is an alcohol-powered truck.
11/2/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
9 Dow and the "Deniers" Opinion and Editorial
Dow Constantine, progressive candidate for King County executive, has a political ad that draws a connection between his conservative opponent, Susan Hutchison, and a group that "doesn't believe in global warming." The ad, here
10/30/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
10 Civil Disagreement: Ban Smoking In Parks? Opinion and Editorial
Civil disagreements, with Lynne Varner and Bruce Ramsey of the Seattle Times editorial board, is a weekly feature of the Ed Cetera blog. Here Bruce and Lynne get fumed up about a propposal to ban smoking in Seattle parks.
10/29/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
11 A Foreign Service Officer Resigns Opinion and Editorial
Matthew Hoh, the U.S. government's Senior Civilian Representative in Zabul Province, Afghanistan, has resigned and sent his superiors a very intelligent letter, here. It is dated Sept. 10, but I just saw a link to it on the Al Jazeera web page.
10/27/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
12 A Foreign Service Officer Resigns Opinion and Editorial
Matthew Hoh, the U.S. government's Senior Civilian Representative in Zabul Province, Afghanistan, has resigned and sent his superiors a very intelligent letter, here. It is dated Sept. 10, but I just saw a link to it on the Al Jazeera web page.
10/27/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
13 Pause to consider the tax increase of Seattle's Housing Levy Opinion and Editorial
Seattle's Proposition 1, the Housing Levy, is a 68 percent tax increase. Did anyone notice that? Publicola didn't. It said the levy sets "the same tax level as the last housing levy." Nice try, progressives. The expected rate per $1,000 of assessed value is the same.
10/27/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
14 Petition Signatures Should Be Protected Opinion and Editorial
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that it's OK for Secretary of State Sam Reed to give out the names and addresses of people who signed petitions to put Referendum 71 on the state ballot. Reed can't do it, because there is a restraining order from the U.S. Supreme Court.
10/22/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
15 Civil Disagreements: Is the Daylighted Creek Worth It? Opinion and Editorial
Civil disagreements, with Lynne Varner and Bruce Ramsey of the Seattle Times editorial board, is a weekly feature of the Ed Cetera blog. Here Bruce and Lynne disagree about the daylighting of a branch of Thornton Creek near Northgate.
10/21/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
16 Social Democracy in Spokane Opinion and Editorial
Spokane is in the un-lefty part of the state, but it sometimes contradicts its surroundings. Consider Proposition 4, which is on Spokane ballots in the election now. It declares, among other things, that 1. Residents have the right to a locally-based economy; 2.
10/20/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
17 'Jihadists' as the new Axis? Opinion and Editorial
Kevin Bjornson writes in his response to my last post that "Islamists are engaged in a centuries-long struggle to subdue the world, to enlarge dar al-Islam (realm of Islam) by defeating infidels in dar al-Harb (realm of war)." They are the new Axis Powers, and the U.S.
10/17/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
18 Our Coming Afghanistan Defeat Opinion and Editorial
The other night I watched “Obama’s War,” a Frontline piece on PBS. It has some real front-line footage in it, including a Marine who’s just been fatally shot, and footage of a verbally pushy Marine trying to talk to Afghan villagers in English.
10/15/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
19 Civil Disagreement: You're voting for I-1033? Opinion and Editorial
Civil disagreements, with Lynne Varner and Bruce Ramsey of the Seattle Times editorial board, is a weekly feature of the Ed Cetera blog. Here Bruce and Lynne disagree about Initiative 1033.
10/14/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
20 Ranked-choice voting has appeal, but it's too complicated Opinion and Editorial
Our top-two election system is excellent, is it not? Seattle voters, having given Greg Nickels 25 percent of the primary vote, Joe Mallahan 27 percent and Mike McGinn 28 percent, will choose between the top two. There were also five other candidates who together had almost 20 percent of the vote.
10/13/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results