Thomas Ware

Thomas Ware

Harbinger of things to come?

Willard Romney, the one-percenter Mormon, won the Iowa Republican Caucus over Christian Fascist Rick Santorum last night by a whooping eight votes”¦ with six votes less than he received there four years ago. Iowa, a state that has in seven of…

Not people, not human, less than

Corporations are artificial creatures of law. As such, they should enjoy only those powers—not constitutional rights, but legislatively-conferred powers—that are concomitant with their legitimate function, that being limited liability investment vehicles for business. Corporations are not persons. Human beings are persons, and it is an…

This is a big deal

Chemical Weapons Gone from Oregon Depot [Seattle Times] It would be hard to exaggerate the peril that was stacked in the weird concrete bunkers south of the Tri-Cities and across the Columbia River in Eastern Oregon. Inside the sheds rising…

I wonder

If that damned pipeline the Republicans instructed President Obama to make an “expedited decision within sixty days” about is amongst those “14 provisions that he said infringed upon his power to conduct foreign affairs”¦” The omnibus gets a signing statement When President…

$52,000,000

Fifty-two million dollars. That’s what the expiration of the payroll tax cut will cost Bend (Oregon). (I’ll use round numbers, to make it easier for Tea Baggers and Republicans to understand) Assuming twenty-five thousand (25,000) families in Bend averaging fifty…