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    • Barack Obama coasting to victory in Washington

      Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times

      Sen. Barack Obama is coasting to an overwhelming but expected victory over Sen. Hillary Clinton in today's Democratic caucuses. With results still being counted, Obama had a two-to-one advantage over Clinton. About 1.5 percent of the delegates were uncommitted or were cast for other candidates.

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      Puget Sound orcas feeding in California -- again

      Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      In what a leading orca researcher calls an ominous sign, a group of the killer whales that frequent Puget Sound and nearby waters has turned up feeding off the coast of California for the sixth winter in a row. L pod, one of three orca families that frequent Washington waters, was spotted Sunday off Monterey Bay.

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      $65-Million Pantsuit: Perverting Consumer Protection

      Posted by Orato

      It isn’t every day that tort reformers and personal injury lawyers find themselves in agreement. But when the newly renamed American Association for Justice (formerly known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America) recently joined the American Tort Reform Association and small business owners everywhere in condemning an outrageous and seemingly vengeful lawsuit against a neighborhood dry cleaning store, a rare opportunity for nonpartisan legal reform may have presented itself.

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    • Capitol Hill awash in corruption and criminality

      Posted by Sandyenglish

      April was a not a good month for the Republican Party. Two Congressional Republicans were forced to step down from their seats on powerful House committees amidst separate corruption and influence-peddling investigations—and may eventually lose their seats in Congress or go to jail—while the head of the US Agency for International Development, Randall Tobias, resigned from his post Monday after he was named as a client of a Washington DC call girl service.

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      Swine Story: President Pork

      Posted by ptristam from Pierre Tristam

      “The House and Senate bills have too much pork,” President Bush says of the $122 billion “supplemental” spending bill for his wars. He’s right. The bill adds up to $116 billion in wasteful war spending and just $6 billion on real domestic needs. Here’s the math.

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    Washington, British Columbia officials dread new passport requirement

    I still think electronic passport verification is key to real security. And, I'm pro- passport requirements for travel highway and air.

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    9:29 pm 11/27/05
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