So the House budget proposal was unveiled on Monday, and, well, it could have been worse.  Don’t get us wrong, here at the blog we still feel that tax loopholes should be on the table (giving money to out of state banks and private jet folks while people go hungry and die is, no matter…

For those of you out there in blogland who still think that bestowing Western Governors University with the title of Washington’s Seventh Public University is a good idea, check out this from our friends over at The AVE: UPDATE: A Response to OpEds on GWU The comments from people claiming to be WGU employees are…

At the end of the day, politics is about counting.  Here in Washington, for example, folks in Olympia and beyond are counting, counting, and recounting.  The house and senate budget writers at the eye of the storm are counting how many dollars they’re going to cut from where.  Every time they do a new budget…