Don’t play with the phone
I was a curious kid, and I would sometimes pick up the telephone, and just try dialing numbers.14 years ago
Here comes the shockwave
A budget meteor - 85 billion dollars in diameter - enters America's atmosphere in a week, and we're getting a sense of what the shockwave would look like.14 years ago
We hired them to build our computers and now they’re hacking them
A report released in Washington has tracked cyber attacks on 141 companies, mostly American, and the source is not, as you might think, some cabal of alienated teenage keyboard jockeys.14 years ago
When a liberal cause turns conservative
At his inauguration the President mentioned climate change. To environmentalists, that means stopping the Keystone oil pipeline, which is being built to bring oil from the Canadian tar sands to the Gulf of Mexico.14 years ago
My President’s Day Adventure in NY
We court danger on a hike to Anthony's Nose on the east side of the Hudson River.14 years ago
Three days, and I’m still watching those videos
All the Sunday talk shows were arguing yet again over budget cuts - I didn't watch them. I was watching Russian meteor videos.14 years ago
And now a word from Thomas Jefferson
I've been reading Jon Meacham's book Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power. It's the portrait of a man who declared all men are created equal, but kept slaves, and was in part urged to revolution because the British threatened to free those slaves. He comes across as more inconsistent and conflicted than the image we get in school.14 years ago
I guess we’re all going to have to buy guns
By now I'm sure all of you have read Wayne LaPierre's latest commentary where he again promises to fight any efforts at expanding gun control, and then goes on to encourages law abiding Americans to arm themselves.14 years ago
Raise the federal minimum wage to $9!?
President Obama is pushing for a nine dollar federal minimum wage, and that worries small business owners.14 years ago
The curse of the pre-sponse
There is a danger in having to write a response to the State of the Union address before you've heard the speech you're responding to.14 years ago
Is this man the next Pope?
His name is Peter Turkson, 64 years old, born in Ghana, son of a carpenter, sent to study for the priesthood at the age of 13, educated for a time in a seminary near Albany New York, and made a Cardinal in 2003.14 years ago
Bring on the deadline!
Our latest national spending deadline is March first, when 85 billion in federal spending is scheduled to disappear like Cinderella's coach at midnight. We've tried this before.14 years ago
Did I Find Your Family?
I was beachcombing on Vashon Island a few weekends ago, and in addition to the rocks and driftwood, there was this:
Not a bad piece of wood --I would normally use it for a project -- but on closer inspection...
It's the Growth Post from someone's home! Now I'm curious how it ended up on the beach. So I'm posting these close-ups. If it's yours, or you recognize the family...
14 years ago
An army of one
I guess if we were wondering how it might look when someone decides to act on selected quotes of Thomas Jefferson, we know now.14 years ago
Are Democrats being unfair to AR-15s?
Democrats in the Colorado legislature want to make gun dealers and manufacturers of what we've come to call assault rifles, liable for deaths and injuries caused by guns like the AR-15.14 years ago
Most city councils deliberate before empty chairs but not in Oak Harbor
At issue was a local law prohibiting guns in public parks, when Oak Harbor resident Luke Yonkman came to the mic and acknowledged he was legally carrying a concealed weapon - at which point councilman Rick Almberg objected.14 years ago
This might be bigger than skeet shooting
In 2011, a U.S. drone flying over Yemen, fired a missile and blew up alleged terrorist Anwar Al Awlaki.14 years ago
What did YOU think when the lights went out?
It was very strange. The game was looking like a Ravens blowout, and our group was kind of bored, and then someone said - "hey are you watching this?14 years ago
Made in America but not by Americans
Part of the new immigration compromise in the Senate would allow as many as 300,000 additional foreign hi-tech workers to come to America and take high paying jobs at companies like Google and Microsoft - with salaries up to 100,000 a year.14 years ago
Why Senator John McCain is ready to vote ‘no’ on a fellow Republican Vietnam vet
On Thursday, Senator John McCain lit into Senator Chuck Hagel, the President's pick to be secretary of defense - because of what Hagel said about Iraq in 2007.14 years ago
The gun debate makes some progress
Originally it was a Founding Fathers argument: that an armed citizenry is the only sure protection against an out-of-control government.14 years ago
Mercer Island residents say tolls would cut their umbilical cord, turn island into Alcatraz
An open house was held at the Mercer Island Community Center to discuss tolling across the I-90 Bridge. Craig Stone from the Department of Transportation was there, merely to host an exhibit on the various tolling options on I-90, but it quickly turned into an impromptu public hearing.14 years ago
Just when you thought you’d heard the last Obama conspiracy theory
The New Republic this week printed an interview with the President discussing a number of important subjects, but the answer that bubbled up was about his personal attitude toward guns.14 years ago
