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Let’s be fair here

Listen to Dave’s Commentary: Let’s be fair here Let’s try to be as fair as possible on this birth control issue. About 15 years ago, when women noticed that insurers were covering Viagra, many of them said, ‘Hey, how about us?’ So the federal government, with bi-partisan support, mostly Democrats, but some Republicans too, imposed […]

15 years ago

Has money stopped working?

Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: Has money stopped working? How can Rick Santorum be so far ahead of Mitt Romney? Which is crazy, because compared to Mitt Romney…he’s a Dickensian pauper. Mitt Romney started with $57 million, while Santorum has maybe raised about $4 million. I’m pretty sure that, in today’s dollars, even Oliver Twist […]

15 years ago

They have fuel rods

Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: They have fuel rods There he was on Iranian television — Iran’s President inserting the first Iranian-made fuel rod into a reactor near Tehran: He was talking about clean energy — but our side, of course, is convinced it’s all about a bomb — which is why the US and […]

15 years ago

Is marriage the antidote to poverty?

Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: Is marriage the antidote to poverty?
Marriage is on the skids, and Rick Santorum has been sounding the alarm:
"We've seen the percentage of people married in this country over the last 30 years has dropped from 71 percent of people over the age of 18 being married 30 years ago, now down to 51 percent," said Santorum.

15 years ago

Is anyone to blame?

Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: Is anyone to blame? The buzz began within hours of the news that Whitney Houston was dead. That her fate was sealed when she hooked up with this guy: Bobby Brown, ex-husband, who was into the whole sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll thing. Houston told Diane Sawyer in 2002 that stuff […]

15 years ago

Geekend Update: Part 2

It took about two weeks, but I have finished my NerdKits LED array . Judging by the rapid growth of the KIRO-FM audience, this video is destined to go Kiral, with at least 97.

15 years ago

The unlikely journey of Antoine Dodson

You remember Antoin Dodson. Well obviously, we have a rapist in Lincoln Park. A local TV station interviewed him after somebody broke into his family’s apartment in Huntsville, Alabama. “He’s climbin’ in your windows, he’s snatching your people up, tryin’ to rape them. So you need to hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife, and hide […]

15 years ago

Still debating contraception

Listen to Dave’s Commentary: Still debating contraception So the President has compromised on the contraception coverage issue, but did I dream it, or did we just have another birth control debate exclusively focused on women? Are we really still talking about controlling kind of birth control women have access to? As if there’s a chance […]

15 years ago

Could the cops have stopped it?

Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: Could the cops have stopped it? Two dramatic 911 calls have the police in Pierce County Washington wondering whether they might have prevented Josh Powell from blowing up his house Sunday with his two boys inside. There was the call from his sister Alina who was in tears after she […]

15 years ago

You can learn a lot watching the Super Bowl

Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: You can learn a lot watching the Super Bowl Bright headlights can vaporize vampires. Coke remains liquid even at the North Pole, touchdowns count even if you fall involuntarily into the end zone butt first… And, Clint Eastwood is on board with the auto bailout: Fox Commentator Karl Rove said […]

15 years ago

Helpless bystanders

Listen to Dave’s Commentary: Helpless bystanders Josh Powell was a familiar name in Washington and Utah. In 2009, he claimed that he returned from a midnight camping trip with his two young boys near their Utah home to find his wife missing without a trace. He moved to Washington with the boys to be near […]

15 years ago

Fighting all the way to the bank!

Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: Fighting all the way to the bank! Now that was a nice bit of fundraising! On Wednesday, it came out that the Susan G Komen for the Cure foundation had decided to cut off some grants to Planned Parenthood. There was a new grant policy, we were told, which said […]

15 years ago

And the Oscar for best news tease goes to

Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: And the Oscar for best news tease goes to Oh, it was classic Donald — first the leak: Donald Trump endorsing Newt GINGRICH! Then the reveal: “It’s my honor to endorse Mitt Romney,” announced Trump. Gotcha! Classic Donald. But now…now I’m sad. Remember when Trump showed up in New Hampshire, […]

15 years ago

Will it stick

Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: Will it stick Washington State is about to become the seventh state to approve same sex marriage. But it’s headed for a statewide referendum, and that won’t be so easy. Because conservatives like State Sen Dan Swecker will warn about reverse discrimination: “Ordinary working people would be subject to discrimination […]

15 years ago

Elections are not just about who wins

Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: Elections are not just about who wins No, elections are also about who decides to pack it up and go away. Which is what the Republican establishment wishes Newt Gingrich would do. But they don’t get it. In fact, as Romney himself pointed out this morning, Gingrich has never conceded […]

15 years ago

It’s so unfair

Listen to Dave’s Commentary: It’s so unfair American Idol is now inviting the president to perform with Al Green after his little audition last week at the Apollo: “I’m so in love with you” -Obama A rendition so pitch perfect that Al Green downloads skyrocketed. OK so here comes Mitt Romney… “America, America God shed […]

15 years ago

A level playing field

Listen to Dave's Commentary: The NFL: A level playing field Politicians are always talking about a level playing field, but I wonder if they really mean it.

15 years ago

Are there BAD capitalists?

Listen to Dave's Commentary: Are there BAD capitalists? Are there good capitalists and bad capitalists, and which one is Mitt Romney? For that we turn to CBS Money Watch's Jill Schlesinger, former investment advisor, who knows venture capitalism is a blood sport.

15 years ago

Could YOU do this?

Listen to Dave's Commentary Could YOU do this? We just accept that at any given moment there's a group of Republicans debating, and it's easy to rip them apart.

15 years ago

Temper, temper

Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: Temper, temper It’s a national scandal: “People who witnessed the Arizona showdown won’t soon forget Governor Jan Brewer pointing her finger at a stern looking President Obama,” said one report. Brewer explained to Fox’s Greta van Susteren that the president had lipped off to her about the way she described […]

15 years ago

Barack Obama, Prometheus bound

Listen to Dave’s Commentary: Barack Obama, Prometheus bound The State of the Union address wasn’t about tax fairness. This was a speech about a president who knows what to do, but isn’t being allowed to do it. In fact, it’s significant that the biggest sound bite today isn’t even from the speech: “Good job tonight. […]

15 years ago

Saving Cuba!

Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: Saving Cuba!
If you want votes In Florida, you have to be tough on Cuba, so at last night's Republican debate -- the question was what would you do if Fidel Castro died?
And it started a Romney-Gingrich tough-off:
"First of all, you thank heavens if Fidel Castro has returned to his maker," said Romney.

15 years ago

Look at what happened over the weekend

I guess that's why they hold they hold the election . "We showed that we weren't going to let the establishment dictate which way we were going to vote," said one Gingrich supporter.

15 years ago

Pity the billionaire

Listen Dave Ross Commentary: Pity the billionaire Thomas Frank, once the only liberal columnist at the Wall Street Journal, author of What’s The Matter with Kansas, and now Pity the Billionaire — thought the Great Recession would turn America against the excesses of Conservatism: “Every pundit in Washington said this is the end of the […]