Today's Fresh Blogs...

• It has been a tough year for freedom of speech

  Published: September 10, 2007, 2:41 am

  Tags: United States, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Government, Rights, Constitution, Freedoms

  And he gives a point by point listing of why...The First Amendment to the Constitution can't get any respect.Be sure to stop by for more later...

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• Seattle P-I Tosses Only Softballs in Illegal Immigrant Interview

  Published: September 11, 2007, 12:30 pm

  Tags: Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Monica Guzman, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Blogs, Journalistic Issues

  September 10 Big Blog entry, Seattle Post-Intelligencer online reporter Monica Guzman filed an interview with an illegal immigrant from Peru. While it's arguable there's a place for her softball questions about the hopes and dreams that compel illegal immigrants to come to America for opportunity, a balanced interview would call for some harder

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• Seattle P-I Passes Along Congressional Phone Numbers for War Protest

  Published: September 12, 2007, 2:43 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Military, Candace Heckman, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Blogs, Government Amp Amp Press

  "Protest du Jour," Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Candace Heckman let the paper's "The Big Blog" readers know that, "[c]oast to coast, Sept. 12 has been declared National Call-In Day to End the Iraq War by a conglomeration of advocacy groups." Oh how nice. Today's protest is expected to take place all day over the

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• Washington primary could be a big one for Republicans

  Published: September 20, 2007, 11:23 pm

  Tags: Washington, Seattle Post Intelligencer, 2008 Race, Elections, Republicans, Gop

  Meh...The chairman of the Republican National Committee thinks the field of GOP presidential candidates is so scattered that Washington state could end up with something it hasn't often had: a pivotal role in the nominating process. "I think it's very likely on the Republican side that the primary in Washington will be relevant in 2008," Mike

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• Oregon Conservative activists fight gay rights progress...

  Published: September 27, 2007, 1:07 pm

  Tags: Oregon, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Civil Rights, Oregon News, Gay Rights, Gay Gay Gay, Freedoms

  Gotta respect their opinions even though this is non-sense... SALEM, Ore. -- Opponents of two gay rights laws passed by the 2007 Oregon Legislature turned in what might be barely enough signatures to put the two laws up for a vote in the November 2008 election.Conservative activists submitted what they said were about 63,000 signatures for each of

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• Seattle P-I Hypes Story of Woman Seeking Canadian Hubby for Health Care

  Published: October 1, 2007, 12:22 pm

  Tags: Health Care, Health Insurance, Belinda Stronach, Cherie Black, Jeanne Sather, Seattle Post Intelligencer

  Black of the Seattle P-I took the opportunity to inform readers of a liberal cancer patient's political stunt: putting out a personals ad looking for a Canadian man to marry, for health care, of course. But while Black breezed past Canadian angst over American Jeanne Sather's hopes of cashing in on love and free health care, the P-I

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• Woman in wheelchair hit by train in Seattle

  Published: October 1, 2007, 3:30 pm

  Tags: Crazy, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Wtf, Wacky Wierd, Omg, Survival, Accidents

  Anytime it is a person vs a train - you know it isn't going to be a good outcome... She survived...A freight train clipped a 40-year old Seattle woman's electric wheelchair early Sunday morning near Safeco Field, a Seattle fire department spokeswoman said Sunday.Be sure to stop by for more later...

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• MSNBC Bought Out Newsvine.com

  Published: October 8, 2007, 1:44 pm

  Tags: Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Libertarians, Political Groups, Media Business, Online Media, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Web 2 0

  news site Newsvine.com, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Web site reported Sunday evening.: MSNBC Interactive News, a Microsoft and NBC Universal joint venture with 27.3 million Web visitors in August, announced Sunday night that it has purchased Newsvine in a deal of undisclosed size. It is the first acquisition in MSNBC.com's 11-year history,

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• Republican Accused of Gay Sex? AP Will Be Sure to Mention in Lede

  Published: October 31, 2007, 11:45 am

  Tags: Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Crime, Double Standards, Labeling, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Associated Press, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Government Amp Amp Press

  have been the work of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, where I found the article from a link in the paper's Big Blog. The headline to the October 31 Nicholas K. Geranios article reads: "State lawmaker says he's a victim of extortion: Republican denies having sex with man." In an October 31 post, NewsBusters contributor Huston wrote an

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• Seattle PI Columnist: 'I Understand' Burning 'Oppressive' Churches

  Published: October 31, 2007, 3:14 am

  Tags: Crime, Media Bias Debate, Dorothy Parvez, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Journalistic Issues

  blogger and member of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial board, posted a short P-I blog post in which she sympathetically says she understands how someone would want to burn a church down because it is "an oppressive institution." And she isn't just shrugging her shoulders over the threatened arson of a church, but the planned arson of

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• Coming soon: A green revolution

  Published: November 1, 2007, 1:41 pm

  Tags: Go Green, United States, Global Warming, Activism, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Cities, Seattle

  Great news... Fluorescent bulbs were climate change activism on training wheels. For the next generation, it's time for a green revolution, for overthrowing the old order and ushering in the new, environmental and local elected leaders say. They talk about a campaign as passionate as the civil rights movement, as nationally unifying as World War

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• Baby OK after car hits stroller in Seattle

  Published: November 1, 2007, 1:38 pm

  Tags: Crazy, Amazing, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Wacky And Wierd, Seattle, Accidents

  miracle but wow... crazy. SEATTLE -- A baby apparently escaped serious injury today when its baby stroller was struck and pinned under a car in Seattle's Central District (at 23rd Avenue and East Marion Street). Nearby construction workers saw the accident and lifted the car off the stroller. The baby's mother and grandmother who had been

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• Seattle P-I Columnist Slams College GOP As Unwitting Tools of Neocons

  Published: November 1, 2007, 3:07 pm

  Tags: Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Islam, Labeling, Media Bias Debate, Religion, Robert L Jamieson Jr, Seattle Post Intelligencer

  eeeevil neocons. That's how Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Robert L. Jamieson Jr. sees College Republicans at the University of Washington. Jamieson's gripe, the recently-observed Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week: Maybe the stunt was fun and games for the publicity-seeking Republican college group. But it's serious business for the folks

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• Seattle P-I Newsroom Welcomes Helen Thomas, Editor Admires 'Candor'

  Published: November 4, 2007, 1:37 am

  Tags: Iraq, Media Bias Debate, David Mccumber, George W Bush, Helen Thomas, Media Business, Online Media, Blogs, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Journalistic Issues

  instruction," gushed Seattle Post-Intelligencer managing editor David McCumber in a November 2 post at his paper's Big Blog. In a short video of her Friday appearance, Thomas regales the P-I newsroom audience with her tired left-wing ravings about how the Bush administration lied to get the United States into war with Iraq, and how

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• Seattle takes the cue...

  Published: November 5, 2007, 10:49 pm

  Tags: New York Times, Beautiful Northwest, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Biking, Sustainability, Cities, Portland

  lovin from the NY Times... Seattle sees room for improvement. Seattle city leaders could take a cue from our neighbor to the South. Portland officials are dedicated to making their streets bike friendly, and are working to help establish and maintain sustainable cycling-based businesses. TWO RECENT NYT ARTICLES:

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