by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
After a flood came streams of neighborly aid. GIG HARBOR, WASH.— “Home” is a term instantly understood, even for mobile Americans who, over a lifetime, change residence many times. No matter how long we live at a particular address, there is still that bit...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
“I’m all for progress,” Mark Twain once said. “It’s change I object to.” Not so the Democrats. Ever since Barack Obama won his early victory in Iowa calling for it, every candidate—Democrat and, less convincingly,...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
Editor’s note: Carla Seaquist is a Barack Obama delegate to the Democratic state convention next month in Spokane. Superdelegates looking to “close the deal” on the Democratic presidential nominee—Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama?—might consider anew the issue that...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
Anti-elitism is ingrained in us, but we shouldn’t misuse that. Gig Harbor, Wash. “Elitist.” What more powerful epithet can one politician fling at another? To suggest, in the US, that your opponent is more aristocrat than common man, that he’s...
by Carla Seaquist | Aug 9, 2009 | Op-ed
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]How absolutely apt—and to some of us, no surprise—that the torture issue has become the defining issue of this moment in post-9/11 America, early in the Obama presidency. Thanks to the conscientious public, to human-rights...
