by David Safier This should be embarrassing for KVOA. They're running a poll asking whether or not people support SB1070, and their information accompanying the poll is outdated and inaccurate. Here's part of KVOA's "summary" of the bill: During the course of a lawful stop, when practicable, law enforcement has the right to inquire about … Read more
by David Safier The silence is positively defining. The Goldwater Institute, which has an opinion on every almost every controversial issue in Arizona, is still mum on SB1070. Dead silent. Nothing to hear but crickets. Cowards. Abject, unprincipled cowards. Everything about your libertarian philosophy and your past writings say you're against this infringement of civil … Read more
by David Safier This morning I posted about Buzz Mills being shot down on his 1-to-1 teacher to administrator lie by the able and well-researched Brahm Resnik. (Why don't interviewers always come in with facts and information like that, based on what they know the interviewee is going to say?) I mentioned as an afterthought … Read more
Posted by Craig McDermott (though I'm David Safier will have a *lot* to say on this one 🙂 ) It might surprise some observers that Arizona's school tuition tax credit law made it to the Supreme Court before Arizona's police-state anti-immigrant law, but the STO law has been around for better than a decade while … Read more
by David Safier SB1070 is filled with sloppy writing and problematic stipulations. But two passages nag at me for a different reason than other parts of the legislation. With these two I ask myself, "Why did they decide it was necessary to put this in the bill?" Here's the first. It's part of the meatiest … Read more