by David Safier Last week, TUSD school board president Mark Stegeman wrote an op ed in the Star recommending the Mexican American Studies courses be removed from the core curriculum and be turned into electives. Now, I hear Superintendent John Pedicone is also pushing to change the program into a series of elective courses, and … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: It's sadly comical when Tea-Publicans talk about the "rule of law" and say that America is "a nation of laws." They only say this about laws with which they agree. Tea-Publicans are quick to dismiss the rule of law and the validity of court orders with which they disagree. Laws are for … Read more
by David Safier If it were possible to be amused, if the obfuscation around the nuclear power plant catastrophe in Japan weren't so dangerous, I would call this my "favorite" line yet: [C]hief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano repeated today that the contaminated water in Unit 2 appeared to be due to a temporary partial meltdown … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: William Cronon, a historian who teaches at the University of Wisconsin started a blog, “Scholar as Citizen,” devoting his first post to the role of the shadowy American Legislative Exchange Council in pushing hard-line conservative legislation at the state level. BforAZ included a link to his richly detailed post in The Devil's … Read more
Posted by Michael Bryan The team here at BfAZ have decided that it is time to address social media a little more systematically. People love their Facebook, so we've decided to do our best to provide as much of our content as possible the way Facebooker's 'Like' it: on Facebook. So while we've had a … Read more