By Michael Bryan Following the shut-down of The Citizen website, many great bloggers found themselves without a home. One voice that we could not let fall silent was Carolyn Classen, who has been doing a tireless job of informing the Tucson community. We reached out to Carolyn to see if she was willing to keep … Read more
Posted by Bob Lord I almost missed this whopper by the Thuckmeister in a comment to a BlueMeanie post: You are running the Roosevelt play book in using Hoover as a metaphor for Bush. But, that doesn't cut it any more. Thanks to Lee Ohanian's (top ranked economist) work we know that a modest recession … Read more
Crossposted from DemocraticDiva.com
Commenter “Robert” alerted me to an “in-depth analysis” of Friday’s court decision dismissing the anti-Medicaid expansion lawsuit by Arizona’s Own Espresso Pundit. EP warns liberals like myself not to be too sanguine about the judge’s ruling that the plaintiffs didn’t have standing.
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Just how dysfunctional is the Arizona Republican Party? This dysfunctional: the First Vice Chair of the Arizona Republican Party is raising money . . . to defeat Republicans. The Arizona Capitol Times (subscription required) reports, SB1070 author Russell Pearce raising money to defeat Republicans:
[Recalled] former Senate President Russell Pearce is helping raise money that will be used to target former Republican legislative colleagues who backed Gov. Jan Brewer’s expansion of the state’s Medicaid program last year.
Pearce is headlining a Feb. 13 fundraiser for the Arizona Taxpayers Action Committee at the Paradise Valley home of former Republican legislator Colette Rosati.
Leaders of the conservative independent expenditure committee opposed Brewer’s proposal to restore funding that was cut from AHCCCS during the recession and expand enrollment to comply with the Affordable Care Act and capture additional federal health care funding. The committee leaders have publicly targeted Republican legislators who voted for the plan.
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Remember this from back in November: Pope Francis Orders Survey Of Catholics On Hot-Button Social Issues:
U.S. bishops are among those the pope is asking to find out from their parishioners how they feel about abortion, same-sex marriage, divorce and birth control.
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The decision is dividing some parishioners, some of whom fear the poll could be the first step in the church changing its stance on hot-button issues.
The results are trickling in and as they would say on the Family Feud, "survey says": Global Poll Finds Most Catholics Actually Support Birth Control And Abortion Rights:
A new global poll surveying the world’s Catholics finds that most of them don’t agree with the Church’s strict positions on issues of reproductive health. Specifically, most Catholics around the world actually support birth control and abortion rights — two “family values” issues that the Catholic hierarchy opposes.