Political Calendar: Week of August 22, 2021
Send notices of your events to blogforarizona@gmail.com. Editor’s Note: Due to the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and CDC recommendations for social distancing, events are being cancelled or postponed to later dates. We are doing our best to update the calendar, but you should check with event organizers prior to attending any event to confirm the status. … Read more
Progress on the Second War on Poverty: The Biden/Harris Administration Increases Benefits to the SNAP (Food Stamp) Program
When the history of the Biden/Harris Administration is written, it should be noted that the President and Vice President launched the sequel to Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty programs from the 1960s. Already, the expansion of the Child Tax Credit that was enacted as part of the American Rescue Plan has helped to reduce child … Read more
The Lincoln Project Blasts Doug Ducey’s School Incentive Program to Spread COVID
In a short and sweet video, the Lincoln Project condemned Doug Ducey’s school grant programs that encourage families to be unsafe and spread the Coronavirus. Remember the Lincoln Project is staffed by former Republicans disgusted with the direction of their former party. The video shows a map of the United States Coronavirus cases over the … Read more
Maricopa Recorder Stephen Richer’s Political Earthquake
Editor: The recently-elected Maricopa County Recorder, Stephen Richer, who is a dyed in the wool Republican with credentials far deeper and stronger roots in the conservative movement than most, yesterday published an open letter which, if there is any way to rationally push back on his Party’s turn toward the irrational, conspiracies, and kookism, will rock … Read more
Superintendent Hoffman and Invest in Arizona Coalition React to Arizona Supreme Court Invest in Ed Ruling
There is, as EJ Montini headlined in an oped yesterday (August 19, 2021,) an Arizona Republican war on children. This is in addition to their separate wars on science, reality, economic sanity, and Democracy. Over the last several months, their operatives in the Legislature, the Governor’s office, and the Arizona Supreme Court have: Opted to … Read more
Protecting Children Violates Parental Rights?
Okay, let me get this right. Governor Ducey is threatening to withhold federal COVID funding from Arizona districts who have mandated masks. Where do I begin with all the things wrong with that? First of all, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge has already determined the school districts are not breaking the law, because it … Read more
Update: The Pro-War Bias Of The Media Has Failed Us In Covering The ‘Forever Wars’ For 20 Years
MSBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell continues his excellent commentary on the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan after the fall of the corrupt U.S. puppet government to the Taliban. O’Donnell’s historical context to the withdrawal of the U.S. from the corrupt U.S. puppet government of South Vietnam in 1975 should be required viewing, an object lesson for every … Read more
The Messy Fall of Afghanistan is Entirely Trump’s Fault
Well, nearly so, anyway. There is a clear and indisputable context we need to keep in mind in evaluating Biden’s Afghan policy: Trump demanded and got the release of the leader of the political office of the Taliban, Baradar, from jail in Pakistan. Baradar then led the negotiations in Qatar with the US for our … Read more
