Richard Cordray, Obama’s Consumer Rights Chief, to Head Student Debt Program

Lynn Shapiro

The Biden administration’s choice of Richard Cordray, former President Obama’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFBP) chief, to head the $1.6 trillion federal student-loan program, couldn’t be better. “As CFBP chief, Cordray led the bureau’s crackdown on consumer abuses in debt collection, student loan servicing, and for-profit colleges, garnering the respect of advocates and drawing the … Read more

Outlaw Dirty Money Returns and Strikes Back Against the Dark Money Phantom Menace on Star Wars Day

David Gordon

In a Grand Canyon State close close by. Outlaw Dirty Money has returned, under a new campaign name, Voters Right to Know, to strike back against the Dark Money Phantom menace that has attacked, warred, and preyed on Arizona political interests for decades. The campaign filed its ballot initiative with the Arizona Secretary of States’ … Read more

Federal Judge Lambasts William Barr For Lying To The Court, Orders Memo To Be Released

AZ BlueMeanie

Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the United States District Court in Washington, D.C. accused the Justice Department under Attorney General William P. Barr of misleading her and Congress about advice he had received from top department officials on whether President Donald J. Trump should have been charged with obstructing the Russia investigation and ordered that … Read more

Republican Legislators Want Schools to Teach About the Holocaust from the Nazi Perspective

David Gordon

When people think there is no other way Republicans in the Arizona State Legislature can demonstrate their devotion to the fringe white nationalist Trump Zone-Fox Island right, along comes Legislative District (LD) 25 State Representative Michelle Udall’s surprise amendment to SB1532 (a bill on government audits) on Cinco De Mayo and Teacher Appreciation Week to … Read more

The NY Times Tries To Normalize The GQP And Disappear Its Seditious Insurrection On January 6 Down The Memory Hole

AZ BlueMeanie

The headline in the New York Times today reads Why Democratic Departures From the House Have Republicans Salivating. Nowhere in this analysis do the reporters even mention that 147 Republican lawmakers still objected to the election results even after the Capitol attack. Every one of these seditious insurrectionists should have been expelled from Congress. The … Read more

In Defense of Liz Cheney

AZ BlueMeanie

I never thought that I would be in the position of having to defend the spawn of Satan, Dick Cheney’s daughter Liz Cheney, but she has demonstrated that she has a bigger set of cojones than all of those quivering ass-kissing Trump sycophants in Congress combined. Respect, Liz. Liz Cheney was clear and concise in … Read more

(UPDATED) White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tells Obstructionist in Chief Mitch McConnell what his Priorities Should Be

David Gordon

It is so refreshing to have a White House Press Secretary in Jen Psaki that actually works for the American People and tells it like it is or should be. Senate Prince of Darkness-Enemy of the People-Obstructionist in Chief-Moscow Mitch McConnell gave her an opportunity to demonstrate that again today (May 5, 2021.) The Senate … Read more

Facebook Will Continue Trump Ban For Another 6 Months

AZ BlueMeanie

“The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” And yet First Amendment absolutists would make it so, disdaining Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ recognition that there are limitations to the freedom of speech: “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.” Social … Read more

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