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President Obama channels his inner Colbert
May 11, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Oh, you know Stephen Colbert will be doing a segment on President Obama's immigration speech in El Paso on Tuesday after this. I was struck by one passage from the president's speech that sounded all too familiar. Remarks by the President on Comprehensive Immigration Reform in El Paso, Texas: So, here’s the
Update: Pearce Recall on track to collect enough signatures – help put them over the top
May 11, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: There was an Anne Murray hit single back in the 1980's, "We sure could use a little good news today." Well, here's your "a little good news" for today, and things will only get better if you get out there and work to make this goal a reality. Russell Pearce will likely
Congressman Grijalva’s weekly video update
May 11, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Congressman Raúl Grijalva has launched a weekly video update on current affairs. Here is the first video on bringing the troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq, and promoting the Congressional Progressive Caucus' People's Budget. Maybe the Clueless reporters at the Arizona Daily Star can simply watch and file a report… or we will
Update: If it’s Sunday, it’s GOP Beltway PR
May 11, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Jon Stewart and The Daily Show mock the architects and apologists of the Bush illegal torture program to make the point If it's Sunday, it's GOP Beltway PR. The "lamestream media" has completely failed this country. This is why more people get their news from The Daily Show. The Daily ShowTags: Daily
Pat Fleming answers Peggy Judd
May 10, 2011
by David Safier When I read that Peggy Judd (R, LD-25) said, “We are spending more money (on public education) in Arizona than we need to,” I wrote, LD-25 Democrats, fire up your laptops and start your engines. Silly me, thinking I had to remind Pat Fleming, who lost her LD-25 seat in last November's
The President’s Blueprint for Building a 21st Century Immigration System
May 10, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Speaking in El Paso, Texas today, President Barack Obama made the case for comprehensive immigration reform. UPDATED. Text of full Remarks by the President on Comprehensive Immigration Reform in El Paso, Texas | The White House. From the White House blog, The President’s Blueprint for Building a 21st Century Immigration System |
It’s official: schools can’t require immigrant status information
May 10, 2011
by David Safier The U.S. Departments of Education and of Justice have made it official. School districts may not use enrollment practices "that may chill or discourage the participation, or lead to the exclusion, of students based on their or their parents’ or guardians’ actual or perceived citizenship or immigration status." In other words, school
But I thought we were Number 1
May 10, 2011
by David Safier I'm still trying to clean up stories I missed because of my trip and the cold I brought back with me (I'm blaming the airplane air recirculation system, not Barcelona). Here's a story from last week. Arizona got a perfect zero from the Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence on its gun
