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The cartoonists take on “King” Russell Pearce and the Fiesta Bowl Scandal
April 4, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Benson David Fitzsimmons
Barack Obama 2012 launches today
April 4, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: It's official. Announcement from Obama for America: Today, we are filing papers to launch our 2012 campaign. We're doing this now because the politics we believe in does not start with expensive TV ads or extravaganzas, but with you — with people organizing block-by-block, talking to neighbors, co-workers, and friends. And that
The end is near: Arizona Legislature week in review and the coming week
April 3, 2011
By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings When both of the weekly legislative posts, both review and preview, can be combined, it's clear that the end of the legislative session is nigh. – The biggest news last week was the railroading of a budget through the House on minimal notice. Utilizing a lack of notice (nobody outside
Tea-Publican Teh Stupid
April 3, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: This past week we had some fun with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) in Teh Stupid: In a press conference today, Cantor promised to present the "Prevention of a Government Shutdown Act" on the House floor on Friday. He said, "that will say to the American people: the Senate's got to
Baja Arizona as a foreign country
April 3, 2011
by David Safier Now it's The Economist adding coverage to the Baja Arizona movement in an article titled, "A tale of two counties." Note, that's "two counties," as in Maricopa and Pima. The article is very well done, and its flavor is different from what I've read in our national media. This is an English
Dr. Martin Luther King on today’s anti-union effort
April 3, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Leonard Pitts, Jr. has an opinion republished in the Arizona Daily Star on Sunday. Dr. King had words for today's anti-union effort: On Monday, it will be 43 years since that man was shot from ambush and killed in Memphis, Tenn. Martin Luther King's last public actions were in defense of labor
April 4th
April 3, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I still remember as if it was yesterday. My mind goes back in time to that day every time I hear the lyrics: Early morning, April 4 Shot rings out in the Memphis sky Free at last, they took your life They could not take your pride YouTube – U2 "Pride (In
The Rising: ‘There is going to be a backlash’
April 2, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The concerted effort by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and its coterie of right-wing think tanks and newly elected Tea-Publican governors to destroy unions has proven to be overreaching on a grand scale, with far-reaching unanticipated consequences about to befall Tea-Publicans. The heavy-handed tactics by Tea-Publicans, reminiscent of the corporate “bully-boys” Pinkerton
