60 Minutes fail on corporate tax avoiders
March 28, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Even as a kid I loved 60 Minutes. In its early days it was "ambush" investigative journalism. Every week there was some crooked evil bastard who would answer his door only to be confronted by Mike Wallace – "Mike Wallace, 60 Minutes, can we talk to you?" The look of fear and dread on
House Democrats call out GOP plan to steal from public safety officers
March 28, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Press Release from the Arizona House Democrats: House Democrats call out GOP plan to steal from public safety officers STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX – House Democrats are holding Republicans accountable for voting against public safety officers’ lifetime service. House Republicans voted in committee to steal retirement from firefighters, police and correctional officers in
BfAZ’s New Social Graces
March 28, 2011
By Michael Bryan The crew here at BfAZ are getting more involved in using social media to reach out to our readers and especially to find new ones. See the new doohicky on the left sidebar? Touch it. Really. Go ahead. I'll wait… Tell your networks about us, and you can read more about the
Is the fix in to make Mexican American Studies an elective?
March 28, 2011
by David Safier Last week, TUSD school board president Mark Stegeman wrote an op ed in the Star recommending the Mexican American Studies courses be removed from the core curriculum and be turned into electives. Now, I hear Superintendent John Pedicone is also pushing to change the program into a series of elective courses, and
Tea-Publican Tyranny Continues in Wisconsin
March 28, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: It's sadly comical when Tea-Publicans talk about the "rule of law" and say that America is "a nation of laws." They only say this about laws with which they agree. Tea-Publicans are quick to dismiss the rule of law and the validity of court orders with which they disagree. Laws are for
“Temporary partial meltdown”?
March 28, 2011
by David Safier If it were possible to be amused, if the obfuscation around the nuclear power plant catastrophe in Japan weren't so dangerous, I would call this my "favorite" line yet: [C]hief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano repeated today that the contaminated water in Unit 2 appeared to be due to a temporary partial meltdown
The Big Chill: The Ghost of Joe McCarthy in Wisconsin
March 28, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: William Cronon, a historian who teaches at the University of Wisconsin started a blog, “Scholar as Citizen,” devoting his first post to the role of the shadowy American Legislative Exchange Council in pushing hard-line conservative legislation at the state level. BforAZ included a link to his richly detailed post in The Devil's
BfAZ Getting (a Little More) Social
March 27, 2011
Posted by Michael Bryan The team here at BfAZ have decided that it is time to address social media a little more systematically. People love their Facebook, so we've decided to do our best to provide as much of our content as possible the way Facebooker's 'Like' it: on Facebook. So while we've had a
