Star ignores Sen. Gallardo’s “Gun Show Loophole” bill, news conference
February 2, 2011
by David Safier I say this with a certain amount of pride, but more concern and disappointment. Once again, if you want to learn more of the story about what's going on in the legislature, you need to read BfA. Craig McDermott who posts on Random Musings in Phoenix and cross-posts here, attended Sen. Steve
Chaos erupts in Cairo
February 2, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Western media appears in agreement that the Mubarak government has recruited paid thugs and undercover security forces to attack pro-democracy protestors in an attempt to take back control of Tahrir Square in Cairo. The consensus is that these are the same thugs used by the Mubarak government in the past to rig elections
The Crazy elsewhere
February 2, 2011
by David Safier Sometimes, reading BfA, you would think the craziest legislators in the country live right here in the S.-of-A. (State of Arizona, for those who can't figure out my just-created abbreviation). And you may be right. But we don't have the monopoly on Crazy. Case in point: Georgia State Rep Bobby Franklin just
The Farley Report – February 1, 2011
February 2, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Time once again for the Farley Report from Rep. Steve Farley (D-LD 28): We in Southern Arizona deserve some good news. Those of you who have been on this list since before the Farley Report existed will know that this is a really big deal: Tucson's Modern Streetcar received our final "Finding
“A cult didn’t sever my spine”
February 1, 2011
By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings In the wake of the revelation that people who admit that they can't pass a background check yet can still walk into a gun show in Arizona and buy the same gun and clip that was used in the Tucson mass shooting, Sen. Steve Gallardo introduced SB1586, closing
I’m sure glad I didn’t learn this in an Ethnic Studies class!
February 1, 2011
by David Safier I'm still reeling from the U.S.-hating article in yesterday's Star, Key parts of famed treaty with Mexico set for display. I'm sure it must have been written by one of them TUSD Ethnic Studies teachers or another of them give-the-Southwest-back-to-Mexico radicals. I mean, give me a break. The article says, when the
The dickishness of Jon Kyl
February 1, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: With the exception of Neoconservative commentators at FAUX News, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and right-wing bloggers who have alternatively argued for U.S. support of Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak or a U.S. invasion of Egypt, American politicians have been remarkably uniformly supportive of the Obama administration's careful approach to the uprising
