Foreclosuregate Update: Nevada, Arizona Sue Bank of America
December 21, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: On Friday, the attorneys general of Arizona and Nevada filed a lawsuit against Bank of America, accusing it of engaging in “widespread fraud” by misleading customers with “false promises” about their eligibility for modifications on their home mortgages. Arizona and Nevada Accuse Bank of America of Fraud – NYTimes.com: In withering complaints
Food Safety Act rescued from defeat, headed for passage
December 21, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Last week when Sen. John McCain was yucking it up on the Senate floor about killing the omnibus spending bill, ostensibly because it contained "budget-busting" earmarks (actually less than 1% of the omnibus spending bill), much of the mainstream media's infatuation with this bogus earmarks crusade over the years led them to
Senator Kyl, Do Your Duty: Our Military Works Through the Holidays – So Should Our Senate
December 20, 2010
By Brett Hunt, posted upon request of the Truman National Security Project Senator Kyl continues to delay the New START arms pact with Russia, even though it has the unanimous backing of the uniformed military leadership, every living Secretary of State, and even former President George H.W. Bush. Because of this delay, the treaty has
It’s enough to make you cry: Brewer makes the Onion’s “People Who Mattered in 2010” list
December 20, 2010
by David Safier It's an honor, I guess. Our own Jan Brewer is Number 6 on the Onion's People Who Mattered in 2010 list. Those who beat her to the top five positions are: Barack Obama Snooki Julian Assange Mark Zuckerberg Mel Gibson The funny thing about the Brewer piece is that it isn't funny.
Update: The GOP war on public employees
December 20, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: 60 Minutes on Sunday night aired a story by Steve Kroft about state budgets and the day of reckoning just around the corner when the federal stimulus funds that bailed out state governments begins to expire. Rather than a thoughtful piece on this subject, I was stunned that 60 Minutes essentially aired an
Status of New START treaty debate
December 20, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: For those of you who are C-Span junkies, you have been treated to a nauseating display of dissembling and lies over the weekend by Arizona's twin embarrassments, Sens. Jon Kyl and John McCain, as they tried to kill the New START treaty with poison pill amendments. They are truly reprehensible. Keep in
Why I left some school districts off my tax credits list
December 20, 2010
by David Safier Please give a public school tax credit donation! It costs you nothing, and it gives some much needed dollars to our fund-starved public schools. In my post below, I give details about contributing to Tucson and Sunnyside District schools. Here's why I left out other local school districts. The following districts' forms
Give tax credit dollars to a public school before December 31
December 20, 2010
by David Safier Yeah, yeah, I don't much like school tax credits. The backdoor vouchers for private schools are flat out reprehensible, and I would much rather have the public school funds evenly distributed rather than having them end up mainly in the hands of schools with affluent parents. But we have to make the
