Reprehensible! House GOP kills bill to protect girls from coerced child marriage
December 20, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: In another example of a story not reported by most, if not all, of the mainstream media (who were too busy salivating over their undeserved tax breaks) last week, House Republicans in typical knee-jerk reaction to anyone who mentions the word "abortion," killed a bill designed to protect young girls from coerced
Barry Goldwater would kick their bigoted butts
December 20, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), allegedly once a voice of optimism for repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell, called Saturday "a very sad day" before the Senate voted to lift the military ban. John McCain DADT Repeal Reaction: 'Today Is A Very Sad Day': "I hope that when we pass this legislation that we
Second chance at 9/11 first responders bill – demand an up or down vote!
December 20, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Forty-one of the 42 Republican Senators voted against cloture on the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, with one Republican, Sen. Sam Brownback of Kentucky Kansas, abstaining. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) stepped around a first responder asking for his support, telling him “I can’t help you.” And then there
Brewing Up Lies About the State Budget
December 19, 2010
Posted by Michael Bryan Brewer caused an op-ed to be published regarding the ongoing implosion of the state budget, blaming it all on "Obamacare". It's the most mendacious bit of propaganda I've seen from the Governor's office recently, which is saying a lot. I've republished it below interspersed with my own commentary in blue italics.
Jan Brewer’s approach to balancing the state’s budget: Abdicate…responsibility
December 19, 2010
by Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings Sunday's Arizona Republic(-an Party press release outlet) contains an op-ed published under the Governor's name wherein she assesses the reasons for the inability of the state's elected leaders to balance Arizona's budgets. She looks at previously enacted cuts to… …the state's work force… …K-12 education funding… …University-level education funding… …prison spending… …child
Transplants save lives? Sounds like front page news to me
December 19, 2010
by David Safier This made page 20 in today's NY Times, which is fine, since it's a New York paper writing about Arizona. But for Arizona, it's a front page news story — or it should be. The argument by Brewer, et al, that the transplants denied state funds don't work has been debunked. If
Tis the Season: My Grownup Christmas List
December 19, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: One of my favorite modern era Christmas songs, "My Grownup Christmas List," by Amy Grant.
Promise kept: DADT repealed
December 18, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Today was a major victory for the Obama Administration on which much political capital has been expended: the Senate gave final approval to the (conditional) repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT). Institutional discrimination against men and women proudly serving their country in the U.S. Armed Forces who happen to be gay
