Hillary Clinton: I Told You So
May 7, 2022
Former First Lady, New York Senator, Secretary of State, and 2016 Presidential Popular Vote winner (by about three million votes) Hillary Clinton has been making the rounds on the news shows this week after the leaked Justice Alito opinion that, if it holds, would overturn Roe v Wade. In a very professional and diplomatic way,
Phoenix is One of 12 Cities from Around the World Engaged in the 2022 C40 Reinventing Cities Competition
May 7, 2022
What does Phoenix have in common with Bologna, Bristol, Houston, Izmir, Lyon, Milan, Montréal, Naples, Rome, San Francisco and São Paulo? All 12 of these cities are participants in the 2022 C40 Reinventing Cities Competition. C40 is a collaborative network of about 100 mayors from cities around the world whose focus is to devise sustainability
Bans Off Our Bodies rallies on May 14
May 7, 2022
“Supreme Court Leak: Our Worst Fears Confirmed Abortion is still legal. It’s still your right. But the Supreme Court is prepared to end your constitutional right to abortion. Our country is facing an abortion access crisis. By this summer, 26 states could move to ban abortion — affecting 36 million women, plus more people who
WANTED: Owner/operator of her own uterus.
May 6, 2022
Many people have already written about the leaked SCOTUS decision on the Dobbs case and no doubt many more will. Here is my take. The decision is 67 pages with 31 pages of appendices. Alito starts by saying it is a profound moral issue with sharply conflicting views. Right off, that is false. Over 80%
Mad King Donald Wanted To Fire Missiles Into Mexico
May 6, 2022
Above: The Patriot (MIM-104) is a long-range, all-altitude, all-weather air defence system to counter tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and advanced aircraft. It’s tell-all book time, again, and this time it is former secretary of Defense Mark Esper. The New York Times reports on a passage from his memoir, Trump Proposed Launching Missiles Into Mexico to
Rep. Andy Biggs’ ‘America First Contract’ (On America) Is An Unserious Joke
May 5, 2022
Update to The GQP Midterm Agenda: All Culture Wars, All The Time – And Making You ‘Lucky Duckies’ Pay More Taxes: Mitch McConnell has told colleagues and donors Senate Republicans won’t release a legislative agenda before next year’s midterms, according to people who’ve attended private meetings with the minority leader. [S]enate Republican leaders have no
Dear Justice Alito: One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other
May 5, 2022
David Cole, national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union and a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, writes at the Washington Post, Reversals usually expand rights. Alito’s ruling would deny them. In his leaked draft opinion for the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. points to Brown v.
Justice Alito’s Draft Opinion Relies On A 17th Century Jurist Responsible For the Marital Rape Exemption, And Who Executed Women As Witches
May 5, 2022
Above: Justce Samuel Alito; Sir Matthew Hale. Most Americans have probably never heard of Sir Matthew Hale, an English jurist who was born in 1609. But Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization cites him a half-dozen times throughout his draft as proof that abortion bans are an indispensable part
