Ducey Packed AZ Supreme Court Temporarily Upholds Prop. 208, With A Roadmap To Gutting It
August 19, 2021
Gov. Ducey and our lawless MAGA/QAnon Republican legislature tried to nullify the constitutional right of Arizonans to enact citizens initiatives to improve funding for public education, which they have steadfastly refused to do for many years. Voters approved the Invest In Ed Act (Proposition 208), to impose a small surtax on the wealthy to generate
Public Corruption: Governor Ducey’s Bribery Of School Districts Is Malfeasance In Office
August 19, 2021
Governor Ducey and our lawless MAGA/Qanon Trump death cult GQP legislature lost in court, just as I said they should. Judge says law doesn’t yet block Phoenix Union mask mandate. Nevertheless, our murderously incompetent governor persists. He is now using a “carrot and stick” approach in his executive orders that amounts to illegal bribery, which
The Biden/Harris Administration Strikes Back against the Anti Mask-Anti Vaccine Governors including Doug Ducey
August 19, 2021
Fed up with Republican Governors that are spending more time catering and humoring their Know Nothing-Science Denying-Anti Mask-Anti Vaxer fringe base rather than promoting public safety, President Joe Biden lashed out at leading former party of Lincoln state leaders during a Wednesday afternoon address to the nation, warning that the Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona
Pima Board of Health Votes to End Anonymous Sales at Gun Show
August 19, 2021
The Pima County Board of Health has voted to require that only Federally Firearms Licensed vendors can sell weapons at gun shows at the Pima Fairgrounds. This will end sales by unlicensed gun dealers who sell guns anonymously without a background check and without keeping records. “Background checks are the only way to identify and
The Pro-War Bias Of The Media Has Failed Us In Covering The ‘Forever Wars’ For 20 Years
August 19, 2021
The media to a large extent has been a complete failure in covering the Taliban victory in Afghanistan after twenty years of Donald Rumsfeld’s “Forever Wars.” The cable jockeys have actually trotted out the Neocon war monger architects of the Forever Wars from the Project For a New American Century (PNAC), the George W. Bush
What COVID Deniers Call ‘Freedom’ is Just White Privilege
August 18, 2021
You hear it all the time: the anti-vaxxer, and anti-masker, and outright COVID deniers proclaim that they refuse public health measures in the name of their ‘freedom’. They are not using that word in a way that I recognize as anything approaching our traditional American concept of freedom. Freedom to enjoy life, liberty and happiness;
Trip to Fantasy Land
August 18, 2021
Friday the 13th I decided I had to get away from the cell phone, computer, people, and heat, so I headed up north. Shortly after noon, I hit Payson and stopped to eat. I missed the first café so I went to the second (Bee Line) but as I went to pull in, it
Arizona Republican Budget Priorities: $40,000 to Investigate Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples; $5 Million for Race Horse Owners and Jockeys
August 18, 2021
There is a lot to criticize in the Republican 2022 Fiscal Year State Budget. There is: A billion-dollar flat tax that favors the ultra-rich at the expense of long-term fiscal stability. The circumvention of funding Proposition 208-Invest in Education by making a small business carve-out for ultra-rich individuals or married couples. The lack of investing
