Posted by AzBlueMeanie: President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform ("Deficit Commission") aka the Catfood Commission was a bad idea from the beginning. Stacked with Clintonista conservadems and conservative Republicans, the outcome was all too predictable. Advertisement Yesterday, the chairs of the "bipartisan" commission, Clintonista Erskine Bowles and long-time anti-social security Republican Alan Simpson, … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Today is Veterans Day, originally Armistice Day observed on November 11 to recall the official end of World War I on that date in 1918, when the major hostilities of World War I were formally ended "at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month" of 1918 with the German signing … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: When the Neoconservatives began beating the drums for war with Iraq and fabricating intelligence claims of weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein was prepared to use against the United States, every major news service in the country — including the Gray Lady New York Times – dutifully reported the Neoconservative propaganda unquestioningly … Read more

by David Safier Lawrence O'Donnell is one of the only non-radical people Dr. Word has heard lately who has dared to declare himself a socialist. He's not for abolishing capitalism or nationalizing corporations. He's just saying, some of what we do in the country is socialistic, like Social Security and Medicare. Some of it is … Read more

by David Safier A story in the Business section of the Star talks about a 3-1 vote by the Pima Supes to OK the development of a Corrections Corporation of America private prison on South Wilmot. Pima County approved a development agreement Tuesday for a private prison on South Wilmot Road that could be used … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Stephen Colbert takes on the media villagers and the Aqua Buddha "unified nothingness theory" of Kentucky senator-elect Rand Paul who are accusing those of us who are tired of being on the receiving end of the faith based supply-side "trickle down" GOP economics of waging "class warfare." Oh, there's class warfare going … Read more

by David Safier We live in an age of crazies running the asylum, and the part of it they don't run, they're trying to run over. Fountain Hills, Arizona, Town Council had a pretty good idea. Consolidate trash hauling from five carriers to one and create a curbside recycling program. The result would be fewer … Read more