by David Safier I've dubbed Jonathan Paton's more amusing or swinging-wild newsletters and press releases "Scarps," after his press guy, Daniel Scarpinato, who used to write for the Star. The definition of Scarps: Attack dog, logic-challenged rants written for Paton by Daniel Scarpinato. The latest Scarp is a hoot. Apparently, Jesse Kelly has a poll … Read more

by David Safier You may have seen the recent articles about investigations into financial and educational abuses at for profit colleges. My question is, should we have the same concern about K-12 for-profit education? Arizona is one of the few states where for-profit charter schools are legal. But even in states which only allow nonprofit … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Better late than never I guess. Alan Greenspan could have stopped this disaster from occurring back in 2001. Now that the economy lies in the wreckage of failed faith based supply-side "trickle down" GOP economics, ol' Alan has suddenly seen the light and found religion. Greenspan Chides Republicans For Pushing To Extend Bush … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Tea Party Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Nevada, Sharron Angle, is so comfortable with softball questions in the protective cocoon of the conservative media bubble that when she appears on the Faux News Fraudcasting Network she believes that she is speaking just to like-minded individuals and that no one else is watching.

Angle unwittingly exposed the too-cozy relationship between Faux News and Republicans in this devastating disclosure to reporter Carl Cameron (at 2:35 mark). Angle tells Cameron that she should be asked prearranged questions that she submits in advance so that she can get in her talking points and, oh by the way, she should also be able to do fund raising appeals for her campaign when she appears on Faux News. (You mean that Republicans are not already doing this on Faux News?):
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