Community Forum in Support of TUSD Ethnic Studies Program on Saturday
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Announcement from TUSD Mexican American Studies Program: Advertisement Community Forum in Support of TUSD Ethnic Studies Program Saturday, February 5, 2011 at 2:00 pmEl Pueblo Center Senior Building101 W Irvington Rd, Tucson, AZ 85714 An Open Invitation to the Tucson Community:Stand Up in Support of Our Children's Educational Rights On behalf of … Read more
Dakota Dumbass
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Earlier this week a South Dakota Republican decided to mock the individual insurance mandate of the Affordable Care Act (originally a Republican proposal) by proposing that every eligible adult over the age of 21 be required to purchase a gun in South Dakota. Ahahaaha! This jokester simply displayed his ignorance of law and history. As … Read more
U.S. Senate Unanimously Passes Resolution Calling for Mubarak’s Resignation
Posted by AzNlieMeanie: Will the Looney Tunes at Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal and FAUX News now brand the entire U.S. Senate Marxist Islamist revolutionaries bent on bringing Sharia law to the U.S. under a new Islamic Caliphate? Probably. The right-wing fear mongers have gone completely batshit crazy. In a strong statement of support for … Read more
Poll: Arizona Favors Gun Control
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: A new survey of Arizona from Public Policy Polling finds an interesting result: This red state wants more gun control – indeed, they favor it more than national surveys have shown since the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) in the Tucson area. PPP Poll: Arizona Favors Gun Control | TPMDC: The poll … Read more
The kids are alright
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Iowa (as any Minnesotan will tell you is an acronym for "idiots out wandering around") voted their Supreme Court Justices out of office last November because the court had ruled that same-sex couples could marry in civil unions, they are entitled to equal protection under the law. This is the strongest case … Read more
Planned Parenthood: the Right’s next ACORN?
by David Safier The Andrew Breitbart/James O'Keefe crowd are at it again. Awhile back, by putting together a carefully edited video of visits to ACORN creating the impression of a rogue organization, they pretty much ended ACORN's existence. Now they're using the same tactics against Planned Parenthood. A group called Live Action released a secretly … Read more
Arizona is an “outlier on the low end”? Color me so not shocked.
By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings As the US Census Bureau releases local data to various states for redistricting efforts (Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, Virginia this week, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland next week), they're holding a number of press conferences. Wednesday, Dr. Robert M. Groves, Director of the Census Bureau discussed "the upcoming release of … Read more
