The Crazy elsewhere
by David Safier Sometimes, reading BfA, you would think the craziest legislators in the country live right here in the S.-of-A. (State of Arizona, for those who can't figure out my just-created abbreviation). And you may be right. But we don't have the monopoly on Crazy. Advertisement Case in point: Georgia State Rep Bobby Franklin … Read more
The Farley Report – February 1, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Time once again for the Farley Report from Rep. Steve Farley (D-LD 28): We in Southern Arizona deserve some good news. Those of you who have been on this list since before the Farley Report existed will know that this is a really big deal: Tucson's Modern Streetcar received our final "Finding … Read more
“A cult didn’t sever my spine”
By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings In the wake of the revelation that people who admit that they can't pass a background check yet can still walk into a gun show in Arizona and buy the same gun and clip that was used in the Tucson mass shooting, Sen. Steve Gallardo introduced SB1586, closing … Read more
I’m sure glad I didn’t learn this in an Ethnic Studies class!
by David Safier I'm still reeling from the U.S.-hating article in yesterday's Star, Key parts of famed treaty with Mexico set for display. I'm sure it must have been written by one of them TUSD Ethnic Studies teachers or another of them give-the-Southwest-back-to-Mexico radicals. I mean, give me a break. The article says, when the … Read more
The dickishness of Jon Kyl
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: With the exception of Neoconservative commentators at FAUX News, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and right-wing bloggers who have alternatively argued for U.S. support of Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak or a U.S. invasion of Egypt, American politicians have been remarkably uniformly supportive of the Obama administration's careful approach to the uprising … Read more
Corporate Media Bias in Healthcare Reporting – Shock! (Not)
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I'll bet you didn't know that nearly three dozen judges have now considered challenges to the landmark Affordable Care Act and the overwhelming majority of these cases have been dismissed. Clearly Constitutional. No? Or that two Judges have upheld the law. No? That's because the corporate media chooses to emphasize only the two conservative activist Republican … Read more
