by David Safier [Since our readership dips a bit over the weekend, I decided to repost this from Sunday. Any post with: Krugman; Digby: Johns Ford, Wayne and Steinbeck; and Woody Guthrie . . . is worth reposting. If nothing else, listen to the audio clip of Guthrie singing Pretty Boy Floyd.] Advertisement Imagine my … Read more

by David Safier I have created The Gatewood in honor of Henry Gatewood, the banker in John Ford's 1939 "Stagecoach" who ran off with $50,000 in payroll money and said, while clutching the satchel full of stolen money, "'America for Americans! The government must not interfere with business! Reduce taxes! Our national debt is something … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: David Safier sent me a link to research, and those of you who have expressed an interest in fighting the influence of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) on the Arizona Legislature may want to check out and bookmark this website to resist alec in arizona (AZ Resists ALEC) (excerpt from home page): … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: "The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification … Read more

by David Safier The Star has an article about Tucson's growing "bike boulevard" which includes this picture. That is one of many features that have been added for $300,000 in tax money to turn Fourth and Fontana avenues into Tucson's first full-fledged "bike boulevard." In the works since 2008, the three-mile bike boulevard runs from … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Predictably, the media villagers and Beltway bloviators rotely reported secessionist Texas Governor Goodhair Rick Perry's "jobs" talking point like the good little stenographers they are without any fact checking or raising any caveats about his claim: “Since June of 2009, Texas is responsible for more than 40 percent of all of the … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Sorry, Mittens, but corporate personhood is a "legal fiction" — originally granted by an act of judicial fraud in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, 118 U.S. 394 (1886) — for certain limited purposes but not all rights afforded to natural persons under the law. For more details read Thom Hartmann's … Read more