AP fact checks Palin
by David Safier It makes me feel slightly dirty giving Sarah Palin any more ink pixels, but reading AP do a take-down on the "facts" in Palin's new book gives me a certain joy, and I want to share it with others. I get the sense the writer had as much fun writing it as … Read more
Horne can’t catch a break on the left or the right
by David Safier I'm not one to sympathize with Tom Horne, but I think the guy needs a friend, and a hug, about now. Not only do people like me snipe at him from the left, but the Sonoran Alliance tore him a big ol' new one on his right flank (That's gotta hurt!) in … Read more
10 years after the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Josh Kalven posts this timely piece as Congress considers new regulations for Wall Street — let's begin with the repeal of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act and return to the Glass-Steagall Act. (I have previously discussed this topic.) Ten Years After The Repeal Of Glass-Steagall: This weeks mark ten years since … Read more
Going Rogue
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: While I'm on the subject of full page ads in the Arizona Daily Star there is one today from NewsMax.com (a right-wing biased "news" mag that makes Faux News look like a legitimate news organization) promoting Sarah Palin's soon to be released book, "Going Rogue: an American Life," for the low, low … Read more
UFCW strike at Safeway and Fry’s averted; so who benefited?
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: h/tTedski at R-Cubed for the press release and graphic. This fresh from the UFCW: We are proud to report that a strike has been averted with Safeway, Fry’s and Smiths. After 13 months of bargaining and a strike deadline just hours away, UFCW Local 99 and the grocery companies have agreed on … Read more
IOKIYAR Health Insurance Coverage for Abortion Services
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I have already taken to task the allegedly 40 anti-abortion conservative Democrats who threatened to scuttle the House health care bill if they did not get a vote on the Stupak-Pitts Amendment. House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) says it actually netted about 10 votes for the Dems' health care reform bill. In … Read more
What fun! Tea Partiers Eat Their Own In Bitter Internal Feud
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: "I am not a member of any organized party — I am a Democrat." — Will Rogers Democrats have been at this now since the days of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. It takes a lot of practice to be able to fight with one another and to hold the party together. … Read more
Reporting on Imagine School in Indiana brings results
by David Safier Remember that wonderful 5 part investigation of tuition tax credits and STOs in the East Valley Trib? And remember how the Trib reporters as well as others at the Republic kept adding to the story? And remember how all this journalistic attention led to not one, but two legislative committees looking into … Read more
