So who are you speaking for exactly?

David Safier

by David Safier Bob Jones University has taken the bold step of apologizing for its past racism. Bob Jones University is apologizing for racist policies that included a one-time ban on interracial dating and its unwillingness to admit black students until 1971.  Advertisement In a statement posted Thursday on its Web site, the fundamentalist Christian … Read more

Complete sentences

David Safier

by David Safier Apparently Barack Obama has stepped over the line by speaking in complete sentences: In the first two weeks since the election, President-elect Barack Obama has broken with a tradition established over the past eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political observers say. Millions of Americans who watched Mr. Obama's … Read more

Short note to the current Guv

David Safier

by David Safier Um, Janet, about two weeks before the election, you said at a rally that our Republican state legislators want to cut 40% from the higher education budget. You were exaggerating for effect, right? Right? Because I know you wouldn't leave us in their hands, defenseless, veto-less, if that were really true. Would … Read more

Arizona overtaxed? Hardly.

David Safier

by David Safier (TASL) It seems tax-and-spend liberals are coming out of hiding these days. The latest voice is the Citizen in an editorial, The case for higher taxes.  The subhead says it all: "Study finds cuts — not spending increases — to be the major cause of state budget deficit." Who woulda thunk that … Read more

An ill wind is BREWERing in Arizona

AZ BlueMeanie

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Many of you have heard by now that Governor Janet Napolitano has been tapped by the Obama transition team to become the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Napolitano may be Homeland Security pick It is only a matter of official confirmation. Napolitano would be a vast improvement over Michael … Read more

Kathleen Parker again

David Safier

by David Safier God bless Kathleen Parker. The columnist was one of the first conservatives to reject Sarah Palin in print  and came as close to saying she was voting for Obama as you can come without saying it. Since then, she's been on a tear in her columns. Today's topic is the way the … Read more

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