Political Calendar: Week of May 21, 2023
Send notices of your events to blogforarizona@gmail.com. Editor’s Note: Due to the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and CDC recommendations for social distancing, many events are still being held virtually online. We are doing our best to update the calendar, but you should check with event organizers prior to attending any event to confirm the status. Advertisement … Read more
The Four GQP Freedoms Are A Dystopian, Un-American Nightmare
In his 1941 State of the Union Address to Congress, with World War II underway in Europe and the Pacific, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed four fundamental freedoms that all people should have. His “four essential human freedoms” included some phrases already familiar to Americans from the Bill of Rights, as well as some new phrases: freedom of … Read more
How Kari Lake Spins Lies About Her Election Trials to Create Propaganda
UPDATED on 5/20 & 5/23 following the close of trial and upon the issuance of the judge’s ruling are below: Watching the first day of testimony in Lake’s second election contest trial on signature verification, I started out scratching my head and laughing at the testimony, because I was viewing it as an attorney who … Read more
Governor Hobbs and Attorney General Mayes Work to Aid Tribal Communities Combat Medicaid Fraud and Expand Broadband
This last week of May 15, 2023, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes teamed up at a press conference with Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community President Martin Harvier, AHCCCS Director Carmen Heredia, representatives from 13 tribal nations, and law enforcement to announce actions against over 100 vendors that have engaged in fraudulent … Read more
For Those Who Forget, Remember this is the Real Donald Trump Courtesy of the Lincoln Project
The CNN town hall with the 45th occupant of the Oval Office was admittingly an event that could have been better managed and organized. For one, it could have had an audience of both MAGA supporters and opponents. Second, while the host, Kaitlan Collins, did do a good job in trying to counter the twice … Read more
Laurence Tribe Schools The Apologists For The Extremist GQP Economic Terrorists On The Federal Debt Limit (Updated)
The New York Times published an opinion from former jurist Michael McConnell, a professor and Director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, and also a senior fellow at the ultra-conservative Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. The Case for Violating the Debt Limit Is Dangerous Nonsense. I suppose this is because of the … Read more
The Economy Is Doing Better Than People Imagine, Because The Media Only Reports On Negativity
I blame the nattering nabobs of negativism in the mainstream media who know little or nothing about economics, and who simply parrot the GQP talking points from right-wing media – who know even less about economics, and who are dissembling disinformation propagandists. I miss Irving R. Levine, “the longtime NBC News correspondent whose easily accessible … Read more
