Traitor Kevin McCarthy And The GQP Gang Of Coup Plotters To Obstruct The January 6 Committee
Greg Sargent of the Washington Post writes, Kevin McCarthy’s coverup for Trump just got much more alarming: Let’s stipulate this upfront: A top lawmaker who is actively working to scuttle a full accounting into a violent insurrection has no business playing a potentially decisive role in the process by which the next presidential election is … Read more
SCOTUS Watch: A Month Of Dreading Reactionary Decisions From Radical Republican Justices
It’s June, and you know what that means, it’s time once again for SCOTUS Watch. June is when the Supreme Court issues its most controversial decisions, only because the Roberts Court has adopted the disreputable practice of treating the Supreme Court like it’s a reality TV show, each term must end with a cliffhanger ending … Read more
The GQP Is A Dangerous Anti-Democratic White Christian Nationalist Cult
Frank Schaeffer is the son of theologian and author Francis Schaeffer, and working with his father as a young man, was responsible for laying the foundation of the radical Christian Right movement. In 2007 Schaeffer published his autobiography, Crazy for God: How I Grew Up As One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right and … Read more
Political Calendar: Week of May 29, 2022
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. Political … Read more
Dr. Roxane Gaye On ‘Incivility’
Dr. Roxane Gaye at the New York Times writes, Don’t Talk to Me About ‘Civility.’ On Tuesday Morning Those Children Were Alive. There is a cultural obsession nowadays with civility, with the idea that if everyone is mannered enough, any impasse or difference of opinion can be bridged. But these are desperately uncivil times. And … Read more
Arizona Is Dead Last (#51) In Classroom Instruction Funding When The State Has A $5.3 Billion Surplus
Above: Remember this from 2015? It was all a Big Lie. The Arizona Constitution requires the state legislature to enact a state budget before the start of the new fiscal year on July 1. In addition, the legislature really only had two priorites to address this year: (1) the school funding cliff that the last … Read more
We Must Become Single-Issue Voters on Gun Safety
For the past few days, I have been thinking about the back-to-back mass shootings in Buffalo (an attack on defenseless African Americans by a brainwashed young white nationalist American) and Uvalde (an attack on defenseless children and their teachers by a deranged young Hispanic American). Both are different in motivation and method – but both … Read more
