Arizona Leading the Nation to Clean Elections
What do Bill Bradley, Bob Kerrey, Warren Rudman, and Alan Simpson have in common? Well, besides being former eminent U.S. Senators, not much. But they do agree on one thing: they all admire Arizona’s Clean Elections system and want to bring a similar system of publically financed election to the federal government. They have all … Read more
Rove Indicted for Perjury and Lying to Investigators
Update 5/16/06: Apparently there is still no independent verification of Rove’s indictment. TruthOut’s editors claim two sources near the investigation and are standing by the story. Did the web jump the gun? The political world waits on pins and needles. One thing is obvious: if he ain’t indicted yet, he will be. It has finally … Read more
“I will blow your freaking heads off…”
I was rather surprised to see this press release from Roy Warden, the anti-immigrant provocateur who burnt a Mexican flag in the middle of a pro-immigration rally in Tucson. The first surprise was the risable charges against Pima County officials of illegal-alien smuggling and (I can’t help but chuckle as I type) formenting civil war. … Read more
My Travel Map
Create your own visited countries map. I consider myself a fairly well-traveled person. I’ve been to 38 countries, so far. I filled my first passport and had to have extra pages installed. But really, I’ve been to only a small percentage (16%) of the world’s nations. When viewed in the context of the entire wide … Read more
Immigration Compromise on the Horizon?
As Bush contemplates deploying up to 10K National Guard troops to the Mexican border, the Sentate seems to have settled upon a compromise that could open a path to permanent legal status for millions of undocumented immigrants. Of course, there remains a vast gulf between the likely Senate bill and the Sensenbrenner bill passed earlier … Read more
Tucson Regional Transportation Initiative Proponents Take Out a Hit on Opponents
Likely, if you live in Pima County and you’re registered to vote, you got a tabloid format mailing from the Yess!! For Regional Transportation Committee today. In it, we learn that everyone who opposes the RTA initiative is a C.A.V.E person. A Citizen Against Virtually Everything. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so offensive an … Read more
Bush Roars into the 20s
Via: Whiskey Bar. A new New York Times/CBS poll (PDF) shows Bush’s favorability rating has stepped off a cliff and is falling into the rarefied atmosphere of the twenties, where so few Presidents have gone before; Carter, Nixon, Truman, Bush I: A veritable litany of the most successful Presidents of our time. Bush must be … Read more
