Frist Calls for Talks with Taliban
Via International Herald Tribune: U.S. Senate majority leader calls for efforts to bring Taliban into Afghan government. Boy, this is going to hurt… Advertisement I’m going to have to go out to the workshop, put my hand in the vise, and saw it off with a hack saw after I type this (with one hand, … Read more
Giffords and Pederson Get Populist Tax Politics
I’m encouraged that both Pederson and Giffords are demonstrating the importance of undermining the middle- to low-income appeal of GOP tax policy by offering populist programmes of their own. Pederson has proposed the bolder plan by recommending a revenue neutral 25% cut in payroll taxes (pdf). Now if Pederson’s IT team would just make the … Read more
Reading Liberally: John W. Dean’s “Conservatives Without Conscience”
This post is a magnet for pre-meeting discussion and resources for our inaugural meeting of Reading Liberally on Wednesday Oct. 4th at 7:30 PM at Bookmans on Speedway and Wilmot. We will be discussing John W. Dean‘s "Conservatives without Conscience". First, it is recommended that you have read the book. It is available at booksellers … Read more
Arizona Democratic Party Calls on Graf to Return Foley-Linked Money
The Democratic Party released a statement today demanding that Randy Graf return any money raised for him by Speaker Dennis Hastert, on the grounds that Hastert covered up a pedophillic sex scandal involving Florida Representative Foley for a year. "The Republican leadership has admitted that Dennis Hastert knew about Foley’s disturbing and dangerous behavior for … Read more
The Heterosexual Agenda
Thought provoking study of the damage done by the hetero lifestyle: The Heterosexual Agenda: Exposing The Myths.
Jeff Latas Becomes Chairman of Sonoran Progressive Democrats of America
Jeff Latas has accepted the position of Chairman of the Sonora PDA. In recent years, southern Arizona Democrats has spawned a litter of competing, and often mutually antagonistic, progressive organizations. It is the classic pattern of American progressive politics becoming so fractious and divided by ideoogy and personality that the entire movement is mooted as … Read more
Tucson Weekly CD 8 Poll for Sept. 20th through 23rd
Link: Tucson Weekly Blog: CD 8 Poll: Giffords Leads Graf. Yet further confirmation of the stability and magnitude of Giffords’ lead over Graf. This Wick poll was taken between Sept 20th and 23rd and has an MOE of 4.3%. This Wick poll shows an 18 point lead for Giffords, at 52% to 34% with 10% … Read more
