Grassroots Astro-turfing the Mini-Dorm Overlay and Superpowers
Michael Goodman, the owner of NW University Equities LLC, took out a quarter page last Saturday’s Arizona Daily Star excoriating the Tucson City Council for creating an overlay district to slow the growth of mini-dorm redevelopment in the University region. He supplies a nice little cut-out form for affected owners to fill out and mail … Read more
Nancy Pelosi Should Go
Wow. I have seldom seen less effective communication of the Democratic strategy on Iraq. I suppose I should be more charitable, as there apparently is no Democratic strategy on Iraq. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer sat down with Speaker Pelosi for a softball session. If ever there was an opportunity to lay out a clear Democratic vision … Read more
Southern Arizona Media Telling Bee to Decide
Now both the Arizona Daily Star and the Green Valley News have weighed in on Tim Bee’s kabuki dance of indeterminacy: They no likey. Is Bee a congressional candidate or an Arizona Senator? He can’t be both. Or can he? It’s Schroedinger’s candidate! Just don’t open his bank account to see how much he’s raising … Read more
Congress More Popular with Republicans!
Link: Congress approval rating is substatially higher among Republicans than Democrats. Though it doesn’t actually surprise me, given how the Democratic majority has enabled the President and allowed the minority to be obstructionist without even a loud and symbolic protest (such as making them actually filibuster everything, instead allowing the procedural nicety of letting the … Read more
Pity The Nation
Pity the nation whose people are sheep, and whose shepherds mislead them. Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced, and whose bigots haunt the airwaves. Pity the nation that raises not its voice, except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero and aims to rule the world with force … Read more
Busted Budgets
So far, Arizona state financial projections expect a $600 million shortfall this year. Last year the state legislature was forced to accept a ‘mere’ $600 million tax cut. One might be tempted to see a certain symmetry in those figures, but it’s just a coincidence. The budget shortfalls that are likely to result from last … Read more
National Security Letters and You
One of the most egregious violations of our constitutional traditions in the so-called PATRIOT Act is the power of issuing National Security Letters given to the FBI. These letters allow the FBI to harvest massive amounts of private and confidential information without a warrant, judicial review, any means to challenge the demands’ validity, or any … Read more
