Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Exit poll data indicates that even as voters cast a vote for Republicans on November 2nd they were decidedly against the Republican agenda of tax cuts for the rich and corporations, and cuts to social security. Advertisement Voters last week sent Washington a strong message about fixing the federal budget, according to exclusive numbers from … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Looks like Arizona's angry old homophobe, Sen. John McCain, is down to his last card — the Marine Corps Commandant (more about him below). The Washington Post reports today, Sources: Pentagon group finds there is minimal risk to lifting gay ban during war: A Pentagon study group has concluded that the military … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform ("Deficit Commission") aka the Catfood Commission was a bad idea from the beginning. Stacked with Clintonista conservadems and conservative Republicans, the outcome was all too predictable. Yesterday, the chairs of the "bipartisan" commission, Clintonista Erskine Bowles and long-time anti-social security Republican Alan Simpson, issued … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Today is Veterans Day, originally Armistice Day observed on November 11 to recall the official end of World War I on that date in 1918, when the major hostilities of World War I were formally ended "at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month" of 1918 with the German signing … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: When the Neoconservatives began beating the drums for war with Iraq and fabricating intelligence claims of weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein was prepared to use against the United States, every major news service in the country — including the Gray Lady New York Times – dutifully reported the Neoconservative propaganda unquestioningly … Read more

by David Safier Lawrence O'Donnell is one of the only non-radical people Dr. Word has heard lately who has dared to declare himself a socialist. He's not for abolishing capitalism or nationalizing corporations. He's just saying, some of what we do in the country is socialistic, like Social Security and Medicare. Some of it is … Read more

by David Safier A story in the Business section of the Star talks about a 3-1 vote by the Pima Supes to OK the development of a Corrections Corporation of America private prison on South Wilmot. Pima County approved a development agreement Tuesday for a private prison on South Wilmot Road that could be used … Read more