So who are you speaking for exactly?

November 22, 2008

by David Safier Bob Jones University has taken the bold step of apologizing for its past racism. Bob Jones University is apologizing for racist policies that included a one-time ban on interracial dating and its unwillingness to admit black students until 1971.  In a statement posted Thursday on its Web site, the fundamentalist Christian school

Complete sentences

November 22, 2008

by David Safier Apparently Barack Obama has stepped over the line by speaking in complete sentences: In the first two weeks since the election, President-elect Barack Obama has broken with a tradition established over the past eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political observers say. Millions of Americans who watched Mr. Obama's

Short note to the current Guv

November 21, 2008

by David Safier Um, Janet, about two weeks before the election, you said at a rally that our Republican state legislators want to cut 40% from the higher education budget. You were exaggerating for effect, right? Right? Because I know you wouldn't leave us in their hands, defenseless, veto-less, if that were really true. Would

Arizona overtaxed? Hardly.

November 21, 2008

by David Safier (TASL) It seems tax-and-spend liberals are coming out of hiding these days. The latest voice is the Citizen in an editorial, The case for higher taxes.  The subhead says it all: "Study finds cuts — not spending increases — to be the major cause of state budget deficit." Who woulda thunk that

Steve Benson and David Fitzsimmons weigh in on Jan Brewer

November 21, 2008

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

An ill wind is BREWERing in Arizona

November 20, 2008

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Many of you have heard by now that Governor Janet Napolitano has been tapped by the Obama transition team to become the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Napolitano may be Homeland Security pick It is only a matter of official confirmation. Napolitano would be a vast improvement over Michael

Kathleen Parker again

November 19, 2008

by David Safier God bless Kathleen Parker. The columnist was one of the first conservatives to reject Sarah Palin in print  and came as close to saying she was voting for Obama as you can come without saying it. Since then, she's been on a tear in her columns. Today's topic is the way the

Where should you do your [Christmas] [Holiday] shopping?

November 18, 2008

by David Safier It's important to know which stores are Christmas-friendly, Christmas-negligent and Christmas-offensive when you go shopping. So we owe James Dobson's Focus on the Family a vote of thanks for telling us which is which. Just so you know what each category means: "Christmas-friendly" retailers — prominent acknowledgment of "Christmas" "Christmas-negligent" retailers — marginalized

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