Pearce meets with civil rights activist?
July 31, 2010
by David Safier I'm a bit late to the party on this one, but it's worth going there anyway. Today's Republic has this headline: Civil-rights activist, Pearce plan summit on migrant issues Here are the first two paragraphs: Lawmakers and people from across the country are expected to spend the day at the state Capitol
Arizona Illustrated: Democratic candidate for state treasurer, Andrei Cherny
July 31, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Andrei Cherny, Democratic candidate for state treasurer, on Arizona Illustrated hosted by Bill Buckmaster.
Judge Bolton: So liberal, Kyl recommended her
July 30, 2010
by David Safier This according to Judgepedia: On the recommendation of U.S. Senator Jon Kyl, Bolton was nominated to the United States District Court for the District of Arizona by President Bill Clinton on July 21, 2000 to a seat vacated by Robert Broomfield. Bolton was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on October 3, 2000
House Republicans block aid to 9/11 victims and first responders
July 30, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Those patriotic Republicans have been more than happy to use 9/11 victims and first responders as political props for years, but when it comes down to actually doing something for them, the GOP strategy of obstructing the Democrats' agenda is more important. Thursday night, the House brought up, under suspension of the rules, the James Zadroga
Superintendent of Public Instruction Debate in Tucson
July 30, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Superintendent of Public Instruction Debate Tucson Values Teachers is joining with the League of Women Voters of Greater Tucson, the American Association of University Women, the Literacy for Life Coalition and the Arizona Education Network in sponsoring a debate among all five candidates for the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. The
GOP fear mongering rhetoric on illegal immigration is divorced from reality
July 30, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Gregory Rodriguez of the Los Angeles Times demonstrates how GOP fear mongering rhetoric on illegal immigration is divorced from reality in Illegal-immigration statistics don't stack up amid frenzied debate: With the immigration debate heating up, you'd think that the U.S. was besieged by growing numbers of illegal immigrants. But you'd be wrong.
What 30 years of faith based supply-side “trickle down” GOP economics hath wrought
July 30, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The redistribution of wealth upwards to the plutocratic elites of corporate executives and the über-rich investor class through government tax policy (the Bush tax cuts) has created the greatest income disparity in the United States since just before the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression. The über-rich, through their allies in
The new corporate business model: increase profits, not jobs
July 30, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: "Ain't no hiring. And ain't likely to be any for a good long time." Harold Meyerson at the Washington Post explains a troubling development in the corporate world. The job machine grinds to a halt: The problem isn't merely the greatest downturn since the Great Depression. It's also that big business has
