SB1070 Update: Which reminds me, where is G.I.?
by David Safier The silence is positively defining. The Goldwater Institute, which has an opinion on every almost every controversial issue in Arizona, is still mum on SB1070. Dead silent. Nothing to hear but crickets. Cowards. Abject, unprincipled cowards. Everything about your libertarian philosophy and your past writings say you're against this infringement of civil … Read more
More Buzz Mills boldfaced lies
by David Safier This morning I posted about Buzz Mills being shot down on his 1-to-1 teacher to administrator lie by the able and well-researched Brahm Resnik. (Why don't interviewers always come in with facts and information like that, based on what they know the interviewee is going to say?) I mentioned as an afterthought … Read more
Arizona’s STO/Tax Credit Law Headed To The Supreme Court
Posted by Craig McDermott (though I'm David Safier will have a *lot* to say on this one 🙂 ) It might surprise some observers that Arizona's school tuition tax credit law made it to the Supreme Court before Arizona's police-state anti-immigrant law, but the STO law has been around for better than a decade while … Read more
SB1070 Update: Why is this in the bill? Part 1
by David Safier SB1070 is filled with sloppy writing and problematic stipulations. But two passages nag at me for a different reason than other parts of the legislation. With these two I ask myself, "Why did they decide it was necessary to put this in the bill?" Here's the first. It's part of the meatiest … Read more
Thar’s $Gold$ in Them Thar Charter Schools
by David Safier I've slacked off on posting about charter schools lately, but I haven't stopped collecting material from around the country. It's clear that, in charter schools' under-regulated wild, wild west, there's lots of money to be made. And with Arne Duncan plowing huge sums into charters across the country, the money scramble is … Read more
Buzz Mills gets shot down for 1-to-1 teacher to adminstrator lie
by David Safier Boy, is this fun! I posted earlier that GOP Guv hopeful Buzz Mills bested the Goldwater Institute's Matthew Ladner when Mills tweeted: 1:1 ratio of administrators to teachers. Cut admin to appropriate level – improve education while freeing budget $$$ Ladner only maintains that bus drivers are bureaucrats, not administrators — and, … Read more
What the BP oil spill says about “free market” capitalism and “small government” conservatives
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: From the moment Barack Obama took his oath of office, the mighty Wurlitzer of the right-wing noise machine led by the clowns at FAUX News have portrayed Obama as a socialist/communist/marxist/nazi/dictator (used interchangeably without regard to meaning) to argue that the government is "taking over" the economy and destroying the sacrosanct "free … Read more
