Farleygrams Again
March 14, 2007
Steve Farley is setting the standard for constituent communication with his newletter. You can and should join his mailing list, even if you aren’t in LD 28. Steve’s latest has a call to action for those on the Northwest side of Tucson to help save the state-run Health Care Group program: We will see the
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell = Lie
March 11, 2007
Our military has always led the way in the desegregation of our society. It is, in many ways, the most meritocratic of our national institutions. It should be a fundamental right of Americans to help defend their nation by service in the armed forces, if they are physically capable. ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is fundamentally
Why You Shouldn’t Play With Big Brother
March 9, 2007
A really well done short video on the dangers of modern surveillance technology:
Napolitano says she does not support immediate Iraq pullout
March 9, 2007
Link: Napolitano says she does not support immediate Iraq pullout. And she’s simply wrong, but I think I understand why she’s taken this position. She may not ready to oppose the war, over which she has no actual political control, because she judges the costs of doing so (which could be considerable) to not be
Prisoner in the Pumpkin Patch
March 1, 2007
There is a moral sickness at work here: "Ever since passing what its Legislature promoted as the nation’s toughest laws against illegal immigration last summer, Colorado has struggled with a labor shortage as migrants fled the state. This week, officials announced a novel solution: Use convicts as farmworkers. The Department of Corrections hopes to launch
Site Update
February 28, 2007
I’ve reshuffled things to make the blog a bit leaner, faster to load, and to eliminate seldom used features. I find that people seldom use blog archives, so I shuffled it off to a separate page accessible through a big fat icon. I don’t think people use the static categories as often as they might,
Psuedoconservatism in American Political Life
February 26, 2007
I stumbled across a copy of The American Scholar for Winter 2007 and found myself quite engrossed in the following article, so I thought to share it with all of you. I was impressed by the brevity and simplicity of the author’s cri du coeur for traditional conservative values, most of which we progressives share
Political Cowardice
February 26, 2007
I’m saddened to have to conclude that, following a good start in the 100 hours agenda, the Democratic Congress looks be failing due to a lack of political courage. The failure of our Democratic leadership is playing out along two intimately related axes: the Iraq war and impeachment of Bush and Cheney. Our utter defeat
