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
Sign up for Steve Farley’s FarleyGrams
February 21, 2007
Steve Farley, the newly elected Representative of LD 28 is showing what solid constituent communication looks like. If you are interested in state house affairs, I strongly recommend you sign up for his FarleyGrams.
Howdy, Friends o’ Farley…
[a note to LD28 PCs–I just realized you might like to get this email every week, so you are now on this list. If you would like the previous six emails, let me know and I will send them to you in one LONG email. If you don’t want to be on this list, let me know that, too.]
Wow, another huge Government Committee meeting. That’s two in a row at five hours plus. But I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else right now. (Even though I am suffering from fever and other effects of some nasty virus that is tearing through this place.)
The Government Committee, upon which I sit as Ranking Member, has
turned out to be the showcase committee for all the big Republican
policy pushes. Last week it was their efforts to gut the citizen
initiative process, Clean Elections, and HealthCareGroup. (A quick
aside on that–I am now leading the fight to save HCG after being asked
to do so by the Governor’s staff who watched me go nose to nose with
the Speaker on that last week.) This week’s topic: immigration.
An Election Integrity Event
February 21, 2007
Steven Freeman has the real facts about the 2004 election; he is award winning author, election integrity activist and will be presenting and having a book signing in Tucson at 6:30 pm this Friday, Feb. 23rd at the Plumbers and Steamfitters Union Hall. For those in Tucson, please stop by and meet Steven and bring
Iran in Iraq: SFW?
February 19, 2007
The entire media-scape is littered with accusations, speculation, refutation, and rhetoric regarding the allegations by a faction within the Bush Administration that Iran is supplying shaped explosive charges to militias who engage in armed conflict with American and coalition forces in Iraq. The whole thing boils down to a very dubious set of facts and
