Drinking with a Liberal Mind
April 7, 2007
Last Thursday at Drinking Liberally our guest was the decidedly conservative Frank Antenori, a former Green Beret and 2006 candidate for the Republican nomination to CD8 who was beat out by Randy Graf. I received more than one complaint about my choice to bring a conservative to a liberal party, but I believe that such
Prop 200 Suppressing Minority Voting
April 3, 2007
I’ve long argued that the main point of Protect Arizona Now! (aka Prop 200) is really not to prevent voter fraud (as there really is no such thing as individual vote fraud anymore – much easier and effective to just reprogram the tabulators), but to suppress the electoral participation of legally eligible minority voters. Well,
Ford splits with Democrats
April 2, 2007
Link: Ford splits with Democrats on Iraq Rep. Harold E. Ford Jr., the new chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), yesterday said he does not agree with efforts by Congress to set a deadline for U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq. "I think most Americans want to win, they don’t want to see us leave
Secret E-Mail Skirting Presidential Records Act?
March 30, 2007
My ABA email newsletter caught my eye today. They generally don’t deal with (and certainly don’t lead) with political issues. But today the talk was about AG Gonzales’ extraordinary claim not to use email. In fact, neither does Bush, Cheney, nor Condi, and even Rove and other top officials are said to limit their use
Arizona Congressional Delegation’s Website Disclosures
March 30, 2007
Citizen journalists from the Sunlight Foundation evaluated congressional Web sites to determine whether they provided three kinds of information: Access to basic information on what our elected officials do in Congress (the bills they sponsor, the committees they serve on) information from or access to any of the legally-required disclosures they have to file (on
Drinking Liberally 3/29
March 28, 2007
Drinking Liberally will be happening again this Thursday, as it does every Thursday, starting at 6pm (you can drop in later, we’re generally there for at least 2-3 hours) at the Shanty on 4th Ave. (401 E. 9th Street). This week, we are joined by Mohur Sidhwa, the 1st Vice Chair of the Pima Democratic
Details On the Administration’s ‘Basis’ For USA Charton’s Firing
March 27, 2007
U.S. Attorney Charlton in Phoenix was fired for "repeated instances of insubordination, actions taken contrary to instructions, and actions taken that were clearly unauthorized." Documents released by the Administration also include a chain of e-mails from August 2006 in which Charlton tried to reach Gonzales to persuade him the death penalty was inappropriate for the
What One Person Can Do
March 27, 2007
“I’m only one person, what can I do?” How many times have you heard that, or said that yourself? It’s an attitude foreign to the American character, and to a great extent it is the reason we are where we are today. I remind you of the words of Margaret Mead, "A small group of
