Take the online Star poll on Obama

by David SafierThe Star is running a short poll on its opinion page, mainly about Obama and the economy. Judging from the results, the Republicans have gotten word out. The results are about 60-40 against Obama. Get your voices out there!

Some half formed thoughts

by David SafierThe NY Times has an article about conflicts between our immigration laws and our need for the best techies in the world. The story is about a valuable engineer at Google who lives in Canada. He and his wife are both originally from India, but she doesn't have a visa to live here, … Read more

GOP Leadership out of touch on the economy

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I have previously covered the GOP leadership insane clown posse's alternative GOP budget fiasco that first had no numbers and then called for more of the same Bush policies of the past eight years – only to be rejected by over 20% of House Republicans. Last week, we had Eric Cantor (R-VA) saying … Read more

Ladner, Horne duke it out

by David SafierFriend of the blog Matthew Ladner has told us here at BfA that we should stop resisting and give in to the clear and obvious truth that Arizona spends $9,500 per student. It's simple. Just take every dollar spent in the name of K-12 education, divide it by the number of students, and … Read more

The Latest Faux Obama “Scandal” on Faux News: The Bow

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The latest faux Obama "scandal" on Faux News (and in all fairness, at "Faux News Lite," CNN) is that President Obama bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia upon greeting him. I am pretty sure that when Obama travels anywhere in Asia he will do the same as this is the customary … Read more