Bee’s Bad Business Synecdoche

Bee was recently endorsed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. No real surprise considering how often that organization (short-sightedly, IMO) endorses Republicans in an anachronic gesture to a long-defunct pedigree of economic common sense. But Bee’s endorsement predicts far less how the Arizona business community will actually vote and donate this cycle than Bee would … Read more

This Makes Me Furious

by David Safier Let me begin by saying I know it isn’t fair to blame the Bush administration for this veteran’s death, since things like this happened to veterans before and will continue to happen as long as we humans remain the belligerent species we are. But I don’t give a damn. I blame the … Read more

$6 Billion for Nothing? Let’s Spend More!

by David Safier Bush’s Ed Department spent $6 billion on the Reading First program, with no results, according to the Ed Dept’s own studies. Now the Reading First Advisory Panel says, the studies weren’t comprehensive, so let’s keep pouring money into a program that probably doesn’t work, because we really think it’ll work if we … Read more