Bob Lord

Bob has mostly wound down his 39-year career as a tax and business lawyer (with a 1-year interruption to run for Congress in 2008 (CD3), when he tried to unseat John Shadegg. Bob now serves as the senior advisor on tax policy for the Patriotic Millionaires, a group of wealthy Americans who believe the light taxation of America's rich is destabilizing our democracy, and as an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. Bob has been writing for Blog For Arizona since late 2011, concentrating mostly on federal issues, with an occasional foray into Arizona state politics.

The Company Hillary Keeps

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You can tell a lot about a person by the company she keeps, the saying goes.

With that in mind, consider the subtitle of Elizabeth Schulte’s piece at Jacobin today, Hillary Clinton: Capital’s Plan A:

“Hillary Clinton has been talking about economic inequality lately, but there’s a reason Wall Street isn’t worried.”

Schulte’s piece is yet another devastating commentary on the absurdity of the over the top support for Clinton. For those deluded by Hillary’s newfound economic populism, Schulte explains:

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Are Storm Clouds Gathering?

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My friend Sam Pizzigati’s op-ed, The Cutting Edge of Waste, is well worth reading for the point he intended to make: We’ve reached a juncture where obscenely rich American’s are dumping money into enterprises that don’t even need the money, while we as a society are abandoning investments in our kids’ futures. But it may … Read more

Israel Eulogizes Settler Convicted of Manslaughter

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When thousands of a country’s citizens mourn and its leaders eulogize a man convicted of manslaughter, among other violent crimes, that country just might be incapable of righting itself.

Check out this headline, from Mondoweiss: Netanyahu eulogizes settler movement founder convicted of manslaughter.

And the headline doesn’t mislead. The article is about Rabbi Moshe Levinger, one of Israel’s first West Bank settlers. Here’s what the Rabbi stood for:

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No, it’s not about whether you have any Black friends

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It’s common knowledge at this point that when a White person starts a sentence “Some of my best friends are Black, but” you know you’re speaking to a racist.

Racist Butt

There’s an analogue to this when discussing issues involving race, I’ve discovered. In a conversation with a family member, I was challenged with “so, how many Black friends do you have?” The family member took it a few steps further, with such questions as “When was the last time you had a Black couple over for dinner?” It was not the first time I’ve encountered this. Nor was it the second or third.

And it’s as ignorant as the guy who thinks having a Black acquaintance  whom he classifies (often dishonestly) as one of his “closest friends” gives him license to malign and stereotype an entire race.

Indeed, it’s really two sides of the same coin. So, I’ll preface the remainder of this post thusly:

I don’t have any Black friends, but…

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