RNCC Plays with Oil IED, Blows Self Up

Link: NRCC blames Mitchell & Giffords for Gas Prices – Phoenix Business Journal: I don’t think I’ve ever seen a political attack that relies more on the American public being a pack of blithering idiots than this one. The NRCC just took an issue that has got most Americans pissed at their own party, and … Read more

The Rules Just Don’t Apply to Senator Tim Bee

Tim Bee is demonstrating to Arizona voters a pattern of ignoring or breaking the rules to get the results he wants. If he wants to demonstrate that he’s a good acolyte of the Bush League of Republican politics, he’s doing a fine job. Given that he has to sneak around behind closed doors to do … Read more

Memorial Day and Politics

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel"-Samuel Johnson "It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed."-Samuel Johnson Men who disdained military service themselves asked American soldiers to die for a mission that shifts like the sand, but … Read more

Politics, Profit, and Personal Loss

by Jeff Latas My life has changed over that last ten months and the meaning of Memorial Day changed with it. There have been some comments on one of the later post here on BFA about politicizing Memorial Day, what is fair and what is objectionable when a political point of view references our troops, … Read more