Vote For the Best of Tucson

The Tucson Weekly’s annual "Best of Tucson" is wrapping up June 4th. This year, the very first category is "Best Local Blog." You can have three guesses why I might be mentioning these facts, but BlogForArizona readers will only need one. You have to fill out at least 20 categories to submit your ballot, so … Read more

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