Michael Bryan

Michael founded BlogForArizona.net as the Howard Dean presidential campaign blog for Arizona in 2003, and has been blogging ever since. The Blog is now coming up on 20 years of continuous publication, a major achievement for any political blog, which usually have the life-spans of mayflies. Michael is an attorney living in Tucson with his wife Lauren. In 2008, Michael remade BlogForArizona into a collaborative project. Michael is now but one of the contributors to the blog and provides editorial and publishing direction in consultation with the Board of Directors and the other authors. If you want to keep up with the latest Arizona and National political news in an entertaining quick hit of news and opinion, check out the BlogForArizona twitter feed, which Mike largely curates and writes. Michael is also an AAPC member who occassionally consults on political campaigns, strategy and communications.

The Atheist Tapes – Steven Weinberg

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Excellent discussion of the friction between religion and science. Some of my favorite moments: "I think science is corrosive of religious belief, and it’s a good thing too." "I don’t like God. In the sense that I don’t like Iago, or some other fictional characters."

Copper Kleptos

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A recent AZ State Dems newletter suggests (carefully) that GOP vandals are behind a recent incident of vandalism at the Pima County Dems HQ: Democrats Targeted for Vandalism If all of this wasn’t enough, we learned Friday that the Democratic Party Headquarters in Tucson was vandalized and the phone lines to the call center were … Read more

McCain supports Graf

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Via AZ Daily Star: McCain supports Graf for House seat WTF? Wow, has McCain no standards left whatsoever? The Straight Talk Express has just taken a detour into the racist KKK militia mosh-pit. I don’t think this helps Graf as much as it does McCain. Moderates know that McCain is playing in the shallow end … Read more

Panic Mode

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Via CQPolitics.com: NRCC Spends Nearly $8 Million in One Day on Tight Races. In Arizona’s 5th District Republican Rep. J.D. Hayworth gets $240K with which to bash the hell out of Democratic state Sen. Harry Mitchell. That little piggie went to market. In Arizona’s 8th District Republican bete noir Randy Graf got $0 to beat … Read more