Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Senate on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to impose tough new restrictions on the credit card industry, which had spent years successfully avoiding regulations. Senate approves tougher credit card rules in 90-5 vote The bill bars firms from hiking interest rates on cardholders unless they are 60 days late in payment, bans “double-cycle … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: There has been a number of early candidate filings this year for 2010. Many of the ranked contenders, however, may not file until as late as January of 2010 because of Arizona's resign to run law. So the early filers are not necessarily indicative of who's in and who's out for 2010. … Read more
by David SafierLocal writer and frequent Huffington Post contributor Marlene Phillips profiled our own David Fitzsimmons on Huffington Post. Did you know "Fitzsimmons' cartoons are in syndication in over 700 newspapers in the United States and around the world"? Neither did I.
by David SafierG.I. usually doesn't come down on the same side of issues as I do. But as a faithfully skeptical reader of its daily emails, I keep abreast of its ideas and its doings, and I find we come down on the same side of two recent issues, one for different reasons, one for … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Col. Lawrence Wilkerson was a guest on the Rachel Maddow Show last night and responded to the attacks from Dick and Liz Cheney and their forces of evil, after he pointed the finger at the Office of the Vice President last week for the Bush torture program. What I find most disturbing is … Read more