by David Safier As everyone knows, Obama will be at ASU this afternoon (Don't take us for granted down here, Barack. Come for a visit sometime!) According to the Star, the legislature is invited, but, no surprise, most of the Rs will be sitting this one out. Melvin is among the "Thanks, but no thanks" … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Keith Olberman destroys the spurious claims of Bill O'Rielly that the Bush torture program was no different than what British Prime Minister Winston Churchill did during World War II. Not only is this historically inaccurate, it is legally irrelevant. The Convention Against Torture and U.S. laws against torture were enacted decades later, … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Normally I could care less about celebrity scandals, especially faux celebrities overstaying their 15 minutes of fame. But Miss California, Carrie Prejean, is a gift that just keeps on giving. There was Miss California being questioned by judge Perez Hilton about gay marriage at the Miss America Pageant. Here is the transcript … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: When I was in high school, in what seems like a lifetime ago, there was a poster which was very popular at that time: two turkey buzzards sitting in a dead tree looking out over a barren desert; one turkey buzzard says to the other one, "patience my ass! I'm going to … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Steve Benen writes the Political Animal blog at The Washington Monthly. He has an interesting post about a speech recently given by CNN political analyst Bill Schneider at UCLA. CNN's Bill Schneider is hardly a liberal voice in media. He's a resident fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute think tank, and … Read more