AZ Politics

Welcome to the first edition of Coyote Carnival. In the near future,
these carnivals should be hosted at another local Arizona blog, to drive
traffic to that site. If you are interested in hosting, please contact
me. To ensure wide esposure, I am going to be cross-posting this first
carnival to BlogForArizona. This first edition doesn’t have a theme
except that all the entries are from Arizona-based blogs. We got a few
submissions that broke that rule, as well as a number that were just commercial advertising, but the great majority of the
submissions were acceptable, and most were accepted by the editor (me). The complete list is on the flip…

Stewart Heady of Tsaile, Arizona wrote in the mailing list ProgressForAZ the following interesting story which I think makes an important point about the need for oversight of datamining and roving surveillance systems: "In the year after 9/11 I was living in the Seattle area.  There are a lot of immigrants in the whole region … Read more

Today there is only one blog post on the internet that has to be read, and it’s not this one, it’s Glenn Greenwald’s insightful questioning of whether Bush supporters have any ideology at all any more. Go read it. You won’t be sorry you did. You will be left with a firm conviction that those … Read more

Cheney, while hunting quail shot his hunting partner, who is also the owner of the ranch he was hunting on. By all accounts it was an accidental shooting, but I just gotta wonder. Did Cheney owe this guy money? Was he a Democrat? Did he mouth off to Dick? Say that the NSA domestic spying … Read more