For all the lazy and timid reporters and pundits in this country who do not counter Donald Trump and his MAGA allies when they say they are inheriting a mess, just remember what shape Trump and his minions left the country in four years ago when the 45th President did not have the decency to … Read more
Our long national nightmare is returning. This week has shown yet again that the Republican Party, after 40 years in the making with increasing levels of subservience to a series of “Dear Leader” Presidents (Reagan, Bush II, and Trump,) has morphed into an authoritarian-plutocratic-white nationalists-alternative reality based-neo fascist political entity. In 2025, fealty to Donald … Read more
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes both tackled the issue of immigration yesterday (January 15, 2025.) The Governor, according to an office press release, “announced $17.2 million in funding from the SAFE (Stopping Arizona’s Fentanyl Epidemic) initiative to support local law enforcement’s border security work, drug interdiction efforts, and combatting human trafficking.” … Read more
The constant theme in Governor Katie Hobbs’s third State of the State Address before a joint session of the Arizona State Legislature was the need to work together to fulfill Arizona’s Promise. Whether invoking the legacies of Arizona political stalwarts like Sandra Day O’Connor, Bruce Babbit, Raul Castro, Barry Goldwater, and John McCain or saluting … Read more
Donald Trump made history again for all the wrong reasons yesterday. Appearing virtually in a New York Courtroom, he received his sentence for the 34 convictions he received last spring for the business fraud committed when he sent hush money to Stormy Daniels while he was a Presidential Candidate in 2016. Mr. Trump will be … Read more