by David Safier If you have felt the slightest bit complacent about what's going on in Arizona, two articles on the Star's front page should end that. The Star has badly mis-headed the Howard Fischer article about a whole raft of anti-immigrant legislation. Hell, let's be honest. It's anti-Hispanic legislation. It includes Pearce's Omnibus Immigration … Read more
by David Safier I doubt "Even Robert Robb" will become a running feature on BfA, though I would love to see it happen, but . . . Even Robert Robb thinks Brewer and Horne are hypocrites and idiots with their countersuit of the feds over immigration. Robb is a Republic columnist of the conservative persuasion … Read more
by Michael Bryan HHS Secretary Sebelius has indicated that Gov. Brewer's plan to kick everyone who is not federally mandated to be eligible (about 250K people) off Arizona's Medicaid program (AHCCCS) will not violate federal law. Federal eligibility is governed by a number of factors , not income alone, which means that even some people under … Read more
by Michael Bryan The new federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or as the GOP has so ably dubbed it, "Obamacare", allows the creation of state-based insurance exchange boards that will collect information on single and small group policies and make them available to eligible buyers. The idea is to enable consumers to easily … Read more
by David Safier The Andrew Breitbart/James O'Keefe crowd are at it again. Awhile back, by putting together a carefully edited video of visits to ACORN creating the impression of a rogue organization, they pretty much ended ACORN's existence. Now they're using the same tactics against Planned Parenthood. A group called Live Action released a secretly … Read more