by David Safier The Arizona Republic, like most Arizona dailies, has taken an editorial stance against SB1070. Today, the Republic wrote an especially strong editorial, going to the heart of the inherent racism in the law and the assumptions of many of its supporters. For me, this is the money quote. The NBC/Wall Street Journal … Read more
by David Safier Why do the Accidental Guv and the Persistent Racist hate Arizona? Jan Brewer and Russell Pearce claim to be furious at people who have urged a boycott of Arizona because of the passage of SB1070. How dare you hurt our state's economy? they cry. Yet the two of them are spreading the … Read more
by David Safier Someone in Dallas created a caricature of the Accidental Guv as Hitler's daughter. Most people, including me, have focused on her lie about her father's role in World War II. No one has really focused on this part of her quote: "It hurts. It's ugliness beyond anything I've ever experienced." The statement … Read more
by David Safier I haven't seen the Prescott mural story in the Star, either the paper edition or on its blogs. J. Fang featured it on El Blog, and local Marlene Phillips spotlighted it in the Examiner, but the Star? Unless I missed it, the mural is a tree that fell in the forest when … Read more
by David Safier I guess 2 out of 3 ain't bad, especially when number 3 is from Arizona. I mean, what do you expect from the originators of the "Show me your papers" law? Contrition? Richard Blumenthal said he served in Vietnam when he hadn't. It looks like he only said it that one time. … Read more