Democrats Failing to Deliver in Congress
March 14, 2007
I’m so angry I could spit. The Democratic caucus in Congress is proving that they didn’t understand the voters when we elected a Democratic majority. The election of 2006 was a referendum on the Iraq war and this Administration’s handling of the ‘War on Terror’. We handed our new Democratic Congress a mandate to provide
Farleygrams Again
March 14, 2007
Steve Farley is setting the standard for constituent communication with his newletter. You can and should join his mailing list, even if you aren’t in LD 28. Steve’s latest has a call to action for those on the Northwest side of Tucson to help save the state-run Health Care Group program: We will see the
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell = Lie
March 11, 2007
Our military has always led the way in the desegregation of our society. It is, in many ways, the most meritocratic of our national institutions. It should be a fundamental right of Americans to help defend their nation by service in the armed forces, if they are physically capable. ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is fundamentally
Why You Shouldn’t Play With Big Brother
March 9, 2007
A really well done short video on the dangers of modern surveillance technology:
Napolitano says she does not support immediate Iraq pullout
March 9, 2007
Link: Napolitano says she does not support immediate Iraq pullout. And she’s simply wrong, but I think I understand why she’s taken this position. She may not ready to oppose the war, over which she has no actual political control, because she judges the costs of doing so (which could be considerable) to not be
Prisoner in the Pumpkin Patch
March 1, 2007
There is a moral sickness at work here: "Ever since passing what its Legislature promoted as the nation’s toughest laws against illegal immigration last summer, Colorado has struggled with a labor shortage as migrants fled the state. This week, officials announced a novel solution: Use convicts as farmworkers. The Department of Corrections hopes to launch
Site Update
February 28, 2007
I’ve reshuffled things to make the blog a bit leaner, faster to load, and to eliminate seldom used features. I find that people seldom use blog archives, so I shuffled it off to a separate page accessible through a big fat icon. I don’t think people use the static categories as often as they might,
