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Robert Greenwald’s “The Health Insurance Racket: Getting Rich by Denying Americans Care”
August 10, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films has released the short documentary film "The Health Insurance Racket: Getting Rich while denying Americans Care." What does Isabella, a four year-old girl in Wisconsin who is physically incapable of eating and has had to be tube fed her entire life, have to gain from healthcare
David Brooks on health care rhetoric – Limbaugh: “that is insane”; Palin: “that’s crazy”
August 10, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Conservative columnist David Brooks was a guest on NBC's Meet The Press on Sunday. As reported by crooksandliars com David Brooks: Limbaugh health care rhetoric 'insane': Conservative columnist David Brooks thinks Rush Limbaugh has gone too far in comparing President Barack Obama to Hitler. Brooks was stunned by the comparison when he
Cognitive Dissonance – Another View
August 10, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Earlier this year I posted an essay entitled cognitive dissonance. Today John Aravosis at AMERICAblog reports on a similar, but more expansive essay on this topic circulating on the Internet: Something that's been flying around the Internet – I couldn't figure out who the actual author is. This morning I was awoken by my
Special Session Update: The “Sham-Wow!” Budget Deal
August 9, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Monday marks the start of the sixth week of the Special Session and is also the next to last day before the "drop dead" date on which the Legislature can refer any matters to the general election ballot on November 3. Secretary of State Ken Bennett has said that the tax referral
Do not feed the trolls (DNFTT)
August 9, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Blog for Arizona has had a rash of Trolls of late (you all know who they are): In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional or disciplinary response or of
Simple-minded numbers
August 8, 2009
by David SafierFriend of the blog and Goldwater Institute employee Matthew Ladner had written his opinions of the Trib's articles about tuition tax credits and STOs on a blog where he posts occasionally. Shorter Ladner: Tuition tax credits, good. Abuses of tax credits, bad, need to be corrected. Those are the same sentiments he's expressed
President Obama to visit Arizona on August 16
August 8, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Apparently the Obama advance team can't find Tucson or even Southern Arizona on a map. President Obama will visit Phoenix for a third time this year on August 16, as well as the Grand Canyon. Obama's 3rd Ariz. visit part of Western swing: President Barack Obama will return to Arizona this month
Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor sworn in
August 8, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy From the New York Times Sotomayor Sworn In as Supreme Court Justice: Justice Sonia Sotomayor took the judicial oath on Saturday, becoming the first Hispanic and third woman to serve on the Supreme Court in United States history. At just
