Putting Children First. Some Arizona State Republican Legislators do not think so.
May 3, 2019
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Improving and Increasing enrollment in Kids Care? Nah. Investing in Pre K through University Education? No way. Housing Assistance for the lower middle class and poor? Just a handout for the lazy. Tax Cuts for the affluent? That is the ticket to sustainable prosperity as alternative history and disproven facts have proven time and time … Read more
Neal Katyal: ‘I think the system is working’ – how can he be so sure?
May 3, 2019
An update to my earlier post, Congress and Americans need to hear from ‘SilentBob’. Former U.S. Attorney Neal Katyal, who drafted the Special Counsel regulations and therefore is the expert on their purpose, intent and meaning, explains at the New York Times why Why Barr Can’t Whitewash the Mueller Report: Many who watched Attorney General … Read more
Senator Sinema and Lying AG Bill Barr
May 3, 2019
I wrote not long ago about what I thought was a major lapse in judgment by Arizona’s senior Senator, Kyrsten Sinema, in voting to confirm Bill Barr as Attorney General. Seems that Sinema is also having some second thoughts about her vote to make Barr a bipartisan appointment: “Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who was … Read more
Not so fast Joe and Bernie. Democrats have an embarrassment of riches to choose from.
May 3, 2019
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Remember President Jerry Brown in 1993? Remember President Hillary Clinton in 2009? Well if you went with early Presidential Polling, Brown and Clinton should have been the President according to polls taken months before the first Iowa Caucuses. History played out differently and Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama, after the 1992 and 2008 primary and … Read more
#AZ House Debates, Passes Association Health Plans SB1085 (video)
May 3, 2019
Although we had a short floor calendar on May 1, we had some rousing debates. The highlight was a two-hour debate on SB1085, association health plans. (Watch the action here, beginning at 19:32 min.) The Republicans have had three bills this year to lower healthcare insurance costs by encouraging people to leave the healthcare marketplace. … Read more
Congress and Americans need to hear from ‘Silent Bob’
May 3, 2019
Congress and Americans need to hear from “Silent Bob.” No, not this guy …. This “Silent Bob,” Robert S. Mueller III, who has only been “heard” through Attorney General William Barr’s redacted version of his Mueller Report, and his March 27 letter to Barr objecting to Barr’s mischaracterization of “the context, nature, and substance of … Read more
Grand Opening of The Boxyard on 4th Avenue
May 2, 2019
Join us this weekend for a party! 238 N. 4th Avenue (between E. 8th and E. 9th Streets) |||| SATURDAY MAY 4TH |||| ————————— >>$7 Four Roses Bourbon Mint Juleps<< —————————- Pop ‘N Swap Market 1-5 PM DJ Halsero 1-5 PM Pushing Buttons 7-10 PM DJ Jason Ehresman 10:30-Close ||||| SUNDAY MAY 5TH ||||| ————————— … Read more
Stephen Moore withdraws his nomination after Trump tweet
May 2, 2019
I posted on April 22, Herman Cain withdraws his nomination, time for Stephen Moore to do the same. It took a little longer than I expected, but it finally happened today. Stephen Moore withdraws from consideration for Fed job, Trump says: Stephen Moore, the former campaign adviser whom President Donald Trump had been considering for … Read more
