Featured Stories
There goes the neighborhood
May 29, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Update to 'They loaded up the truck and they moved to…' Scottsdale? I am giving fair warning to Scottsdale Fashion Square – remember this from the 2008 McCain-Palin campaign? Highlights: Newsweek's Special Election Project – Newsweek (November 5, 2008): NEWSWEEK has also learned that Palin's shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than … Read more
Free Beer Tasting at Drinking Liberally 5/29 at 7pm
May 28, 2011
Posted by Michael Bryan What could be more liberal than free beer? Come to Drinking Liberally this Sunday at the Shanty on 4th Ave for a free beer tasting (donations welcome!). Drinking Liberally starts at 6pm and the tasting begins at 7pm, so don't be late! Cheers!
Steve Benen: How to make the Medicare problem worse
May 28, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Steve Benen writes at the Political Animal – How to make the Medicare problem worse: Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of the debate over Medicare is the disconnect between the problem and proposed “solution.” The standard Republican line is that Medicare faces a serious financial shortfall in the future, with escalating costs … Read more
Yes,butter does melt in Horne and Brewer’s mouth
May 28, 2011
by
by David Safier Horne and Brewer swear up and down, they have no desire to kill the medical marijuana bill with their lawsuit. They're just seeking clarification, they say. That they worded the lawsuit in a way intended to force the judge to put the state law in conflict with the feds pretty much ends … Read more
The fallacy of the latest right-wing ‘Medi-Scare’ attack: ‘Democrats did it too!”
May 28, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Tea-Publicans are taking a beating from constituents back home for voting for the GOP budget plan that includes Rep. Paul Ryan's plan to end Medicare as we know it. So the right-wing noise machine has settled upon a post-vote plan to return to their "Medi-Scare" line of attack used successfully to confuse … Read more
No ruling yet on Ethnic Studies
May 28, 2011
by
by David Safier Ed Supe John Huppenthal has pushed back the date he plans to rule on whether MAS violates the law. It was expected before the end of May. Now it sounds like it will come next Friday, at the earliest. There are a bunch of possible explanations for the delay. Since none are … Read more
Ezra Klein systematically dismantles Paul Ryan’s arguments
May 28, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Ezra Klein posed a series of questions to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) about the GOP plan to end Medicare as we know it, and Rep. Ryan responded to his questions. Ezra Klein systematically dismantles Rep. Ryan's arguments in this post, Responding to Ryan: In this post, I’m going to focus on his … Read more
Legislative Republicans Still Scheming To Topple Voter Protection Act
May 27, 2011
Posted by Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings The 2011 session of the legislature just ended but the Republicans in the lege are already planning for 2011. One of the few things, perhaps the only thing, preventing the legislature from laying complete waste to Arizona's already weak societal infrastructure has been the Voter Protection Act. … Read more
