by David Safier
My post on the Goldwater Institute's Civics test which showed high school students ignorant about basic U.S. civics questions has created quite a hubbub in the comments section, including a few comments from the study's author and friend of the blog Matthew Ladner. Rather than adding to [...]
Just one thought: how do you brag that you aren’t taking the “quitter’s way out,” while you are simultaneously, well, quitting?
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Sparing the reader details, I currently lack certain technical tools, so the following will not preserve the format of the email. The text itself, however, is verbatim. The following was sent by the Rialto Theater to the community to generate support in its battle with the DTDC, [...] by David Safier
From the Arizona Guardian:
Fireworks over Tucson and LD29.Police used a Taser on a pastor and pepper spray to disperse his congregants Wednesday after the pastor allegedly interfered with a traffic stop in the church parking lot.
Congregants say they were in the Iglesia Profetica Peniel church [...]
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The Alaska Disasta, Sarah Palin, announced today that she is stepping down as Governor of Alaska. If you did not catch her press conference, catch the replay. It was a rambling and incoherent series of non sequitur anecdotes. As Steven Colbert might describe it, it was "the craziest" [...]
by David Safier
And while we're on the subject of Mark Sanford (see post below), here's a preview of the upcoming theatrical release, Hiking the Appalachian Trail.
by David Safier
It's been quoted and blogged on many times before this. Now it's my turn. It's Al Melvin's memorable statement about Brewer, referring to her impending veto.
In a huff. That's'" [...]
Colin Powell is shocked, shocked to discover that Barack Obama is exactly who conservatives said he was last year: Colin Powell, one of President Obama's most prominent Republican supporters, expressed concern Friday that the president's ambitious blitz of costly initiatives may be enlarging the size of government and the [...] So, we are supposed to be slapping Jan Brewer on the back for line item vetoing portions of the budget and calling the legislature into special session to fix all the damage they’ve done.
Sorry man, not me.
She vetoed several line items, including state aid for K-12 education. Because of [...]
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
In a classic case of the kettle calling the pot black, Senate President Bob "Bluto" Burns started yet another GOP food fight at his press conference yesterday when he said that the Accidental Governor is incompetent and unqualified for the job. Burns lashes out, calls Brewer [...]
In all the vetoing frenzy, Arizona Eighth (sorry, the transition is coming along, but slowly)–I mean Gila Courier–readers are wondering:
What is the status of the making the property tax cuts permanent? Did the governor’s veto pen raise our property taxes? [Update: According to Howie Fischer in the Star today [...]
