So the ballot measure is done, and it passed by a huge margin.
I was really conflicted on this. There are a lot of factors that go into making a decision about a tax that will take a billion dollars a year out of our state economy. Especially in a time that our economy …
In the past few days, Hillary Clinton and other senior administration members flew down to Mexico to work on “cartels vs. the military part II”. A visit punctuated by 5 days of murders related to cartel violence.
A few years ago the US dedicated 1.3 Billion dollars to fighting the drug war in Mexico and …
It’s been 2 years now since wall street smashed our economy into a brick wall and like a lot of drunk drivers, amazingly the Banks walked away almost completely unscathed, while the rest of the passengers (us) have ended up in a 2 year coma from which we are just now emerging.
There’s been a lot …
In case you didn’t know, Arizona’s leadership is completely fucked. Since the whitehouse drafted our previous governor, Jan Brewer has stepped in to try and navigate the mess that is Arizona politics. And it hasn’t gone all that well. Since taking office, she’s been consistently in opposition to both parties in the …
Had your rage quotient for today?
Enjoy this interview of a former Cigna executive by Bill Moyers. In case you’re wondering, the debate on public healthcare has been deeply corrupted by the healthcare industry who have been manipulating the debate for a while now and using political donations and lobbyists to bully politicians on both …
Just to start out…. good riddance.
In case you’ve been in a cave since the 4th of July, Sarah Palin has resigned as Alaska’s governor. She’s also been incoherently ranting and whining about why. None of which is even remotely believable.
While I have exactly zero information about the actual reasons for her resignation, I …
The more I read about the housing crisis and the eventual collapse of the financial markets, the less faith I have in our masters of the universe.
The newest bits of my reading are around the failure of the credit rating agencies like Moodys and S&P to assess risk because of market pressures. First read …
Recently Bobby Jindal got thrust into the national spotlight to offer the republican rebuttal to the president’s state of the union.
Jindal caught a lot of crap for his just outright awful public speaking skills, and as the days crept on, lots of people wanted to get an idea of who this Jindal character is.
Well, turns …
Nate Silver has become a modern political hero after his groundbreaking site fivethirtyeight.com provided clear, consistent and accurate predictions of the 2008 presidential and congress races.
Recently he took on John Ziegler, a failed right wing radio show host turned documentary film maker for enlisting Zogby to do what he considered a push poll. Here’s …
Prop 100: Don’t tax our houses yo!
UPDATE: Passed 77% to 23% Arizonans hate taxes
Prop 100 is an amendment to the state constitution to prevent any new taxes on sales or transfers of property by government. By and large I’m opposed to any amendment of the state constitution that doesn’t have immediate and stark consequences …