Got your “Pants on Fire” right here!
Just because PolitiFact’s “Lie of the Year” confirms something I’ve known for over three years — that you will not be allowed to keep your insurance, no matter how emphatically you are assured...
View ArticleNewsy report finds Republicans cause of Obamacare woes
In my continuing self-assigned duty as media-critic-at-large, we now turn to another big, fat target from the Associated Press national desk. A story by reporter David A. Lieb sifted through the tiny...
View ArticleLet’s hope downsized expectations have upsides
The urge to predict what’s coming in 2014 is a powerful one, and I’m as susceptible as anybody. Already, I’ve pronounced in public that the Phoenix Suns — who may have re-created the great Kevin...
View ArticleGov. Jan Brewer’s 2014 State of the State speech
1:57 p.m. Am I the first blog-commentator listening to Brewer’s speech to wonder out loud if the governor will explicitly declare this address to be unequivocally her very, very (swear on a stack of...
View Article“Friends of Abe” got a real close “friend” in the IRS
When they get caught doing bad things, public institutions don’t always learn the error of their ways. But usually they stop doing those bad things for a while. The Internal Revenue Service is not...
View ArticleBagging the employer mandate again: An admission, at last, that Obamacare...
Looking back on how President Obama promoted the Affordable Care Act before and just after its passage in 2010 reveals more baloney than that one (much repeated) line about keeping your insurance and...
View ArticleTucson will learn hard way not to mess with Leon
By rights, we should feel only contempt for the malefactors and hypocrites running the city of Tucson. But I just can’t. No, in the end, I can merely pity them. The poor saps. They have incurred the...
View ArticleStrife in Dem Land
Geez. You would have thought she was talking about Republicans. “This is the most arrogant, inconsiderate group of individuals I have been a part of and I will never set foot in that caucus room...
View ArticleSteve Gallardo’s announcement
I am very glad state Sen. Steve Gallardo, D-Phoenix, feels comfortable enough to talk about the fact that he is gay. It’s a good thing for everyone, not just him. I’m even happier that the story...
View ArticleBrewer’s bluff: Has no one in Arizona ever played poker before?
Has no one in Arizona ever played poker? Jan Brewer will not run for her office again, a fact that should shock only those who have never peered over a hand of cards and smiled coyly. Here is a news...
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