AZ Republican Legislators Decry Hispanics
Last week Republican State Senator Lori Klein read a letter, on the Senate floor, saying Hispanic students “do not want to be educated but [would] rather be gang members and gangsters.” She was told to read this letter during the session by Senate President Russell Pearce. Have we heard any objections from any of their [...]
NPR: The Saga Continues
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship | Saturday 19 March 2011 There’s no more scrupulous or versatile broadcast journalist than NPR’s Daniel Zwerdling. He is one of those reporters who keeps his eye on the sparrow – that is, on small details from individual lives that add up to significant issues of public policy. As [...]
Who’s Really Behind Recent Republican Legislation in Wisconsin and Elsewhere? (Hint: It Didn’t Start Here)
March 15, 2011 by William Cronon A Study Guide for Those Wishing to Know More After watching the sudden and impressively well-organized wave of legislation being introduced into state legislatures that [...]
Letter to the Editor of AZ Star –”The Fragile Family” vs. “Carhart”
I didn’t know which column was more hilarious this morning (Sat. Feb. 19), David Fitzsimmons delightful weekly insights, or Cathi Herrod’s attempt to justify her group’s work to ‘family values’. Her citation of a single sentence from the 2007 Carhart Case is particularly insightful as it has nothing whatsoever to do with family, but with [...]
Republicans are Dismantling Women’s Liberty
Top 10 Shocking Attacks from the GOP War on Women 1) Republicans not only want to reduce women’s access to abortion care, they’re actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven’t. 2) A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term for victims of rape, [...]
A Distraction? Republicans Launch Assault on Choice, Not Unemployment
By NAFTALI BENDAVID Republicans focused their message on the economy during the last campaign, responding to voters’ anxiety about jobs and government debt to the exclusion of just about everything else. Now, House Republican leaders, with the backing of social conservatives, are pushing ahead with a series of antiabortion bills that will share the stage [...]