I know that carping liberals like me are supposed to hate the pardon, but I think his only mistake in that was not demanding that Richard Nixon make an appology in return.
Other than that, a decent, but not great president. He even admitted this himself (”I’m a Ford, not a Lincoln.”). He was an admirable […]
They had a minute of silence for Democratic activist Jesse George at the meeting on Saturday, which served to remind me that I hadn’t said anything about the guy.
Jesse George served in the Texas legislature and at the time was the youngest member to serve in that body. He later went on to work for […]
The House Democratic caucus re-elected Phil Lopes as minority leader. They also elected Jack Brown, a long time moderate-to-conservative legislator from St. Johns, as assistant minority leader and Phoenix Representative Steve Gallardo as minority whip.
The caucus will have somewhere between 25 and 27 members (depending on where uncounted votes end up), which is the largest […]
In an odd turn given everything else that is going on, former Massachusetts Rep. Gerry Studds has died from a blood clot in his lung.
Studds is probably most famous for being the first openly gay congressman.
Studds’s name has recently been in the news because of the ongoing Mark Foley scandal. Unfortunately, this has obscured his […]
Late Wednesday night, three people were killed out on Ajo and Kinney roads here in Tucson. A sheriff’s deputy named Timothy Graham was attempting to apprehend a mentally ill man named Aaron Swyers. A struggle ensued, and a cabbie that had just happened by named Dawud Abusida and attempted to help.
Traffic along that stretch […]
I read this morning that Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale died. The guy was a Republican, but I really admired him. When he was a prisoner of war at the infamous Hanoi Hilton (the same place where Senator John McCain was held), he actually wounded himself, almost dying in the process, so that he and […]
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