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Star Buys Kelly Line on National Sales Tax

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Over on the Star’s Pueblo Politics blog, there is a review of Gabrielle Giffords’s ad attacking Jesse Kelly for his support of a 23% national sales tax, known by the purposely innocuous name “Fair Tax.” The Star notes that the Fair Tax plan would replace all federal taxes with the sales tax, implying that somehow [...]

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Of Course, My Discerning Readers Already Knew This

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

The Tucson Weekly picks Raúl Grijalva as Best Public Servant: Since the passage of SB 1070, the name “Raúl Grijalva” is almost always said in the same breath as the word “boycott.” And though he may have previously called for a boycott of our state, Weekly readers aren’t boycotting him. Maybe it’s because you know [...]

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What Dave Said…

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Over at Blog for Arizona, David Safier takes down the Star for its anemic coverage of the President’s speech last night. I’m here to pile on. Something that Safier only tangentially notes is that both of the Star’s articles can be found elsewhere: one was from the New York Times (cue the angry Pace cowboys) [...]

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S’ok Kimble, I’ll Let the R Cubed Legal Department Handle This One

Friday, January 18, 2008

At 7:18 AM yesterday, Mark Kimble wrote this on the Tucson Citizen’s blog: [Tim] Bee plans to make it all formal Saturday morning at Palo Verde High School, where he is an alum. Maybe he should rethink the location. In 2006, Democrat and former television news anchor Patty Weiss showed up at Palo Verde High [...]

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Critics Starting to Swarm

Friday, September 28, 2007

There have been a couple of articles in this past week (here and here) criticizing Tim Bee for not stepping down from his position in the State Senate in preparation for his possible, no, likely, no, certain run for congress next year. I’m a bit torn about this. I mean, anything where the local press [...]

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