A few somewhat random caffeine infused thoughts about the Sinema McSally Senate race in Arizona, and other musings. As of this morning, it appears Sinema will take Jeff Flake’s seat but, hold your horses, there be court challenges, accusations of voter fraud, and all kinds of shit looming that will slow the final outcome. Add … More Oh, democracy can sure get messy
Wow, the recent announcement by our new Office of Management and Budget Director, Mick Mulvaney, about the decision to eliminate federal funding support for certain after school programs because “there is no evidence that they improve performance,” certainly contradicts everything that I know, particularly as it applies to “evidence-based” after school programs. http://fortune.com/2017/03/16/donald-trump-after-school-programs-performance-mick-mulvaney-budget/ Having worked … More “No evidence” that after-school programs improve performance? What’s really going on here?
Well, no one has ever said or intimated that the Arizona legislature occasionally pursues legislation that is obviously unconstitutional or based on assumptions that have little to do with fact ;-). On the other hand, heck, in many ways, it could be argued that the AZ legislature, historically, refuses to be confused by the facts. … More Oh those paid protesters …
This is an exceptional piece. Bret Stephens is a conservative columnist with the Wall Street Journal though this was published in a recent edition of Time Magazine. http://time.com/4675860/donald-trump-fake-news-attacks/
We have an ordinance in Tucson that, basically, allows the Tucson Police Department to destroy automatic weapons seized during the course of criminal investigations or through other means (e.g., citizens wanting to have their weapons destroyed). We also have a state law that says, in a nutshell, that the state may withhold state funds from … More Guns and the boundaries of sovereignty
One of the positive things about not having any work right now – Ayn Rand may have said that my work in juvenile justice and child welfare research really was not meaningful work anyways – is having time to read stuff that I’ve been wanting to read. So, I’ve been catching up on some long … More I have only just begun to shrug
Thanks to my friend Jeff Craig for sharing this. A very thorough and detailed look at many of the issues surrounding the DAPL. However, I have also posted some comments below in response to Scott Gates’s informative post. Here is the link to his post. https://m.facebook.com/notes/scott-gates/on-the-standing-rock-tribes-dakota-pipeline-protest-/10154529600627457/ OK, Scott Gate’s extended arguments and presentation of facts, … More Another take on the protest at Standing Rock
Wow, I did not expect this, but maybe the prospect for and presence of a couple of thousand Native American armed services veterans at Standing Rock, there to support the protest, had an impact on the US Army Corps of Engineers decision to halt construction of the pipeline. This does not mean that the pipeline … More An unexpected development in Standing Rock
As I have said before, too many of those who favor the Dakota Pipeline fail to acknowledge the sincere and deeply held beliefs of Native Americans who oppose the project. This article/post by Bronson Koenig, best known for playing basketball for the nationally ranked University of Wisconsin, offers another example of the too oft ignored … More Another Native American’s take on Standing Rock and the Dakota Pipeline
Greetings everyone. Most if not all of you know that I have harped on the need for President-elect Trump to continue to denounce hate crimes and related incidents that are being committed by those hateful few who feel emboldened by the new president’s election. At the same time, violent incidents like the most recent assault … More Our new president can and should keep denouncing incidents of hate
