La Dolce Vita
Steven Rockford
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MY RECENT POSTS
- Japan to restart reactors?
May 31, 2012 12:06AM - Our fallen soldiers
May 27, 2012 01:07PM - Racial profiling - Arizona
style
May 24, 2012 09:53AM - Bush torture team found guilty
May 15, 2012 01:28PM - The political pendulum keeps
moving right.
May 11, 2012 11:24AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Very good points
Mark.
Has there been
any increase in radiation
where you're
locat…”
10:26AM - “Here's the correct
link:
http://open.sal
on.com/blog/steven_rockford/20
11/06/13/peo…”
May 21, 2012 07:48PM - “Robert,
As you
stated, “Roger Ailes
isn’t a newsman
and
doesn’t…”
May 21, 2012 07:44PM - “Cheney, Rumsfeld and the
neocons wore out the
phrase,
“They hate us
for our…”
May 17, 2012 11:07AM - “Yes! What Boomer Bob
just said.”
May 16, 2012 09:34PM
Steven Rockford's Links
Last week an international tribunal ended an extensive investigation and trial into the torture allegations brought against the Bush administration. It concluded that the Bush torture team (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Addington, Yoo, Haynes and Bybee) is guilty of war/… Read full post »
Wealth ownership in New York City
Actually, one of the two Big Apples isn’t very big at all. In fact, it is getting smaller. That Apple is the one representing the wealth owned by the many people living in poverty in New Yo… Read full post »
There has been much talk recently about the hassles associated with being a modern-day stay-at-home mom. But little is said about the equally difficult task of being a stay-at-home dad. I have had the good fortune of being in that situation for many year/… Read full post »
This week, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer vetoed a bill which would have allowed guns to be carried into all public buildings in Arizona, including state and local government facilities, community centers and libraries. Her veto was not expected. &n… Read full post »
Coming to theaters near you
The Arizona International Film Festival begins tomorrow in Tucson. One of the featured films will be a documentary “Two Americans” about Joe Arpaio and a 9 year-old girl, Katherine Figueroa. … Read full post »
The Supreme Court of the United States initiated review of the controversial Arizona immigration law (SB 1070) on Monday. Arizona Governor Janice Brewer lost this case in Federal Court last October. However, with the help of Paul Clement, one of DC’s most influen… Read full post »
Ethnic studies in AZ schools
Not so much
At times I find myself amazed at how the conservative religious zealots and xenophobes have taken over our Arizona government. A perfect example is last week’s passing of a bill in the Arizona House Education Committee which would req… Read full post »
Yesterday, Arizona’s Senate Government Reform Committee passed four bills that, if put into law, would make Wisconsin's and Ohio’s anti-union legislation look worker-friendly. As reported in the Arizona Republic:
“The four bills ... would allow taxpayers to… Read full post »
Steve Jobs said “No!”
A recent article in the New York Times entitled “How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work” highlighted this question asked of Steve Jobs last February by President Obama at a Silicon Valley dinner meeting:
"Not long ago,… Read full post »
This week marks the 2nd anniversary of the Citizens United v. FEC ruling which was written into history by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 21, 2010. By now, most people recognize the true historic significance of this ruling. It basically reversed the frame/… Read full post »
The residual effect of carpet bombing
The New York Times published an article this week reporting that over 100 thousand Vietnamese civilians have been injured or killed since the war’s end in 1975 due to post-war explosions.&… Read full post »
President Ronald Reagan with Attorney General Edwin Meese
On the 25th anniversary of the Iran-Contra affair, the Freedom of Information Act has allowed the public to view a document that exonerated President Reagan for his actions taken during the Iran-Contra scandal. … Read full post »
Another victory for the people of Arizona
The Arizona Supreme Court tonight reinstated Colleen Mathis as the Chairwomen of the Independent Election Redistricting Commission. Ms. Mathis, a registered independent, was fired from her position earlier this month on directions from G/… Read full post »
said Bachmann and Cain.
“Nothing in the
world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious
stupidity” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
If
Dr. King would have watched the GOP presidential debate on
Saturday, I’m certain that he would have felt that the
response… Read full post »
A historic victory for the people of Arizona
Never in the history of this state has a member of the state legislature been successfully removed from office through a recall election. The President of the Arizona State Senate, Russell/… Read full post »
Occupy Phoenix – October 2011
(Courtesy of Dennis Gilman – HumanLeague002)
The Occupy Phoenix rally held at Cesar Chavez Plaza in downtown Phoenix was representative of the tone set at all Occupy-events throughout the nation. As you can se/… Read full post »
Last Friday Arizona Governor Jan Brewer lost in federal court in her lawsuit against the US government over its alleged failure to enforce federal immigration laws. Brewer’s suit was originally filed as a countersuit to a US Department of Justice lawsuit challe/… Read full post »
Leslie Stahl had an interesting interview with Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE and Obama's new Jobs Czar, on 60 Minutes last Sunday. At the end of the interview Stahl asked, “Do you not see any reason that maybe the public doesn’t hold American Corporations… Read full post »
October 7, 2001
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the start of the war in Afghanistan. On this date in 2001, British and American warplanes began carpet bombing suspected al Qaeda training camps in that country. George W. Bush gave a presidential address tha/… Read full post »
Berkeley, California 1969
One of my most memorable experiences while living in the San Francisco Bay Area in the ‘60s was marching in the People’s Park demonstration in Berkeley in May of 1969. It was a beautiful late spring afternoon. There were 30,000 demonst/… Read full post »
Some people find it very difficult to deal with their racial biases.
Take for example Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. As this recent local ABC video shows, Arpaio is not at all apologetic about his racist beliefs:
&n… Read full post »
Another step toward removing Sen. Pearce
Yesterday, the Arizona Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for the recall election of Senator Russell Pearce to be held on November 8. It has been a difficult uphill battle for the concerned citizens in Pearce’s 18th district, w/… Read full post »
I watched an entire episode of The O’Reilly Factor for the first time last week. It was an eye opening experience for me, not so much because of what I saw and heard, but rather because of the reactions I noted by observing two of/… Read full post »
SCOTUS’s Citizens United (CU) decision has had an increasing and far-reaching anti-democratic impact on all levels of government in the United States. Many states have tried to enact legislation to limit the corporate oligarchic ramifications of the landmark Su/… Read full post »
Dealing with a radical
Today it seems that the ubiquitous Grover Norquist is seen on every Sunday morning talk show and cable news broadcast, and he’s still selling the same right-wing snake oil – Permanent tax cuts for the rich. It’s be/… Read full post »
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