Undocumented immigrants fear for their children as AZ ‘papers’ law takes effect
Latinos living without immigration papers in Arizona have begun bombarbing helplines and lawyers’ offices with anxious requests about how to provide for their children should they be arrested under a...
View ArticleHonour for Giffords on shuttle flight
The space shuttle Endeavour will honour the former US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords with a flyover of her Arizona home town on its way to the museum in California where it will be displayed. Related...
View ArticleArizona Shows How to Kill an Economy
Alex Nowrasteh of the Cato Institute has just release a policy analysis documenting the havoc that the twin legislative scourges in Arizona – to wit, the 2007 LAWA that cracks down on employers hiring...
View ArticleDARPA Continues Human Experiments to Create Military Super Soldiers
Working with the human genome, DARPA hopes to manipulate certain gene expressions. In experimentation, DARPA and the military industrial pharmaceutical complex are using natural abilities that are...
View ArticleFacing Complaints Over Paddling, Texas School Expands Policy
Well, we suppose that's one way of dealing with the complaints. A Texas school district has expanded their corporal punishment policy to allow paddlings by opposite-sex administrators after two parents...
View ArticleSupreme Court to review Arizona law making voters prove citizenship
Supreme Court to review Arizona law making would-be voters prove citizenship (via The Christian Science Monitor) The US Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up a case examining whether an Arizona...
View ArticleThe Real George Romney
Mitt Romney's dad wasn't as principled as his reputation suggests. … Read More
View ArticleSenate candidate tells moderator he’s “prettier” than Candy Crowley
Richard Carmona, D-Ariz., apologized for telling a male moderator that he is prettier than Candy Crowley during a debate with his opponent in the Senate race, Republican Rep. Jeff Flake.During the...
View ArticleWar on Democracy: Quick Shots, 10/25/2012
Once again, as they're coming in too fast for us to fully dig in to most of these, but you should know about them, so here's our quick round-up, for now, of the latest... • Maricopa County, AZ Gives...
View ArticleCan a centrist win in Arizona?
Richard Carmona might be new to campaigning, but he’s not exactly new to politics. In 2005, he was a recruiting target for Republican Senator Jon Kyl and his ally in the statehouse, then-secretary of...
View ArticleRepublican candidate’s robocalls tell Ariz. Democrats wrong polling place
More than a half dozen Democrats in Scottsdale, Arizona have come forward to say that they received automated telephone calls — or robocalls — from Rep. Jeff Flake’s (R-AZ) Senate campaign that told...
View ArticleCan white voters really doom Obama?
We have so many iconic images of the Obama era. Quite a few are ugly. The photo of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, Tea Party darling, disrespectfully waving her pointed finger in the president's face is one...
View ArticleLife sentence in Arizona attack that wounded Giffords
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, partially blind, her right arm paralyzed and limp, came face to face Thursday with the man who tried to kill her last year, standing beside...
View ArticleDavid And Caleb Malboeuf, Arizona Cousins, To Pay $3.7 Million In Restitution...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Two cousins who accidentally started the largest wildfire in Arizona history will have to pay more than $3.7 million in restitution to those whose homes were destroyed or suffered...
View ArticleHow Did Libertarian(ish) Candidates Make Out On Election Day?
So how did the down-ballot libertarian(ish) candidates I profiled for the November issue make out on Election Day? Victorious! Ted Cruz ;(Texas, Senate)– ;Cruised (heh) to victory over Democratic...
View ArticleNumber of uncounted ballots in Arizona rises as deadline nears
While the presidential election is now over, the state of Arizona has hundreds of thousands of uncounted ballots that could determine a number of races, including that of infamous Maricopa County...
View ArticleUSC Football: No. 21 Trojans Rebound For 38-17 Win Over Arizona State
LOS ANGELES -- Marqise Lee caught 10 passes for 161 yards and a touchdown, Curtis McNeal rushed for 163 yards and two more scores, and No. 21 Southern California bounced back from consecutive losses...
View ArticleAnti-Obama AZ woman runs over husband for not voting
An Arizona woman was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and reckless driving after running her husband over with their SUV Monday out of anger over him not voting in last week’s presidential...
View ArticleWhat makes a police department tough on immigration?
Under President Obama, a record number of unauthorized immigrants have been deported from the United States. Within the country -- from state to state, city to city, police department to police...
View ArticleJohn McCain Was Not Amused By "One of the Dumbest Questions" He’s Ever Heard
At a press conference on Capitol Hill today, Sen. John McCain was asked whether the still-developing story of David Petraeus' affair with his biographer, along with a potentially related e-mail...
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