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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Oh, the macho shit that people can deceive themselves into believing. "If I'm packing heat, I can defend the world." This "Superman complex" will only get you killed.
Police training exercises on campuses for years have demonstrated that a determined shooter will wound' [...]
by Clint Bolick
Goldwater Institute
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Congressional Democrats are maneuvering to push through the latest version of President Barack Obama’s effort to take over the nation’s health care systems by this weekend.
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While purporting to scale down the massive federal health-care proposal that a large majority of Americans oppose, [...]
Rasmussen has a new poll showing John McCain ahead of JD Hayworth by 7 points. Read the details at this link.
[...]Former State Representative Ted Carpenter is running for Treasurer. I haven't been following Ted since he left the Legislature, but according to Google, he's moved into a nice...shall we say "facility"...near the Capitol. Ah yes, the state mental hospital on lovely Asylum drive just minutes from' [...]
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Arizona's modern-day version of Governor George Wallace, Sen. Russell Pearce (R-Mesa), must be having a conniption fit. His bill to criminalize immigrants stalled in the House on Wednesday. Arizona Capitol Times » Bill to make illegal immigrants trespassers stalls in House:Â
A sweeping immigration enforcement bill that would [...]
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Those of us who were educated in Catholic schools taught by nuns know that you never mess with the Penguin. Fear the knuckle wrap. (Full disclosure: I have aunts and cousins who are Catholic nuns.)
Rep. Bart "C Street" Stupak (D-MI) yesterday said he only listens to the U.S. [...]
Berkeley sociologist Arlie Hochschild has an extraordinary book, The Second Shift addressing the street smart reality of what raising a family in the United States has become. Denoting the aggregate duties associated with parenting/homemaking, she examines how real couples organize to perform this function. Based [...] 
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Phoenix, AZ ? On the eve of the health care vote, Arizona Hispanic Republicans will make every effort to organize and fire every single Arizona Democrat that supports Health Care and their government funded abortion plans.
Approximately 70% of all [...]
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Jim Deakin took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. After nearly 30 years in Congress McCain continues to propose bills in direct violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Fresh off the defeat of McCain/Feingold [...]
Still nothing in the mail from Starlee Rhoades at the Goldwater Institute answering my simple question: What does "many" mean in her sentence:
"We believe the term bureaucrat accurately describes many of the employees in question and is a fair use of the term."
I'm' [...]
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, March 17, 2010
“Arizonans won’t be fooled by Beltway-style drive-by negative campaign tactics”
PHOENIX, AZ (March 17) – J.D. Hayworth’s campaign manager, David Payne, today issued the following sharp rebuke of a new television ad by incumbent Senator John McCain [...]
For Immediate Release: March 17, 2010
Statement by Governor Jan Brewer 2010 Spokesman Doug Cole Regarding Letter from Terry Goddard Re: Proposition 100
“It’s amazing that the day after the budget is passed by the Legislature, the Attorney General finally begins to talk about Arizona’s budget [...]
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Terry Goddard today challenged the Accidental Governor, Jan Brewer, not to use the sales tax to fund the package of corporate tax giveaways the Arizona House of Representatives laughingly refers to as a jobs creation bill. The era of faith based supply-side trickle-down GOP economics is over.
Here is [...]
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Legislation Aimed at Reducing Frivolous Lawsuits
STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX – The Arizona House of Representatives today passed a bill that modifies the state’s standards in terms of expert witness reform to help reduce frivolous lawsuits. HB 2492 seeks to adopt a standard decided by the [...]
By Jeff Smith
On these very Opinion pages of the Arizona Republic last Saturday there appeared a bizarre and somewhat tortured defense of H.R. 2380, the Raise Wages, Cut Carbon Act of 2009 that was sponsored in the House of Representatives last year by Rep. Jeff Flake. [...]
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Most Innovative Event of Political Season
PARADISE VALLEY, AZ. March 17, 2010. In just two weeks Congressional candidate Vernon Parker will be hosting a “Gospel Brunch” at the Montelucia Resort. Parker, who is currently running for the Republican nomination in the [...]
I just read a book review in the Sunday NY Times: BLACK HEARTS: One Platoon’s Descent Into Madness in Iraq’s Triangle of Death. It's about the horrific "murder of an entire Iraqi family in the village of Yusufiya" by 4 soldiers in Bravo Company.
Here's a description of [...]
