Link: The Sonoran Alliance � Maricopa County, Arizona GOP Straw Poll Results. According to a straw poll conducted among Maricopa County GOP meeting participants (generally the most influential in primaries) Senator John McCain came in 4th in the polling after Duncan Hunter, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich. More importantly, he topped the list as the … Read more

Link: Dobson says ‘no way’ to McCain candidacy. McCain is now officially the unofficial persona non grata to Focus on the Family. That’s going to scare off a lot of far right Evangelical support for Johnny. Some see this as a quirky choice for Dobson, given this his only other choices seem to be Guiliani … Read more

Democrats in Arizona won a major victory in November in Arizona. The most obvious fruit of the victory was two new Congressional seats in CDs 5 & 8. But we won a major victory in state legislative races, as well. We picked up 6 seats in the State House and 1 in the State Senate. … Read more

Link: Hangin’ with Pullen. In the GOP Chairperson race, Democrats have a candidate. Randy Pullen. Pullen is the guy we want running the GOP in Arizona. Why? Because we want a yahoo to be in charge of the opposing team. Pullen is as movement conservative as they come. He’s a big Graf/Prop 200 supporter who … Read more

It’s time for Drinking Liberally once again. Like every Thursday liberals will gather to gab at the Shanty on 4th Avenue and 9th Street (401 E. 9th Street) starting at 6pm. This week, our special guest is Chairman of the Pima County Board of Supervisors Richard Elias. Mr. Elias will share with us the upcoming … Read more

The FDA just approved the sexual offspring of cloned animals as human food. There are many who oppose this decision, and the movement to approve direct consumption of clones it heralds, but they do so for reasons based on popular misunderstanding of the technology, speculation as to long term effects, or its unintended consequences. None … Read more

I’ll be the first to admit, I’m a terrible prognosticator. My predictions are nearly always wrong. Yet for some reason I’m still compelled to make my clumsy attempts to predict what will come to pass in the coming year. Some are just obvious to anyone paying attention, some are very unlikely, and some are just … Read more