Guest Commentary: The U.S. Senate didn’t help Arizona when it scuttled the immigration bill
Karl Reiner is a friend of this site and an active voice for a fact-based approach to the issue of immigration from Mexico. He recently published a guest commentary in the AZ Daily Star, an updated and expanded version of which is presented here. BlogForArizona published an exclusive essay by Karl in April of last … Read more
NY Tragedy High-Lights Need for Texting While Driving Ban
Link: Text-message ban for drivers mulled in NY state. The death of five teenagers in a horrific auto accident that text messages sent just prior to the collision on the driver’s phone suggests could be due to a combonation of driver inexperience and inattention due to cell phone text messaging means that there will likely … Read more
Bob Lord Comes out Swinging on Shadegg: An Anatomy Lesson
I gotta say, I love it when a candidate realizes what needs to be done and gets down to brass tacks. All the money in world can’t dislodge an entrenched incumbent without clear contrast messaging. Yes, that’s a euphemism for going negative. The voters pretty much have to hate or mistrust the incumbent before they … Read more
The Andrew Thomas/Death Penalty Index
In case you weren’t aware, Andrew Thomas is the Maricopa County Attorney. He also ran for Arizona Attorney General against Terry Goddard and backed every immigrant-bashing initiative that has come down the pipe. He’s tried to divert county resources, in conjunction with Sheriff Arpaio, to arresting illegal aliens for the civil violation of remaining illegally … Read more
More Hot Air for Iraq
Link: HR 2956 The Responsible Redeployment from Iraq Act. What does the passage of this legislation mean? Not much. Some want to see the passage of this legislation as some sort of redemptive moment for those Democrats who split from the Party to fund the Iraq supplemental without any meaningful binding restrictions, like Gabbi and … Read more
Democrats at Google
I ran across these and thought they were pretty interesting and might escape notice. There is a stream of candidates heading to Google to kiss the ring of the internets’ 800 pound gorilla. Hillary Clinton: Bill Richardson: John Edwards: On the other side of the aisle John McCain and, recently Ron Paul have appeared at … Read more
Dr. Carmona Delivers a Rebuke
I knew there was a reason I’ve always liked this guy, despite his being on the wrong side of politics. Tucson’s own Dr. Richard Carmona, all around cowboy and former Surgeon General in the Bush Administration has come out swinging at the Administration’s muzzling of him on important, but politically sensitive topic during his tenure. … Read more
