BlogForArizona Editorial Policy on Endorsements
I don’t think anyone is actually looking to BlogForArizona for candidate endorsements, but I love policies. So what the heck; I’m going to have one on endrosements. I’m not going to do them. They’re dumb. The people who do them are dumb. Often the candidates are dumb. Why bother? The people who come here are … Read more
Patrick J. Buchanan and the Reconquista
Patrick J. Buchanan’s new book "State of Emergency" is in pre-sales. The book is about illegal immigration from Mexico, forthrightly seeking to thrust the conspiracy theory of a Mexican Reconquista of southwestern American states to the center of the debate. This was a fairly obvious one, really, but I like all pronosticators, I have to … Read more
JD Hayworth and Abramoff (The GOP’s 2nd favorite Jew, even the anti-Semites’)
Props to Lefty Latino for bird dogging this one: Heck of an indictment of good ol’ boy JD. I just hope Harry doesn’t unlock his jaw from JD political throat (little homage to Dante, see prior post).
HellOnToni Cracks Open
Espresso Pundit posted on a very interesting development in the CD 8 race. Toni Hellon, CD 8 candidate Mike Hellon’s ex-wife and a State Senator, filed an injunction against Bill Arnold, CD 8 candidate Steve Huffman’s campaign treasurer who’s notorious mainly for scumbaggery around some crooked Amphi School District land deals, for harrassment and reputational … Read more
The CD 8 Gender Gap
Why is it that there is not a single female GOP candidate in CD 8, yet fully half of the Democrats, three out of six – Patty Weiss, Gabby Giffords, and Francine Shacter – are women? Why is the GOP incapable of fielding even one female candidate for one of the most competitive races in … Read more
Ted Downing and the Rio Nuevo Project Reauthorization
The Facts In the contentious LD 28 Senate primary race, the recent successful reauthorization of Rio Nuevo has been fashioned into a sort of political litmus test for loyalty to Tucson’s interests. Paula Aboud has repeatedly accused Ted Downing of not supporting the reauthorization, even though he voted for the final bill. This has been … Read more
Why can’t we all be Japanese?
Why can’t we all be Japanese? A very interesting essay, though a bit discursive into unrelated theological matters, introduces a major new cross-cultural study of the correlations between belief in the divine, and violence and sexual behavior. The counter-inuitive, and politically provocative, conclusion of the study is that there is a strong positive correlation between … Read more
