Michael Bryan Ran across a great local perspective on Joe Arpaio’s six month long $500,000 investigation of an alleged plot against his life by immigration activists on P.S. Burton’s blog: Secret Informant initiates $500,000 In Public Expenditures: Maricopa County Sheriff’ Joseph Arpaio spent an estimated $500,000 in tax payer dollars this past six months defending himself from … Read more
The love of a good dog knows no politics. Just consider the saga of little Charlie Schweikert. Charlie is employed by the Maricopa County Treasurer’s office as office counselor and cheerleader. He defuses bad days and turns down the volume on taxpayer disputes. And all he asks in return is a few treats, a scratch … Read more
It is a pedestrian observation that terrorists are human beings and therefore have a human psychology which we can study and understand. Strangely, that simple observation seems almost heretical, possibly even subversive in our currently political climate. It seems to imply that terrorists are not aberrant monsters, or possibly even that they are normal in … Read more
Link: GOP pressing immigrant issue. I didn’t realize that Republican strategists were actually pushing Congressional recommit votes on immigration-related language to paint Democrats as pro-immigrant. I have to say, I’m utterly delighted that they are hanging that anchor around their own necks. I think most Americans, and especially independents, recoil at policies and political stands … Read more
Seems like every medium eventually falls prey to the siren song of profit. And profitability invariably means one thing: advertising. Wherever there are eyeballs, there is someone willing to pay for access to them. Blogs are turning out to be no different. The Google Adsense advertising I have on this site (yes, go click on … Read more