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IC Arizona: CAP & AZRTL: AZ Choose Life Plates Now Available ONLINE!

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:57:00 -0500

Now, after years of a CAP-led court battle and months of waiting, you can order your CHOOSE LIFE license plate online. Never before has it been so easy to do something significant to advance the cause of life in the state of Arizona! By one simple step, you can make [...]

Daniel's News & Views: Tucson thanks veterans for service and sacrifice

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:46:00 -0500

Veterans Day Parade in Tucson.

TUCSON -- Thank you, veterans & families!

We'll be at Tucson Veterans Day events to respect & honor vets who've served and sacrificed in the armed forces.

As a State Representative who serves on the Arizona House [...]

IC Arizona: The Night after Christmas: Perfect gift for a child

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:35:00 -0500

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IC Arizona: Duel in the Desert - Toughest Sheriff Arpaio vs. Toughest Prosecutor Thomas

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:32:00 -0500

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IC Arizona: Mayor Vernon Parker Turns 50! AZ Republicans Invited to Birthday Party

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:27:00 -0500

Calling All Republicans –Vernon Parker to Celebrate Half a Century Milestone AZ GOP Invited to Commemorate the Big 50 NOVEMBER 10, 2009. Later this month Paradise Valley Mayor Vernon Parker will hit the half-century mark. In celebration of this, well, momentous occasion, all Republicans are invited to revel with the [...]

The Sonoran Alliance: Net neutrality regulation violates First Amendment

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:53:12 -0500

Number of comments: 1
by Nick Dranias Goldwater Institute The Federal Communications Commission wants to force network service providers–the companies that own and operate the wires, routers and computers that keep the Internet humming–to transmit streaming audio, video and anything else on terms the FCC deems “neutral” regardless of how much bandwidth the data consumes. Network [...]

Seeing Red AZ: Honoring Our Veterans (Parade route included)

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:58:37 -0500

Veterans Day parade: 11:00 AM – 2 PM today The annual VA Veterans Day Parade will kick off this morning at 11 A.M.. This year’s parade theme is “Home of the Free, Because of the Brave,” honoring veterans who have fought in the war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, also referred [...]

The Sonoran Alliance: PR: Vernon Parker to Celebrate Half a Century Milestone

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:57:15 -0500

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Calling All Republicans – AZ GOP Invited to Commemorate the Big 50 NOVEMBER 10, 2009. Later this month Paradise Valley Mayor Vernon Parker will hit the half-century mark. In celebration of this, well, momentous occasion, all Republicans are invited to revel with the man himself, and [...]

Blog For Arizona: A Solemn Veteran's Day: Memorial Service at Fort Hood, Texas

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:49:50 -0500

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Transcript of Remarks by the President at Memorial Service at Fort Hood | The White House

Remarks by the President at Memorial Service at Fort Hood

Fort Hood - III Corps, Fort Hood, Texas

1:55 P.M. CST

THE PRESIDENT: To the Fort Hood community; to Admiral Mullen; General Casey; General [...]

Blog For Arizona: Reminder: Celebrate an Event Honoring Stewart L. Udall This Friday

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:11:26 -0500

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

CELEBRATE AN EVENT HONORING STEWART L. UDALL

Friday, November 13, 1:30 pm

Join the Udall Foundation as it honors former
Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall and celebrates
the addition of his name to the Foundation.

Outside of the
Udall Foundation Office
130 S. Scott Ave., Tucson, AZ

~The event is open [...]

Gila Courier: Tucson Tea Party video

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:39:00 -0500

Number of comments: 1

Here is a video from yesterday’s Tea Party protest at Rep. Gabrielle Gifford’s office. Thanks for Mike at ShortforOrdinary.com for the news report.

Update: Here is another video from the November 10th protest.

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Jakubczyk on Life: The health care issue - now what?

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:39:00 -0500

With the passage of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment to the health care bill, the house narrowly passed the entire bill 220-215. The bill is seriously flawed, including from a strictly pro-life perspective and it is a mistake to think that simply because the Stupak amendment was attached, we have dome all [...]

Random Musings: Apparently, it's my week for going "hmmmm..."

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:44:00 -0500

...well, in between coughs and sneezes and sniffles, anyway. :)

This is definitely one of those times when I wish I had better sources at the Capitol.

First, there was the scheduled (and then cancelled) meeting of the lege's Joint Committee on Capital Review that was supposed [...]

The Sonoran Alliance: “Draft Dean Martin” Flair Flaunted

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:34:43 -0500

Number of comments: 8
We’ve all heard a version of the story about the Madison Avenue advertising hot shot who created the most persuasive and impactful campaign ever to sell a new brand of dog food. It failed miserably. The problem: the dogs wouldn’t eat the dog food. I thought of that story not once [...]

Random Musings: Congressman Harry Mitchell - "Honoring Our Nation's Veterans

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:15:00 -0500

From an email message from Congressman Mitchell -
This Veterans Day, I want to make sure we all take a moment to give thanks to our men and women in uniform. I sought out a seat on the House Veterans Affairs’ Committee because I believe that the best way to [...]

The Sonoran Alliance: Giffords Claims Health Bill Will Cost Nothing

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:14:57 -0500

Number of comments: 1
Gabby Giffords, with all the rest of the Arizona Democrats, marched lock-step with Nancy Pelosi in passing the House version of the government take-over of health care. In her newsletter she actually claims that the health care bill will not add to the deficit. Click to Enlarge Now that is really interesting [...]

Disloyal Opposition: Feds want to know: Just who are your readers?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:11:00 -0500

The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that, on January 30 of this year, the Justice Department not only demanded to know who was reading the IndyMedia alternative news site, but also forbade the site to publicize the demand.
[T]he government was asking for the IP address of every one of [...]

Espresso Pundit: Well, you had to see that coming...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:53:21 -0500

Buyouts are generally followed by layoffs and the Arizona Daily Star is no exception. Last week you will recall that the Star offered a buyout to employees over 50 and tonight, the paper laid an additional five employees off. [...]

Disloyal Opposition: An actual economist examines Obamacare and says it makes no sense

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:26:00 -0500

According to Martin Feldstein, professor of economics at Harvard University and president emeritus of the nonprofit National Bureau of Economic Research:

A key feature of the House and Senate health bills would prevent insurance companies from denying coverage to anyone with preexisting conditions. The new coverage would start [...]

Exurban League: Arizona blogger meet up / shoot 'em up

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:00:00 -0500

Kevin over at The Smallest Minority is planning an Arizona blogger meet up / firearms shoot in Casa Grande for a Saturday in near future. If you're like me (and I know I am) and want to meet other Arizona bloggers and like things that go BANG, drop him' [...]

Mesa Issues: Chavez opens "Campeones" in Mesa Today

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:35:00 -0500

Today is the opening day for "Campeones" the 30,000-square foot entertainment venue owned by boxing legend Julio Cesar Chavez. The hype started earlier this week, with the venue being described as a cross between "ESPN Zone and Dave & Busters."

This is exciting news especially since this [...]

Following Phoenix: 2011 Phoenix Mayor’s Race Begins

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:31:22 -0500

And you thought presidential campaigns were long. Despite being more than two years out from a 2011 election, Councilman Claude Mattox is the first person throw his hat in the ring to replace Mayor Phil Gordon when he is term-limited in 2012. Mattox, serving his third term on the council, is also facing [...]

Rum, Romanism and Rebellion: My God, He’s Even Lost Bill O’Reilly

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:05:08 -0500

(It is worth knowing that O’Reilly, even when he is right, still shows himself to be an idiot. How does Shadegg become si-DAYG?)

The Arizona Democratic Party put out a press release refuting Shadegg’s claims about the bill. I half expected the Arizona Republicans to put out a press release condemning [...]

Blog For Arizona: A "Tea Party" party registers in Florida

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:48:54 -0500

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Ben Smith reports at politico.com A Tea Party party registers in Florida:

A Florida conservative has registered an official "Tea Party" with the office of the Secretary of State, and is promising to run candidates against Republicans and Democrats in state and national races.

"The current system has become" [...]

FIX ARIZONA NOW!: No good deed goes unpunished, but bad deeds do.

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:45:30 -0500

We live in a world with rules, and I understand that, but somehow it seems that the rules don’t apply equally for everyone. Take two stories from today’s paper: First, local churches in Phoenix with underlying residential zoning are banned from feeding the homeless. Despite their desire to do the right [...]

Daniel's News & Views: Nov 10 remember Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:42:00 -0500

WHITEFISH BAY MI -- I was born & raised in the Great Lakes and I remember the giant storm of Nov 10, 1975, and the wreck of ship Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior, 29 sailors dead.

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The Northern Muckraker: Food for thought

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:49:00 -0500

A caller to today's Schnitt Show posed an interesting (paraphrased) question to host Todd Schnitt:
If a peasant was to flatly decline to purchase the insurance coverage that would be mandated for him or her under the proposed House Democratic health care "reform plan" that was rammed down our [...]

Rum, Romanism and Rebellion: Bruce King Award Nominee

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:24:13 -0500

Number of comments: 2

La Cervecera on Terry Goddard, as quoted in the Arizona Daily Star:

It’s easy to be a Saturday night quarterback.

I realize I spend my sports-watching hours following the other kind of football, but isn’t the phrase “Monday Morning Quarterback”? I mean, teams play on Saturday nights, right?

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Blog For Arizona: For profit colleges need oversight as well

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:53:20 -0500

by David Safier

I write a lot about the potential dangers of the profit motive in K-12 schools, because my teaching experience allows me to understand how pre-college schools operate. I avoid too much discussion of higher ed because I don't know how it works from the inside.

But a few recent' [...]

Rum, Romanism and Rebellion: Writes Itself, Really

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:35:21 -0500

Actual Twitter from George Hutchins, a candidate for congress in North Carolina. The capitalization is his. All his.

GOTTA SIGN OFF THE TWITTER AND PUT IN MY NIGHTLY 6 HOURS OF FOX NEWS. SUPPORT FOX NEWS!! (ANYWAY I CAN PUT THAT IN BOLD OR FLASHING?)

He also, by the way, blames [...]

Blog For Arizona: GOP Gone Wild!

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:33:30 -0500

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

If you missed the House debate on the health care bill Saturday night, you missed the GOP gone wild and behaving badly towards the Democratic Women's Caucus. Is this how Republicans treat women in their own caucus? Is this how they treat their wife, daughter, mother? The GOP [...]

Seeing Red AZ: U.S. Attorney General Holder to address Hamas-linked CAIR despite FBI ban

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:26:06 -0500

Number of comments: 3
These linked articles (below) serve up more than most Americans are prepared to digest. Still, we urge you to make yourself aware of what we are getting from the Obamanation administration. Our future depends on it. Thanks to POLITICO and Jihad Watch. Read this letter to Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl from Holder’s own Justice Department [...]

Disloyal Opposition: Docs on dope

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:18:00 -0500

At its 2009 interim meeting, the American Medical Association has adopted a statement urging that marijuana be considered as medicine and that further research be conducted into its medical value. The statement was recommended by the AMA's Council on Science and Public Health, based on a report which endorses [...]

Blog For Arizona: Charter schools, the IRS and for profit management companies

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:55:13 -0500

by David Safier

The IRS has concerns about for profit Charter Management Organizations (CMOs or EMOs) running non profit charter schools. The important term here is "running." While it's perfectly OK for a non profit charter to contract out parts of its curriculum and operation to CMOs, it's a violation of [...]

Blog For Arizona: Sen. Al Melvin has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:10:39 -0500

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Having recently lost my father to cancer, Sen. Al Melvin, you have my sympathy and best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Craig at Random Musings has already posted what I had planned to write, so Craig, I hope you will not mind my reposting your thoughtful comments here. Random [...]

Blog For Arizona: C Street abortion ban: the revenge of "The Family"?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:54:32 -0500

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

The Affordable Health Care for America Act was supposed to be the first time since Medicare was enacted in 1965 that health care was reformed to move the country closer to universal medical coverage for all of its citizens.

Instead, the bill was hijacked by anti-abortion activists to enact [...]

Seeing Red AZ: Terrorism: Let’s call it by its rightful name

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:14:15 -0500

Number of comments: 7
Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, Fort Hood’s top commander has obviously gotten the word from on high. He’s calling for “counseling and healing,” in the wake of the terrorist attack on the base last week by a Muslim extremist and base psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who fired more than 100 [...]