Rum, Romanism and Rebellion

One of the things I always found funny on the show Cops is that there would be some guy who would act like the biggest badass on the block, but the moment the police got him and slapped on the cuffs, he would wail and scream that they were too tight.
It reminds me of the […]

I like Rep. Jonathan Paton, I’ve seen him at Hotel Congress a couple of times, and seems to be a decent guy. What frustrates me about him is that he believes that he needs to pander to the right wing of his party, a right wing that doesn’t like him too much and won’t no […]

I’m never sure why Boredinaz is so bored, or why this fella or fellee doesn’t pick up a hobby. I mean, there are a lot of great outdoor activities here in the Grand Canyon State.
But, he or she posts on here. That may account for the boredom.
Just this morning, he or she commented on something […]

Rep. Russell Pearce announced his endorsement of Don Goldwater yesterday.

Jon Kyl’s campaign is criticizing Jim Pederson’s campaign as desperate. Yes, Pederson is a desperate man who will turn over any rock, stoop to any low, leave no moral code unbroken to run for the United States Senate. His latest political attrocity is just too hideous to name. Hide the children, please.
Pederson is…
Pederson is…
…running ads.
Yes, […]

I received a letter this weekend from David Waid, who is currently Executive Director of the Arizona Democratic Party. He is running for chairman of the party, which is highly unusual, but doesn’t violate any sort of rules. Heck, he’s been running the party for months anyway.
There was talk that there might be an exciting […]

The National Republican Congressional Committee has its panties in a bunch. Apparently, they sent the CD 8 Democratic candidates questionaires. -gasp- They refused to fill them out. I know, it’s very very shocking. I imagine that they probably saw the envelope and assumed that it was more junk mail, I mean, a “personal bulletin and […]

Some Romanism today:
Depending on whose calendar you look at, either today is St. Stanislaus day, or we should wait until May 8th. The day is supposed to be the anniversary of Stanislaus’s martyrdom in 1079. Not only can people not agree on the day, but there is a dispute about whether he qualifies as a […]

Las week we were treated to tales from our so-called Republican leadership in this state that a large scale demonstration would end in some sort of riot too big for the police to handle. They said that we needed to call out the National Guard, and they were scared of that big bad, mostly Latino […]

Most of you saw J. D. Hayworth on Meet The Press with Tim Russert (Whatever happened to that nice Lawrence Spivak, why isn’t he on anymore?) What many of you may not have noticed was a, well, not a lie, not a preverication, maybe just certain facts left out.
Hayworth was hoping only to talk about […]

The right in this country finds flag burning such an offense that they are willing to mess with the first ammendment to jail people. So, why wouldn’t they think that the burning of the Mexican flag would be offensive?
Some members of the group Border Guardians, decided to stand in front of the Mexican consulate on […]

They are running a story on Weekend Edition Sunday about a Republican Party meeting in South Carolina. They played a bit from a discussion on immigration, one activist said this:
We need to put up a big electric fence and maybe kill a few, I’m sorry, but that’s what we need to do.
Well, I guess it’s […]

So, our friend J. D. Hayworth is at it again. He has decided to step into the whole ELL silliness by authoring a bill that declares that the bill passed by the Arizona Legislature is in compliance with federal law. Done.
Wow…it’s really that simple, eh?
Nice of Mr. Hayworth to jump into this whole thing when […]

One of the things that I have always found amusing is that any Republican losing an argument, anywhere, anytime for any reason loves to bring up Ted Kennedy. It’s like Chappaquiddick makes everything from Watergate, Iran-Contra, Jack Abramoff to, I dunno, this business with pedophile employees of Homeland Security, is okay because one Democratic […]

Greg Patterson over at Espresso Pundit took issue with my use of a picture of the Kent State tragedy in 1970 when discussing the use of the National Guard to patrol Phoenix during Monday’s protests. One could infer from Patterson’s comments that I am somehow anti-military, or at the least, distrustful of the National Guard. […]

An alert that went out from United Families Arizona, one of the groups pushing for the so-called Marriage Protection Ammendment:
In the past couple of months, pro-marriage supporters in two states, California and Florida, have failed to gather enough signatures to put marriage protection amendments on their ballots. The anti-marriage activists have started to […]

This is from the front page of the Superintendent of Public Instruction’s website. You know, the office that’s run by Tom Horne, one of those conservatives that goes on and on about declining standards:
The paradigm shift, since I took office is that the Department of Education will be primarily a service organization, helping school […]

A letter from Sen. Ron Gould to Gov. Janet Napolitano, courtesey Espresso Pundit:
Re: Illegal Alien March on April 10th
Dear Governor Napolitano:
I believe there is a cause for great concern regarding public safety during the upcoming protest march. The promoters of this event claim that over 100,000 demonstrators will be in attendance. They also claim that […]

Larry King announced tonight at a meeting of Democratic activists that he has decided against running for the Democratic nomination in CD 5. This clears the way for Harry Mitchell.
King had earlier stated that he would drop out if Mitchell joined the race.
Now that he doesn’t have the primary to distract him, I guess Mitchell […]

Remember, every little thing you do, we here at R-Cubed find out about it. We have a network of spies that would be the envy of the old East German Stasi. We are everywhere.
For example, one of our agents spotted Rep. Ted Downing looking over some documents related to the procedures for the election of […]