Rum, Romanism and Rebellion

A reader took issue with my post about a UFCW ad that was scheduled to run in the Yuma Daily Sun. The reader said that the ad did in fact run. I called the UFCW to see what may have caused the confusion. The ad was supposed to run on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The […]

Republican mahouts are already working behind the scenes to avoid the divisive primary that they feel cost them Southeastern Arizona’s District 8 seat.
The current rumor is that fundraisers and kingmakers have made up their minds that newly elected Senate President Tim Bee will be the candidate, and have been working Rep. Jonathan Paton, currently on […]

Many of you have probaly read about Virginia Delegate Frank D. Hargrove Sr., who told an African American who was supporting a resolution apologizing for slavery to “get over it.”
I hear this sort of thing from many white southerners when people bring up the past. In one of Ed Bradley’s final stories, he travelled to […]

This is an excerpt of a speech that Dr. Martin Luther King gave on April 4th, 1967. You can find the full text of the speech here, along with audio.
My third reason moves to an even deeper level of awareness, for it grows out of my experience in the ghettoes of the North over the […]

Okay, I’ll relent a bit. I’ll cut Time a break for their lame “You are the Person of the Year” thing. Why? For linguistic reasons.
In English, we make no distinction of singular or plural “yous,” except in regionalisms (y’all, youse). So, I don’t know exactly which “you” they are refering to. This would be so […]

Okay, is this the lamest “Person of the Year” ever? This is even lamer than the 1966 “Man of the Year” given to the boomers (Gawd, don’t even get me started).
Wow, could these guys be more lazy? Heaven forbid they choose an acutal mover and shaker, a newsmaker. God knows, nothing happened this year, right?
I […]

Word from DC (not the comic company) is that Steny Hoyer has defeated John Murtha for majority leader.
Since I strive to find local connections, Hoyer got into a shoving match with our own J. D. Hayworth a few years back. I don’t know who actually came out on top there, but suffice it to say […]

Over as Sonoran Alliance, they have declared Gabrielle Giffords “Anti-Gun.”
That’s kind of funny, since she is an actual gun owner. She owns a Glock for personal protection, and has long been an advocate for responsible gun ownership.
Sonoran Alliance points to the poor NRA rating that she recieved. That rating includes scatter-brained proposals such as the […]

After mass yesterday, I picked up a copy of The New Vision, the newspaper for the Diocese of Tucson. The paper carried a pastoral letter from Arizona’s three bishops, Most Rev. Gerald Kicanas of Tucson, Most Rev. Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix and Most Rev. Donald Pelotte of Gallup.
The letter urged a yes vote on […]

In last night’s game between the New England Revolution and Colorado Rapids, the Revs went up 2-0 in the 59th minute. There was a shot of Revs coach Steve Nicol pointing to his head and shouting at the team. Commentator Greg Lalas said, “Nicol is telling the team to stay focused, keep their […]

One of the things that amused me during the primary was watching while candidates tried to stake their claim as the person that Karl Rove hated the most. I always thought this was funny because Karl Rove may have been relevant to liberal activists, but probably didn’t mean a heck of a lot to the […]

Back in 1996, a Republican co-worker of mine insisted that Bob Dole was cruising to victory over Bill Clinton. I told him that there wasn’t a single poll that showed Dole even close to winning. He said that the polls were all biased because they interviewed too many people that supported Clinton.
Think about that one […]

Over at Espresso Pundit, Greg Patterson has revealed a dirty trick that shows what a low down dirty trickster Janet Napolitano really is. She is just like Aleksandr Lukashenko or Charles Taylor, manipulating the institutions of Democracy to keep her hold on absolute power.
What did this authoritarian, this dictator, this malevolent pox on Arizona’s […]

Several Republican legislators were hoping to have a press conference announcing a law suit against the Clean Elections Commission, but instead, they had to answer questions about fellow legislator Russell Pearce.

Someone will complain that the question was a publicity stunt by the Democratic party, as if the press conference itself was not a publicity stunt.
I […]

One may remember reading that the Mallard, who has been touting the fact that he wants to debate “the issues,” seemed to know nothing when asked by the Tucson Weekly about one of the most contentious ballot propositions this year, Proposition 107.
Terry Krukemyer, Mallard’s campaign manager, after researching the issue, finally gave a response to […]

Rep. Russell Pearce called for mass deportations of illegal immigrants the other day. Well, that’s pretty much what we’d expect from Pearce. Bad, but Pearce is sort of like fellow Valley resident Mike Tyson. We watch every new outrage and it just doesn’t suprise us anymore.
The trouble here was that Pearce decided to use a […]

Today is Nobel Laureate and former Polish President Lech Wałęsa’s birthday. This comes only a few days after the 30th anniversary of the founding of KOR (Komitet dla Obrony Robotników), a coalition of workers and intellectuals that laid the foundations for Solidarność.

The Arizona Daily Star reported this morning that Kathleen Dunbar’s lawsuit against several citizens and the Democratic Party has been dismissed. The lawsuit has been headed in this direction for months.
For those who don’t remember, Councilmember Dunbar sued several teachers and Democratic party activists for a mailer that went out. She also threatened to sue […]

Jon Kyl, I have to admit, has run a couple of effective ads. One was the one with the various Sheriffs condemning Jim Pederson for endorsing the 1986 amnesty. It was too bad that it turned out that Pederson did no such thing, and that Kyl actually did.
By the way, where was Kyl’s […]