Arizona Gone Wild: Does New Bill Give State The Right To Overthrow Federal Government?
Friday, May 4th, 2012 By Jeff Biggers - Huffington Post
How did this latest episode in "Arizona Tea Party Gone Wild" get by the state's attorney general Tom Horne?
While the Canadian immigrant Tom Horne has been obsessed with banning Tucson Unified School District's academically successful Mexican American Studies program for allegedly promoting "the overthrow of the United States government" and "resentment toward a race or class of people," the state's Senate President Russel Pearce and his Tea Party legislators in...
What a day. First we heard the sad news from the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert that a murder-suicide had occurred. In 1980, Gilbert had about 5,000 people, a sleepy place of ranchers and farmers, but today it's a quarter-million more, all plopped down 25 miles southeast of downtown Phoenix. Like most of the burbs here, from the air it looks like endless miles of dead worms -- meandering cul de sacs of red-tile roofs, dotted with pools and adobe commercial bunkers at ever...
As the 2012 session of the Arizona Legislature nears its end, here is the Progressive States Action review “By the Numbers”:
It’s a political question without an easy answer: How do you run against a highly sympathetic candidate, especially one like Democrat Ron Barber, the staffer who was wounded in the same tragic shooting that nearly took Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’s life?
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will 
John McCain last night on Fox, still whining about Osama bin Laden (transcript via NEXIS):
Earlier this year, Texas U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz touted a 
As Jed 
For the second time in less than a month, President Barack Obama’s administration ran into a buzz saw at the Supreme Court.
The U.S. House Agriculture Committee has voted to recommend cutting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by $36 billion over 10 years, in line with GOP budget mandates to reduce spending. It also chose to cut only the former food stamp program, rather than trimming smaller amounts from other agriculture-related programs. Some have accused the House committee of "political showmanship."
The Supreme Court today 
If the Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of Arizona's immigration enforcement law, Sen. Charles Schumer, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, 
An audio recording has surfaced of an Arizona sheriff playing his refusal to cooperate in a racial profiling investigation for laughs at a fundraiser for an anti-illegal immigration group in Texas. He ridicules politicians who sought the probe and displayed contempt toward federal authorities who were - and are still - investigating him on two fronts.
Businessman Wil Cardon, a Republican running for Senate in Arizona, wouldn’t say whether he thinks President Obama is a citizen of the U.S., the 
With fresh calls for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to face a federal criminal trial, many are predicting the end of his controversial career. What few people realize outside metropolitan Phoenix is how much Arpaio’s world has already fallen apart around him.
The Wild West-style posses that helped make Sheriff 
The landscape for access to abortion is shifting quickly, as state after state passes restrictive laws. Particularly affected by these new laws are women who need abortions later in their pregnancies.
There are times when Sheriff Joe Arpaio has seemed untouchable. In his nearly 20 years in office, he has survived political challenges, court judgments and criminal investigations.
