Citizens United’s PAC has made a $100,000 TV buy in the Arizona Congressional District 8 election with an ad supporting Republican Jesse Kelly. The commercial focuses on repealing ObamaCare.

The spot will run beginning this week through May 25. There are but a few weeks until the special election against liberal Democrat retiree Ron Barber. The General Election will be held June 12, 2012. Early voting begins May 17.

The spot, titled “Repeal ObamaCare,” is a contrast ad saying ...

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Arizona Republican Party Chairman Tom Morrissey has announced the names of Arizonans who will represent the state of Arizona at the Republican National Convention this August in Tampa, Florida. These 29 individuals were elected as delegates at Saturday’s Quadrennial Convention.

Governor Jan Brewer – Glendale

Governor Gregory Mendoza – Gila River Indian Community

Secretary of State Ken Bennett – Phoenix

Treasurer Doug Ducey – Paradise Valley

Senate President Steve Pierce – Prescott

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Popular Arizonan triggers heartburn for liberal NC news

North Carolina’s left-of-center newspaper, the Charlotte Observer, has withdrawn its editorial endorsement of Republican congressional candidate Jim Pendergraph. The retreat from its previous position leaves the editorialist sputtering that either of the other two candidates would be preferable to the suddenly unsavory Mr. Pendergraph.

What, you many wonder, has Pendergraph done to deserve this retraction? According to the editorial, he ...

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Obama’s approval ratings continue to falter

The latest survey by Rasmussen Reports shows Republicans hold a seven-point lead on the Generic Congressional Ballot.

The polling indicates 45% of Likely U.S. Voters would vote for the Republican in their district’s congressional race if the election were held today, while only 38% would choose the Democrat candidate. This gap is much larger than it has been for the past three weeks when Republicans led by three but is consistent with the level o...

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Why is he still interested in accumulating delegates?

The Washington Times is working on a developing report on Ron Paul’s decision to suspend his campaign.

The libertarian congressman campaigning as a Republican, told supporters in an email that he would continue to accumulate delegates to the August Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.

“Moving forward, however, we will no longer spend resources campaigning in primaries in states that have not yet voted,” he wrote. “Doing ...

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Escalation of border violence, includes beheadings, mutilations

Police found at least 49 mutilated corpses of dozens of men and women with their heads, hands and feet chopped off. The bodies were dumped at the entrance to the town of San Juan, on a highway that connects the city of Monterrey with Reynosa, adjacent to McAllen, Texas

The bodies, victims of warring drug cartels, were discovered before dawn Sunday. An estimated 50,000 people have been killed since December 2006.

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Former Congressman JD Hayworth takes to the airwaves tonight in Philadelphia. He again guest hosts on WPHT from 7-9:00 pm, Arizona time. LISTEN LIVE.

Here’s hoping a Phoenix station gets a clue on full time programming based on this Philadelphia station’s part time choice! We miss JD, and his political insights — peppered with wit and wisdom.

American-born impressionist Mary Cassatt (1844 – 1926) specialized in paintings depicting mothers and children. Our selection for this Mother’s Day, Young Mother Sewing 1900, captures a quiet moment, with the mother deeply engrossed in a mundane task, as her attentive child turns to face the intrusion of the viewer.

In a never before seen spectacle, Ron Paul supporters, thrusting their fists in the air like brownshirts, booing and screaming demands, tried to overtake Arizona’s  2012 Republican Convention Saturday. The tactics of disruptive chaos employed by “Occupier” anarchists have been enthusiastically embraced by these zealots.

The Arizona Republican Party held its daylong meeting, as approximately a thousand state delegates gathered to elect  national convention delegates to attend the August...

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Radical leftist U.S. Rep Luis Gutierrez, a Chicago politician well known to Barack Obama, and with close ties to AZ Congressman Jeff Flake, has told a group of constituents that Obama told him in December 2010 that comprehensive immigration reform could not be achieved legislatively because of Democrat fears of losing future elections. As an alternative Obama suggested exploring administrative options to accomplish their mutual goals. Gutierrez then crowed “I drafted amnesty language for the W...

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AZ GOP delegates beware the Ides of May*

The Arizona Daily Independent runs an intriguing report titled “Zany band of Paul supporters plan revolution.” Since zany is described as endearingly comical, we take exception to the descriptive term, preferring “mutinous.”  The publication quotes a source who says Paul supporters intend to invoke “Rule 38” which says that States and Congressional Districts cannot “bind” their delegates in the case of a second ballot.

The obvious issue i...

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Ditches congressional race to give another go at sheriff’s race

With controversy swirling about him like a dervish, and his major source of campaign funding coming from gay groups here and around the country, it has long been expected the problem plagued Paul Babeu would ditch his congressional bid. His fundraising took a significant hit from the previous quarter when he boasted he had outshone his opponents in the cash haul.

Exercising good judgment has never been his strong suit, as evidenc...

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After announcing his unequivocal support for same-sex marriage, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign claimed to have brought in $1 million in the 90 minutes immediately following his statement. 

But will those delighted homosexuals be enough to offset the consternation among the much larger faith-based communities?

In the wake of Tuesday’s North Carolina vote overwhelmingly approving a measure outlawing not just same-sex marriage — which already was illegal in the state — b...

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Moms urged to take a hike from their families

A sprinkling of quasi-celebs join others encouraging mothers to disappear this coming Sunday, rather than allow their families to set aside this holiday to celebrate them for dedicating their lives to the most challenging yet rewarding of jobs — motherhood.

While most mothers look forward to Mother’s Day, the Every Mother Counts campaign invites them to boycott the holiday, remain out of contact, silent, and — in fact, disappear. In...

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The word making the rounds is that there could be consequences for not signing HB 2826. The bill, which modifies state statute relates to consolidation of election dates. It was sent to Gov. Jan Brewer on April 30.  She has yet to sign it.

We hear she is being lobbied strongly by union affiliates to veto the measure. It is also known she wants to be a delegate to the Republican National Convention, to be held in Tampa, Florida  Aug. 27 – 30 where the Republican presidential candidate wi...

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….“open primaries are worth a look”

That contrivance was the title of yesterday’s editorial extolling the neutering of political parties in the election process. If you missed the leftist spew and invitation to attend a forum this afternoon on party-gutting featuring the disappointing Sandra Day O’Connor*  — along with a left-leaning panel of supporters from equally specious think tanks — there is a front page editorial passing itself off as a straight news report today.�...

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Landslide primary loss for senate’s longest serving Republican

Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock, a Tea Party candidate regarded as having a slim chance against heavily funded, six-term Republican Sen. Dick Lugar unseated the aisle-crossing “centrist” tonight.

“Hoosier Republicans want to see the Republicans inside the United States Senate take a more conservative tack, and we’re looking forward to helping do that,” Mourdock told cheering supporters. “Today we see the O...

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The word is there’s more than a bit of indignation over the upcoming Victory 2012 dinner: “Keeping Arizona Red” — to be held this Friday evening prior the Saturday Republican State Convention. The event will feature not one, but two, keynote speakers: Outgoing AZ Sen. Jon Kyl and former Vice President Dan Quayle.

What do the two men have in common? Dan Quayle is the father of Ben Quayle and Jon Kyl has endorsed him.

But there is another Republican incumbent candidate in this Congre...

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Arizonans are already getting a dose of the inept campaign style of Ron Barber, who knows better than anyone his own deficiencies and weaknesses. The retired,  66-year-old, career government employee is now showing his cold feet to the district voters who deserve to see him engage in debates. 

Ron Barber and his aides, aware of his inadequacies, prefer instead to schedule and then cancel them. Unless he gets what he calls a “trusted, independent moderator” to oversee debates, he shuffles ...

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New French president pledges “to finish with austerity.”

Anti-austerity backlash by voters in France  — where strict programs imposed by conservative French president Nicolas Sarkozy resulted in his ouster yesterday — have ended in the election of Socialist Francois Hollande — who has pledged to buck Europe’s austerity trend. When spending sprees get out of control, the rational tighten their belts and make sacrifices.  Not so with those who have grown com...

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