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We all get Spam. It’s a fair bet none of us like it. If you’re a conservative not keen on the Obama-endorsed Arizona expansion of Medicaid, having your inbox violated by Governor Brewer’s pals promoting her plan to increase taxpayer debt by over $2 billion, makes the intrusion even more loathsome.
The promotion refers to the “courageous senators who chose people over politics,” neglecting to inform that six RINOs voted with the unified Democrats to push this massive federal expansio...
It’s been a while since we visited the failed bank list. But bank closures in Scottsdale and Gold Canyon within weeks of one another are worthy of note.
Central Arizona Bank (click link for troubled asset ratio) was closed days ago by the Arizona Department of Financial Institutions, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver. To protect the depositors, the FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with Western Sta...
Despite being told there is no war on terror, once again, here is proof positive that such madness exists.
Two Islamic fanatics wielding meat cleavers butchered an off-duty British soldier, taking their war on the West to a new level of horror. The men were arrested after savagely stabbing and attempting to behead their victim who they executed at the midday scene, witnessed by dozens of passers-by. Throughout the frenzied attack they shouted ‘Allah Akbar’ — Ara...
USAToday runs a brief exposé on former Arizona federal prosecutor Dennis Burke, the beleaguered Janet Napolitano toady, who hitched his wagon to her star, though ultimately crashing and burning. The news article, IG: Prosecutor improperly leaked ‘Fast and Furious’ memo, can be read here.
Burke had been at Janet Napolitano’s side for years, serving as her Chief-of-Staff when she was Governor and as Chief Assistant Attorney General, during her term as Attorney General. When Napolita...
The Arizona Conservative Coalition’s (ACC) most recent legislator ratings, reflecting legislative actions as of 5/21/2013 is now available. Click here for the updated report.
Legislators are assigned to a group based on their latest rating. Bills used in the evaluation along with the summary of criteria used to weight bills can be seen here. There is also an excellent, concise analysis of each bill considered.
Check out the FAQs section, which answers the question, “Why is a particular legi...
Duck, dodge and obfuscationbecome hallmarks of AZ’s junior senator
Chris Chmielenski writing for NumbersUSA exposes AZ Sen. Jeff Flake’s exaggerations during questioning by Sens. Jeff Sessions and John Cornyn. The back story and exact quotes are riveting.
Flake also stretched the facts when describing the makeup of the Southern Border Security Commission — which comes complete with a $2 billion authorization — saying it will be made up of “border governors, local ranchers,...
Conservative columnist Thomas Sowell is a favorite for a reason. His brilliant mind clarifies and distills issues that have been analyzed and debated ad infinitum. Here’s Sowell’s take on “Comprehensive” immigration reform, which he argues “serves the interests of politicians who like to be on both sides of a controversial issue, and it serves the interests of those foreigners who want to game the system in the United States, at the expense of the American pe...
Last Monday night the Arizona Project featured Republican state Sen. Michele Reagan (LD-23) as its guest. The group even had her appearance in a live streaming video for all to see. Amazingly, the woman who voted with the Democrats for the costly and unsustainable expansion of Medicaid — a key element of ObamaCare — told the group she was adamantly opposed to the scheme, though she supported it days later.
Fox News reports that the Internal Revenue Service scandal involving the unjustified targeting of conservative groups also had conservative Hispanics in its sights. The list continues to grow and the excuses get weaker. Meanwhile, six-figure bonuses and promotions are the order of the day for the henchmen behind this outrageous focus and denial of tax exempt status requests for conservative and faith based groups.
Sarah Hall Ingram, the IRS commissioner overseeing the tax exempt division when i...
“The way to make government responsible is to hold it accountable. And the way to make government accountable is to make it transparent so the American people can know exactly what decisions are being made, how they are being made and whether their interests are being well served.” — Barack Obama
“To seize this moment we have to use technology to open up our democracy. It’s no coincidence that one of the most secretive administrations in our history has favored special interes...
844 page amnesty bill: “Being stampeded without enough scrutiny”
Plain spoken conservative Congressman Steve King is, without a doubt, the man many Arizonans would eagerly take in trade for our two double-talking, Democrat-colluding ‘Gang of 8‘ U.S. Senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake.
Scandals, Benghazi, IRS scrutiny, phone taps = “I” word
MyWay News reports the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news. When an agency clearly favorable to the Obama administration is under siege by the very regime they helped put in place, the impact of now seei...
NewsBusters busts the political maneuvering behind embassy terrorist attack and cover-up
Foreign policy consultant and media commentator Richard Grenell appeared on Saturday’s Fox News Watch with host Jon Scott and exposed the familial relationships that thread from the highest ranking network honchos all the way to the White House.
Grenell stated, “CBS News President David Rhodes and ABC News President Ben Sherwood, both of them have siblings that not only work at the White House, that...
Anchor babies are a fact of life in the world of illegal immigration. Birthright Citizenship is the costly, automatic granting of citizenship to children born within a nation’s borders or territories. The United States and Canada are the world’s only industrialized nations still offering such an extravagant gift to both tourists and illegal aliens.
Under current practice, these children are U.S. citizens at birth, simply because they were born on American soil. They are called “anchor ...
This is a simplified version of the facts from Matthew Boyle at Breitbart.
Read his entire report titled, Lindsey Graham, Jeff Flake Join Dems to Kill Border Security Amendment here.
An amendment submitted by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley requiring the security of our nation’s borders before granting amnesty to at least 25 million illegal aliens, has been voted down by the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 6 -12 vote. Every single Democrat on the Committee voted against the amendment — no...
Jeff Flake, when given clear choices, sides with far left
What a surprise! The Soros-backed “Media Matters” is running interference for the McCain/Flake Amnesty Gang.
Media Matters (MM), a reliable arm of the Obama regime, with far reaching tentacles in every aspect of the left-wing MSM, goes to the mat attempting to undercut a new study by the conservative policy group Heritage Foundation which details the enormous costs — $6.3 trillion — associated with the implementation of...
Barack Obama gave the commencement address to the graduating class of Ohio State University yesterday in Columbus, Ohio. This is the takeaway from his remarks:
“Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They’ll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should ...
Even when Flake inadvertently votes the right way, he backtracks when confronted
The latest Public Policy Polling survey does not bode well for Arizona’s junior senator Jeff Flake. In fact, after just 3 months in office Flake has already become one of the most unpopular senators in the country. We’d understand if Flake lost favor over his stance on granting amnesty to the at least 25 million illegal aliens who have invaded our country, but that’s not the reason for his decline.
Largest abortion provider gets sanctification from Obama:
They do such good work, after all. If you’ve read anything at all about the Kermit Gosnell infanticide trial, you’d realize why abortions are worthy of this president’s commendation. Not surprisingly, Barack Obama is the first sitting President to ever appear at such a gala. This event took place Friday in Washington, D.C.
Vowing he would never allow Republicans to cut taxpayer funds for the nation’s largest abortion provider, Ob...
During the 2008 presidential race the common refrain among frustrated Republicans was, “Why is John McCain campaigning for Barack Obama?” McCain put Obama’s middle name “Hussein” off limits, although Obama proudly used it during his swearing-in ceremony. The inarticulate McCain even told his own supporters that Obama is “a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared as president of the United States.”
Discouraged Republicans have had to acknowledge that McCain of...
