Tag: Arizona

During the first three weeks of March, democratic party primary elections in Massachusetts and Arizona have generated a pair of online petitions that reflect the degree to which Bernie Sanders supporters feel that the game is rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton. The first is a Change.org petition calling for…

This is a big victory for the Obama Administration… The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down key parts of an Arizona law that sought to deter illegal immigration, but let stand a controversial provision allowing police to check a person’s immigration status while enforcing other laws. In a decision…

Recently Arizona Governor Jan Brewer met President Obama on the runway of an airport and they exchanged words. Well it does not take much to make one a right wing hero(if even for a day) and this propelled her to stardom on the right: The problem here is Ms. Brewer…

Progressive Sports columnist Dave Zirin has a great column in The Nation. Zirin brings us the story of Carlos Santana being asked to speak at baseball\'s civil rights game. Much to Commissioner Bud Selig\'s chagrin,speak he did! Major League Baseball’s annual Civil Rights Game was poised to be a migraine-inducing…

As I have stated before, it has been years, maybe since IKE, that republicans have been able to run on ideas and actually win an election. Now the republican party in Arizona is flat out admitting that they can’t win on ideas and are signing up homeless people to run…

Since it appears that Republican Congressman Peter King cant fit two hate filled thoughts in his head at once, he is urging his fellow republicans to ignore the overturning of prop 8 in CA during this election cycle. In this politico piece (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/40776_Page2.html#ixzz0vvztZaqg), was this rather telling quote by the…