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• All Mary Rose Wilcox wants for Christmas is what every other defendant wants

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  Despite a grand jury indictment returned by her fellow citizens, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox’s lawyer has filed a motion to dismiss the entire 36-count indictment against his client based on the most novel of claims: bias by County Attorney Andrew Thomas. Lawyer Colin Campbell’s motion also requests that Thomas’ [...]
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  Posted: December 19, 2009, 6:36pm EST
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• City Councilman DiCiccio: “Conflicts” exist only when he says so

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  City Hall reporter Scott Wong reports on the fascinating story here. For those interested in a memory jog, we’ve covered Sal DiCiccio previously here. [...]
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  Posted: December 19, 2009, 3:29pm EST
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• What a disappointment: Sarah hearts John?

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  Sarah and Todd Palin and two of their children cut short their Hawaiian vacation earlier this week after paparazzi caught her with the name “McCain” blocked out on her sun visor. (TMZ has the photo here.) She contends it was not done to slight to her former running mate Sen. John [...]
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  Posted: December 19, 2009, 12:18pm EST
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• Islamic mosque built near 9/11 Ground Zero

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  In a move that is too grotesque to contemplate, a 5-story mosque will soon open within two blocks of the former World Trade Center. “Only in New York City is this possible,” said Daisy Khan, executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, (ASMA). Khan is the wife of Imam [...]
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  Posted: December 19, 2009, 8:20am EST
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• Comment from a reader worthy of its own post

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  Number of comments: 7
  Sherriaz commenting on this post writes:  Let’s look inside this jobless situation a little more, shall we? Wal Mart, the largest retailer in the WORLD, now has a HIRING FREEZE in place. As people leave, they are NOT being rehired. The company also made the stores lay off their temps, most [...]
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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 5:39pm EST
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• Mayor Phil Gordon: So very “transparent”

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  In his “abundance of caution” letters requesting legal advice on his personal entanglements, Phoenix Mayor Philly Gordon, 58, gave us more of the steamy details of his May-December romance with his highly-paid fundraiser, Elissa Mullany, 38, than most of us wanted. Claiming his is an upfront operation, the Mayor says “I [...]
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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 2:56pm EST
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• ICE’s “mission” cool to immigration enforcement

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  So here’s the analogy: Intruders break into your home, attempting to take your valuables. But unless they rape your wife or kill you, the police refuse to act, saying “the crime doesn’t yet meet our standards for enforcement.” Would you like that? Of course not. Yet that’s the parallel to what is [...]
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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 11:42am EST
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• “Stimulus” a bust as new jobless claims rise

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  The U.S. Department of Labor has released its Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims report for the week ending December 12. The advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 480,000, an increase of 7,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 473,000.  Read the DOL report here.   Arizona shows an increase [...]
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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 8:17am EST
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• Just a few more good people coming to do the work Americans refuse to do

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  A widespread drug-distribution organization with ties to Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel has been broken up by police after a year-long investigation that encompassed every city in the Valley. The daily reports that Tempe police have called it the biggest bust in their city and one of the most extensive ever in the county Investigators [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 6:24pm EST
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• The newspaper calls it “punitive”

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  We say, “it’s about time!” [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 3:37pm EST
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• Possibility of Hayworth challenge to McCain setting off alarms

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  They can’t help themselves.  The very prospect of former Congressman J.D. Hayworth mounting a challenge to John McCain is enough to send waves of terror through the establishment elites and the left-leaning Arizona Republic newspaper. The crusade against non-candidate Hayworth began in earnest after the respected national pollster, Rasmussen Reports, released [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 2:07pm EST
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• Team Obama, Pelosi and Reid: The gift that keeps giving

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  Less than a year after Inauguration Day, support for the Democratic Party continues to slump, amid a difficult economy and a wave of public discontent, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. The poll finds the loosely organized group they describe as “made of up mostly conservative activists and [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 8:17am EST
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• Coreless Lieberman helps Obama “reach to the stars”

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  Sen. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut’s Democrat-turned-Independent, is back home with his liberal cronies, after caving in on the federal takeover of health care. The problem for the too-crafty-for-his-own-good Lieberman is that now he has incurred the wrath of those on both sides of the aisle. A career liberal who took on Bill [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 6:12pm EST
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• Ben Bernanke: Time Person of the Year for overseeing economic calamity

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     The Time magazine article includes these words: “Professor Bernanke of Princeton was a leading scholar of the Great Depression.” We can only conclude that now, as chairman of the Federal Reserve, he must be trying to put his scholarly studies into action. [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 3:15pm EST
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• Daily giddy over latest amnesty move

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  The Arizona Republic, with its unwavering commitment to amnesty, is in the throes of ecstasy today. The newspaper has pumped out a bizarre editorial and a front page above-the-fold article on their favorite topic, heaping kudos on “far left” U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, the Illinois Democrat who is pushing the [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 12:22pm EST
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• Grant Woods grandstands: Accuses Hayworth, KFYI of violations

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  Number of comments: 10
  Old habits die hard. Grant Woods, who once served as John McCain’s first Congressional Chief of Staff, is still doing his bidding. Woods filed a complaint yesterday with the Federal Election Commission, (FEC) accusing KFYI radio talk show host J.D. Hayworth and his employer, Clear Channel, of violating campaign finance [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 8:17am EST
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• Sleazy McPoll aims to deceive

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  We’ll stick with the stunning and embarrassing figures from the reputable Rasmussen Reports survey which frightened John McCain and his minions into the vicious push-poll aimed at denigrating undeclared candidate and former Congressman J.D. Hayworth.  We covered the chatter about the poll here last week. McCain has long ago worn out his [...]
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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 3:58pm EST
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• Sen. Paton protects workers’ freedom

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  We don’t usually hear from state Sen. Jonathan Paton (R-Dist.30).  He represents the hinterlands in the southern bastion of the state known as Tucson. This made it all the more surprising to receive an oversized envelope containing a seven-page letter from him. He’s impressive. A newly commissioned Army Captain, in 2006 [...]
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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 1:18pm EST
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• Taking the pulse of the daily

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  Yesterday the doctor stopped by to give a cursory check-up to the daily newspaper. It had become exceedingly anemic of late — so frail, in fact, it is barely able to recover its strength each day after being tossed on the driveway. Its pulse was so faint, the doctor had to [...]
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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 9:08am EST
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• Mark your calendars: PAChyderm Coalition meeting, Wed. Dec.16, 6 – 8:15 PM

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    Where:  Marie Callender’s, 4930 West Bell Road, Glendale, AZ                      Map here.  When:  Wednesday, December 16, 2009 — 6:00 – 8:15 PM  Special Guest Speakers: Congressman Trent Franks or his representative Shari Farrington (if Rep. Franks is still in Washington ) will give us an update on federal government issues. Mr. Carl F. Petersen, [...]
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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 7:03am EST
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• More bad news for BO

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  Not lookin’ good for the Prez. The people are finally wising up. Voting for slick slogans can have devastating consequences. [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 4:51pm EST
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• A classic letter

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    Brian K. Shoemake of Pahrump, Nevada wrote a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Review Journal a couple of weeks ago. Although we prefer current items, the relevancy of this particular letter is timeless. Here it is (third letter in the queue) in its original form in the newspaper. [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 2:16pm EST
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• “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” twins gearing up for round two

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  Arizona Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl are pressuring Homeland INsecurity Secretary Janet Napolitano for further constraints on Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration-enforcement authority. The two have been exchanging letters with Napolitano on the topic since October, the daily reports. Under Napolitano, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) priorities have diverted [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 11:20am EST
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• Justify this

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  Millions of dollars are being paid in “retention bonuses” by Valley cities while they’re laying off employees, cutting pay or raising taxes in the struggle to deal with the current economic crisis. What justification is there for giving these bonuses when Arizona’s 9.3 percent base unemployment rate has drastically reduced staffing turnover? In Phoenix, [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 8:22am EST
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• Reminder: North Phoenix Tea Party planning event

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  Time: Monday, December 14, 2009 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Location: Bamboo House Restaurant, 502 E Thunderbird Rd Organized By: Wesley Harris / Charles McCain / Kelly Townsend Join Patriots in the North Phoenix area for stimulating conversation, planning, preparedness, education, and networking. This will be the first group meeting. Please RSVP here. Dining [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 10:05pm EST
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• McCain’s spokeswoman calls ethics charge “a B.S. complaint”

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  The Arizona Daily Star reports that Sen. John McCain is in trouble with a D.C.-based liberal watchdog group. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) filed an ethics complaint with the Senate, accusing McCain of using National Republican Senatorial Committee funds for robocalls to tell voters in Arkansas, Colorado, Nebraska and North [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2009, 2:50pm EST
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• Democrat-turned-Greenie Cynthia McKinney is unhappy with Barack Obama

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  ”Instead of investigating war criminals in the Bush administration, President Obama has chosen to become one.”  “We see the power of the ballot in Latin America, where voters in unrigged elections are choosing freedom.”  – December 12, 2009, former Georgia Democrat U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney  (Green Party member since 2007) [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2009, 11:42am EST
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• Pushing your faith tray along the cafeteria line

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  With the eight-day holiday of Chanukah underway, and Christmas celebrations just round the corner, what better time for the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life to release their survey that undermines religion? The Washington Times carries this AP report that treats religion as an ala carte medley from the cafeteria [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2009, 8:22am EST
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• AZ Court of Appeals order: Carnack the Magnificent reads the future

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  Remember Carnack the Magnificent? Comedian Johnny Carson — described in the skit as the “famous all-knowing, all-seeing, all-telling, omnipotent, soothsayer” — would place a “hermetically sealed” envelope to his forehead and reveal the answer in advance of reading the question. It was a guaranteed laugh getter. This article in today’s Arizona [...]
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  Posted: December 12, 2009, 5:32pm EST
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• What’s this? Huffington Post wants to hear from Arizona Republicans

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  Our report titled McCain dominates AZ GOP holiday event, about the McCain push-poll calls generating chatter at the AZ GOP Christmas party, has caught the eye of Dawn Teo of the Huffington Post. Yes, we are keenly aware of the HuffPost’s liberal slant, but since Teo is the self-described “HuffPost [...]
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  Posted: December 12, 2009, 2:31pm EST
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• Feds close Mesa bank

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  Federal regulators have closed Valley Capital Bank, a one-branch Mesa bank. A Missouri bank is taking over all deposits. The bank, located at 1910 S. Stapley Drive in Mesa, and employing approximately 20 people, was shut by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation late [...]
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  Posted: December 12, 2009, 11:20am EST
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• Where the Democrats place their priorities

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  The daily reports that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says that overhauling the nation’s immigration laws is still a top priority for President Barack Obama and that Congress is poised to act despite some Democrat lawmakers’ concerns that a push could complicate their re-election prospects. No kidding. Like the rest of [...]
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  Posted: December 12, 2009, 8:19am EST
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• Nothing from nothing leaves nothing

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  Exchange after Senate President Bob Burns (R-Dist.9) terminated the Senate Retirement and Rural Development Committee chaired by Sen. Ron Gould (R-Dist.3): “I agree with a lot of the positions that Senator Gould takes but when you are in a legislative arena, taking an absolute position in many cases gives you a [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 4:56pm EST
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• Karl Rove ignores the obvious

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  In his Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Can Republicans retake the U.S. Senate in 2010? former presidential advisor Karl Rove dissects the potential, weighs the percentages and opines on the stellar candidate recruitment as he appraises GOP chances on the political horizon — state by state. Rove’s article is comprehensive, focusing [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 2:39pm EST
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• Breaking News: State Rep. Tom Boone opts out

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  We hear that term-limited House member Tom Boone has decided against running for the Senate in Legislative District 4. He was first elected to the Arizona House of Representatives in 2002 and is concluding his third term. Boone, President of the Deer Valley Unified School District Governing Board, is the owner [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 11:35am EST
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• McCain dominates AZ GOP holiday event

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  John McCain, although absent from the actual festivities, dominated the buzz at last evening’s AZ GOP Christmas party.  Several partygoers were comparing notes on the push-pull polling calls they had received, obviously done at the behest of the 2010 McCampaign. The questions asked by the “Parent’s Group” pollster began with generalities [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 8:15am EST
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• Sounding a whole lot like George W. Bush, Obama accepts Nobel Peace Prize

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  Nobel-winner Obama defended war in his call for peace even as he lauded previous Nobel winners Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., preachers of nonviolent action. Obama acknowledged, “A nonviolent movement could not have halted Hitler’s armies. Negotiations cannot convince al-Qaida’s leaders to lay down their arms.” “To say that force is [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 3:37pm EST
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• Dog days

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  Phoenix Greyhound Park, one of three remaining dog tracks in the state, will shut down its operation after the last race on December 19th. The Phoenix Park, at Washington and 40th Street, opened in 1954 and has run continuous live races seven days a week for 55 years. The business has [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 2:20pm EST
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• Radical homosexual agenda invading public schools

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  Number of comments: 10
  This shocking information needs to be read in short takes. You won’t like it. You might not believe it. But if you are a parent it is imperative you become aware of a sexually explicit and perverted agenda that was not part of the curriculum when you were in school. [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 11:02am EST
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• Charges filed against Superior Court Judge Gary Donahoe

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  The daily covers the issue and has the news release from the County Attorney’s Office announcing the criminal complaint. Scroll down to read the actual complaint. [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 8:15am EST
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• BHO’s and Hillary’s Dem bedfellows get millions in stimulus funds

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  The Hill reports that nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s pollster in 2008. Federal records show that $5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations and communications firm headed by Penn. Nearly $2.8 [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 4:36pm EST
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• A remedy for “historical figure” McCain and his disconnect with Arizona voters

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  Although local chatter runs rampant regarding such a match-up, Seeing Red AZ was able to gauge the excitement and high level of interest in the possibility of a 2010 senate race as numerous national news sources linked to our recent post on a hypothetical match-up between former Congressman J.D. Hayworth [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 1:50pm EST
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• Grand Jury indicts County Supervisors Stapley and Wilcox

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  In separate indictments a grand jury has handed down a 36 count indictment against Mary Rose Wilcox and 22 counts against Don Stapley. The criminal indictments secured by Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas against Stapley allege 22 felony counts of fraud, theft, perjury and forgery in the suspected misuse of campaign [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 11:15am EST
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• Phil Gordon’s romance and his “abundance of caution” letters

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  Number of comments: 5
  Removing any doubt  that he’s a colossal fool, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon has written to City Attorney Gary Verburg and former Chief Justice Thomas Zlaket to inform them of his romance and the appearance of impropriety created by his involvement with Elissa Mullany, the woman who ran fundraising for his [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 8:17am EST
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• Viagra doesn’t kill, Barbara

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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 6:39pm EST
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• Decisive action from PV mayor regarding rash of home invasions

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  Number of comments: 7
  “The bottom line is we are going to take some steps to inform the public as to what is going on.” – Mayor Vernon Parker After the sixth home invasion robbery since October in the toney desert enclave of Paradise Valley, residents are getting skittish.  Over the weekend, yet another couple [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 4:01pm EST
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• BHO: How low can you go? Approval rating lowest of any president at this point in term

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  President Obama’s job approval rating has fallen to 47 percent in the latest Gallup poll, the lowest ever recorded for any president at this point in his term. Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and even Richard Nixon all had higher approval ratings 10-and-a-half months into their presidencies. Obama’s immediate predecessor, President George [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 1:19pm EST
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• Sex, lies and a bit of carbon

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  Number of comments: 2
  Exposing the hypocrisy. [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 10:20am EST
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• Reid compares opponents of Fed-Med to supporters of slavery

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  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has taken his GOP-blasting rhetoric to a new lows, comparing Republicans who oppose Obama’s nationalized health care overhaul to lawmakers who clung to the institution of slavery more than a century ago. The Nevada Democrat, in a sweeping set of accusations on the Senate floor, also [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 8:17am EST
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• Pelosi has another new tax up her Armani sleeve: Enter the transaction tax

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  Number of comments: 6
  Always on the prowl for new ways to separate you from your money, Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi  has endorsed the idea of a “global” tax on stock trades and other financial transactions. She claims the estimated $150 billion in annual revenue from this taxation could be used to help fund [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 5:39pm EST
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