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  • Fact-filled reading to make you smarter

    Jack Cashill’s compelling article available at American Thinker, compares “The Competing Narratives of Barry and Sarah.”  Beginning in the spring of 1964, Cashill follows the paths of infant Palin and toddler Obama. A lengthy read, it is nonetheless worth your time. [...]
    Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:29pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • When it serves her purpose, Linda Valdez ignores the news

    Number of comments: 5
    It’s quite an accomplishment for an editorial writer to deliberately ignore the news, but when it serves her purposes, the tactic seems to work quite well for Linda Valdez. A case in point is her foolish Quick Hit in today’s newspaper. Under the headline, So how do you think Latinos are [...]
    Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:50pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • ACORN: Taking a page from the Obama playbook?

    Number of comments: 4
    Remember how Barack Obama took such offense when his middle name Hussein was mentioned during the 2008 campaign? It was considered so “racist” and derogatory that his even his opponent John McCain jumped to Obama’s defense after Bill Cunningham, a national talk show host warming up a Republican crowd for a McCain [...]
    Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:20am EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Politics Arizona Republic style

    Number of comments: 6
    The smoldering embers are reigniting into that familiar old inferno. We’ve seen it before when a conservative has the temerity to gain traction, or heaven forbid, actually win an election. The Arizona Republic pulls out all stops to effect a frontal assault. Pseudo Republicans are taken under wing, which is [...]
    Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:21am EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Throwing liberal caution to the winds, Brewer acknowledges Christmas

    Number of comments: 3
    Gov. Jan Brewer is bringing back the Christmas tree to the Capitol Tower, and is making no bones about what it is called.  ”I believe in calling something what it is, and it is a Christmas tree — just as a (Chanukah) menorah is a menorah,” she said. Former Gov. Janet Napolitano, [...]
    Posted: November 29, 2009, 3:40pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Criminal enterprise ACORN has cronies in high places

    Number of comments: 5
    The Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay the community group ACORN for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing money to the group, The New York Times reports. The opinion was signed by David Barron, the acting assistant attorney general for [...]
    Posted: November 29, 2009, 11:59am EST
    by seeingredaz
  • The costly Court Tower of Babel

    Number of comments: 7
    Barbara Rodriguez Mundell, presiding judge of Maricopa County Superior Court, has written a My Turn column for the daily, in which she heaps accolades on the new and innovative 16-story  criminal court tower. Mundell never mentions the cost, but does enthuse over the consultants who ensure victims’ rights will be in [...]
    Posted: November 29, 2009, 8:26am EST
    by seeingredaz
  • We predicted this would happen, but so soon?

    Number of comments: 6
    A “statesman” has appeared in the daily’s editorial. The newspaper is obviously in full fret-mode over what could be an impending challenge to the old Maverick. So far, the man they fear hasn’t even announced, but the sweat is dripping off the brow of both the editorial board and Arizona’s Señor [...]
    Posted: November 28, 2009, 5:26pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Dem duo Harry and Philly get economics lesson from Delia Garcia

    Number of comments: 5
    Seeking a holiday message to provide a platform for their political grandstanding,  Congressman Harry Mitchell and Phoenix Mayor Philly Gordon hit upon the idea of urging Phoenix residents to make “at least one out of three purchases” in locally-owned stores. Teaming with a group calling itself Local First Arizona, the [...]
    Posted: November 28, 2009, 2:32pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Interesting bedfellows aligned on behalf of Payday loans

    Number of comments: 10
    Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods and HighGround execs Doug Cole and Chuck Coughlin are lobbying on behalf of Payday loans, an industry many consider to be unscrupulous predatory lenders due to excessive interest rates. All three men are advisors to Gov. Jan Brewer. To the surprise of many Capitol [...]
    Posted: November 28, 2009, 11:31am EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Better late than never

    Number of comments: 3
    This T-shirt design is a product of the Left, which is finally beginning to comprehend the implications of having placed a naked emperor on the throne. With the words, “Hope is Fading Fast,” they acknowledge what we have known all along. [...]
    Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:24am EST
    by seeingredaz
  • An Obama omen: Arrowhead Mayo Clinic opts out as cuts to Medicare rise

    Number of comments: 4
    Doug MacEachern’s quick hit in the daily about Obama’s Fed-Med, is titled When Grandma wakes up to it all . . . It goes hand-n-glove with this news article in the same publication, in which it was reported that the Mayo Clinic’s Arrowhead Family Medicine practice will stop taking Medicare payments [...]
    Posted: November 27, 2009, 2:50pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • McCain: King of senate absenteeism gets a makeover

    Number of comments: 7
    Dan Nowicki, the Republic reporter assigned to flatter Sen. John McCain during the 2008 presidential campaign, is now onboard as his chief image re-crafter and apologist.  McCain is up for reelection on the 2010 ballot and is just a bit worried about not connecting with his Republican constituency. A recent [...]
    Posted: November 27, 2009, 11:38am EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Fiscal irresponsibility: How stimulating!

    Number of comments: 4
    The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act better known in many quarters as the $787 billion “stimulus boondoggle” is showing how accurate that handle is. The University of Arizona is spending $144,000 to study Hiaki, an “endangered” tribal language spoken by fewer than 80 aging people in the state. Apparently the tribe [...]
    Posted: November 27, 2009, 8:24am EST
    by seeingredaz
  • BREAKING NEWS: Sen. Chuck Gray will not seek reelection

    Number of comments: 5
    Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Gray, (R-Dist.19) has made a Thanksgiving Day announcement that he will not seek re-election to the state Senate next year. In a written statement Gray said he’s made the decision in light of “business opportunities.” “I am a husband and father who served his state and community [...]
    Posted: November 26, 2009, 8:16pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Thanksgiving wishes

    Number of comments: 4
       We take a moment to reflect today on the many blessings we enjoy as citizens of this great land, and wish the abundant bounties of this uniquely American holiday to each and every one of our readers. [...]
    Posted: November 26, 2009, 8:01am EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Obama shatters spending records of all other U.S. Presidents, now wants “war tax”

    Number of comments: 5
    Want to see what just the interest on the U.S. debt would buy? Elizabeth MacDonald, prize-winning business authority with FOX Business News, has the startling report. The federal government spent $3.5 trillion during Obowma’s first year in office — far exceeding the spending of any other first-year U.S. president in history. It’s [...]
    Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:31pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Thanks, J.D.

    Number of comments: 10
    Our appreciation to those of you who have noticed and commented on the national attention Seeing Red AZ is garnering.  Between the hits we are getting from POLITICO, (Sheriff Joe fundraises for a potential McCain primary challenger), the liberal Huffington Poster Dawn Teo, the National Journal’s Hotline On Call, and The [...]
    Posted: November 25, 2009, 3:14pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Phoenix City Manager wants YOU to help him with budget

    Number of comments: 4
    The new Phoenix City Manger, David Cavazos, on the job for less than a month, is already admitting he is over his head, although he is a 22-year veteran of City Hall. The one-time deputy city manager is asking city residents to come up with novel ideas to help him [...]
    Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:49am EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Junk Science of global warming exposed

    Number of comments: 4
    Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) the ranking member on the Environment and Public Works committee has announced he will call for an investigation on “Climategate.” During a floor speech, he said, “Today, I will discuss something else – scientific integrity and how to improve it. Specifically, I will discuss the systematic and [...]
    Posted: November 25, 2009, 8:26am EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Sarah Palin was ridiculed when she spoke of “Death Panels”

    Number of comments: 3
    This recent Wall Street Journal article refers to “The Rationing Commission.” Different words, same concept.  Obowma and his league of Congressional Democrats want to accomplish the same thing, regardless of what name is pinned on this horse’s patootie. As envisioned by the Senate Finance Committee, the commission — 15 unelected Presidential [...]
    Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:55pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Best Buy nixes Christmas, sends out warm wishes for Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha

    Number of comments: 10
      Three years ago, electronics retail giant Best Buy announced it would no longer use the word ‘Christmas’ in its December advertising because, according to their corporate spokeswoman, it was disrespectful to other holidays to use a specific holiday in its advertising: “We are going to continue to use the [...]
    Posted: November 24, 2009, 3:27pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Fool on the world stage: Obowma now gives deferential bow to Chinese Premier

    Number of comments: 8
    Sycophantic Obowma is at it again.  First was his deep bow to Saudi’s Muslim royals, followed by his stooping to Japan’s Emperor.  Now the foolish toady is displaying his submissiveness to the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. His global apologies for American superiority apparently aren’t enough; he now makes groveling an [...]
    Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:25pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • “Reality sets in”

    Number of comments: 6
    Republicans lawmakers have approved a bill that cuts $300 million from the state budget, while Democrats pushed to raise taxes. Arizona is facing a multi-billion-dollar budget deficit. If it were your family in financial trouble, you’d quit spending and shave your expenses. Is that such a difficult notion to comprehend? Signing the [...]
    Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:27am EST
    by seeingredaz
  • New Rasmussen poll: Arpaio could easily take Goddard in governor’s match-up

    Number of comments: 6
    A recent poll of 1,200 likely Arizona voters conducted by Rasmussen Reports shows Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio leading Arizona Attorney General Samuel Pearson “Terry” Goddard, III by a whopping 12 percentage points, 51 percent to 39 percent. Arpaio has not expressed any interest in the race, but perennial candidate Democrat [...]
    Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:28pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Want to help J.D. Hayworth? Here’s your chance

    Number of comments: 10
    Fellow Citizen: You have contacted me with words of encouragement following the release of a Rasmussen Reports Poll which finds me in a statistical dead heat with John McCain for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate in 2010. Miss Mary, our children, and I will do a lot of praying [...]
    Posted: November 23, 2009, 3:20pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • The British press calls BHO’s fed-med “radical”

    Number of comments: 2
    This is how London’s Daily Mail characterizes Obama’s health care scheme. They should know a thing or two about rationed care.  For a comparison of the British and American systems, read Fox News anchor David Asman’s article: There’s No Place Like Home — What I learned from my wife’s month in [...]
    Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:20am EST
    by seeingredaz
  • BHO: Dropping’ like a rock

    Number of comments: 2
    Gallup: “Obama’s descent in his approval rating below 50% is an important symbolic milestone in his presidency.” With less than a year in office, he now stands at 49%. Rasmussen: The Daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday showed that only 29% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that [...]
    Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:27am EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Weekend reading and viewing to make you smarter

    Number of comments: 10
    Charles Krauthammer’s column, Travesty in New York, reveals the security nightmare, forum for terror threats, and the setting of the stage to proclaim the glory of jihad. Here is Krauthammer on FOX News discussing the unconscionable travesty of holding the trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed in civilian court, and [...]
    Posted: November 22, 2009, 3:36pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Quiz

    Number of comments: 6
    This past presidential campaign UPI article provides a concise memory jogger. Which candidate  told The London Telegraph he advocated shutting down the terrorist detention camp at Guantanamo Bay and taking quick action on global warming? “I would immediately close Guantanamo Bay, move all the prisoners to Fort Leavenworth [Kansas] and truly expedite the [...]
    Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:20pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • ‘Happy Holidays’ from AZ Capitol Times

    Number of comments: 10
    An email from former Maricopca County Republican Chairman, Lyle Tuttle, contained this impossible-to-argue-with message: As I brought in my mail, I noticed I had received an elaborate card from Arizona Capitol Times. Two items caught my eye. 1. The message on the front of the card was ”Happy Holidays.” 2. That greeting was accompanied by an offer to [...]
    Posted: November 22, 2009, 9:11am EST
    by seeingredaz
  • McCain scurries away from reporter merely mentioning J.D. Hayworth

    Number of comments: 9
    Hat tip to our loyal reader Night Owl for furnishing this video. He wrote, “If a picture is worth a thousand words, this video clip is worth a million. We can’t top that for a caption. [...]
    Posted: November 21, 2009, 5:56pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Democrats for sale: “We’re just negotiating the price”

    Number of comments: 5
    Until recently Sen. Ben Nelson (Dem-NE), Sen. Mary Landrieu (Dem-LA) and Sen. Blanche Lincoln (Dem-AR) were the last holdouts among the 58 Democrats and two Independents whose votes Majority Leader Harry Reid and Barack Obowma must have to force the American people into a socialized medicine plan controlled by the [...]
    Posted: November 21, 2009, 3:29pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • ASU students: First Amendment protects their rights but not Sheriff Arpaio’s

    Number of comments: 3
    The State Press at Arizona State University runs a puzzling opinion piece by student Dustin Volz. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been invited to participate in a roundtable question and answer session with three Cronkite School of Journalism faculty members. Volz advises students against raucous protesting of the sheriff, citing “Like [...]
    Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:22pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • The rest of the story: Sen. Verschoor fights tax increases

    Number of comments: 7
    Friends: This morning is the second time in recent months that I have been personally attacked by Senate President Bob Burns for stopping TAX INCREASES to my fellow Arizonans. SB 1003 was written with enacting language to give unchecked authority for unelected appointees of the governor to raise taxes in the form [...]
    Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:11am EST
    by seeingredaz
  • BHO ensures dramatic decline in illegal worksite arrests; American jobs are casualty

    Number of comments: 4
    Arrests of illegal alien workers have dropped abruptly under President Obama, according to recently released figures. Criminal and administrative arrests along with indictments and convictions of illegal laborers at work sites have all fallen by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009 –  and not due to illegals [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:22pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • AG Eric Holder’s path to setting the nation on its ear aided by AZ’s two senators

    Number of comments: 2
    “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.”   Attorney General Eric Holder Attorney General Eric Holder, acting on behalf of President Obama, has ordered [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:18pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • McCain’s Swan Song: The sound of music to our ear

    Number of comments: 5
    Rasmussen Reports polling figures released today indicate that in a hypothetical match-up between former Congressman J.D. Hayworth and Arizona’s senior senator John McCain, McCain holds a measly 2 percent lead.  This is remarkable given that he has a mega-million dollar campaign war chest, was most recently the GOP presidential standard-bearer [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:01pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Thud

    Number of comments: 2
    The sound of dissent makes a loud kerplunk. [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:06am EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Another indisputable indicator Americans are tiring of the status quo

    Number of comments: 2
    Republican candidates maintain a steady six-point advantage over Democrats in the most recent edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot. The latest Rasmussen Reports national survey indicates that 44% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 38% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent. Support for each party rose one [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:35am EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Democrat Fed-Med: Health care Americans cannot afford

    Number of comments: 5
    After weeks of secretive drafting, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-UT) unveiled Barack Obowma’s socialized, government takeover of American health care. The Democrat’s $849 billion measure designed to remake the nation’s health care system, relies on cuts in future Medicare spending  (read: Rationed Care to America’s seniors) to cover costs, higher [...]
    Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:50pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Obowma: Working to perfect the art of double talk

    Number of comments: 4
    Reuters reports that Barack Obowma is issuing warnings about the need to contain rising U.S. deficits, saying that if government debt were to pile up, it could lead to a double-dip recession. “It is important though to recognize if we keep on adding to the debt, even in the midst of [...]
    Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:22pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Employer sanctions law at work

    Number of comments: 3
    Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas has announced that his office has filed the state’s first employer sanctions case, a civil complaint against an employer accused of violating the Legal Arizona Worker’s Act.  The action alleges Michelle Hardas, the manager of Scottsdale Art Factory,  allegedly hired illegal labor  — by deliberately [...]
    Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:54am EST
    by seeingredaz
  • This is a Commander-in-Chief?

    Number of comments: 8
    At a stop off at South Korea’s Osan Air Base, while greeting the very troops to whom he continually denies additional backups, Obowma insultingly said: “You guys make a pretty good photo op.” The Washington Post has the full report. [...]
    Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:56am EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Atheists declare God is “an affront”

    Number of comments: 3
    House Minority Leader John Boehner and 44 other Republican lawmakers have joined a legal crusade to keep “In God We Trust” inscribed above the newly constructed visitors’ entrance to the U.S. Capitol. In July, the Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a federal lawsuit to block the engravings at the visitor center. [...]
    Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:50pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • He said, he said: Shadegg vs. Bloomberg

    Number of comments: 4
    Arizona U.S. Rep. John Shadegg (CD-3) has apologized to New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg for this. “I apologize for the insensitivity of my remarks with respect to the mayor or his family, however I think it is important to note that this decision involves potential risk to innocent people,” Shadegg said [...]
    Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:22pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Treasurer Dean Martin: Arizona faces historic debt level

    Number of comments: 10
    Arizona legislators, convened in a special session, are  setting about shaving nearly $460 million from this year’s $2 billion budget deficit. The session, expected to run through tomorrow, was called by Gov. Jan Brewer. It will look at restoring funding to a handful of state agencies, authorizing an $18 million payment [...]
    Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:05am EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office conducts 13th crime suppression operation

    Number of comments: 3
    Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has undertaken his 13th crime suppression/illegal immigration operation. The two-day long, county-wide presence of two hundred volunteer posse, reserve, deputy and helicopter air support units on the streets, highways and in the air throughout Maricopa County assures future safety in the area for the citizen residents. The [...]
    Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:59pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Obowma angers Europeans: Not “Citizen of the World,” after all

    Number of comments: 6
    Uh, oh. The German news Spiegel accuses “Citizen of the World” Barack Obowma of lies, international deception, betrayal and, would you believe — following the path of George W. Bush, on dealing with global warming…er…climate change. The name has been altered since global temperatures are actually cooling, but the United [...]
    Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:48pm EST
    by seeingredaz
  • Who can quarrel with this Dem?

    Number of comments: 3
    New York’s Democrat Gov. David Paterson has broken ranks with his fellow partisans and is openly criticizing President Obowma, saying he thought it was a terrible idea to move 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other suspected terrorists to New York for trial. “This is not a decision that I [...]
    Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:22pm EST
    by seeingredaz

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