Newt’s primary win shows that GOP “family values” are largely illusory
They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. That is not how traditional conservatives view the world. There [...]
ALEC put the jackboot down on a reporter. But nothing to see here. Move along.
I had been swapping newspaper stories with Olivia Ward of the Toronto Star on one of the saloon’s overstuffed leather couches as the bar filled with attendees of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) 2011 States and Nation Policy Summit (SNPS). ALEC had repeatedly refused to grant me media credentials. Nevertheless, I was a paying [...]
Goldwater Institute wants to end solar subsidies. All of them.
Per Clint Bolick of the Goldwater Institute (GI): It’s not every day that the New York Times makes a compelling case against government giveaways. But a recent page-one article underscored that the Solyndra scandal was only the tip of the solar-subsidy iceberg. Huge companies like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, General Electric, utilities including Exelon and [...]
Congratulations, Senator Lujan
Statement from David Lujan on Board of Supervisors’ Appointment to Arizona Senate Lujan vows to advance forward-thinking, inclusive vision for Arizona PHOENIX – “I’m grateful for the opportunity to complete the term of my former seatmate, Kyrsten Sinema, and look forward to fighting harder than ever before for the forward-thinking, inclusive values that the voters [...]
Left vs right kinda misses it
Many of my dear friends attended remembrances of the anniversary of the Tucson shooting all over the state. I had intended to go to something but for whatever reason I decided to stay home in the end. There were a couple of good pieces out about the shooting and the (often forgotten) context. Tom Zoeller, [...]
What if AZ GOP legislators were expected to follow the state party platform?
Today’s Yellow Sheet had an odd tidbit about recently de-Senatorized Russell Pearce. At this month’s Arizona Republican Party mandatory meeting, state committeemen will have the chance to return Pearce to an elected post. The former senator is one of two people running for first vice chair of the party, along with Diane Ortiz-Parsons, a veteran [...]
My thoughts on the Iowa caucus.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! That said, Santorum finishing in a dead heat with Romney for first place in Iowa is actually no big deal, election-wise. Santorum, like his brother from another mother Huckabee four years ago, is going precisely nowhere, except maybe a Fox commentating gig, after this. But the Republican Iowa caucus is useful as a yardstick [...]
