Here's how I'm voting on the 9 propositions on the Arizona ballot: --Prop. 114 is a worthless change in the constitution. This is a left-over piece of paranoia from our recalled Russell Pearce. The proposition exempts a crime victim from liability for damages if the victim hurts or kills a person committing a felony. Thing [...]
A jury deadlocked this week on a case that charged a trusted horse trainer had molested at least four little girls between 2006 and 2009. The case was riddled with questions about the adequacy of the investigation into the charges. Why would such a case just be coming to trial now, you might ask? Because [...]
Oh, they look so hurt, Senators John McCain and Jon Kyle, denouncing an ad by Democratic Senatorial candidate Rich Carmona that shows the senators praising him during his nomination for the U.S. Surgeon General under Pres. George W. Bush. They say it's so unfair to imply they're endorsing him now, and Kyl says that while [...]
OK, I know campaign ads are designed to demonize your opponent and coronate your candidate in a few words, but wouldn't you think they should stop short of out-right lies? It seems appropo of this campaign that the very first ad Romney ran against President Obama was a clip with him saying "If we keep [...]
There was a time when contraception was illegal in America. There was a time women couldn't vote. There was a time women had no legal rights to their own children. There was a time women were barred from college. And there was a time when the “rule of thumb” said a husband couldn't beat his [...]
Anybody who still is so naiive they think just a "kook" Republican here and there are extreme in their ideas on rape, I've got a piece of frightening information: Republicans have 28 new U.S. Senate contenders this year, and at least a dozen of them are on record saying women who get pregnant from a [...]
On most political maps, Arizona is a "red state" in being predominantly Republican. But on one map, we're decidedly a "pink state." That's the map of "America's Rape Belt," and we get that distinction because BOTH of our sitting U.S. Senators, John McCain and Jon Kyl, voted against a bill to protect rape victims. They [...]
Last night's debate on foreign policy only underscored that Mitt Romney is so not ready to be president of the United States. His geography blunder was enough: He said Syria was Iran's "route to the sea," when that's impossible. Iran and Syria have NO mutual land boundry. They're separated by the Persian Golf, where BOTH [...]
It struck me as strange in last night's presidential debate that in 2002--just a decade ago--Mitt Romney knew so few "qualified women" for state government in Massachusettes, he had to go out and search them out, resulting in "binders full of women" from which he appointed a record number of women. "We took a concerted [...]
Tonight's debate was a real eye opener to many--and to Democrats, it was like having a long-lost brother come home. President Obama was the feisty, clear-eyed, fight-for-his-principals guy who didn't attend the first debate in Denver. But last night, he was back. And Gov. Romney again spent most of the night misstating his position or [...]