Category Archives: Arizona

First in nation, last with Sarah Palin

By: Alexander Burns If Sarah Palin decides to run for president, she could quickly find that it’s not Arizona, but New Hampshire that poses the bigger threat to her candidacy. That’s because in all of her travels since the 2008 election – during the midterm campaign and across two expansive book tours – the former [...]

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Obama 2.0: The Reinvention Begins

By: Ed Lasky THE AMERICAN THINKER The year 2012 looms large in the mind of Barack Obama. After two years of decline in the number of those who view his policies, his performance, and his personality favorably, Barack Obama has begun yet another process of reinvention on the road to reelection. Will he succeed in [...]

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The Times Loses It

Sense and nonsense about Tucson. BY: P.J O’ROURKE It was a weekend of great sorrow. On Saturday, January 8, an insane young man tried to kill Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, injuring her horribly. The man then fired his gun into a small political gathering, murdering a nine-year-old girl, a federal judge, a congressional staffer, and three [...]

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University of Arizona opens football stadium after 14K-seat arena fills up for Obama’s speech

TUCSON, Ariz. – The University of Arizona has opened its football stadium after it became clear that the 14,000-seat arena would not be big enough to hold everyone wanting to see President Barack Obama’s speech about the mass shooting. Those at the stadium were watching the memorial service on the scoreboard. The crowd in the [...]

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Dilettantes Run Rampant Over Shooting

When the 2010 Time Square Car Bombing failed, Mayor Bloomberg famously fingered the Tea Party, when the perpetrator turned out to be an Islamic Separatist, Bloomberg showed accusing in hast was the quickest route to a gaffe. As Bryon York at the Washington Examiner points out, When Maj. Nidal Hasan started firing and shouting ”Allahu Akbar!” at [...]

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Left Shamelessly Seeks to Exploit Arizona Tragedy

By Jonathan S. Tobin The shooting in Arizona is the sort of thing that obligates all sides in political debates to call a timeout. Right now our collective prayers are with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her family as she struggles for life, as well as with the families of those who were murdered in this [...]

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Gabrielle Giffords downplayed threat of violence

By KENNETH P. VOGEL & JONATHAN MARTIN POLITICO Before being shot in the head while meeting with constituents Saturday, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had endured vandalism to her district office, held a similar “Congress On Your Corner” event in which someone had dropped a gun and expressed concerns on more than one occasion that escalating rhetoric [...]

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Authorities Suspect Gunman in Arizona Rampage Posted Pre-Shooting Video Online

The 22-year-old man suspected in the deadly shooting rampage Saturday in Arizona was described by the local sheriff as “unstable” and with a “kind of troubled past.” Fox News sources identified the suspected shooter as Jared Loughner. At a press conference held Saturday evening, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said the man suspected in the [...]

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Meet the House GOP’s insta-stars

By KASIE HUNT | 11/5/10 7:36 PM EDT With more than 80 Republican freshman soon to arrive in Washington, it will take some time to figure out who’s who. But a few of this year’s rookies aren’t likely to toil in anonymity for long, if at all. There’s a group that’s ready-made for cable television—some [...]

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What McCain’s Tactics Teach

HUMAN EVENTS by Patrick J. Buchanan John McCain is headed back to the U.S. Senate, perhaps a changed and chastened man, and perhaps not. But the manner in which he secured his Senate seat for another six years is instructive, and not only for moderate Republicans facing off against conservatives and tea party candidates, but [...]

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