With Hayworth, has McCain met his Tea Party Waterloo?

While understandable that Palin would support the man who put her on the national stage, other candidates who vouch for McCain's "conservative" credentials are doing a disservice to the movement. And it doesn't look like it's going to fly this time around. The groundswell of grassroots attitudes are emodied in the Tea Party movement, and [...]

Why J.D. Hayworth Will Beat McCain for U.S. Senate

Hayworth will win for this simple reason: This is a Tea Party revolt year, and Arizona's Republicans and Tea Partiers have had enough of McCain's support of this administration's bailouts and big-government policies.   

Arizona Republic Refuses to Publish Even One Positive Article about Arpaio, Thomas

The Arizona Republic has printed a barrage of articles, editorials, and guest op-eds by attorneys lately highly critical of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas. When attorneys like Dennis Riccio, below, try to submit an article with a positive viewpoint of Arpaio and Thomas, the Republic can't turn their bias aside [...]

RNC Chairman Steele Welcoming Pro-Abortion Candidates to GOP

What's next, is Steele going to welcome gun control candidates into the party? Candidates advocating for higher taxes and spending?

Liberal Ninth Circuit Refuses to Disband Separate Race-Based DUI Courts

The liberal judiciary uses legal tricks to protect racial preferences, especially when it is the entity operating them.

A Passionate Plea to Contribute to Arizona Right to Life

I would not be writing this if our financial situation were not so
dire. I am the Secretary for the Board of AZ Right to Life, and urge
everyone to please consider contributing right now to AZ Right to Life,
even if just $5 or $10.

Janet Has Always been a Gaffe Machine

Arizona's top blogger Greg Patterson began compiling a list of Janet Napolitano's gaffes long before she became Secretary of DHS.

AZ Right to Life responds to DHS characterization as "right wing radicals"

"Why is the Department of Homeland Security spending our time and resources singling out groups like pro-life supporters instead of focusing on identifying and apprehending the real terrorists – like  al-Qaeda – groups that have vowed to destroy America?"

Unleash the DOJ Hounds on Sheriff Arpaio!

The suspicious circumstances surrounding the Department of Justice's investigation of Sheriff Joe Arpaio for supposedly "racial profiling" illegal immigrants.  Although Napolitano's fingerprints have been scrubbed from the letter, her DNA influence on the content would be hard to miss.

Final Bar Investigations Dismissed Against County Attorney Thomas: Freedom of Speech Wins

Thomas stated, "As I said all along, supporters of criminals and illegal immigrants at the State Bar brought these politically motivated investigations in an attempt to intimidate our prosecutors. In this they were unsuccessful and have now been discredited-but unfortunately,at great cost to county taxpayers. I sincerely hope that the State Bar will no longer [...]

Arizona Spending Interests Sit on a Throne of Lies

"Arizona does not have a budget deficit. It has an overspending problem. Since 2004, Arizona's spending grew by an astounding 57percent. Now Arizona is paying the price for years of mismanagement and fiscal vandalism under former Gov. Napolitano." said ATR's Grover Norquist. "As recently as 2006, Gov. Brewer made a written pledge to her constituents [...]

Taxpayer Group Blasts AZ GOP Gov. Brewer’s Proposed Tax Increase

"What Arizona really needs right now is firm leadership in the mold of Margaret Thatcher," said AFP Arizona director Tom Jenney. "That is not what Gov. Brewer gave us yesterday."

Chaos in Mexico: US Military May Help Mexico Fight Drug Cartels

This column is based on a teleconference held – and material provided — by Donna Miles of the American Military Press Service:

Maricopa County Attorney Will Not Prosecute Photo-Radar Offenders

After completing this review, Thomas has concluded his office will not prosecute motorists for alleged criminal offenses based on photo-radar evidence. "The plain language of the law, as well as other legal and constitutional principles, disallows criminal prosecution of motorists based on photo-radar evidence," Thomas said.

Beyond Illegal Immigration: An Agenda for the GOP

Some of the issues the GOP needs to focus on include public corruption. It may be a lonely life to weed out public corruption, as Theodore Roosevelt lamented when he was New York City Police Commissioner as the politicians and media deserted him, but we cannot just look the other way.

Media: Republican prosecutor bad, Democrat prosecutor good

Two years ago, Democrat Attorney General Terry Goddard prosecuted Republican stateTreasurer David Petersen for doing the exact same offense with which Board of Supervisor Stapley is charged by Republican County Attorney Thomas. Which prosecutor has the Republic gone on a rampage against denouncing? Read about Arizona's biggest current political scandal.

Changing of the Guard

Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano has done little to protect the state from illegal immigration, and under her leadership Arizona is now tied for last place in the nation for emergency disaster preparedness. Obama probably selected Napolitano because she is one of a small handful of Democrats who fit the necessary stereotype of "tough," and she [...]

State Bar of AZ to censor First Amendment rights of attorneys on gay issues

Throwing our constitutional rights of free speech and freedom of association down the drain, the State Bar of Arizona is considering a revision to the attorneys' oath of office that would silence conservative viewpoints on gay issues.

Kidnappings: Latin America Style Violence Sweeping Arizona

Phoenix law enforcement says that Phoenix has now become "ground zero" for the violent Mexican drug cartels. There has been a 325% increase in kidnapping for ransom cases in Maricopa County since 2005.

Arizona Needs a Firm Spending Limit, not Higher Taxes

Four reasons why tax cuts have nothing to do with causing Arizona's current budget deficit. 

Napolitano a Poor Choice for Homeland Security

Considering Governor Napolitano's abysmal record on illegal immigration in her own state, she is a rotten choice to head up Homeland Security. However, leaving the state with a $2 billion deficit and a police state of speed cameras on every highway throughout the state, Arizonans are glad to see her go.

Still Goldwater Country

Not all Republicans fared so poorly in this year's elections. In Arizona, Republicans did much better than Democrats. How much of this was due to McCain's coattails? 

Sheriff Arpaio: The Newspaper Belongs in the Trash

Depending on how many of sonoranalliance.com's readers are repeat visitors each day, there may now be more people reading that local conservative blog than are reading the Arizona Republic's editorial pages.  

Harry Mitchell for Congress campaign stealing signs again

Mitchell Sign Theft – Once a few years ago is a mistake and twice is a habit. Will the courts bother to punish him this time? The first time he was caught personally stealing his opponent's signs and admitted it – but a friendly judge let him off the hook.

“Imagine No Religion,” Bill Maher, and “Religulous”

How do you respond to Bill Maher's new movie and vendetta against religion, and the Freedom From Religion Foundation's recent billboards attacking religion? Dr. Darryl DelHousaye, the brilliant President and Co-Founder of Phoenix Seminary, refutes their attacks better than anyone.







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