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Rally/Protest Update- Let’s call this one a Stretching Excercise! lol

“I want you teabaggers out there to understand one thing: while you idolize the Founding Fathers and dress up like them, and smell like them, I think it’s pretty clear that the Founding Fathers would have hated your guts,” – Bill Maher And they think we gave up!  I DON’T THINK SO! We would like to [...]

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Holder’s Contempt Citation Could Give New Meaning to “House Arrest”

I’ll give you two disclaimers here:  1)  I am nowhere near as well-versed on the Fast & Furious events as folks here like Moe & Jeff, so this piece won’t help anyone understand the events behind that, and 2) I Am Not A Lawyer…and there’s a lot of lawyerly stuff here. With that out of [...]

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Arkansas Democrat Puts On A Weird Show

I just … I don’t even … wut? The above video shows Democrat State Senator Gene Jeffres, who is running for Congress in Arkansas against Republican Tom Cotton, answering a question about healthcare. The first weird thing Jeffres did was get down on his knees in front of a woman, like maybe he was going [...]

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President Says Obamacare Decision a Victory for Freedom

By John Semmens: Semi-News — A Satirical Look at Recent News President Barack Obama hailed the US Supreme Court’s narrow 5-4 decision to uphold his signature Affordable Care Act as “a victory for freedom.” “By affirming the legality of our health care plan, the Court has ensured that every American will be free from the [...]

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Message Received: Repealing Obamacare up to We the People

By Cathi Herrod, President Center for Arizona Policy Many were surprised by not only the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act known as “Obamacare” yesterday, but by the legal rationale and the vote composition as well. The Court’s majority opinion upheld the health care law as a tax on the American [...]

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Rio Nuevo Board member raises questions about City and Irvin

The new Rio Nuevo District Board meeting held Friday mid-afternoon was scheduled to minimize public input, and it did just that. However, the nearly empty room was still filled with drama. As with all good dramatic productions, there were the protagonists, and the antagonists. The big bad Rio Nuevo District Board against the small and [...]

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Maricopa County deputies looking animal cruelty suspect

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Animal Crimes Unit Thursday night was called to the Rio Verde area at North 144th Street to investigate several horses at a boarding facility which appeared emaciated. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office detectives are looking for the the horse’s owner, Michelle Salazar. She faces a number of animal cruelty charges. As a [...]

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Child trafficker deported to Brazil, arrested

Vania Maria Plasse, a Brazilian woman wanted in her native country as a suspect in a child trafficking investigation was deported and turned over to Brazilian federal police Wednesday by agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Phoenix. Plasse, 47, of Governador Valaderes, Brazil, was repatriated to Brazil aboard [...]

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Arizona assists Colorado in fire fight

Arizona’s Governor announced yesterday that the State of Arizona is actively contributing to ongoing fire containment efforts in Colorado and Utah. Colorado is currently battling eight uncontained large fires, including the 16,750-acre Waldo Canyon Fire that has destroyed 347 residences; continues to threaten more than 23,000 residences; and has evacuated an estimated 32,000 individuals. To [...]

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Cops on Top Hero Summit hike today

Every year Cops on Top has members hike to the highest point in their state to honor a specific law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty. All of the hikers in each state will attempt to summit their respective mountains on today, June 30. In Arizona that point is the top of Humphrey’s [...]

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