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Rep. Gosar wants Trump on $500 bill. Yeah, it's a cult

Let’s see. I’d guess that if any one of us — someone … normal — happened to be a member of the U.S. Congress, even with our varying...

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Hate in Arizona is far too pervasive, new report reveals

One of the most shocking aspects of some news stories is how the news story is not shocking. At all. This is one of those. The Southern Poverty Law...

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If Phoenix church worships Trump, can it be a nonprofit?

Donald Trump is not returning this Thursday to Dream City Church in Phoenix in order to worship; he is returning to Dream City Church once again to BE...

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Another unwanted reminder of what police sacrifice for us

We should not need to be reminded of what first responders are willing to sacrifice for us. And yet we do need to be reminded. And always in the worst...

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Abe Hamadeh gets 200,000 reasons to ditch the 'crazies'

For someone who wanted to be Arizona’s attorney general, Abe Hamadeh doesn’t seem to be much good at lawyering. He not only lost the election to...

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Praise, not scorn, for 12 non-communists on Trump jury

I have attended a number of trials over the years, ranging from murder to political corruption. Each time, whether I agree with the decision jurors...

31.05.2024 10

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GOP cowards sidestep real reasons they'd impeach Mayes

The people who shriek loudly, constantly and incorrectly that elements of the government and the justice department are being “weaponized” against...

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Trump recklessly reposts fan's threat against liberals

It should mean something that the man who wants again to be president of the United States is reposting a MAGA zealot’s f-bomb filled verbal ambush...

29.05.2024 10

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Mark Lamb is playing the lose-to-win game with Kari Lake

There is probably not a job anywhere in the United States that requires less experience — zero, actually — than president of the United States....

29.05.2024 10

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Election official is right: 'Terrorists' threaten him

I’d guess that Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes was a blunt, in-your-face kind of guy before he served in the United States Marine Corps....

28.05.2024 10

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Memorial Day is one day for us, but every day for them

A little more than 20 years ago — Could it be that long? — I received an email from a woman named Marcie Biskie, who told me she’d read a column...

25.05.2024 10

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Romney is right: Biden should pardon Trump. He still can.

Republican Sen. Mitt Romney got it right – and wrong – when he said last week that President Joe Biden should have pardoned Donald Trump of the...

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California just stuck it to Arizona anti-abortion fanatics

It shouldn’t be necessary, but it’s good news. California lawmakers are trying to protect the reproductive health of Arizona women in a way that...

24.05.2024 10

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Racist border bill is latest GOP throwback to 1864

Most of the Republicans in the Arizona Legislature were in favor of retaining Arizona’s draconian territorial abortion ban. It took two defectors in...

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Why Sen. Sinema shuns the BS revival of her border bill

U.S. Senate leadership is reviving the single most important piece of border security and immigration legislation produced in decades. And the person...

22.05.2024 20

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Abortion ban judge makes paltry appeal to keep his job

Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick was one of four members of the court who decided to uphold the state’s barbaric 160-year-old abortion...

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No wonder most 18-year-olds aren't registering to vote

I can’t say it surprises me, and I can’t say I blame them. Roughly two-thirds of Arizona’s brand new adults are not motivated enough, or...

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Joe Biden still can, and should, pardon Donald Trump

Republican Sen. Mitt Romney got it right — and wrong — when he said last week that President Joe Biden should have pardoned Donald Trump of the...

20.05.2024 20

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Grads who protested Seinfeld's speech failed Life 101

Roughly 30 of the 7,000 students at Sunday’s Duke University graduation ceremony walked out at the beginning of the commencement address by...

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Reps. Biggs, Crane join Republican posers at Trump trial

17.05.2024 30

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Sen. Kelly calls out GOP for bolstering the border crisis

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Kari Lake War Room makes a pro-Ruben Gallego campaign ad

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Grads who protested Seinfeld's speech failed Life 101

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Errant ASU police chief gets better deal than protesters

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Lake rehashes racist, antisemitic 'replacement theory'

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Does Trump have the guts to testify under oath? Don't count on it.

11.05.2024 20

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We'll see if Trump has the guts to testify under oath

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GOP looks for job security in fake border security bill

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More proof that Arizona’s voucher scam benefits the rich

We knew from the beginning that imposing a universal voucher program on Arizona taxpayers was a Robin-Hood-in-reverse scam, robbing money from the...

08.05.2024 20

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Biden should bring Stormy Daniels to a debate with Trump

The best (or at least most humorous) part of Donald Trump’s hush money trial this week was Trump and his lawyers and his loyal propagandists at...

08.05.2024 10

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Pay reparations for the nuclear war waged on Arizonans

Matt Capalby grew up in Kingman among hard-working, stoic, patriot people who, he told me, “are not the type who complain, or who would camp out on...

07.05.2024 10

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Drop charges, lift suspensions on ASU student protesters

It might be a good idea for Arizona’s three state universities to offer a course in the history of protests in the United States. Not just for...

06.05.2024 20

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How AG Mayes can stop 1864 abortion ban from kicking in

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is overjoyed that the Legislature repealed what she called “this insane 1864 abortion ban,” but she is not...

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Lake's old-guard Republican apology tour ain't working

For the past couple of months Kari Lake has been trying to doggie-paddle across the dark waters next to all the bridges she burned. It’s a rough...

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Actually, Arizona's 1864 abortion ban was NOT repealed

You’ve been conned. At least if you fell for the news reports claiming that Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban has been repealed. If that is something...

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Trump has plans to take Arizona's SB 1070 nationwide

The folks in Fountain Hills who are horrified at the possibility of former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio being elected mayor in November may have...

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Giuliani rails at Mayes like mobsters railed against him

Last year, when Rudy Giuliani and others (including former President Donald Trump) were indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges tied to attempts...

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Killing 'untrainable' dog makes Kristi Noem an unfit VP

The first message I got about the dog-killing Republican governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem, was: “Until I heard what Noem did I thought there...

30.04.2024 20

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ASU police chief caught vandalizing protester's tent

After 69 protesters were arrested early Saturday at a pro-Palestinian encampment at Arizona State University, the administration released a statement...

29.04.2024 20

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Ur crooked. Ur fat. Arizona lawmakers brainstorm ideas

Companies make phones now that come with parental controls that restrict access to social media, prevent the ability to text, block spam and only...

26.04.2024 20

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Scottsdale is the epicenter of anti-abortion earthquake

People who live on top of fault lines can go for years, decades, lifetimes without feeling the slightest tremor. Then, the seemingly dormant tectonic...

26.04.2024 10

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Kari Lake is proving wildly popular ... in Florida

Kari Lake, the Arizona Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, is once again demonstrating her celebrity power and appeal to GOP voters. Unfortunately...

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'Punished' football coach beats ASU $4.4 million to zero

Don’t let anybody tell you that university eggheads are smarter than jocks. Not in Arizona, anyway. Several years back, investigators from the NCAA...

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Lake flips again on 1864 abortion ban. Or is it flops?

Kari Lake is once again fully behind Arizona’s ghoulish 1864 near-total abortion ban. For now. As you’ll remember, before the Arizona Supreme...

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Group need not target abortion justices; we’ll remember

I understand why the group Progress Arizona says it will work to unseat two Arizona Supreme Court justices who recently upheld a near-total abortion...

23.04.2024 10

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Arizona doctors may soon perform abortions in California

It may be 1864 in Arizona, but just across the border in California it’s 2024. With that in mind, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is working...

22.04.2024 10

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How school shootings helped the gun lobby win AZ, nation

I arrived in Littleton, Colo., on April 22, 1999, two days after two young men, one 18 and one 17, walked into Columbine High School and opened fire,...

19.04.2024 6

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GOP has the nerve to call Ruben Gallego a 'deadbeat dad'

I would say the Republican operatives trying to get Kari Lake elected in Arizona have lost their minds, but that implies they might, at some point,...

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Phoenix, tell Michelin to take those stars and shove 'em

I didn’t need the upset stomach I was left with after reading Endia Fontanez’s article in The Arizona Republic about why there are no Michelin...

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Why Republicans still haven't killed 1864 abortion ban

If there ever was an example of elected officials putting their personal political concerns over their constituents — and in this case putting those...

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