Don’t participate in the Race for the Cure. It’s not just about finding a cure for breast cancer - part of the money raised in their races goes to Planned Parenthood to fund abortions. Find another charity to race for. Cancer survivor David Roney exposes the truth in a new blog, Survivors for Life.

Good morning, I’m sitting here at the Defending the American Dream Summit put on by the Americans for Prosperity Foundation http://defendingthedream.org/beta/.  Thus far its been well worth getting up at the absurdly early time of 3am Arizona time.  The Sam Adams Alliance http://www.samadamsalliance.com/ put on the first event which focused on creating online groups via blogging in order to help [...]

Thursday, October 09, 2008
Fairfax, VA. - The National Rifle Association's (NRA) Executive Vice President, Wayne LaPierre, and NRA Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) Chairman Chris W. Cox are traveling to Pittsburgh, Pa., Springfield, Mo., Colorado Springs, Colo. and Reno, Nev. today for a series of press conferences endorsing Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin for President and Vice President respectively in the November 4 election.

"John McCain has more than two decades of pro-gun and pro-hunting votes in Congress. He has stood time and again to preserve our Second Amendment freedom and our rich hunting heritage," said LaPierre. "Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin have earned the NRA-PVF's endorsement and we will encourage gun owners, hunters and anyone who values freedom to vote McCain-Palin on November 4."

"NRA members and gun owners will not allow Barack Obama to hide his radical record of opposition to our constitutional rights," said Cox. "Obama has voted to make self-defense with a firearm in the
home illegal, has voted to ban the most commonly owned hunting shotguns, has voted to ban commonly owned hunting ammunition, and has supported a 500% tax increase on guns and ammunition. We will remind voters every single time he pretends that his anti-gun record doesn't exist."

John McCain voted for the landmark Firearms Owners Protection Act and the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, opposed the failed Clinton Gun Ban, and voted against mandatory waiting periods, national gun registration, and bans on hunting ammunition. He also signed the historic congressional amicus brief in the case of Heller v. District of Columbia, holding that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms -- a brief that Senator Obama refused to sign.
Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin is a hunter, gun owner and NRA Life Member. Gov. Palin has been a consistent and outspoken supporter of the constitutional rights of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen.

Cuffy Meigs has assembled a fantastic video on Bill Ayers terroristic activities. This is the man who launched Barack Obama's political career.



Be sure to visit Cuffy's blog to read the full post.

The Cyberdyne company of Tsukuba, Japan, has announced a powered mobility suit to help elderly and partially paralyzed people move around. The suits, nicknamed "HAL, for Hybrid Assistive Limb", which will lease for abouit $2200 a month, and they look really neat:



Sounds cool and all that, but we all know what's next on Cyberdyne's agenda:

About a decade ago, while with The Center for Arizona Policy, I drafted a bill, defended its constitutionality in committee hearings, and helped it through the legislature and watched it be signed into law.

The law restricted the hours of operation of sex clubs in order to protect communities from the harmful secondary effects of such establishments. It had the support of neighborhood organizations and business lobbyists, and was modeled on laws enacted and upheld in other states and municipalities.

The sex clubs didn't like this much. One of their owners wanted to start a fight outside a committee room. Another wrote a letter to the editor accusing me of using "intimidation tactics and brutal political hardball" to get the bill through. (He was mad that we said we would tell voters how their representatives voted.)

The sex clubs have a lot of money, and would lose a lot of money if the law went into effect. So they sued. First they tried federal court, but they lost. So they appealed and lost again, and then again.

Naturally, they turned to state court, and finally found one judge in Pima County who didn't like the law and struck it down. That decision was not appealed. But a few years later a Maricopa County judge, and the Arizona Court of Appeals, upheld the law. The Arizona Supreme Court took the case to settle the dispute between two of its lower courts.

On Thursday the Arizona Supreme Court refused to uphold the law. Instead, the Court constructed a new "test" to be applied by lower courts, and sent the case back to its starting point for more evidence to be presented. And so it starts over, 10 years after it began.

Federal courts have already ruled the law is constitutional. This decision was based on the Arizona Constitution's free speech clause. Incredibly, we are asked to believe that Arizona's founding fathers -- in 1910 -- intended to protect pornographic speech to a greater extent than it is protected by the First Amendment.

Meanwhile, the sex clubs and their lawyers keep laughing all the way to the bank, as they anticipate thwarting the will of the people of Arizona for a second decade.

Finns: Winning Nobel Peace Prizes for getting along nice with the U.N. (How precious!).

Canadians: Blowing up Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan.

Today the Arizona Supreme Court issued a disappointing ruling in a case challenging the Arizona law that limits the hours of operation of sexually-oriented businesses. The law requires that sexually-oriented businesses close between 1:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. Monday through Saturday and between 1:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. noon on Sunday. Instead of upholding the law and protecting families and neighborhoods from the harmful effects of sexually-oriented businesses, the Supreme Court came up with a new test that makes it harder for communities to protect themselves from these harmful effects.

The Arizona Supreme Court's decision sends the case back to the trial court for more proceedings about why the law is needed, despite the fact that the law addresses problems like litter, drug use, and crimes against property and people. After ten years of legal wrangling, this sensible law remains mired in the Arizona courts. Today's decision not only delays the resolution of this case, but also gives sexually-oriented businesses and their lawyers an upper hand over Arizona communities and neighborhoods.

Closing-hours laws like Arizona's have been upheld by state and federal courts all over the country, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals specifically upheld Arizona's law in 2003. But, the Arizona Supreme Court decided that sexually-explicit speech should receive greater protection under the Arizona Constitution than under the First Amendment! That simply ignores the facts and the history of the Arizona Constitution. The framers of the Arizona Constitution did not intend to protect sexually-explicit materials. Those materials were not even legal at the time our constitution was written!

In terms of its legal analysis, the Court's opinion waffles back and forth between federal standards and new state standards that the Court is making up as it goes along. When it comes to an issue of this importance, Arizonans deserve better from the five justices on the Supreme Court.

CAP was instrumental in passing the closing-hours law in 1998. CAP thanks Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas for his efforts to enforce this law that protects families from the harmful effects of sexually-oriented businesses. In June of this year, CAP attorneys filed a "friend of the court" brief with the Arizona Supreme Court in support of the State of Arizona's attempt to enforce the law.

  Gayle Plato-Besley With the tune from the ol’ Mission Impossible show replaying in my head, I had the craziest idea.  I know how to save the world.  Well I think I can save the fiscal world.  I am the Pied Piper of punditry, the Wilma Wonka of wonkery– just follow me, for I’ve got the golden [...]

Now THAT’S  what I’m talking about! It appears that the sleeping giant is waking.

I was privledged enough to participate in a massive conference call to Republicans this evening sponsored by John Shadegg. I was able to express the frustration that many of us feel about the GOP not fighting back hard enough against these Democratic nobodies. Many other callers expressed the same. If you were on the line and [...]

Conservative Republican and Senator Chuck Gray of District 19 usually puts out a fairly good conservative overview on the ballot measures. Here are his recommendations: Many have requested my opinion on the ballot initiatives. That’s all this is - my opinion. Hope it helps. Chuck Gray =============== Senator Chuck Gray’s 2008 AZ Ballot Proposition Recommendations Summary: Vote “YES” on all 100 series Vote [...]

“Gift to lenders who abandoned any sense of prudence”

When launching the conservative weekly opinion journal in 1955, William F. Buckley’s first message to readers was titled Publisher’s statement. Read it here.

Today, the venerable, conservative icon, National Review, startlingly editorializes on the mortgage mess, giving a kick in the shins to Republicans. 

Buckley must be spinning in his grave.

      

State contracts larger than $50,000 put on hold

“Faced with growing fears about the economy and a darkening fiscal picture for state government, Gov. Janet Napolitano vowed to freeze all state contracts larger than $50,000….” is the opening gambit from the daily newspaper’s above-the-fold article today, regarding the state’s continuing budget woes.

Yet in spite of a bi-partisan supported state hiring freeze in March, underscoring continuing revenue shortfalls amid unprecedented economic downturns, Napolitano had no problem hiring a Mexican border advisor.

Just days ago, Seeing Red AZ exposed the addition of former Douglas Mayor Ray Borane to the governor’s staff as “policy adviser for border and immigration issues.” His vantage point is distinctly one of open borders. Borane has long been an outspoken critic of implementation of security measures, saying they “ignore the interconnectedness of the U.S. and Mexican communities.”

Borane is her very own Juan Hernandez.  (Click on the short video featuring Michelle Malkin interviewing Hernandez.)

Borane‘s $40,000 salary for providing this unconscionable service, must fly under the budgetary limit radar.

It has us Seeing Red.

      

"We must carve according to The Master's design. He will richly
reward our loving obedience. His pumpkins need no candle for
they are illuminated by his love. Now carve. Carve. CARVE!"No, I only wish this was a joke.

YesWeCarve.com wants to turn your family's Halloween pumpkin into a glowing, O-shaped idol.

The Web site offers Obama-themed stencils so your holiday decorations can proclaim his message to every trick-or-treater.

And since you're already in the holiday mood, might as well sacrifice a goat to The One at midnight.

Proven tactical maneuver from former Green Beret

Republican legislative candidate Frank Antenori, running to represent Tucson’s LD 30, exhibited some real savvy recently. Antenori decided to forgo the editorial board interviews with, and potential endorsement of, the Arizona Daily Star and the Tucson Citizen. He then wrote them a sterling letter in which he succinctly explained his reasons.

And what happened? Check it out here.

Up here in the hinterlands of Maricopa County, both our County Attorney Andrew Thomas and Sheriff Joe Arpaio handed the AZ Republic this same dismissal. This could be the wave of the future for Republican candidates, who routinely get the back of the hand from the dependably liberal Valley press.

      

Question: When do you know that a Democrat’s campaign is in trouble? Answer: The candidate buys a new, more politically correct car.      Shopping mall developer Jim Pederson did it when he was behind Jon Kyl in the 2006 U.S. Senate contest. Pederson had been cruzing around town in a Lincoln Navigator SUV. He wanted to burnish his [...]

Barack is her kind of guy: Voting against the born alive infant protection act

The smiling photo of Linda Valdez which accompanies her column earlier this week belies the raw deceit of her written words. In McCain’s picks would shift court too far right, pro-abortion proponent Valdez fabricates every conceivable (forgive us for using such a highly charged word) rationale for killing pre-born children.

She misleadingly contends that the “diversity of the court is already diminished” by the Bush appointments of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, saying “McCain appointees would continue the movement toward a monotone court.”

From this we can aptly conclude Valdez is taking up her favorite subject and code-talking racial preferences/diversity.  The always glaring omisson when liberals discuss the subject, is that diversity of ideas is never considered, but the amount of melanin, the pigment that tinges our skin tones, is front and center.

Valdez disingenuously writes Conservatives want John McCain to give them a Supreme Court that will make abortion illegal. If they win, we all lose.

An Obama win, argues Valdez, would have a “moderating effect” on the high court.  Click on the following link to see the “moderating effect” Barack Obama supports.

Valdez neglects to mention that some of the most liberal justices were Republican appointees. John Paul Stevens, now nearly 90, was appointed by Republican President Gerald Ford.

Justices Anthony Kennedy, 72, was a Reagan appointee and David Souter, 69, gained his seat via George H.W.Bush. Sandra O’Connor, who fancied herself the “swing vote,” frequently disappointing conservatives, was also a Reagan appointee. The party affiliation of the appointing president often bears little resemblance to the type of decisions made by the justices. Liberal Justices Stephen Breyer, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg were both Clinton appointees and likely never displease Valdez.

Linda Valdez is doing little more than readying the readership for the newspaper’s Obama endorsement. She knows it will breathe the breath of national notoriety to the gasping Arizona Republic when the state’s largest newspaper fails to endorse the home state senator.

Read the fine post at Growing Our Party, discussing Obama’s support of the insupportable — late term abortions, or infanticide.

      

The Arizona state budget crisis is the second worst in the country as a percentage behind California, according to this article http://finance.yahoo.com/loans/article/105909/States-That-Can%27t-Pay-for-Themselves .  So the best ideas the governor can come up with right now are selling the state lottery that we’ve already borrrowed money against, increased photo radar revenues, and selling the state tobacco settlement share.  Our [...]