Stories by Hannah Thoreson
Rumor has it that President Obama will nominate Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts to be Secretary of Defense in his second term. Many had predicted that he may have ended up on the short list to take over the State Department should Hillary Clinton leave, but few had believed Senator Kerry could end up in charge of the nation’s military from a post at the Pentagon.
“He has a lot of international experience, but defense experience …
Even though Mitt Romney is certain to win Arizona in the presidential election, there are still plenty of reasons to turn out to vote!
While U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Flake is still likely to prevail against former Surgeon General Richard Carmona, it is still worth turning out to ensure a victory for conservatives. Jeff Flake is one of the most libertarian-oriented Republicans who could possibly have the chance to make it to the U.S. Senate. He was against earmarks and other …
Mitt Romney is a decent and capable man who would make a fine president. That is why President Obama’s campaign has focused so intensely on trying to discredit all of his achievements and smear him as a bad person. For many long months, voters in swing states have been subjected to negative ads claiming that Mitt Romney is a tax cheat, a murderer, a “vulture capitalist”, and an extremist. The media has played right along, buying the narrative that such …
A lot of President Obama’s supporters seem to take it personally when their candidate of choice is criticized, even if it is on relatively dry policy issues like the PPACA individual mandate tax or environmental regulations. This makes it difficult to have a truly rational debate on what the best outcome for America would really be. Part of this is conservatives’ fault for focusing their attention so intensely on the effort to derail Obama’s re-election, but most of it is …
Colonel Martha McSally faces one more uphill battle. She’s fought for American values as the first female fighter pilot to fly in combat, going on to serve in a decades-long military career. Col. McSally served overseas on numerous missions throughout the 1990′s and 2000′s, and has also made a point of studying up on defense policy along the way. Now, she is running for Congress in a rural swing district against an incumbent — and many believe the …
President Obama’s campaign and the media have been working overtime for the last couple months to present the candidate as one with an aura of inevitability. They have repeatedly claimed that his challenger is dead in the water or has no path to 270 electoral votes. Now, we’re in the final stretch with the polls opening in less than 24 hours, and the message coming from the DNC has been loud and clear: whatever you do, panic.
Former President Bill Clinton …
Selling it was supposed to be easy. Everybody loves Quality Jobs and Education! It should be as easy as getting people to agree that Schools and Safety are important. So why don’t they love Proposition 204: The Quality Jobs and Education Act, or its sister in California, Proposition 30: The Schools and Safety Protection Act?
The answer is that they’re extremely similar, and similarly flawed initiatives.
The propositions use the claim that there is a crisis in school funding to ask for …
The only thing that every political party in Arizona can agree on seems to be this: that open primaries, as implemented by Prop 121, are a disaster best avoided. Every major and minor organized political party in the state seems to have found good reasons to oppose the Open Elections, Open Government initiative.
Governor Jan Brewer and Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery have come out against the initiative, as have the state Republican Party and the Arizona Latino Republican …
The latest poll findings from Rasmussen make it seem like many of the Democrats’ ambitions for this year’s election in Arizona are nothing but pure fantasy.
Take the U.S. Senate race, for example, which is probably the marquee race in a state that will not be competitive in the presidential election. Self-proclaimed moderate and registered Democrat Richard Carmona has received a lot of favorable press lately in his bid to win the open Senate seat. He has received a lot of …
Prop 121 would create a top two primary system that would eliminate partisan primaries in favor of so-called “open elections.” Numerous arguments have been made by citizens of nearly every political viewpoint as to why the change advocated for by the Open Government Committee is a bad idea.
The biggest reason Prop 121 has struggled to obtain popular support is that it would leave many voters with no candidate representing their opinions in the general election. A lot of districts at …
