Apparently corrupt politicians who want to go see the Diamondbacks lose.

Arizona House Representative Ben Arredondo, D-Tempe, had a fake real estate company run by undercover FBI agents mail him baseball tickets, among other loot.

From azcentral:

The indictment includes allegations that Arredondo took official action …

Beginning in 2014, candidate elections in Arizona will all be held at the same time and only in even-numbered years.  This is the result of a long battle fought primarily by conservative activists, but the results are something that enjoy broad bipartisan support.

More people will …

The Democratic candidate for mayor in Tempe, Mark Mitchell, has been accused of abuse as a result of an incident that possibly occurred when he was working as a babysitter in his teenage years.

From azcentral:

Less than a week before election day, Tempe mayoral …

Grijalva’s opponent in the Congressional District 3 primary has come out swinging, accusing the long-time incumbent Representative of Chicago-style tactics.  It appears that the Democratic Party machinery from the top down has more or less blacklisted Arreguin, refusing him access to …

Voters in Europe have chosen the welfare state delusion over reforms that would enable the region to become prosperous again.

In Greece, and now France, outright socialists have taken control of the levers of power.  The person responsible for the maximum 35-hour workweek in …

There are rumors circulating on Twitter claiming that Barack Obama is the only major party Presidential candidate ever to be endorsed by the Communist Party USA.  But are they true?

Not as far as we could discern.

Calls to the CPUSA headquarters went unanswered, but

It seems that Republicans and Democrats agree on one thing:  the federal government should continue dumping taxpayer money into the financial vampire that is the university system.  Both parties have arrived at the conclusion that the interest rate on federally-subsidized student loans for undergraduates …

Today in news of the weird…

It turns out the Dalai Lama is a big fan of former U.S. President George W. Bush.

Asked about the people he’s met who have really impressed him, the Tibetan leader-in-exile said during a …

This is a great video that begins to explore Obama’s leadership deficit.

The video closes with, “This is a big government but shouldn’t someone be in charge?” Good question.

Here is an observation from Arizona’s own Noble Thinking.

In February 2009, Obama said this about bank …

The U.S. Senate held a hearing today on SB1070 in advance of Supreme Court arguments defending the law.  For the most part, Republicans dismissed the hearing as being political theater.

“It’s just all, I believe, a political stunt that they’re performing today at the …