Random Musings

From the website of the Federal Election Commission - Republican Olson is a former state legislator and a current member of the Arizona Cor...

... It was a long and winding road, but the destination is in sight now... From the Phoenix New Times , written by Ray Stern - Former Ar...

...that despite Russell Pearce's claims of massive support for him in LD18, his campaign finance reports from the 2010 election cycle s...

And amazingly enough, it doesn't involve Russell Pearce, Jan Brewer, or any of Arizona's other nativists masquerading as public offi...

...to a federal judge ruling that the Constitution doesn't protect criminal conspiracies... From AP via KTAR.com - Lawyers for former U...

From a US Department of Justice press release - Texas Businessman Sentenced to Prison for False Statements to Federally Insured Bank WASHIN...

Heads up on this courtesy Ron Pies' AZCentral.com blog ... The grades of AZ's Congressional delegation, from the Iraq and Afghanista...

A few days ago, I wrote a letter to Congressman Harry Mitchell concerning the Wall Street bailout proposal floated by the Bush Administrati...

Of course, even on those rare occasions when AZ's federal legislators are on the same page, it's for very different reasons... As ha...

*well, except for the lawyers who are working for the Republicans as they try to undermine the Constitution... On Thursday, the House passe...

There's only two days until the deadline (July 15), but during an election year, most campaigns wait until the last possible minute to r...

On Friday, the House passed an update of FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by a vote of 293 -129. The bill includes retroac...

From The Hill - Federal agents interviewed staffers for likely Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) as part of their co...

Here I was, all prepared to write a post criticizing the Democrats in Congress for passing H.R. 6074 , the Gas Price Relief for Consumers A...

Earlier today, the U.S. House of Representatives failed to pass part of H.R. 2642 , the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropria...

By now, most people have heard how Douglas Goodyear, the man that John McCain and his campaign picked to coordinate his coronation at this f...

They're not all into the FEC yet, so I'll update over the next few days. The quarterly numbers so far - CD1 (open seat) Shanker (D...

From The Hill - FBI wiretaps picked up the voices of several members of Congress in their conversations with Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.). The...

My apologies to DB and other faithful readers for the even-more-infrequent-than-I-expected awarding of this dubious (and rather malodorous)...

Earlier today, in spite of Republican tactics that reeked of hysteria, grandstanding, and attempts to baldly intimidate them, Congressman Ha...