Deep Thought

Last week state Republicans held their meeting at Saguaro High School in Scottsdale. Senator John Huppenthal, who is running for Superintend...

Remember a few weeks ago when the South Carolina legislature decided against impeaching Mark Sanford? Probably the right decision. Sanford...

The GOP and the paragons of the right hve been trumpeting the special election victory of Scott Brown in the Democratic state of Massachuset...

credit to Jen Leist on facebook, who got this from William Schubert: The Devil wrote a letter today to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune in whic...

Let's forget about Rush and Pat and focus instead on what we can do right. This is a time when the United States can come together and s...

The revelation that Mark McGwire used steroids was, well about as surprising as the revelation that Conan O'Brien doesn't want to be...

When is a murder not a murder? I guess when the victim is a doctor who performs abortions and the murderer is a fanatic who thinks he's ...

The news yesterday out of Connecticut was the Chris Dodd is retiring instead of running for re-election. What is more interesting is that th...

You'd think if your name was on a book you'd at least want to have read it, right? I guess not if you're the Sheriff of Nottingh...

Normally, I'd be in favor of following protocol involving conference committees. President Obama was elected on a promise to make Washin...

An argument has been raging over the idea of teaching 'intelligent design,' i.e. introducing into science lessons the idea that a Cr...

Last week's attack on a Detroit-bound flight that originated in the Netherlands (and was thankfully stopped in progress by quick-reactin...

It is pretty clear after this week's games that the NFL head coach of the year should be Indianapolis rookie head coach Jim Caldwell. Wh...

Some of my regular blog readers have noticed the Code Amber ticker I have at the top of the blog. For some reason it has had the same last t...

Remember the 2003 medicare prescription drug benefit? The one which cost a trillion dollars and which was not paid for at all, just added to...

Now that it looks like health care reform is on its way to passing the Senate, the next hurdle down the road, Republicans are claiming that ...

I've been listening to the Health Care debate. John McCain was criticizing some deals struck with individual Senators to seal their vote...

Whatever the national environment is, the Arizona GOP is in a meltdown and doing everything they can to help Democrats in the Copper State i...

A new study out shows that the old news is now still the new news: marijuana the choice drug among American teenagers . Back a couple of ye...

I guess that Barack and Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin, Oprah Winfrey and a whole lot of Hollywood celebrities owe a lot to Tiger Woods right n...