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Op-Ed Contributor: A Senate in the Gun Lobby’s Grip

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By GABRIELLE GIFFORDS - Apr. 17 (Opinion) - SENATORS say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets. The fear that those children who survived th

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Life After Oil and Gas

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL - Mar. 24 (Opinion) - Wind, water and sun could power the United States. But will they?

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Five Things Your Doctor Should Tell You, But Won't

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Kiera Butler - Feb. 11 - As a lifelong hypochondriac, I've always been comforted by the Hippocratic oath. What an excellent idea, having doctors pledge to put patients first. So I was less than thrilled to learn that doctors are under increasing pressure—from state legislatures, industry, and other groups—to break that oath by withholding key pieces of information from their patients. "We are very concerned about special interests attempting to influence our practices," says Valerie Arkoosh, president of the National Physicians Alliance (NPA) . "We've seen state legislatures overreaching a lot with regard to doctor-patient relationship." Here are five things that—depending on where you live—your doctor could be keeping from you: Fracking chemicals might be making you sick. Many of the chemicals that oil and gas companies are pumping into the ground ( and groundwater ) during the hydrofracking process are known carcinogens or neurotoxicants . Pennsylvania recently passed a law requiring ...

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Which G.O.P. House Members Might Support Immigration Reform?

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By MICAH COHEN - Feb. 04 (Opinion) - Most House Republicans come from districts that are both very conservative and overwhelmingly white. The ones who don’t could be pivotal to the passage of any immigration reform.

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Senators plan immigration reform as Obama prepares his own push

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - Jan. 28 (News Report) - Group of six senators – three Democrats, three Republicans – say they are optimistic efforts will lead to comprehensive reform Leading Democratic and Republican senators said on Sunday there were encouraging signs in the push to overhaul US immigration laws – a top priority for President Barack Obama's second term – and they would introduce their plan this week. With Obama set to begin his push for immigration reform with a speech in Las Vegas on Tuesday, a group of three Democratic and three Republican senators have been working for weeks on a plan. One of those senators, Republican John McCain of the border state of Arizona, said on ABC's This Week program that the group still had hard work ahead but that he was pleased with the progress and that the principles of a comprehensive plan would be put forth this week. McCain said the plan was much like a 2007 immigration proposal that died during the presidency of George W Bush. That plan included a path to citizenship for undocumented ...

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5 Anti-Abortion States to Watch in 2013

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Kate Sheppard - Jan. 08 (News Analysis) - The 2012 presidential campaign and the fights for the House and Senate were filled with talk of "legitimate rape," reproductive rights, and a "war on women." But now that the campaigns are over, the legislating is just beginning—and in 2013, women in states across the country will face even more new restrictions on abortion.

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Editorial: Mr. Obama Comes Back in Debate No. 2

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Oct. 17 (Opinion) - There is a price to pay when a president appears disengaged, and President Obama obviously learned how much his diffidence cost him in the first debate this month. On Tuesday night, in the second debate , he regained full command of his vision and his le

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Arizona and the Spanish-Speaking Vote

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Nate Silver - Oct. 13 (Opinion) - Apart from the tracking polls, the only survey published as of our deadline on Saturday was one in Arizona. It had a surprising result, showing Mr. Obama 2 points ahead among likely voters.

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Arizona immigrants craft response to 'show me your papers' law

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Felicia Fonseca, Jacques Billeaud - Sep. 19 (News Report) - A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Arizona police can start enforcing the law's "show me your papers" provision. Arizona immigrant rights groups suggest that illegal immigrants carry no documents.

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Arizona illegal immigration law gets final go-ahead from court

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Mark Guarino - Sep. 06 (News Report) - Law enforcement authorities in Arizona are now required to check the immigration status of individuals they suspect are in the country illegally According to a federal judge’s ruling Wednesday, the provision in the state’s immigration law is constitution

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In new abortion battle, Planned Parenthood sues Arizona

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Corrie MacLaggan - Jul. 17 (News) - AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Planned Parenthood on Monday sued the state of Arizona in an effort to overturn a law that blocks funding for its health clinics because the organization also performs abortions. The law, signed by Governor Jan Brewer in May, is part of a national campaign against Planned Parenthood orchestrated by conservatives Republican lawmakers who oppose abortions. In the past two years, 13 states have taken steps to eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood, and the organization has filed lawsuits in six of them, including Arizona. ... ...

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The truth about the Fast and the Furious scandal

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Katherine Eban - Jun. 26 (News Report) - Issa and others charge that the ATF intentionally allowed guns to walk as an operational tactic. But five law-enforcement agents directly involved in Fast and Furious tell Fortune that the ATF had no such tactic. They insist they never purposefully allowed guns to be illegally trafficked. Just the opposite: They say they seized weapons whenever they could but were hamstrung by prosecutors and weak laws, which stymied them at every turn.

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Blast from the bench: The 'evil effects of illegal immigration'

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Yahoo! News - By Liz Goodwin - Jun. 26 (Opinion) - In a stinging, 22-page dissent to Monday's decision striking down most of Arizona's tough anti-illegal immigration law, Justice Antonin Scalia criticized President Barack Obama's announcement earlier this month that he would stay the deportation of young illegal immigrants and suggested that the federal government does not want to enforce its immigration laws.

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WATCH: Colbert Mocks Trump's Birtherism

Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Stephen Colbert - May. 30 (Comedy News) - After a two-week hiatus, Stephen Colbert returned to "The Colbert Report" Tuesday night to tackle the latest ramblings of everyone's favorite billionaire/"basketball with tooth veneers" Donald Trump and his impact on GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romne

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Arizona's immigration law is back in court, "self-deportation" on the rise

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Public Radio International - By The Takeaway - Apr. 26 (News Report) - The term "self-deportation" started out as a joke made by Mexican-American satirist Lalo Alcaraz. Since then, the joke has taken on a life of its own, becoming a catch-phrase for supporters of anti-illegal immigration legislation.

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As tide of illegal immigrants goes home, will US economy suffer?

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Apr. 09 - The illegal immigrant boom has fizzled; and as Mexican migrants go home, the question is whether it will drain the labor pool and hurt the US economy. ...

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In GOP Race, Geography Has Been Destiny

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Nate Silver - Mar. 11 (Opinion) - Rick Santorum's win in Kansas reinforced a pattern: geography has been the most reliable way to predict results in the Republican primaries.

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Solar power firms in Mojave desert feel glare of tribes and environmentalists

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Edward Helmore - Mar. 11 (News) - Out on the stony desert floor, Native Americans say, are sites of special spiritual significance.

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Outed GOP Sheriff Reportedly Had Relationship With Male Student While Running Abusive Private Boarding School

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - Feb. 27 (News Report) - Disgraced Arizona congressional candidate and GOP sheriff Paul Babeu is facing yet another round of unseemly charges. The Pinal County sheriff, who stepped down as Arizona's co-chair for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign amidst allegations he threatened a gay ex-lover with deportation, reportedly served as headmaster for the now-defunct DeSisto School in Stockbridge, Mass. from 1999 to 2001.

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Arizona Debate: Conservative Chickens Come Home to Roost

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Rolling Stone - By Matt Taibbi - Feb. 23 (Opinion) - Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich at the Republican Presidential Debate in Mesa, Arizona. Throughout this entire process, the spectacle of these clowns thrashing each other and continually seizing and then fumbling frontrunner status

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Sheriff Accused Of Trying To Deport Campaign Worker, Steps Down From Romney Campaign

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Elise Foley - Feb. 19 (News Report) - Republican Congressional candidate Paul Babeu, currently serving as a sheriff in Arizona, stepped down on Saturday from his position as the co-chair for the Mitt...

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Phoenix rising: Can “the world’s least sustainable city” go green?

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:35:00 -0800

Grist - By Greg Hanscom - Feb. 13 - What was the most surprising thing that came out of Andrew Ross’s two-year research stint in Phoenix, Ariz.? For my money, it’s this: People who live there (weirdly) don’t expect their desert civilization to collapse around them at any moment. “One of Ne

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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords stepping down

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:07:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By By Ashley Powers, Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times - Jan. 23 (News) - Rep. of Arizona, who came to symbolize hope and resilience as she tenaciously recovered from a gunshot wound to the head during the last year, announced she would resign from Congress to concentrate on her recovery. Giffords, 41, announced her plans in a

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Tucson's ethnic-studies program violates Arizona law, judge rules

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Stephen Ceasar - Dec. 28 (News Report) - The ruling affirms a decision by the state schools superintendent and could end classes on Mexican American heritage.

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What Do Marco Rubio, Immigrants For Sale, And A Sh_t-Ton Of Cash Have In Common?

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

MoveOn - By MoveOn productions - Oct. 22 (News Report) - You’re about to find out. Watch:

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