Conservative author and political novice Andrew Thomas easily whipped his Democratic opponent in the race for Maricopa County Attorney.

Attacks had desired effect

It would appear that the despicable attack on Herman Cain was effective toward the accomplishment of the three goals that were sought.

“I don’t want Andy Thomas to lose his livelihood. Having studied at the knee of Sheriff Arpaio perhaps he can assist Republican vice-presidential candidate Allen West in ferreting out those 81 card-carrying communists.”

“Let me get this straight. A man is going to participate in the all-female Miss Universe beauty pageant, and yet women aren’t allowed to join a men’s country club? Personally, I’d like both of these to remain one gender. Next thing you know, we’ll see women playing in the NFL and men joining the Red Hat Society. Can’t wait for these gender benders.”

Our political reactionary (back to the 19th century) Supreme Court has recently completed another term dominated by outrageous decisions. In the latest (Brown v. Entertainment Merchants), Justice Antonin Scalia displayed his looking-glass logic in a majority decision nullifying California's law restricting the sale of violent video games to minors.

Our political reactionary (back to the 19th century) Supreme Court has recently completed another term dominated by outrageous decisions. In the latest (Brown v. Entertainment Merchants), Justice Antonin Scalia displayed his looking-glass logic in a majority decision nullifying California's law restricting the sale of violent video games to minors.

Justice for Deana Bowdoin was delayed but not denied. A Maricopa County jury convicted a man on Wednesday for the 1978 slaying of Bowdoin, a 21-year-old student at Arizona State University.

California's medical-marijuana law would seem a classic case of states' rights.

For two straight seasons, wide receiver Bryan Gilmore was given the chance to start for the Arizona Cardinals. Sunday, those opportunities ran out.

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled against a death row inmate Monday who directed his lawyer not to present evidence that could spare him, then argued on appeal that the attorney was ineffective.

There are just two days remaining before the primary election, so let’s recap some of the “highlights” of the races so far.

I must educate Mr. Reilly about the birth certificate of President Barack Obama, born in Hawaii. First off, the tea party group as a whole, has done nothing to make America a better nation. Instead they have spent their every waking hour trying to prove something even the Supreme Court doesn’t believe and that’s the lies spread by the so-called “birthers,” about President Obama and his birth location. The SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) has on at least four separate occasions declined to hear any of the non-sense about President Barack Obama. Now that to me is very telling. If the SCOTUS, which we all know is VERY conservative refuses to hear this challenge even with a member of the teaparty sitting on the bench (Clarence Thomas’ wife is a tea party member, so he must be,) then its time to stopping wasting the courts time and focus on the real challenges facing America.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a $79.5 million punitive damage award against tobacco giant Philip Morris to the widow of a longtime smoker.

An early indication that the Bush administration would be flexible on conservative principles it found inconvenient came when then-Attorney General John Ashcroft sought to kill Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act.

President Bush is clearly a man who doesn’t like to be pushed. And Republican social conservatives and neo-con activists definitely tried to push him in their attempts to pre-emptively kill a Supreme Court nomination for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

If the new offense of the Arizona Rattlers was a concern, any questions were answered by the end of Friday night’s season opener against the Grand Rapids Rampage.

“Regarding the San Tan Flat dance issue, if someone builds a dance floor outside, aren’t they inviting people to dance?”

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito takes his first step toward the high court with a preordained Senate Judiciary Committee victory Tuesday, but the strength of opposition among panel Democrats may forecast his margin of victory in the full Senate.

WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday upheld the constitutionality of displaying the Ten Commandments on government land, but drew the line on displays inside courthouses, saying they violated the doctrine of separation of church and state.

WASHINGTON - As the Senate begins its final debate on Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court, the conservative jurist already has won enough commitments from senators to become the nation's 110th justice and likely tilt the high court to the right.

WASHINGTON - President Bush pushed back against suggestions by some skeptical Republicans that Harriet Miers was not conservative enough, insisting on Tuesday that his nominee to the Supreme Court shares his strict-constructionist views.

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WASHINGTON - President Bush hinted on Monday that his next nominee for the Supreme Court would be a woman or a minority, saying that "diversity is one of the strengths of the country."