By: Geoffrey Yonil One of the most well known sheriffs in the country, Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County in Arizona, is being accused of being a racist by the Justice Department. It doesn't come as much of a surprise when considering the largesse of complaints compiled over the years…
By: Brian Whelter Immigration laws geared towards the prevention of illegal immigration in the United States have failed. Why? Well, because there are still illegal immigrants. It's a simple concept. America has been on a virtual war path to locate, detain, and deport all illegal immigrants, and yet there…
By Michael Tuosto When a specific situation challenges my own beliefs about what the role of government is, it fascinates me to no end. That is exactly what a recent Supreme Court ruling has done and what Adam Liptak writes about it in his New York Times article, entitled…
By: Ray Rife Welcome to Ray’s “Boom-Boom” Room. This is a weekly review of anything that interest Ray, the proprietor. The idea is to give you a weekly look at how I view the world, which I’ve been told is a bit off the beaten path. I don’t expect…
By: Alexander Cain New Year’s Day is often a time to reflect on the past and make new promises for the future. The state of Arizona used the opportunity to enact the end of ethnic studies in the state. The bill, HB 2281, bans schools in Arizona public…
As I read the analysis’s of Laughner’s patchwork manifestos and cobbled-together, text based video blogs on the various news and opinion sites I frequent, I am struck both by how desperately the reasonable among us are trying to make sense of this rampage and how futile their efforts are. The only place the actions of Jared Laughner made sense was in his own deformed mind, and it is not unreasonable to suggest that they no longer make sense there either.