Doug Mastriano, the pro-Trump Pennsylvania state legislator who breached the U.S. Capitol Complex on January 6, 2021, is at it again. For those of you unfamiliar with this guy, get up to speed with these pieces/posts: Who is Doug Mastriano, […]
Arizona
Will bamboo change the election results in Maricopa County, Arizona?
Arizona is recounting the ballots from the 2020 presidential election. The audit is being conducted by an organization called Cyber Ninjas. This guy is part of the team that is overseeing the audit: What is going on here? Digby is […]
The U.S. Senators who objected to the Electoral College results were almost all evangelicals
For the record, the following United States Senators objected to the Electoral College vote in Arizona last night: Ted Cruz (R-TX) Josh Hawley (R-MO) Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) Roger Marshall (R-KS) John Kennedy (R-LA) Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) They are all Republicans. […]
Arizona GOP: We are “never going back” to the party of John McCain
Both the U.S. senators from Arizona, Krysten Sinema and Mark Kelly, are Democrats. The last time Arizona had two Democratic senators was 1953 when Ernest McFarland and Carl Hayden represented the state in Washington D.C. That was sixty-eight years ago. […]
The rush to build Trump’s border wall
Here is National Public Radio: In the Coronado National Memorial — where conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado entered what is now Arizona — contractors are pulverizing the wilderness in a rush to put up as many miles of border wall […]
What do John Glenn, Jack Swigert, Harrison Schmitt, Bill Nelson, and Mark Kelly have in common?
Here is Marina Koren at The Atlantic: In November 1969, Barry Goldwater, the Republican senator from Arizona, told reporters that he probably wouldn’t seek reelection. Once the Republican Party’s pick for president, Goldwater would leave big shoes to fill. And […]
Why is Biden getting most of the mail-in votes?
Several people are asking me why the mail-in ballots are trending heavily toward Joe Biden. I am a teacher, so I thought I would do a quick post for the record: First, Democrats tend to believe doctors and scientists (like […]
A Historian’s Saturday Morning Twitterstorm on Trump and Arpaio
Seth Cotlar, who teaches American history at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, weighs-in with an informative twitterstorm on the Arpaio pardon. 1. Some Saturday morning thoughts on Arpaio, “law and order,” lawless leaders, and the coming battle within the @gop. […]
The Arpaio Record
The Phoenix News Times has been covering Joe Arpaio for a long time. For those of you have not been following this guy’s career, the paper has tweeted some of the highlights. And yes, this is the guy who Donald […]