Beware the “militia”

Lovely. Idiot “militia” members from out of state confronted scientists studying bat populations in Southern Arizona recently. It happened Aug. 23 in the Gardner Canyon area near Sonoita where the small group of conservationists was out in the middle of the night conducting a wildlife population survey, in this case, counting bats. Nobody was hurt …

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Republicans in disarray!

It’s not alliterative, so we most likely won’t see that phrase in any pundit’s written output anytime soon, but it’s certainly true. …the Republican Party still can’t figure out what to do about illegal immigration. It’s the issue that vexed Republicans as much as any in their 2012 presidential loss. It’s the one problem the …

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Ted Cruz, Senator-Ted Cruz for President Committee

Senator Cruz, Republican of Texas, hasn’t made many if any friends in the Senate, but he seems not to care. He has, on the other hand, made quite a few friends in the House, particularly among the far-rightest of the right wing there. In the process, he’s made himself de facto Speaker of that particular …

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