Comic: China
Lookin' for love
Who is Chen Guangcheng? Just another blind Chinese dissident lawyer ... lookin’ for love.... Read more»
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- 1:17pm — May 23, 2012
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Who is Chen Guangcheng? Just another blind Chinese dissident lawyer ... lookin’ for love.... Read more»
An ad from the conservative Americans for Prosperity distorts the truth about stimulus money for “green jobs” going overseas. The ad, titled “Wasteful Spending,” introduces some new wrinkles to this well-used line of attack.... Read more»
Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng sought refuge in the U.S. embassy in Beijing, but later, perhaps bowing to pressure from China, he left the embassy grounds.... Read more»
Last week I offered Russell Pearce’s anti-Mexican jihad as an example of the kind of overt racism that is no longer tolerated in politics. Now just a few days later we learn that J.T. Ready, Arizona’s leading white supremacist, appears to have committed a murder-suicide.... Read more»1
Listening to Ron Barber and Richard Carmona, you’d think they were the most conservative Democrats on the planet. Why is that important? Obama’s low approval ratings don’t provide much in the way of coattails for candidates to grab on to. Instead, in Arizona, the president has adopted a strategy from NASCAR: drafting.... Read more»1
Guest opinion: What’s the biggest danger facing Arizona’s second city? According to Roger Yohem, writing in Inside Tucson Business, it is that the Old Pueblo will become Portland-ized. It should be so fortunate.... Read more»3
Homelessness, untreated PTSD, suicides: How we play “Taps” for our veterans.... Read more»
Despite a Times story that features the potential impact on the middle class — look, we’re all in this together — it is entirely clear that no one is looking to raise taxes on the middle class. What is at issue, just as it was in 2010, is whether the era of enormous tax cuts for the wealthy will continue.... Read more»
The Rockefeller provision of President Obama’s health care reform law will require consumer rebates from insurers who didn’t spend enough on care.... Read more»
The effects of the housing market’s collapse can be felt far and wide, though perhaps no more so than by Latinos and other communities of color.... Read more»
French president Nicolas Sarkozy is staring down the barrel of the electoral gun, an underdog going into next month’s second-round presidential election vote.... Read more»
New data and projections point to a future fiscal and economic crisis for Arizona unless the state’s Latino educational attainment gap is addressed in a concerted and sustained manner, according to a report released Friday.... Read more»
The path of American political thought, from Teddy to Franklin: “For unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in the world.”... Read more»
Is Mitt Romney’s campaign strategy too risky for a candidate of his abilities?... Read more»
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