http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/tag/politicomix politicomix news from TucsonSentinel.com - Tucson's independent nonprofit online news en Copyright 2013 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/061713_scalia_voting_rights/scalias-cunning-plan/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/061713_scalia_voting_rights/scalias-cunning-plan/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show There goes Justice Scalia, siding with the liberals again ... 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/060713_enema_by_the_state/enema-by-state/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/060713_enema_by_the_state/enema-by-state/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show The National Security Agency and the FBI are conducting surveillance of Americans’ telephone and internet communications activities. And some people are surprised. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/053013_johnny_peacemaker/johnny-peacemaker/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/053013_johnny_peacemaker/johnny-peacemaker/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Senator John McCain visited Syria earlier this week to meet with rebel leaders. Why? He ain’t sayin’. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052613_steenking_badges/smile-youre-under-arrest/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052613_steenking_badges/smile-youre-under-arrest/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio violated the civil rights of Latinos who were detained during immigration sweeps, a federal judge has ruled. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/043013_guantanamo/guantanamo/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/043013_guantanamo/guantanamo/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show President Obama again vowed to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/042213_up_and_atom/up-and-atom-politics-and-nuclear-waste/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/042213_up_and_atom/up-and-atom-politics-and-nuclear-waste/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Republican Arizona State Senator Al Melvin has established an exploratory committee to evaluate his chances for a successful run for the governor’s office. One of the main planks of his platform appears to be the construction of nuclear waste processing facilities in Arizona. What could go wrong? 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/042213_term_limits_brewer/term-limits-schmerm-limits/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/042213_term_limits_brewer/term-limits-schmerm-limits/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Gov. Jan Brewer wants you to know she is not tired of serving the people. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/040513_beau_geste/beau-geste/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/040513_beau_geste/beau-geste/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show President Obama is taking a five-percent pay cut, to show solidarity with federal workers affected by government sequestration. Vice President Biden is not. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/033113_panda_love/panda-love/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/033113_panda_love/panda-love/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show So the Smithsonian’s giant panda Mei Xiang is knocked up. Maybe. Fingers crossed, anyway. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/031913_great_days_in_naval_history/great-days-naval-history/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/031913_great_days_in_naval_history/great-days-naval-history/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Despite Dennis Rodman’s best efforts, the situation in North Korea is still unstable ... 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/031313_tucson_mark/kelly-rifle-buy-riles-right/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/031313_tucson_mark/kelly-rifle-buy-riles-right/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Didja hear? Mark Kelly bought an AR-15. And the right wing went ape. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/022713_il_papa/the-papal-conclave/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/022713_il_papa/the-papal-conclave/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Didja ever wonder why the pope isn’t selected by God? Yeah, us too. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/022113_the_beeb/the-beeb-media-sensationalism/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/022113_the_beeb/the-beeb-media-sensationalism/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show The BBC has commissioned a quickie documentary about the life and times of amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius, recently in the news for allegedly murdering his girlfriend. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/020113_milk_run/milk-run/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/020113_milk_run/milk-run/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Guns and women, in the news. Conservative activist Gayle Trotter appeared at Senate Judiciary Committee gun control hearings this week to say that women need assault rifles – “scary-looking guns” – because a woman “might have to fight off four or five criminals ‘with her children screaming in the background.” 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/012513_youre_in_the_army_now/youre-army-now/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/012513_youre_in_the_army_now/youre-army-now/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show The U.S. military is ending its policy of excluding women from ground combat and will open combat jobs and direct combat units to female troops. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011313_more_binders_of_women/meanwhile-more-binders-full-women/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011313_more_binders_of_women/meanwhile-more-binders-full-women/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Women may hold up half the sky, but they don’t look likely to feature heavily in the president’s next cabinet. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/123012_axis_of_ridiculous/north-korea-axis-ridiculous/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/123012_axis_of_ridiculous/north-korea-axis-ridiculous/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show There’s a new Kim in town, but can we expect the bad boy regime in Pyongyang to change? 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/121512_pontifex/pontifex-papal-propaganda/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/121512_pontifex/pontifex-papal-propaganda/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show The Pope, as you may have heard, is tweeting. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/120412_wheres_jan/wheres-jan/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/120412_wheres_jan/wheres-jan/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Carmen Sandiego, Waldo (or Wally, if you’re British) and now Gov. Jan Brewer. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/112912_more_about_chairs/more-chairs/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/112912_more_about_chairs/more-chairs/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney visited the White House Thursday for lunch with President Barack Obama. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/112012_the_peace_laureates/the-peace-laureates/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/112012_the_peace_laureates/the-peace-laureates/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show During a visit to Southeast Asia, President Obama became the first American president to visit Myanmar, and took the opportunity to meet longtime opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/111412_general_correspondence/general-correspondence/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/111412_general_correspondence/general-correspondence/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show The penis mightier than the sword. If you’ll pardon the pun. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/110712_hangover/the-election-hangover/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/110712_hangover/the-election-hangover/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show The campaign is over. The election is decided. It feels anticlimactic. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/110412_just_in_case/just-case/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/110412_just_in_case/just-case/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Have you voted? Are you planning to vote? You should. Voting is one of the perks of democracy. One we Americans, sadly, seem to take for granted. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/110112_christie_2016/laying-groundwork-christie-2016/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/110112_christie_2016/laying-groundwork-christie-2016/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is considered a frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, if Mitt Romney loses the current presidential election. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/102812_romney_suburban/a-man-plan-suv-oval-office/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/102812_romney_suburban/a-man-plan-suv-oval-office/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Coming into the final days before the election, Mitt Romney has tightened the race up, but is still looking for that silver bullet that will give him the win. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/102312_sisyphus_romney/sisyphus-romney/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/102312_sisyphus_romney/sisyphus-romney/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show You’ve got to feel for Mitt Romney. What’s a guy got to do to get a little HELP around here? 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/102012_bain_capitomerta/bain-capitomerta/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/102012_bain_capitomerta/bain-capitomerta/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show You’ve got to hand it to Mitt Romney: the man knows how to keep a secret. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/101612_road_to-hempstead/the-road-hempstead/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/101612_road_to-hempstead/the-road-hempstead/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show According to nearly everyone’s scorecard, President Obama lost the first debate on points, some observers scoring it a technical knockout. He’s been working hard to lift his game. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/100312_and_the_winner_is/no-debate-winner/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/100312_and_the_winner_is/no-debate-winner/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show The punditocracy has proclaimed Mitt Romney the winner of Wednesday’s first presidential debate. And Democrats and Republicans can agree that Jim Lehrer was the big loser. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/092512_obama_cartoons/so-wheres-all-comics-disparaging-obama8230/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/092512_obama_cartoons/so-wheres-all-comics-disparaging-obama8230/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show An explanation of the art of editorial cartooning. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/092412_mitts_grand_plan/mitts-grand-plan/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/092412_mitts_grand_plan/mitts-grand-plan/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show More frank talk (to high-rolling donors) from Mitt Romney. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/092212_tom_the_tax_guy/tom-tax-guy/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/092212_tom_the_tax_guy/tom-tax-guy/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Mitt Romney has released further information about his past taxpaying habits. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/092112_mother_knows_best/mother-knows-best/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/092112_mother_knows_best/mother-knows-best/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Imagining a conversation between the young Ann Romney (née Davies) and her mother, Lois Davies. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/092012_the_flying_mormon/the-flying-mormon/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/092012_the_flying_mormon/the-flying-mormon/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Fox News will probably find a way to spin the news of Pawlenty’s departure as a “win” for Romney, but it sure does look like the rats are abandoning ship. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/091512_grotesque/royal-family-appearances/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/091512_grotesque/royal-family-appearances/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show The British tabloids are in a dither about the publication of topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge by non-British news media. Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, meet pot. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/091412_romney-ryan/opportunities/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/091412_romney-ryan/opportunities/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Everything is an opportunity, thought Mitt Romney to himself when he heard that Ambassador Chris Stevens had been killed in Benghazi by Muslim extremists. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090712_men_at_work/men-work/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090712_men_at_work/men-work/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Be honest, if you knew where to get 4,360,000 cubic yards of concrete, wouldn’t you want a full-size replica of the Hoover Dam in your backyard? 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090612_ladies_man/ladies-man/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090612_ladies_man/ladies-man/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show The ladies DO love Bill Clinton. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090612_double_dubya/a-double-dubya/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090612_double_dubya/a-double-dubya/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Come on ... you voted for Dubya twice and you think you’re qualified to elect presidents? Seriously? 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090412_money_drugs_and_guns/mexico-money-drugs-and-guns/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090412_money_drugs_and_guns/mexico-money-drugs-and-guns/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show We’re the consumers and we’re supplying the money and guns, says Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon. Hard to argue with that! 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090312_a_star_is_born/a-star-born/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090312_a_star_is_born/a-star-born/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Last week, Clint Eastwood debated a chair during the Republican National Convention. What will happen during this week’s Democratic National Convention? 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090112_tale_of_two_sheriffs/a-tale-two-sheriffs/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090112_tale_of_two_sheriffs/a-tale-two-sheriffs/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Friday was a big day for two high-profile Arizona sheriffs, as both Joe Arpiao and Paul Babeu were cleared of wrongdoing by federal and state investigators. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/083112_clintandleonid/clint-and-leonid/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/083112_clintandleonid/clint-and-leonid/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show In which President Barack Obama hosts a conference call with Clint Eastwood, George W. Bush and Leonid Brezhnev. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/083012_recipeforsuccess/romneys-recipe-success/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/083012_recipeforsuccess/romneys-recipe-success/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Live from the Republican National Convention: The world according to Mitt Romney (and his speechwriters) ... in which the national debt originated on President Barack Obama’s inauguration day. And so on. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/082912_gantiarabriela/gantiarabriela-politics-and-xenophobia/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/082912_gantiarabriela/gantiarabriela-politics-and-xenophobia/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Get Van Morrison on the phone – according to Gabby “I’m On the Inside Now, So Let’s Lock The Door” Mercer, his “Brown Eyed Girl” was probably a Middle Eastern terrorist spy. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/082812_buyingchrischristie/buying-chris-christie/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/082812_buyingchrischristie/buying-chris-christie/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Chris Christie likes Mitt Romney for president. Want to know why? 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/082412_joker_mitt/the-joker/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/082412_joker_mitt/the-joker/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Mitt Romney’s a joker. Who knew? 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081912_weshallneversurrender/wikileakss-assangewe-shall-never-surrender/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081912_weshallneversurrender/wikileakss-assangewe-shall-never-surrender/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, taking refuge in Ecuador’s London embassy to the U.K., spoke to the media Sunday. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081812_20_percent/ryans-20-percent/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081812_20_percent/ryans-20-percent/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Romney sidekick Paul Ryan has released two years of tax returns (one more than the boss!), and he paid 20 percent in taxes in 2011. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081712_just_say_no/just-say-no/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081712_just_say_no/just-say-no/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show The Obama campaign told Mitt Romney they would be satisfied if he released only five years of tax returns. Mitt laughed in their faces. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081512_the_jokers/the-jokers/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081512_the_jokers/the-jokers/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Mitt Romney is hoping the addition of Paul Ryan to the campaign ticket will distract the media (and voters) from his refusal to release a substantive tax return history. Will it work? 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081212_campaign_wave/romney-ryan-campaign-wave/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081212_campaign_wave/romney-ryan-campaign-wave/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show We’re at the very start of the Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan road trip buddy movie. We’ll laugh! We’ll cry. Will it be better than “Cats”? Time will tell. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081112_choosing_paul_ryan/choosing-paul-ryan/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081112_choosing_paul_ryan/choosing-paul-ryan/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Mitt Romney has announced U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his running mate in the presidential election campaign. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/080912_the_obama_haters/the-obama-haters/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/080912_the_obama_haters/the-obama-haters/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Vote Romney. Because you don’t really mind if you know the results of the yachting before they’re broadcast. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/080612_taking_a_dive/taking-dive/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/080612_taking_a_dive/taking-dive/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Think it’s easy being plucked from the bosom of your family at age six and trained to be a gold-medal winning Olympic diver? Think again. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/073112_the_seat_fillers/olympic-seat-fillers/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/073112_the_seat_fillers/olympic-seat-fillers/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show It’s the age-old problem for an Olympic organizer: how to fill the seats for events few people are interested in. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/072712_queenrogge/olympic-openings-queen-and-mr-rogge/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/072712_queenrogge/olympic-openings-queen-and-mr-rogge/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Let the Games begin. By which we mean, let’s get the opening ceremony over with and start the competition. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/072612_foreignpolicycred/romney-shows-off-foreign-policy-creds/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/072612_foreignpolicycred/romney-shows-off-foreign-policy-creds/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is on the road, building his foreign policy credentials, or the appearance of them. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/072412_whitehouse/the-white-house/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/072412_whitehouse/the-white-house/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage. Except those of us who are not, in this great melting pot of a nation. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/071912_war_music/whats-goin-pentagon/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/071912_war_music/whats-goin-pentagon/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Ten years, four billion dollars. That’s the cost of what’s on the Pentagon’s iPod. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/071812_boyscouts/the-boy-scout-oath-homophobia/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/071812_boyscouts/the-boy-scout-oath-homophobia/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show The Boy Scouts of America announced Tuesday it is affirming its ban on gay members, following a secret two-year review of the policy. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/071512_social_media_darwinism/gabby-mercer-tripped-up-by-social-media-darwinism/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/071512_social_media_darwinism/gabby-mercer-tripped-up-by-social-media-darwinism/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show On Sunday night, Republican CD3 congressional candidate Gabriela Saucedo Mercer posted a snide comment on her Facebook page, comparing food stamp recipients to animals. Perhaps her “base” loved it. Others did not. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/071112_romney_naacp/white-bread/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/071112_romney_naacp/white-bread/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Tuesday, Mitt Romney tried to make his case at the NAACP’s national convention. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/070812_cruisecontrol/cruise-control-moving-on/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/070812_cruisecontrol/cruise-control-moving-on/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show If you’ve stood in a supermarket checkout line recently, you’ll have read the news: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are getting a divorce. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/070412_bisonboson/physics-101-higgs-boson-vs-teds-bison/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/070412_bisonboson/physics-101-higgs-boson-vs-teds-bison/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show In the news this week is the hunt for the so-called “God particle”, the Higgs boson. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/070312_anderson/anderson-cooper-1968/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/070312_anderson/anderson-cooper-1968/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Anderson Cooper, in the news ... 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/062612_justice/sb-1070-ruling-win-win/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/062612_justice/sb-1070-ruling-win-win/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show We’ve been able to pull back the curtain and show how the SCOTUS sausage is made. The ruling Monday was a classic “win-win” situation: both sides called it a win. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/061812_the_road_to_london/the-road-london-olympics/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/061812_the_road_to_london/the-road-london-olympics/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Thirty-eight days until the Olympic Games begin ... 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052612_oil_slick_jesse/oil-slick-jesse/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052612_oil_slick_jesse/oil-slick-jesse/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Just because you say it, doesn’t make it true, Jesse. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052512_beingjessekelly/being-jesse-kelly/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052512_beingjessekelly/being-jesse-kelly/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show John Ellinwood. Helping cartoonists put food on the table since 2012. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/051412_time_magazine_greece/meanwhile-greece/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/051412_time_magazine_greece/meanwhile-greece/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show While Greece continues to circle the drain, Time magazine focuses elsewhere ... 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/051012_talk_about_greece/romney-talk-greece/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/051012_talk_about_greece/romney-talk-greece/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Mitt Romney must be so frustrated ... an endorsement of gay marriage should be the electoral kiss of death, yet President Obama has pissed off only those who hated him already. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050912_obama_mans_up/obama-mans-up-gay-marriage/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050912_obama_mans_up/obama-mans-up-gay-marriage/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Half of Americans support gay marriage. And of course, half don’t. But that’s the same for every issue. So why not say what you think? Well done, Mr. President. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050812_eastofaden/war-terror-east-aden/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050812_eastofaden/war-terror-east-aden/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show A would-be al-Qaeda suicide bomber was in fact a Saudi Arabian intelligence operative who turned over the bomb to his agency and the CIA. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050512_forward/forward/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050512_forward/forward/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show “Forward.” Someone probably got paid (well) to think that one up. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050312_blind_justice/blind-justice-china/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050312_blind_justice/blind-justice-china/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show 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. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/042312_new_world_order/immigration-new-world-order/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/042312_new_world_order/immigration-new-world-order/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Was it something we said? For the first time since The Great Depression, more Mexicans are leaving the United States than entering. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/040512_antenoripitbull/the-pit-bull-and-chihuahua/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/040512_antenoripitbull/the-pit-bull-and-chihuahua/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show State Sen. Frank Antenori wants you to send him to Washington, to gnaw the arm off big government. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/031612_goldmanmuppets/money-management-muppets/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/031612_goldmanmuppets/money-management-muppets/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show For Greg Smith. And Jim Henson. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/031112_behaviorchange/coming-home/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/031112_behaviorchange/coming-home/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show It’s not what you know, it’s what you can convince other people you know. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/030412_slutsandpoliticians/sluts-politicians/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/030412_slutsandpoliticians/sluts-politicians/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Carl von Clausewitz said, “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” If he were alive today, he might note that very often, politics is the continuation of sluttiness by other means. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/022812_daniel_and_hobbes/daniel-hobbes/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/022812_daniel_and_hobbes/daniel-hobbes/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Daniel Patterson has been betrayed by his lover (or he betrayed her ... we’ll likely never know) and by his Democratic Party colleagues. But a man’s bike would never betray him. Would it? 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/022812_enemyofthestate/daniel-patterson-enemy-state/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/022812_enemyofthestate/daniel-patterson-enemy-state/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Rep. Daniel Patterson lived with Georgette Escobar for about a year, in extramarital bliss. But then things went very, very wrong. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/022412_carsanddrivers/cars-and-drivers/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/022412_carsanddrivers/cars-and-drivers/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Want to bet Mitt Romney won’t succeed in portraying himself as a ‘regular guy’ before this election campaign is finished? Want to bet ... $10,000? 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/022412_mittthenatural/mitt-romney-natural/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/022412_mittthenatural/mitt-romney-natural/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Mitt Romney desperately wants to be a regular guy, and he desperately wants to be liked and trusted, but he just can’t figure out how to get there. And probably never will. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/022212_romneygod/oh-god-another-gop-debate/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/022212_romneygod/oh-god-another-gop-debate/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Mitt Romney says President Obama is an historic figure. And not in a good way. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/021912_santorum_vest/santorum-invest-america/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/021912_santorum_vest/santorum-invest-america/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Can’t argue with what the man has done for the sweater vest. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/021212_austerity/austerity-greece/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/021212_austerity/austerity-greece/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Tens of thousands of Greeks took to the streets in sometimes violent protest against the passage of an austerity bill that will earn the country a bailout from the EU. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/020112_verypoor/romneys-poverty-plan/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/020112_verypoor/romneys-poverty-plan/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show You don’t need a Ph.D. in boulangerie to know Mitt Romney has always been more brioche than Wonder Bread guy. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/013112_thesuccessor/the-successor/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/013112_thesuccessor/the-successor/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show The maneuvering has begun to decide who will serve out U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’s Congressional term. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/012712_scorpions/scorpions-breakfast/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/012712_scorpions/scorpions-breakfast/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Jan Brewer may think she knows scorpions, but who could know more about scorpions than a guy who grew up in Indonesia? 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/012212_romneytaxreturnshocker/news-flash-mitt-makes-millions/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/012212_romneytaxreturnshocker/news-flash-mitt-makes-millions/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will release his tax records today. Yawn. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011812_newworldorder/new-world-order/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011812_newworldorder/new-world-order/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Following the death of North Korea strongman Kim Jong Il, all eyes are on his successor, son Kim Jong Un. What changes will he implement? 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011712_romneytaxrate/the-american-way/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011712_romneytaxrate/the-american-way/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Surprise, surprise, Mitt Romney pays around 15 percent of his “income” in taxes. That’s because his income isn’t “income,” it’s capital gains — taxes on which we’d all like to have to pay. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011612_nine/nine/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011612_nine/nine/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Based on a true story. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011612_ryanhall/dear-god/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011612_ryanhall/dear-god/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials second-place finisher Ryan Hall is the United States’ fastest marathon runner, and a religious man. So religious that God is his coach. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/010812_skinniestpirate/the-skinniest-pirate/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/010812_skinniestpirate/the-skinniest-pirate/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show On Thursday afternoon, U.S. Navy personnel freed the crew of an Iranian fishing trawler, which had been held captive for six weeks by Somali pirates. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/010612_tjrick/santorums-brassy-take-tijuana/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/010612_tjrick/santorums-brassy-take-tijuana/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show Fresh off an eight-vote (or was it nine?) loss to Mitt Romney in Iowa, Rick Santorum has taken his resurgent presidential campaign on the road, to free-wheelin’ New Hampshire. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/010212_lovethebomb/love-bomb/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/010212_lovethebomb/love-bomb/ 00:34:00Z John C. Scott Show The new year’s news cycle starts with a bang, following Iran’s announcement that it has manufactured its own nuclear fuel rods. 2013-06-20T00:34:18+00:00