Voice of North America Articles

EXCERPT: Today's installment is HB2663, sponsored by Republican Representative Trish Groe (R-3), which mandates that on the initial contact with the family or family member who is accused of abusing a child, the CPS agent must inform the family they are under no obligation to let the CPS agent into the home OR to interview the child. Now, the staff backgrounder states:
"The law requires CPS to investigate reports of suspected abuse or neglect of a child, and to provide temporary...

EXCERPT: This is turning into a daily event, so I figured I'd just title this "Dumb Bill of the Day." Maybe it should be "Dumb Bills from Dim Bulbs."
Today's installment, SB 1612, comes from the fertile and futile mind of Thayer Verschoor, (with co-sponsors Linda Gray and Karen Johnson). SB 1612 deals with that awful problem of teachers in public schools, charter schools and universities talking about current events. These three dumb law-makers believe teachers are...

EXCERPT: Sometimes there are bills that are just too dumb for words and in looking over today's hearing schedule for the Arizona House of Representatives I discovered HB204, sponsored by Republican Representatives Adam Driggs (R-11), Lucy Mason (R-1) and Sen. Jake Flake (R-5) that limits the rights of taxpaying citizens to vote and gives it to --get this-- ONLY those who own property.
Yup, read it again. You get to vote in elections ONLY if you own real property. Granted it's for...

EXCERPT: Republican State Senator Jack Harper (R-4) and his extremist ideological counterparts Thayer Verschoor (R-22), Karen Johnson (R-18), and Doug Clark (R-6) believe the answer to Arizona’s military preparedness problem is to put before the voters SCR-1006, which create “The Homeland Security Force,” a vigilante group under the control of the legislature and manned with any living human being over the age of 18.  That supposed attack coming from the Mexican Army to...

EXCERPT: I'm reading the newspapers today (the Republic and the East Valley Tribune) and I'm struck by the number of liberal-bashing, stories and opinion pieces. Not that any of that surprises me, but where's the balance? Where's the folks writing in complaining about the purposeful Where's the outrage from the Democrats? Are these propaganda rags or what?
During the election cycle, both papers did get slightly more balanced. But boy, after the Republicans got their...