By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  April 29th at 01:49 PM  | 

Representative George Miller (D-CA) spoke at a Capitol Hill press conference on April 17 calling for a “fair minimum wage” of $10.10. This isn’t surprising, in and of itself: Rep. Miller has been a long-time advocate of raising the minimum wage. What is surprising is who introduced him: Saru Jayaraman, co-founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC). ROC is an interesting group to be walking | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  February 15th at 04:20 PM  | 

With apologies to the President’s stenographers in the Democrat Media, let’s add some actual facts to President Barack Obama’s photo op today in Chicago, the murder capital of the world. With respect to the current debate over gang violence, guns and second amendment rights: FACT: In 1998, then-State Senator Obama voted against making it a crime for convicts on probation knowingly to have contact with | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  November 25th at 10:34 PM  | 

The union-instigated potential demise of Hostess has conservatives witnessing with bemusement the fruits of Obamism: striking union members facing job losses and unemployment checks. The only problem with Republican and conservative Twinkiefreude is that further economic decay and government dependence HELP ELECT MORE DEMOCRATS, which continues our downward spiral to doom. The antidote to this demise, for the United States, and yes, the GOP, is | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  October 9th at 02:01 PM  | 

Bill Clinton is coming to Arizona Wednesday to try to make the state’s voters forget that Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi now run the Democratic Party. Playing on the American people’s nostalgia – and short memories – Clinton is coming to Arizona hoping to boost Richard Carmona with a joint visit to Tempe, where the Tucson Democrat and Obama Mini-me is particularly weak. | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  September 1st at 12:58 AM  | 

With Arizona’s primaries now complete, a key Congressional race has emerged in the state’s newly created District 9. Prior to the primary, this swing district had been rated “Lean Democratic” by the Cook Political Report, but the District’s Cook Partisan Voting Index is “Even,” indicating its voters have voted in line with the national average over the last two presidential election cycles. Significantly, the district | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  August 17th at 02:35 PM  | 

It’s great fun accurately quoting Vice President Joe Biden, and we should continue doing it through Election Day, in part because it makes our next Vice President, Paul Ryan, look even more competent by comparison. But ultimately, people will vote the top of the ticket, President Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney, so Biden critiques should consistently invoke Obama’s failed policies, lest we fall for another | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  July 20th at 09:41 PM  | 

In 2009, Colorado’s death penalty was saved by a single State Senate vote. Had anti-death penalty forces in Colorado been able to rustle up one more vote, the Aurora Batman movie theater mass murderer would be guaranteed roughly fifty years of ice cream, movie nights, free gym membership, free health care and the hope for a prison break, or perhaps murdering a prison guard. Instead, | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  July 18th at 09:15 PM  | 

As Democrats hyperactively promote a Bloomberg Businessweek blog post today musing that massive stock losses in 2009 theoretically could have eliminated Mitt Romney’s 2009 tax liability, let’s take a closer look at what else this bastion of the Democrat Media Complex (DMC) is pushing. Just two days ago, it’s latest cover story hit newsstands nationwide: “INSIDE THE MORMON EMPIRE,” an “EXCLUSIVE” that shines light on | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  July 15th at 10:17 PM  | 

As you know by now, Obama unilaterally (and illegally) gutted welfare reform this week to make it easier for able-bodied adults to remain dependent on government handouts indefinitely. It’s bad news for welfare recipients who will become further imprisoned at the bottom of the economic ladder, and terrible news for taxpayers and for America’s future. But as this ABC News piece from 2008 makes clear, | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  June 13th at 12:17 PM  | 

The public Atlantic City High School in New Jersey paid 2003 Grammy Award winner Ashanti $20,000 in taxpayer funds to appear at the school, despite the school’s atrocious test scores that show it is failing its students. Government bureaucrats defended the waste: “She was paid like any other vendor,” said Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum Donna Haye, who will take over as superintendent…. Incredibly, it occurred | Read More »