Once again, the Arizona Ministry of Truth pens an editorial urging that folks stop “squabbling” over the illegal immigration problem and “achieve reform.”

Ah, yes… achieve a result, no matter what.  Spoken like the true leftist propaganda arm it has become for liberal causes everywhere. The Arizona Republic now lands squarely in the camp of those who advocate ignoring the rule of law and achieving equality of outcome over equality of opportunity.  And all because a few million illegal immigrants - aided and abetted by the likes of Janet Napolitano when Arizona Governor and now as Secretary of Homeland Security under the Guy from Chicago - don’t want to play by the rules. 

Stand in line like those other fools who do it the right way?  Como se dise in Mexican (which is, after all, merely a dialect of Spanish): “¡Surely you jest!”?

The Rag, as it is affectionately known by those with the intelligence to have stopped buying it, also seeks to lay blame for the deaths of many illegal border-crossers not on those who are intent on breaking the law.  Perish the thought.  No, the real culprits here are those who would callously observe the rule of law and who have purportedly had the gall to “… deny the humanity of these people (i.e., the illegal border crossers) [by successfully blocking] the comprehensive immigration reform that could reduce the annual death toll count.”  

Ummm… memo to the editors: the death toll could be reduced to zero if the illegal obrder crossers would get in line with everybody else.

And the Rag’s reliance on quotes from Eliseo Medina of the Service Employees International Union (”SEIU,” the soul-mate of ACORN and Obama’s cadre of foot soldiers in the march to a socialist America) is particularly telling of its hard left turn, as if it could further tighten the radius path of its editorials. Editorial translation: “Amnesty Now!”  “Healthcare for Illegals Now!!” “Free Bus Tickets to Phoenix, L.A., Denver, Seattle, Chicago, St. Louis, Miami, Atlanta, Boston, Houston!”  ”¡Si se puede!“ 

The Arizona Republic has thus cemented its proper place in the ranks of the rest of the dinosaur media plodding mindlessly toward that editorial La Brea Tar Pit called Chapter 7.  While the journey perhaps will not end, in the literal sense, in bankruptcy court (although with its readership in unrestrained free-fall, that destination is by no means out of the question), in terms of moral, intellectual and journalistic bankruptcy, the Arizona Republic is giving The New York Times a run for its money.   

“There’s somethin’ happenin’ here… what it is ain’t exactly clear….”

So begins “For What it’s Worth,” one of the most popular songs from early 1967 performed by one of the 60’s most popular, if short-lived folk rock groups, Buffalo Springfield.  Barack Hussein Obama was 5½ years old, having been born (we are told) August 4, 1961.  Four-plus decades later, the words have renewed meaning as the occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue continues to bamboozle, blindside and buffalo the American people.

In 2008, from a number of corners came more and more questions relating to whether Obama, then a senator from Illinois, was even eligible under Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution, the “natural born Citizen” clause. 

That provision precludes any one other than a “natural born citizen” from being deemed eligible to hold the office of president.  And despite repeated efforts between 2008 and today by Obama, members of his administration and the largely sycophantic mainstream media to deny, debunk, marginalize and trivialize the issue - still unresolved because of Obama’s intransigence and refusal to provide indisputable, as opposed to purported, proof of his birthplace - the mystery continues to grow and metastasize.

There is, indeed, something happenin’ here….

But first, let us agree: there is a rebuttable presumption that Obama may well be a natural born citizen by virtue of the circumstance that he simply says so, because if nobody is even allowed to question that assertion, he just might pull it off. 

There is a Latin phrase from the law that precisely applies here: “ipse dixit,” translating, roughly, to “it is so because I say it’s so.”  On this topic, Obama’s nickname may be quickly becoming “POTUS ipse dixit.“  “The recession is over.”  “No raising of taxes except on the wealthy.”  “If you’re happy with your healthcare, you will keep it.”  ”I am a U.S. citizen.”

There is also presumptive evidence that he was, as he claims, born - somewhere - in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961. There is even presumptive evidence that the “certification of live birth” he has posted on the Internet (not to be confused with an original Hawaii birth certificate which could be independently examined and verified) does, in fact, correspond to the “original records kept by the Hawaii Department of Health” as claimed by Hawaiian officials.

These presumptions, however, are just that: mere presumptions.  A presumption is not a fact: it is an assumed or inferred supposition offered up and asserted in lieu of actual fact.  Indeed, the courts have referred to presumptions as being “the bats of the law, flitting in the twilight, but disappearing in the sunshine of actual facts.” 

Moreover, as pointed out by Andrew McCarthy in his excellent article “Suborned in the USA” in National Review, increasingly, the controversy surrounding Obama’s actual birthplace is becoming more about his honesty, candor and purported commitment to “transparency” - that cute pre-election bromide discarded by Obama two nanoseconds after Chief Justice Roberts’ handshake last January - than it is about his actual place of his birth. 

This circumstance is traceable, virtually exclusively, to Obama’s continued adolescent refusal to authorize the release of the original birth records, let alone a host of other records that would expose his own past to the sunshine of actual facts. When it comes to Obama’s original records, birth and other, in his lexicon the new “transparency” is: opacity. 

On the topics of “hope” and “change,” those charades are now replaced by “arrogance,” “obstinacy” and “paranoia.”  This stuff is straight out of 1984’s Newspeak, where up is down, good is bad and truth is falsity, and all of it even George Orwell would deem to be “doubleplusungood” for America.   A cynic might be tempted to ask: “What in the heck is the Guy from Chicago trying to hide?”

If, as Obama and his shrinking but still substantial cadre of media apologists insist he is, in fact, a “natural born citizen” under the Constitution, what possible legitimate reason exists for his continuing refusal to order the Hawaii Department of Health officials to release and make available to the public the “original records” which they have already said still exist? 

What could be so damaging or problematic in the original records to cause this depth of secrecy?  His refusal to produce or authorize the production of the original records has now had the effect of emboldening his critics on the point and has even seemingly produced the ironic effect of “turning” otherwise presumptive sympathetic minds and ears against him.

Case in point # 1: Lou Dobbs.  Mr. Dobbs, no friend of the Republicans from his post at CNN, has now taken the position that, while Obama was almost certainly born in Honolulu, and is thus a “natural born citizen,” he should put the continuing speculation and conspiracy theorists to rest by ordering the release of the original birth documents.  Simple, yes?  Wrong.

The reaction of the liberals’ and Obama attack machine?  Why, Dobbs has now simply lost it and, of course, must be fired. Oh, and to add some never-from-ANWR-gasoline to the mix, label Dobbs and anyone who has the temerity to ask the question - even after conceding the likelihood of Obama’s eligibility - a racist.  Yeah, that’s the ticket:  When all else fails, brandish and play the race card.  Ipse dixit.

Case in point # 2: Hawaii State Senator Will Espero, a Democrat, has announced that, while he too believes that Obama is likely constitutionally eligible, he intends to introduce legislation that will make original birth certificates of all persons who are born there public records.  Espero also noted that such information “… would be important for relatives and even neighbors.” 

Do not bet the ranch that such a bill will ever see the light of day, however, or even if it does and passes out of the legislature, that it won’t be vetoed. Instead, look for a phone call in the near future (if it hasn’t already happened) from Rahm (”The Enforcer”) Emanuel to Espero demanding that he immediately abandon any plans to even think of drafting such legislation, let alone introducing it, and instructing him to fire whoever on his staff failed to deliver to him “The Memo.”  No questions allowed.  Obedience is mandatory.  Resistance is futile.

Yes, Virginia, there’s somethin’ happenin’ here…. and what it is grows increasingly clear.  No, not the fact that the Guy from Chicago and his cronies in Congress are stampeding the country into a post-Zimbabwe collectivist existence.  Rather, Obama either cannot order the Hawaiian health officials to release the original of his birth certificate, because he knows none exists, or there is something so problematic and threatening to him in those records should they still exist that he will go to the ends of the Earth to prevent them from being exposed to sunshine. 

In that regard, they’re sort of like vampires, those creatures who shrivel up and die when bathed in sunlight.  Unless and until Obama abandons his juvenile “I’m-the-president-and-I-don’t-have-to” attitude regarding this issue (remember Bush 41 on broccoli?), the questions will persist and the number of people willing to take an objective, rather than reflexive, look at the facts - not the presumptions - will continue to grow, all of the name-calling and demonizing notwithstanding.

Ah, transparency.  Ah, hope and change.  Ah… ipse dixit.

If one had any remaining doubts regarding the fitness of the Democrats to govern the nation, those apprehensions would be dispelled after witnessing the hearing held last week before Senator Barbara Boxer’s Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.  The topic of the hearing was the energy needs of the nation.

In an attempt to dress down and trivialize the remarks of Harry C. Alford, President and CEO of the Black Chamber of Commerce, Boxer made a number of references to other “black” entities - including a resolution of the NAACP and a letter from one “John Grant,” the CEO of “A Hundred Black Men of Atlanta” - purporting to support Boxer’s viewpoint, and seeking thereby to undermine Alford’s.

Alford, an Army veteran, laid into Boxer, as any rational American -white, black, brown or plaid - should have done.  He correctly noted that her only purpose was to inject race into a discussion on energy and to engage in condescending remarks attempting to pit other “black” groups against his “black” group, warning her that she was going down a very dangerous road. 

By playing the race card against a black American - and an Army veteran to boot - Boxer merely underscored her own venality and that of the leftists who have hijacked the once-rational, but now merely Obamacentric Democratic Party.  But the words here don’t fully convey Alford’s anger: watch the YouTube clip.

Oh, and throughout the exchange, Alford persisted in addressing her as “m’am,” and Boxer didn’t bat an eye.  Contrast that reaction to what happened when Michael Walsh, an Anglo Army brigadier general testifying at a different hearing, used the term only once, with Boxer chillingly requesting him to address her as “senator” because she “worked so hard to get that title.”  There is a great parody follow-up to that exchange on YouTube which captures the essence of what most Americans would have liked to see Brigadier General Walsh say and what most Americans now think of her.

Bottom line: Boxer, as a typical Obamacentric Compulsive Democrat - giving new meaning to the term OCD - is today’s poster-child for all that is wrong with the Democrats now controlling Congress.  They are a collection of arrogant, elitist hypocrites intoxicated and corrupted by the power of a majority membership, rendering them well-suited to dictate as would a garden-variety tyrant, but absolutely unfit to govern a free people. 

The time for pitchforks and torches is drawing closer.

Well, the Arizona Republic again takes up the case for illegal alien amnesty this morning.  In an editorial hilariously captioned “Arizonans can help Obama,” the paper first observes that “[t]he nation’s shattered immigration system reveals itself in jagged shards across Arizona’s landscape…,” ignoring altogether the fact that the only thing broken has been the feckless effort to more vigorously enforce the laws against illegal immigrants unlawfully crossing over the border and purporting to have a “right” to stay here. 

Leading the federal snooze when the flow of illegals over the southern border was a tiny trickle compared to the flood it later became was U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona, Janet (”I’m-Concerned-Over-Trepidation-in-the-Illegal-Immigration-Community”) Napolitano.  And her insouciance regarding the problem grew only more profound after becoming Arizona Attorney General and then Arizona’s governor.  That’s right, kids, this is the same Napolitano who the Squatter at 1600 Pennsylvania has appointed to head up the nation’s Department of Homeland Security. 

Remember, this is the person who still doesn’t know that the crossing of the border without authority is (a) on a first offense, a misdemeanor, and (b) on a second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and subsequent crossing, a felony.  Indeed, shortly after she was inserted into the position as Head PC Linguist at the DHS, she encouraged potential illegal immigrants everywhere by claiming: “… crossing the border is not a crime per se. It is civil.”

ANGGGKKK: Wrong.  As noted here last April, federal immigration law, 8 U.S.C. § 1325, specifically provides that the first time a person crosses the border illegally, he/she can be charged with a misdemeanor (by definition, a crime) and fined and/or imprisoned for up to 6 months. Moreover, 8 U.S.C. §  1326 specifies that if the same individual is removed or deported after a first offense and thereafter again crosses the border unlawfully - and for every subsequent deportation and re-entry - he/she can be fined and charged with a felony and upon conviction imprisoned for up to 2 years.

So, do you not feel safer already with Napolitano heading up DHS?

Thanks to her incompetence (along with the incompetence of a whole lot of other folks on both sides of the political aisle), one of the few individuals with the spine to actually enforce the laws is Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.  Arpaio - now under U.S. Justice Department “scrutiny” (c’mon, we all know it’s a politically-driven investigation) for “racial profiling” - may have lots of other problems, but taking a stand against illegal immigration in the face of the abdication on the issue by specimens like Napolitano is not one of them.  

The once-respected - a status long-gone - Republic editorialists also observe (this is really good) that “[s]tate and local officials bent on a quixotic effort to enforce federal law at state, city and county expense compound the trouble with responses that could result in racial profiling.”

Absent from this PC rationale aimed at facilitating amnesty for illegals is any explanation for why the enforcement of immigration laws by federal ICE agents is not racial profiling, but the same enforcement by Arpaio’s deputies - trained by the feds in the same procedures applicable to ICE officers - is racial profiling.

The fact is that, like all true liberals who cannot stand the thought of enforcing the immigration laws already on the books, the Arizona Republic supports, at the end of the day, recognition of a race-based immunity from arrest, prosecution and, under Napolitano’s goofy interpretation, even “civil” fines, for “suspected undocumented immigrants.” 

That immunity, if implemented through “reform,” will translate into amnesty, a “path to citizenship” as a reward for breaking the law, and yet more tax burdens on Arizonans.  In a post-reform America, look for calls for more money for illegal alien emergency healthcare, education of illegal alien’s children and incarceration of folks who have no desire to become Americans in the lawful way, including many who have no reluctance to kidnap, rob, burglarize, embezzle, ransom, assault and murder their way into the fabric of America.  And the Arizona Republic supports this “equality of outcome.”  Lunacy.

To all who voted for Obama: still happy with your “change”?    

Finally, Mesa Police Chief George Gascón gets to head a police department in a municipality that proudly declares itself to be a sanctuary city.  Chief Gascón will now be shipping out to San Francisco, the City by the Bay, where Tony Bennett left his heart and rational people leave their brains.  Look, rocket science, this ain’t: any place that would consciously elect Nancy Pelosi to public office cannot be firing on all neurons.

Ah, San Francisco.  Where illegal aliens, junkies and transients can congregate without fear of arrest or hassle by those who would seek to enforce the law.  No more hemming and hawing and denying your ‘burg is a sanctuary city.  Shout it from the rooftops and the corners…. but watch out for the junkies’ needles on the sidewalks….

Meanwhile, Hispanic activists and leaders here were saddened by the news of the departure, saying that they were “concerned that they had lost an important voice in the immigration debate.”

Debate?  What debate?  With illegal immigrants flooding over the border, bankrupting the public healthcare and educational systems, clogging the courts and filling the jails…. what’s to debate?

To the extent that the folks saddened by Gascón’s skipping off to SanFran are more concerned that law enforcement go after “real criminals” like murderers, they are advocating nothing less than recognition and acceptance of a race-based immunity from the equal application of the law. 

And they need to remember that, speaking of victims of violence, Phoenix Police Officer Jim Erfle might well be around today but for the fact that he was murdered by a previously-deported illegal immigrant from Mexico. That loser, Erik Martinez, had zero regard for the same immigration laws that those who lament Gascón’s departure want people like Joe Arpaio to ignore.  Get a grip.

And, by the way, have you been to San Francisco lately?  A visit there today gives new meaning to the phrase “a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.”

Best of luck to Gascón: he’s going to need it.

   Missing from President Barack Obama’s remarks on the anniversary of the Battle of Normandy, were his usual apologies for America.

Missing were his usual mentions of U.S. transgressions, of our arrogance, of our lecturing, of our selfishness.

In the cemetery overlooking Omaha beach, as Obama stood in the shadow of the memory of the 9,387 U.S. soldiers killed in that battle, there was not a word about our belligerence, about our entry into unnecessary wars.

Perhaps his usual disparagements could not be heard above the echoes of the bullets and screams of war on that beach 65 years ago.

Maybe the American sacrifices on that sand, finally told Barack Obama the truth about America.

Below is an editorial titled “Wake Up,” which first appeared in The Phoenix Gazette on May 28, 1990. We reprinted this piece last year, and do so again, as it is a timeless tribute to the men and women who have defended and who continue to defend the United States and whose blood and courage have fortified the ramparts of freedom. 

Wake up, Private, they will be here soon.

Colonel, wake up, it’s Memorial Day.

Somebody poke the Lieutenant over there and make sure he’s awake, too. They’re celebrating Memorial Day, and they will be here soon.

They will be here with small American flags pushed through the grass and earth on top of us.

They bring the fragrance of newly blossomed flowers, the stems still moist from the fresh cuts.

They will be here soon with trumpets to remember us and what we did in Arlington and Richmond, Leesburg, Gettysburg and Normandy.

They will come to read our names, touch our headstones.

They will think about you, over there, at Bunker Hill, and you, beyond, and the rest of the men from Fort McHenry.

There will be a salute with rifles, and it will be for you who came here from Guadalcanal and Pork Chop Hill, and you, beyond, from the jungles of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Grenada.

Wake up, Sergeant, they are coming with a speech for you and your soul mates from Beirut and Desert Storm.

They will be here for you, the men and women from Somalia and Panama and the recent fallen in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Stay awake, now, sailor. They will be here soon with a song for you and your mates from the Iowa and the Arizona, the Pueblo, the USS Liberty, the Stark, and the Cole.

And you who served in time of peace but faced the fire and fever while patrolling freedom’s wall, they are coming because you gave the last full measure of devotion.

They are coming with quiet voices.

The assembled will again resolve that none of us, not one of us here, died in vain.

They will pledge that our rows will not lengthen without just cause or without the prayerful counsel of a united nation.

They will deliver to us the sweet, enduring promise that the United States of America shall not perish from the Earth.

They will be here soon, our sons and daughters, our wives and husbands, our mothers and fathers, our brothers and sisters, and those who never knew us.

They have not forgotten.

  The Associated Press is reporting that the National Archives has lost a computer hard drive  ”containing massive amounts of sensitive data from the Clinton administration, including Social Security numbers, addresses, and Secret Service and White House operating procedures.”    

In addition, the missing information includes logs of events and political records as well as “an as yet unknown amount of personally identifiable information of White House staff and visitors.”   

Missing from the AP story, was a logical reminder that President Clinton’s former national security adviser Samuel R. “Sandy” Berger entered a guilty plea April 1, 2005, for the unauthorized removal and retention of classified material.   

For that crime, Berger was fined a total of $56,905, his security clearance was canceled, and he was required to report monthly monthly to a probation officer for two years. Berger also picked up trash in Virginia parks for 100 hours to fulfill a community service requirement.   

Still, there is no telling what else Berger might have removed from the Archives in his pants, and, if he is not a logical suspect in the case, he should be. 

Normally, this site does not link to MSNBC, for a variety of reasons.  However, today’s “Morning Joe” segment included an interview with Missouri Senator Kit Bond.  If you don’t have time to immerse yourself in all of the charges and countercharges now flying around between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the CIA, just take a look at this clip.  It says it all, so watch it all, especially Sen. Bond’s comments about canines toward the end.

You want more?  Check out Newt Gingrich today on ABC News.  Listen to the whole thing… amazing.

The only question remaining is whether there is enough room left under the bus for the Obama administration to throw Pelosi, given the prior tossing under of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Rob Blagojevich, Obama’s grandmother, etc.  

Pelosi is toast, but she will be the last one to realize or accept it.  It’s kinda like Weekend at Bernie’s, and she’s Bernie.

The Goldwater Institute issued a report yesterday on public officials using tax dollars to promote themselves. We’re told they jumped on this issue after the left wing media went after County Attorney Andrew Thomas for issuing a Crime Handbook for the public. After the left wing media unfairly targeted Thomas, Sonoran Alliance went after Attorney General Terry Goddard for wasting thousands of dollars promoting himself on multiple handbooks and brochures prominently featuring his face on the front cover and in several places within the literature as well. Thomas’s booklet didn’t even feature his face on the front.

The Goldwater Institute report states that Thomas is not “constitutionally mandated” to issue the handbook. It conveniently leaves out the fact in the section about him that he’s statutorily mandated to educate the public on issues related to crime. A.R.S. 13-2314.03 governs how money seized from criminal profiteering (RICO funds) is to be spent by law enforcement.  “Monies in the fund may be used for the funding of gang prevention programs, substance abuse prevention programs, substance abuse education programs…” This is not explained in that section. In the report’s chart of how much each public official has spent on “self-promotion,” it leaves out the fact that Thomas’s office, as the largest law enforcement agency in the state, receives $2.5 million in this kind of directed RICO funding each year.

Seems pretty clear that issuing a guide for the public educating them about crime and how to protect themselves from it falls within this statute. Again, conveniently, the report failed to point out that $65,000 of the cost of the booklet was paid for with RICO funds. And on top of that, the Goldwater Institute report conveniently failed to point out that the handbook was wildly popular and the public ordered thousands of copies. The purpose of the handbook was not to promote Thomas for reelection, but to genuinely educate the public. Which cannot be said about other booklets that have been issued by other public officials, such as Pima County Barbara Lawall’s 56-page booklet bragging about her accomplishments as county attorney, featuring her picture on the front.

Only at the very end of the report, in a separate section, is it casually mentioned that there are RICO funds used by law enforcement officials for purposes like educating the public – but still never mentions that they are mandated to by statute!

Ignored was any discussion of how if just a few people are able to save themselves from being victims, or a few defendants are deterred after reading the handbook, the cost of the booklet (allegedly $215,000) would have more than paid for itself, considering the cost in savings of the arrest, prosecution, appeals, defense, etc. of the deterred crimes.

We also have a philosophical difference with the Goldwater Institute on politicians promoting themselves. Law enforcement promotion is different than regular politicians promoting themselves. Are criminals deterred by the concept of Sheriff Joe Arpaio? You bet they are! His larger than life image creates fear in the minds of criminals. There is a legitimate reason for law enforcement officials to let the community know who they are. Incidentally, the report notes they had nothing to report on Sheriff Arpaio, who asserts the office has never issued anything with his photo on them. No surprise there, the people love him so the media follows him everywhere and provide him with immense amounts of publicity. The report downplayed this - they should have pointed that if he was really such a publicity hound as his enemies always accuse him of being, then this firmly refutes that notion.

The report concluded this about Thomas, “Not one of these is necessary to achieve transparency or accountability or to discharge the official obligations of the position of the county attorney.” Based on the information they left out, such as the fact that Thomas is mandated by statute to spend RICO funds to educate the public, and the fact that unlike other politicians, his photo is not featured on the front of the Crime Handbook, this conclusion is not accurate. Clearly, the Goldwater Institute is jumping on Thomas in order to look like they’re playing fair and going after Republicans too, and Thomas was an easy target because of being extensively targeted by the liberal media over the Crime Handbook.

Law enforcement officials like Attorney General Terry Goddard have issued countless brochures and booklets knowing the liberal media will never call him on it (Sonoran Alliance counted 72 last year). The list of publications his office offers continues to grow. Far too many of them have his photo on the front and/or photos inside. At the bottom of this post is a current list of the Attorney General’s publications. Thomas has nothing like it.  His sole Crime Handbook looks rather paltry compared to all the glossy handbooks Goddard has issued featuring his photo on the front.

The Goldwater Institute is praising bills by Sen. Jim Waring and Rep. Kyrsten Sinema that would prohibit public officials from issuing publications like these. That’s fine, but there needs to be more honesty about these publications. Trying to hold up Andrew Thomas’s one Crime Handbook as the reason for getting this kind of legislation passed is intellectually dishonest and a transparent attempt to smear Thomas for something that has been really been abused by officials like former governor Janet Napolitano. Blame also should be placed on legislators like Waring and Sinema who were responsible for passing the RICO statute in the first place instructing law enforcement officials to educate the public about crime. I don’t think I’ve ever read a government publication that didn’t include the name of the government official responsible for issuing it, so let’s hope the proposed legislation doesn’t go overboard.

Incidentally, the report gave Thomas a high score for dealing with the public records requests from the Goldwater Institute. The report says that to this day, Terry Goddard has not even fulfilled all of the public records requests. Napolitano received the lowest score of all officials for responding to public records requests. This leaves us wondering, were they hiding something? How many more publications has Goddard issued that the Goldwater Institute was not able to get information about?

This would have been a valid report if the Goldwater Institute hadn’t tried so hard to portray Thomas as equally as guilty of self-promotion as other officials. Obviously the Goldwater Institute was trying to find a high-profile Republican to go after to make their report look fair. But let’s be honest, Republicans tend to be more fiscally conservative than Democrats. By including the unfair attack on Thomas, the report loses its credibility.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS CURRENTLY OFFERED BY TERRY GODDARD

Housing Discrimination: Get The Facts

Educational Brochures

Arizona Crime Victims’ Rights Laws

Consumer Guide for Young Adults

Consumers’ Guide to Buying a Car:

Steer Clear of Trouble!

Crime Victims’ Guide

Crime Victims’ Right to Leave Work

The Criminal Appeals Process

CUT IT OUT - Arizona Brochure

CUT IT OUT Safety Card

Discrimination in Places of Public Accommodation Tip Card

Elder Abuse: Potential Legal Remedies

Employment Discrimination: Get the Facts

Employment Discrimination Tip Card

Financial Exploitation of the Elderly

Housing Discrimination Tip Card

Identity Theft Repair Kit

Identity Theft Tip Card

Indian Arts and Crafts Act

Internet Safety Guide for Parents and Teens

Internet Safety Tip Card

Life Care Planning Packet

Office of Victim Services

Predatory Lending Tip Card

Protecting Arizona Seniors

The Promise of Brown v. Board of Education

Recognize and Report Phone Fraud

Restitution: The Realities

Top 10 Consumer Scams

Voting Discrimination Tip Card

Attorney General Opinions

Opinions (1999 to Present)

Handbooks And Manuals

Area Agency Handbook

Guide to Pre-Employment Inquiries

The Primer (Colorado City)

Public Service Orientation Manual

Safety Net Directory

School Use Guidelines: Community College District Resources

School Use Guidelines: School District or Charter School Resources

School Use Guidelines: University Resources

Tenant’s Rights and Responsibilities Handbook (Community Legal Services)

Forms

FHA Accessibility Compliance Site Review Form

Gambling Registration Form

Posters

CUT IT OUT Poster

Discrimination in Employment Poster

Drug Endangered Children

Hopes, Dreams and Fair Housing Poster

Identity Theft Poster

Reports

2005 Gasoline Report

Arizona Attorney General Annual Reports

Arizona DNA Report 2007

Capital Case Commission Final Report

Cold Case Task Force Report 2007

NIJ Report on Zylon Body Armor

Racial Profiling Policy Guidance