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Commentary on anything that seems to need commenting upon from a center/right, liberty oriented viewpoint by Tom Patterson, a retired emergency physician, recovered politician and virtual opinion machine.

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	Justice for peons Thank God Obama watches television, not just basketball games either. Otherwise, he never would find out what the peons so many levels below him in the bureaucracy are up to. It's amazing how much mis ...	21
	Brewer's Medicaid plan is conservative? Really? Gov. Brewers Medicaid program is fiscally conservative. So say her commercials. The claim is underlined and italicized so it must be so. Well, let's see. Her program draws down a substantial short-ter ...	58
	Just for something different, follow the law Did you hear that the Obama administration higher-ups have instructed border agents to make sure that incoming students have valid visas? It seems a couple of the students involved in the Boston marat ...	46
	Shining light on public employee pensions All the good stuff was there in the Republic's series on the growing menace that is our government pensions. The outlandish pensions for Public Safety employees, the ominously growing expense lines fo ...	94
	Who's responsible for the Arias debacle? Why couldn't anybody do something about the Jodie Arias trial? It was an embarrassment to our local courts. The trial long since has degenerated into a media driven circus event, satisfying the needs ...	64
	Benghazi just won't go away The Obama administration has labored mightily to convince us that there's "nothing to see here" about Benghazi and that we should just "move along folks". Hillary Clinton arrogantly asks what differen ...	130
	Margaret Thatcher and her detractors Margaret Thatcher was by any reckoning one of the towering figures of the second half of the 20th century. She came to power in a U.K. racked by labor strife, plagued with a failing currency and an ec ...	112
	Sen. Flake just disagrees The whole world seems to be on Jeff Flake's case for his vote against the guns background check bill. From an "angry" Pres. Obama to pretty much all the media and gun-control folks, he's getting it fo ...	120
	Why hospitals don't want you to know their prices You can see why hospitals particularly were panicked over Sen. Nancy Barto's SB 1115, which would have forced them to (gasp!) publish the prices of their most common services. A lot of grime has accum ...	114
	Curious arguments against testing Eugene Robinson, the Washington Post columnist, wrote this week that we should dump our obsession with test scores in public schools. His argument was that relying on achievement tests engenders cheat ...	160
	Newspapers just another special interest The issue of whether public notices must by law be printed in a newspaper is kind of a strange one. My take is that it's only a debate because of the "power of the press" – in this case, to defend its ...	179
	Clean Elections a bust Legislators are considering defunding Clean Elections and giving the money to education instead. It would have to be done as a ballot measure, but why shouldn't they? Since the notorious "matching fun ...	121
	Kirkpatrick's budget vision Ann Kirkpatrick, the US representative from District One in northern Arizona, is one of the 535 people in the nation whose opinion counts. She is one of only 11 Arizonans who has a vote, upon whom our ...	126
	The governor gets worked up "I don't want dead people in the streets," Gov. Brewer proclaimed to KFYI listeners, in the course of touting her Medicaid expansion. Well, you've got to admit there's nothing more disgusting than the ...	94
	Arpaio recall a really terrible idea I think it's a matter of some importance that the recall of Joe Arpaio fail. If it doesn't, the recall of Russell Pearce will no longer be an isolated incident, it will be the beginning of a really ba ...	135
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