Prominent bay area liberal talk show host faces prison

Read the disturbing account of Bernie Ward’s admission of distribution of child pornography over the internet.
Ward’s radio show was called “God Talk”

Apparently it was only a one-way conversation.

A mere $400,000 in taxpayer dollars will pacify ACLU lawyer

Daniel Pochoda, the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of AZ (ACLU) has named Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas,  Sheriff Joe Arpaio and other employees of the agencies in his notice of claim, a precursor to a lawsuit.

Last November, Pochoda was arrested for trespassing in the parking lot of M.D. Pruitt’s Furniture store as supporters of illegal immigration were demonstrating in front of the store, in an ongoing effort to block customer access to the business. Sheriff’s deputies were working security at the scene.

A sheriff’s report indicates that prior to his arrest, Pochoda engaged in a verbal confrontation with deputies about his right to be in the parking lot. He refused repeated opportunities to leave the premises on his own, according to a report in the daily.

Thomas released a statement tying Pochoda’s legal claim to the ACLU’s opposition to a state law denying bail to illegal immigrants accused of serious crimes. The ACLU and Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) brought a class-action lawsuit in federal court challenging Proposition 100 last month.

“We will not be deterred from enforcing Proposition 100, nor will we be intimidated into giving preferential treatment to ACLU defendants,” Thomas’s statement read.

Pochoda has offered to settle the case for $400,000.

Barney Frank, you rascal, you never really did go away

La Raza in the Hou$ing Bill?

David Freddoso writing for National Review details the $25 million dollars in housing subsidies the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is being asked to set aside for neighborhoods with substantial populations of low income Hispanics. La Raza (The Race) will have oversight.

Read Freddoso’s overview for a glimpse of what is contained in liberal Financial Services Chairman, Barney Frank’s, housing bill.

McCinco de Mayo

Señor John McCain’s presidential campaign has launched a Spanish language Web site to mark the Cinco de Mayo holiday.

“Keep that faith, Keep your courage, stick together, stay strong, do not yield, stand up! ” he urged the cheering Hispanic audience. The video is available on his new Spanish language site.

McCain’s support for a sweeping immigration overhaul that would have greased the amnesty skids for millions of illegal aliens in the United States, infuriated many in his party. As a candidate, he now says congress should focus on border security first. The unanswered questions are, “First? Before what?”

McCain then went into pastoral mode, saying that we “are all God’s children.”

Reuters reports on McCain pitching mucho woo.

And, McCain’s campaign announced that he will attend the La Raza Annual Convention in San Diego on July 14, 2008.

Michelle Malkin reports the campaign justifies his appearance by framing it as a gesture of inclusiveness and outreach that is “part of his commitment to talking with all Americans.” Yes, they see it as an act of tolerance to legitimize the militantly open-borders, anti-immigration enforcement, ethnic nationalists who call themselves “The Race.”

Catholic dissidents advise Obama

The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights has expressed deep concerns over Barack Obama’s Catholic National Advisory Council.

Of the 26 Catholic former or current public office holders Obama has listed as either National Co-Chairs (5), or as members of the National Leadership Committee (21), there is not one who agrees with the Catholic Church on all three major public policy issues: abortion, embryonic stem cell research and school vouchers.

Catholic League president, Bill Donohue, issues a stunning exposé of the newly formed advisory council.

Who’d a thunk?

Sonoran Alliance is having a bit of sport at the expense of some folks on the Arizona ballot who have indicated their desire to be elected as GOP national delegates. The Republican state convention is coming up next Saturday, May 10, 2008, and these people will stand for election in hopes of attending the GOP national convention in Minnesota this fall.

It can’t be assumed that all of these are party regulars with a right-leaning bent. Some of them are elephants who bray like donkeys. So much so, in fact, that they have supported Democrats with those all-important financial contributions—even when there were solid Republicans in the race. Play Name The RINO–Republican In Name Only.

Illegal update—and then some

Just another good man coming “to do the work Americans refuse to do”

An 18-year-old man has been accused of impregnating an 11-year-old child, according to KPHO Channel 5.

Enrique Jacobo-Valdez, an illegal alien, has been booked in a Maricopa County jail on two counts of sexual conduct with a minor. He had been living with the girl’s family for the past four years..

Pinal County authorities have been looking for Jacobo-Valdez in relation to a drug case.

The young girl lives in the Rainbow Valley area of the Southwest Valley, where Jacobo-Valdez was seen fleeing from the home after deputies knocked on the door.

He was arrested after the child’s mother and grandmother took her to a hospital and learned that she is at least six weeks pregnant and has been infected with a sexually transmitted disease as the result of the rapes.

Jacobo-Valdez made statements to authorities admitting he knew that the girl was only 11.

Although this shocking story was given complete coverage on KPHO, the daily Fish-wrapper accorded it minimum status, with placement on page two of the Valley section, under a single column of West Valley incidents, stacked like cordwood at the bottom of the page. The daily also neglected to mention the fact that the child rapist is an illegal.

What a surprise.

With so many being thrown under it, we may all need additional buses

Seems there are plenty of big wheels for everyone

Chuck Muth of Muth’s Truths does a slice and dice on the Ron Paulites and the GOP Nevada state convention.  Seeing Red AZ’s coverage was picked up by the Ron Paul site.

 Andy Borowitz, a political humorist, in discussing the Democrats, fictionalizes their current internal shenanigans this way:

On CNN, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean expressed fears that if the primary campaign drags on much longer, “there may not be enough room under the bus for the candidates to throw their aides.”

With Sen.Obama having thrown Rev. Wright and Samantha Power under the bus, and Sen. Clinton having thrown Geraldine Ferraro, Patti Solis Doyle, and Mark Penn under the bus, “we may need an additional bus,” Mr. Dean said.

And conservatives? Pat Buchanan in Human Events ponders, Will the Right Sit it Out?

County Attorney says sheriff’s patrols meet legal standards

Biased newspaper report has enough incendiary language to stoke a bonfire

Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas has reviewed the procedures followed in the patrols that Sheriff Joe Arpaio has recently conducted in valley cities, concluding that deputies followed rules prohibiting racial profiling and unnecessary traffic stops.

“To the best of my knowledge, the protocol has been followed,” said Thomas, who issued a legal opinion on the sweeps yesterday.

“The reason I asked for the opinion two months ago is that we knew we were doing the right thing, and yet I wanted a legal opinion to let the people of this county know that we are also on the right track,” Arpaio said.

Thomas issued an opinion for Arpaio in 2005 in reference to Arizona’s human smuggling law—an opinion that said illegal aliens suspected of using transporting “coyotes,” can be charged as co-conspirators in their own smuggling cases, since they pay to be illegally brought into the U.S.

Prosecutor Thomas said his interpretation of the law has withstood scrutiny.

Read the newspaper account and try counting the provocative words and phrases in the short article. This would be a fine exercise for a Journalism 101 class. In the daily newspaper, however, it falls far short of ethical reporting standards.

Clinton’s senate office used Wright’s church bulletin to recruit aides

Regarding Jeremiah Wright, Hillary Clinton has said, “He would not have been my pastor.  You don’t choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend.”

You also choose the church from which you might recruit legislative assistants. In February 2006, those who sat under the Rev. Wright’s theological tutelage and bombastic and incendiary sermons were considered promising prospects to assist the New York senator on legislative matters concerning the common good.

Read more of Francis Beckwith’s interesting article here.