Adam Kwasman: Scores national attention in AZ CD 1

At the races, Roll Call’s political blog, takes note of Arizona’s upcoming First Congressional District race and focuses on state Rep. Adam Kwasman, the bright and energetic conservative representing LD 11.

Kwasman’s arena is a smart place to shine the high beam. His reasoned approach to the wide spectrum of issues facing Arizona has gained the notice of political watchers around the state, whether the topic is Medicaid expansion or our state’s porous border. We previously wrote Adam Kwasman was “the guy to watch.”

At the races refers to the 2014 CD 1 race by citing Stuart Rothenberg’s assessment of Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick, naming her — and her equally liberal seatmate AZ CD2 Rep. Ron Barber — among at least 11 Democrat incumbents who start off at risk.” This stunning video reminder clearly illustrating her disconnect with the voters, reveals a good reason for Kirkpatrick’s shaky position.

In the current economic crisis, the astute skills of Kwasman, a financial guru, have been welcomed at the state legislature.  They are needed in Congress.

Rep. Kwasman’s current legislative district covers an important region in CD1, which includes a large population of Republican voters.

He clearly is “the guy to watch.”

Weekend reading,viewing guaranteed to make you smarter

Column and Sunday morning show worth your attention

M. Zuhdi Jasser, M.D. is the Founder and President of the Phoenix-based American Islamic Forum for Democracy. The Valley physician, a devout Muslim, is leading the fight to shake the hold that the terror-sponsoring Muslim Brotherhood and their network of American Islamist organizations and mosques seek to exert on organized Islam in America.

His “My Turn” commentary in the daily, “Muslims need to own how they’re portrayed,” [the title has been changed in the online version] provides excellent insight — from a unique perspective — into the root causes of “Islamic extremism — political Islam.”

His is a voice worthy of note. A former Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy, Jasser is an internationally recognized expert on the issues encompassing  political Islam and American Islamist organizations.

Dr. Jasser regularly briefs members of Congress on the threat of political Islam and has been called to testify on the issue of Muslim radicalization in the United States. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The New York Post, The Dallas Morning News, CNN, CBS, Fox News Channel, MSNBC and BBC in addition to nationally syndicated radio programs.

Earlier this morning, Dr. Jasser participated in a panel discussion titled “The roots of radicalization,” on CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley. The specific focus was domestic radicalization and how to address it. Click to watch the video here.

Immigration: Addressing the harsh realities

Bi-partisan acknowledgment that the nation’s legal immigration system is also in need of repair

Earlier this week, as the nation was still reeling, trying to absorb the grisly aftermath of the Boston marathon bombings, Ann Coulter wrote a cogent column titled: The  problem isn’t just illegal immigration, it’s legal immigration, too. Coulter’s fact-filled commentary is our “Weekend reading guaranteed to make you smarter” recommendation.

Bob Beckel, ubitquitous liberal commentator and co-host of ‘The Five,’ appeared to catch his co-hosts off guard as he echoed similar thoughts. Beckel advocated for the temporary ending of student visas for foreign Muslim students as a means of combating homegrown terror.

Sowell tackles illegal pretense, Breitbart exposes scam

Once again the brilliant Thomas Sowell cuts to the chase. This time he weighs in on granting legal status to illegal aliens. Is it any wonder the Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic) never runs his columns on what used to be the op-ed page? 

Fortunately, Human Events, which bills itself as featuring “powerful conservative voices,” is not so constrained.  Do yourself a favor. Read Sowell’s commentary Immigration Sophistry.

Then factor in this shocking Breitbart News report which exposes secret emails between the libertarian Cato Institute, Americans for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist and Marco Rubio — despicably colluding on immigration reform messaging in the wake of the Boston Marathon terror attack — in order to push the “Gang of 8” bill released this past week. The email was headlined: “Rubio talking points re: Boston terrorists vis a vis immigration reform.”  Matthew Boyle’s exposé of the senate gangsters using the issue of terrorism to advance their agenda is first class.

It’s time to acknowledge that politicians and the media elite not only feed us inane border security promises — not kept since the 1986 amnesty — but are shamefully willing to use the human tragedies of the Boston bombings to advance their leftist agenda of flooding our country with Democrat voters, insuring the demise of the Republican Party. Opening the floodgates to criminals of unknown origins and intents are part and parcel of the scheme to undermine our country.

Speak up! Both of Arizona’s senators are part of the notorious Gang of 8, promoting this lunacy.

Contact information for John McCain is available here.  Jeff Flake can be reached here.

Arizona Republic exposes its foul, radical core

In a single issue — Sunday’s edition — The Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic), bawdily bared itself in a fashion befitting a porn star. 

The Viewpoints section opened with illegal immigration hustler, Linda Valdez, spewing seemingly endless bile at recently deceased British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as she links her to conservative icon Ronald Reagan, hurling insults at both. Her abhorrence of the pair is palpable from the headline “Maggie, Ronnie cast dark shadows,” through the vicious conclusion of her commentary in which she characteristically berates what she calls hard-line conservatives and blames the ills on both sides of the Atlantic — and oddly Arizona — on the Tory and Conservative who contributed mightily to their nation’s progress.

Following Valdez’s vitriol is a lone editorial. It is a paean to Arizona’s senators and their key roles in extending the gift of amnesty to lawbreakers, noting that both John McCain and Jeff Flake “have a history of supporting reform,” though “both forgot that for a while.” The missing words are “while campaigning.” The editorial welcomes them both back to leadership roles in undercutting our national sovereignty and adherence to the rule of law. In 2011, the Republic denounced Flake as a mere “politician” — no longer a “statesman” — for emulating John McCain’s border transformation during his last senatorial campaign. Editorialist Doug MacEachern called Flake’s change of heart on legalizing millions of illegal aliens “jarring.”  (click on the links for a reminder of their campaign duplicity.)

Dragging bottom of the same page are My Turn columns by ASU President Michael Crow and Daniel Ortega, the former chairman of the racist La Raza, which the newspaper terms a “the nation’s largest and most influential Latino advocacy group.”  La Raza’s motto — “For The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing” — is chilling to any sane person who values equality.

Crow uses his space to once again push for foreign ‘STEM’ (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) students — those he claims are the best and brightest — to bypass our nation’s “antiquated immigration laws” and compete with our own American citizens for a place in university classes and in today’s tough job market.

Ortega rails about the “stain” on Arizona caused by the passage of SB 1070, and the imperative of “fixing” our immigration system by adopting a “sensible, humane, federal immigration-reform bill” that will “set our state and national economy on a road to greater prosperity.”

Stir in a photo of demonstrators rallying for amnesty — this time waving American, rather than Mexican, flags as John McCain helpfully advised them — along with a vicious cartoon lampooning Sheriff Joe Arpaio who was recently the target of an intercepted package bomb that officials say was capable of killing a person opening the box.

It’s all in the fish-wrapper so worthy of the name: The Periódico de la República de Arizona. No wonder it’s dying.

Gosnell murder trial: Where’s the media?

Infanticide trial ignored: ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC have given zero coverage

Kirsten Powers, a self identified liberal, rightly says, “This clearly should be national news. Liberals want government regulation of every single thing — air, water, animals, (inaudible), banks, you name it” — and, she admits, “I put myself in that category. But they have this one little area where they say ‘no government regulation.’ It doesn’t make any sense, and I think we need to examine that.”

Power’s USA Today column, “We’ve forgotten what belongs on Page One,” deserves your attention.

The gruesome details in Conor Friedersdorf’s Atlantic article, “Why Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s Trial Should Be a Major News Story,” do not make for easy reading, but they will educate regarding the horrors of the abortion industry. Gosnell, 72, regularly and illegally delivered live, viable third-trimester babies and murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors, referring to this practice as “ensuring fetal demise.”

He is charged with seven counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of babies who were born alive and murdered, as well as a 41-year-old mother who died after a botched abortion in his clinic.

In 2011, Seeing Red AZ marked the 38^th anniversary of Roe v. Wade with this post about abortionist Kermit Gosnell, including his joking about one of the babies he brutally murdered being “so large he could walk me to the bus stop.” 

The Grand Jury Report filed by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office in the Court of Common Pleas in the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania Criminal Trial Division, can be read here. 

Obamanomics: The sobering reality

Thinking Americans are becoming increasingly alarmed regarding the shaky state of the economy and soaring national debt amid Barack Obama’s mounting and unsustainable federal spending. Anxiety levels have amplified as we’ve watched the seizure of the bank accounts of private citizens as a government bailout scheme to keep the nation of Cyprus afloat in the European Union. Who could not experience anxiety over likely parallels right here at home?

Former U.S. Rep. David Stockman, who served as Ronald Reagan’s budget director from 1981 to 1985, has written a must-read op-ed commentary in the New York Times, titled “State-Wrecked: The Corruption of Capitalism in America.”  Stockman’s somber, funereal op-ed lays out his conviction that the American economy has already driven off the cliff, that we’re now in a slow freefall, just a few crises away from slamming into the ground.

A takeaway from David Stockman’s op-ed:

“Without any changes, over the next decade or so, the gross federal debt, now nearly $17 trillion, will hurtle toward $30 trillion and soar to 150 percent of gross domestic product from around 105 percent today. Since our constitutional stasis rules out any prospect of a “grand bargain,” the nation’s fiscal collapse will play out incrementally, like a Greek/Cypriot tragedy, in carefully choreographed crises over debt ceilings, continuing resolutions and temporary budgetary patches.

The United States is broke – fiscally, morally, intellectually – and the Fed has incited a global currency war (Japan just signed up, the Brazilians and Chinese are angry, and the German-dominated euro zone is crumbling) that will soon overwhelm it. When the latest bubble pops, there will be nothing to stop the collapse. If this sounds like advice to get out of the markets and hide out in cash, it is.”

Then for additional sobering advice, check in with American Thinker’s column “We Happy Few” by Lee DeCovnick, who suggests three actions Americans should take to prepare for the coming financial meltdown. This is important information.

He includes this analysis:

“Americans are at dangerous crossroads, as the previously fixed constitutional safeguards between a citizen’s individual rights and rapacious government overreach are being swiftly dissolved. The hard progressive Left’s bizarre drive to micromanage our bodies, our air, our food and water, our private property, our guns and even our thoughts reveal the Orwellian hell in store for America. All the while the MSM tells us that our newly affixed handcuffs and leg irons are necessary tools to ensure safety and fairness, and to end the disproportional disparity in outcomes that white working men have devised in their pursuit of a racially pure, homophobic, misogynistic society.

 We are being forced to our knees by the radical ideas daily forwarded by this malignant Administration, hell bent on disarming citizens, muzzling dissent, impoverishing working Americans, and purposefully creating economic chaos to foment a proletariat revolution. But then, what will happen to those racists white working bourgeoisie who paid their taxes, attended church and voted against Big Brother?

We few, we happy few, we band of Bill Ayers’s incorrigible 25 million capitalists, we will then recall the blood soaked baskets of the Place de la Concord.”

Reminder: How Mexico treats foreigners

This commentary by syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin is enlightening. 

Malkin’s reminder is especially pertinent given the push for granting amnesty to an estimated 26 million+ illegals by congressional Republicrats, including Arizona Senators McCain and McFlake, who foolishly believe this is the route to increasing GOP election victories.

Congress is set to reconvene after the Easter break, and this issue is a key agenda item.

 Do yourself a favor and read: “Reminder: How Mexico Treats “Undesirable” Foreigners.”

Knowledge is power.

“Migrants” deaths? Best advice: Stay safe, stay home

The Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic) outdoes itself in the area of inconsistencies when it comes to promoting amnesty for illegal aliens. Recently readers were told that most of the foreign nationals displaying contempt for our laws and invading our nation have “gone home.”  Now we are advised that there is a “27% increase in desert deaths” even as “crossings decline.” If that’s the case in March, the figures could be astronomical by July as temperatures soar into the triple digits.

Exhibiting classic symptoms of schizophrenia is commonplace with this frenetic newspaper. The daily’s resident Amnesty Queen Linda Valdez, devotes an entire column to lecturing that the deaths of those she euphemistically calls “migrants” should spur immigration reform. Valdez says such “humanitarian” action is “necessary for the sake of our national soul.”

That advice is akin to saying that home invaders who face serious consequences if arrested for their crimes, should compassionately be given the keys to your front door to keep them from having to deal with the impact of negative consequences for their criminal actions.

There is but one answer to the question of avoiding desert deaths. Stay out of the desert.

Republicans prepare to sign their own death certificate

Is GOP leadership seeking mass exodus from party?

It’s highly unusual for Seeing Red AZ to link directly to another site as our post. This extraordinary set of circumstances reported by Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), compels us to do so. Read their five paragraph report, “Republican National Committee Supports Amnesty.”

FAIR’s shocking article begins with these words:
Embracing the false notion perpetuated by the open-borders lobby that the Party will continue to lose elections until it pushes amnesty, the Republican National Committee (RNC) has told its members they must support “comprehensive immigration reform.” (See Growth and Opportunity Project at p. 8, Mar. 18, 2013)

Then get a dose of grim reality from Ann Coulter, who cites straightforward facts in this must-read commentary, titled, Hispanicked GOP Elite: They’ll respect us in the morning.

We also urge you to express your views to the RNC, at  202-863-8500. Or email them at http://www.gop.com/contact-us/.