Pat Dollard

PHOENIX (AP) – Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has vetoed a bill to require President Barack Obama and other presidential candidates to prove their U.S. citizenship before their names can appear on the state’s ballot. The bill vetoed by Brewer on Monday would have made Arizona the first state to pass such a requirement. Hawaii officials [...]

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has vetoed a bill to allow guns to be carried on public rights of way on public university and community college campuses. Gun-rights advocates backed the bill, saying it would help people defend themselves and prevent them from getting in trouble for merely driving through a campus with [...]

Politico: Pentagon spending must be on the chopping block in order to reach a bipartisan deal to rein in the national debt, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Sunday. Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Paul rejected calls by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and other conservatives to keep tax increases on the table. But the [...]

The Hill: The new head of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is pushing for screenings of all gun purchases. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said the current law, which allows private firearm sales without background checks, is “outrageous.” The Florida Democrat is sponsoring a soon-to-be-released proposal extending the screening requirements to all gun purchases, commercial or [...]

WASHINGTON — Families of fallen soldiers “have earned the right to bury their loved ones in peace,” says U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe. And in the wake of a Supreme Court decision earlier this year to permit the Westboro Baptist Church to carry on its disruptive protests at military funerals, lawmakers must step in with stronger [...]

The latest tea leaf in the will-he-or-won’t-he drama surrounding Donald Trump these days: the influential Club For Growth, the fiscal purists who were tea party before it was cool, are taking shots at Trump with both barrels. “Donald Trump for President? You’ve got to be joking,” Club president Chris Chocola said in a statement sent [...]

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Fox News: It’s Tax Day, and the Washington chatter is all about whether America’s top earners should be taxed more. But, as the dim outlook from a key ratings agency showed Monday, Uncle Sam’s deficit problem is deep. And if the federal government really wanted to use the tax code to close the deficit, it [...]

New York Times: CAIRO — More than 10,000 people occupied a central square in the Syrian city of Homs on Monday, after funeral processions for some of the 14 people reported killed a day earlier ignited renewed protests, according to witnesses and activists. “The people are in charge in the city center now,” Rassem al-Atassy, [...]

Fox News: Throwing down the gauntlet, Republican Sen. Jim DeMint threatened Monday to block a vote in Congress on raising the U.S. debt ceiling unless he wins a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. The filibuster threat comes a day after Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner suggested Republican leaders had offered private assurances to the White House [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – A Pentagon inquiry into a Rolling Stone magazine profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal that led to his dismissal as the top US commander in Afghanistan has cleared him of wrongdoing. The probe’s results released Monday also called into question the accuracy of the magazine’s report last June, which quoted anonymously people around [...]