“Arizona” on The Daily Caller

The so-called “birther” debate in Arizona is finally settled, legally at least, after election officials received verification of President Barack Obama’s citizenship from Hawaii. (more)

The message from national Republicans in 2010 was “Fire Nancy Pelosi.” (more)

“As a civil libertarian … I don’t want a police state. I want a reason to do something.” That was Arizona S.B. 1070 author Russell Pearce Tuesday at a Senate hearing on the controversial immigration law. When former Obama adviser Van Jones called libertarians “anti-immigrant bigots” earlier this month, libertarians were confused, but when individuals like Pearce — who has endorsed a white supremacist for Mesa City Council — claim the title, Jones’ mistake becomes more sensible. But to be clear, nothing about S.B. 1070 can be misconstrued as “civil libertarian.” (more)

In his coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court’s hearing on the validity of Arizona’s immigration law (S.B. 1070), ABC News reporter Terry Moran stated that the issue before the court is: “Does Arizona have the constitutional right to make its own immigration law?” This followed anchor Diane Sawyer’s statement in the same news segment that the issue before the justices is “whether people in this country can be stopped by the police [and] asked to prove they are here legally if the police have other reasons to be suspicious of them.” (more)

The Department of Justice didn’t get the memo. (more)

Every cycle, the Republican and Democratic parties try and juke each other out by suggesting an unwinnable race is winnable. The idea is to get the other party to divert precious campaign funds and resources from races that are actually competitive. Sometimes it works. (more)

The Arizona state Senate voted on Tuesday to bar abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood from receiving state family planning money. (more)

On Wednesday the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments over the constitutionality of the “Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act,” or SB 1070, a bill signed into law by Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer two years ago. (more)

As the Supreme Court readies to hear the Obama administration’s case against Arizona’s strict immigration law, a new poll shows that Americans overwhelmingly support the law and believe the Supreme Court should uphold it. (more)

Republican Jesse Kelly is running for the seat vacated by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords after she was shot in 2011. (more)

Phoenix - An appeals court upheld a requirement in a 2004 Arizona law that voters show identification before they can cast ballots. (more)

Arizona state lawmakers think the Internet is mean. (more)

Arizona House Bill 2549 takes criminalizing speech to an entirely new level. The 1984-like bill, which has already passed both houses of the Arizona Legislature but is awaiting Governor Jan Brewer’s signature, would make it a crime to use any electronic or digital device to communicate “using obscene, lewd or profane language or to suggest a lewd or lascivious act if done with intent to ‘annoy,’ ‘offend,’ ‘harass’ or ‘terrify.’” It could make the most basic and routine Internet communication a Class 1 misdemeanor or worse. (more)

While the Supreme Court weighs the constitutionality of Obamacare and the nation reels from the Obama administration’s order that Catholic hospitals must provide contraceptives and abortifacients to their employees, the ACLU of Arizona is attacking a proposal to restore employers’ freedom of conscience. (more)

House Republican leaders should stay out the upcoming Arizona Republican congressional primary between Rep. Ben Quayle and Rep. David Schweikert, the Club for Growth warned Wednesday, or they will be outspent and outmatched by outside groups.  (more)

Col. Martha McSally sat down with The Daily Caller last week to discuss her Air Force career and her campaign to represent Arizona’s 8th Congressional District — the district previously represented by Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who resigned earlier this year to focus on recovering from injuries suffered during a Jan. 2011 assassination attempt. (more)

Freshman Republican David Schweikert is in a heated primary battle with fellow freshman Republican Ben Quayle in Arizona. Democrats and their allies in the media are portraying the battle as evidence of a GOP civil war. It isn’t. In fact, it was manufactured by Democrats. (more)

Wyatt Earp might be long gone, but there is another showdown underway in Tombstone, Ariz. — this time between the town and the federal government. (more)

Former  Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney handily won Arizona’s Republican primary contest on Tuesday night. The winner-takes-all primary means that Romney will gain 29 delegates. (more)

Seven Marines were killed when two helicopters crashed midair during a training exercise, a U.S. Marine Corps official said Thursday. (more)