“Jan Brewer” on The Daily Caller

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The Independent Women’s Forum is calling Maureen Dowd a “mean girl,” in response to her New York Times column comparing female Republican candidates to characters from a Lindsay Lohan film about high-school cafeteria sniping. (more)

Democratic House members hold all nine districts in four states that line the national border with Mexico, but polling data suggest Republicans may be poised to take a third of those seats in the November midterm elections. (more)

The idea barely failed two years ago, but is expected to easily win approval in November amid opposition to the federal health care overhaul: State-guaranteed protections for health care that would be written into the Arizona Constitution. (more)

What a week for “Countdown”! Approximately 97 segments about Christine O’Donnell, a song about Christine O’Donnell, and one hilariously bone-headed non-Christine-O’Donnell-related mistake. (Skip to Tuesday to check it out.) (more)

After a bruising primary season, the GOP establishment is trying to come to terms with a Tea Party movement that enjoys the loyalty of thousands of activists across the country.  Tales of infighting are already starting to circulate.  But while the moderate and conservative wings of the Republican Party are sniping at each other, they can at least agree on something: the mainstream media remains overwhelmingly biased in favor of the Democratic Party and President Barack Obama. (more)

Truly, if you think about it for a second, isn’t it ironic, don’t you think? (more)

Despite her halting debate performance last week, Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer now earns 60% of the vote in her bid for reelection, her best showing in the race to date. (more)

PHOENIX — Gov. Jan Brewer says her first debate with challenger Terry Goddard was not her finest hour, but says she is moving on with her campaign, standing on her record, and she does not expect to debate Goddard again. (more)

Felipe Calderon whistling in Wonderland (more)

PHOENIX — Gov. Jan Brewer’s lawyers on Thursday filed the first brief in their appeal of a ruling that put the most controversial elements of Arizona’s new immigration law on hold. (more)

People in Arizona remember a different Jan Brewer from the tough-talking Republican governor at the center of the bitter immigration debate swirling out of her state. If politicians have multiple lives, her previous ones showed a much more personable presence — one pundit called her “delightful.” Not eloquent but engaging, not book-smart but pragmatic, Brewer would often crack jokes in boring committee meetings when she was a state legislator, trading punch lines with another lawmaker who acted as the comedic foil. The exchanges reminded some of scenes with Lucy and Ethel in I Love Lucy more than legislative debate. (more)

In the aftermath of the 2008 election, the writer Sam Tanenhaus published a small book entitled The Death of Conservatism.  It was an excellent encapsulation of the conventional wisdom that conservatism had expended itself in the second Bush term.  By the time the book was published in mid-2009, its thesis had already been disproven.  What brought conservatism back to life so quickly?  The answer is that there was a concerted effort to reconstruct the conservative movement that began in the late Bush years and has the potential to make conservatism more influential than ever before. (more)

Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Jon Kyl of Arizona and Jeff Sessions of Alabama said they think the Border Bill that President Obama signed on Friday may start to help the violence-torn and crime-ridden border the United States shares with Mexico, but they say it’s definitely not enough. (more)

Looking down on downtown Kansas City gives a perspective on the area that one doesn’t always get, I’d have to imagine. As a newfound friend of mine said about her native city, sometimes one just doesn’t understand the beauty or uniqueness of a view until you get a chance to look at it a little removed and from a new viewpoint. (more)

While Judge Susan Bolton lays out the “Welcome” mat for the illegal immigrants to enter our borders, she is threatening not only our immigration standards, but also our standards as a nation.  Since the moment Governor Jan Brewer refused to allow ignorance of the White House to infect her state for another day, this was not about just about immigration totally but about what we wanted this nation to be.  We are threatened daily by outside invaders and instead of protecting ourselves, we fight within our own legislative and judicial walls, complicating every aspect of it and back bite ourselves while our nation crumbles. (more)

When U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton ruled on Wednesday that key provisions of Arizona’s new anti-immigration law were unconstitutional, she could have also declared them unnecessary. That is, if the main impetus behind the controversial legislation was, as Arizona Governor Jan Brewer said when she signed it in April, “border-related violence and crime due to illegal immigration.” The fact is, despite the murderous mayhem raging across the border in Mexico, the U.S. side, from San Diego to Brownsville, Texas, is one of the nation’s safest corridors. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — On the surface, a judge’s decision to block tough provisions of Arizona’s immigration law was a defeat for the state’s Republican governor and a win for the Democratic Obama administration. But neither party is sure it will play out that way politically, either this fall or beyond. (more)

PHOENIX (AP) — Lost in the hoopla over Arizona’s immigration law is the fact that state and local authorities for years have been doing their own aggressive crackdowns in the busiest illegal gateway into the country. (more)

Jane Norton, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Colorado, had a hunch that by dinnertime Wednesday, conservative voters across the state would have heard about a federal judge blocking much of Arizona’s immigration law. (more)