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Jesse Kelly was invited by the Vail HS Government class to participate in a debate between 3 other candidates for Arizona's 8th Congressional District. Here are his answers to several questions

The president is scheduled to give the State of the Union address at 9 PM eastern.

The Conservative Revolution of 2010 “This morning the British army in Boston…disgracefully quitted all their strongholds in Boston and Charlestown, fled from before the army of the United Colonies, and took refuge on board their ships…The joy of our friends in Boston, on seeing the victorious and gallant troops of their country enter the town almost at the heels of their barbarous oppressors, was inexpressibly great.” -As reported by an American newspaperman after the first Washington-led, American victory in Boston, 1776. Just think about what conservatives have accomplished in 2010. Not in my wildest dreams could I have thought that...

I've followed Arizona politics since I first moved there in 1995. Though I haven't lived there full-time in almost a decade, I still read AZ political blogs (like the wonderfully-insidery Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion) regularly and try to keep up with political news there. Below, I've given a rundown of the major Arizona races and added a little analysis, as well as my predictions for November. Nonpartisan :: The Arizona Races: A State of the Field AZ-Gov: There are about ten thousand Republicans running for this seat right now, but only three serious candidates: Governor Jan Brewer, State Treasurer Dean...

"Palin told Facebook followers that she’s going to 'ride the tide with commonsense candidates' and help 'heroes and statesmen' like McCain." The message McCain is now bringing forth to his cohorts in the Republican Party leadership with the Brown victory in Massachusetts is, "See, I told you so. Moderate Republicanism can win. All we need do to totally usurp those conservative wackos in the Tea Party movement is tell them our candidate is a "conservative" and they will do the rest -- oh, and make sure other grassroot conservatives who get in our way in the primaries are out spent...

Pay attention: In the afterglow of the Massachusetts Miracle, there are flickers of peril for the right. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but like Paul Revere’s midnight message, consider this warning “a cry of defiance, and not of fear.” Conservatives have worked hard to rebuild after Big Government Republican John McCain’s defeat. But McCain isn’t going gently into that good night. Red Flag No. One: A reader from Arizona informed me the day after the Bay State Bombshell that he had received a robo-call from Massachusetts GOP Sen.-elect Scott Brown. “He basically wanted me to vote...

[Correction: Although the Washington Post’s Sunday story that focused primarily on a new Washington Post-ABC News poll—“Poll Shows Growing Disappointment, Polarization Over Obama’s Performance” by Jon Cohen and Jennifer Agiesta—made no mention of the fact that the poll found that 58 percent of Americans say they favor a smaller government that provides fewer services, another story in Sunday’s Post—“One Year Later Assessing Obama; Testing the Promise of Pragmatism” by Dan Balz--did mention that finding. The tenth paragraph of Balz’s story said: “The poll also shows how much ground Obama has lost during his first year of trying to convince the...

John Charlton reported three weeks ago that, “… Obama made his first official move to corrupt and undermine the 2010 elections… The move consisted in the little noticed appointment of a technical adviser ,Edwin B. Smith, III, to the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC).” Smith is known to have been the vice president of manufacturing, compliance, quality and certification at Sequoia Voting Systems, which is a company that makes voting machines, and it has been at the center of infamous voting irregularities in different elections across the country. Sequoia has secured the voting...