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Despite the efforts of anti-Arizonans like Congressman Raul Grivalva, a boycott against the state this year appears to have failed miserably. All that angst was for nothing. A recent survey by a travel company, as reported recently in the Business Journal, shows that Phoenix is No. 10 in the Top 10 domestic travel destinations, tying with Chicago for the position. That seems like a decent ranking when you consider that other destinations on the list included places like Hawaii, Orlando and being on an Alaskan cruise. On top of that, the Arizona Republic reported yesterday that Phoenix resorts saw "significant...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The LAPD is pushing for an exemption of the city's boycott of Arizona when it comes to a contract with a company that operates L.A.'s red-light cameras. The issue was on the council's agenda for Tuesday, but they decided to postpone discussion until Wednesday. The council has to decide whether to continue doing business with American Traffic Solutions, based in Scottsdale, or honor its pledge to boycott Arizona. The company operates red-light cameras at 32 L.A. intersections, but the city's contract with American Traffic Solutions expires at the end of June. The LAPD urges the city...

LAPD seeks to extend its agreement with American Traffic Solutions. A new contract with another Arizona-based firm is also in consideration. Two much-debated City Hall issues are expected to converge this week when the Los Angeles Police Department's red light camera program moves to the front of the line for an exemption from the city's contracting boycott of Arizona over that state's new immigration enforcement law. On Tuesday, the City Council is scheduled to consider — and appears likely to approve — an exception to the boycott allowing a 10-month extension of a multimillion-dollar agreement with Scottsdale-based American Traffic Solutions....

Nothing quite aggregates the inerudite fog that the Obama administration, the Democratic led Congress, and the heterogeneous disposition that various states and cities wander around in, than the above quote. And the Attorney General of this "nation of cowards," epitomized the Obama administration last week when asked by the House Judiciary Committee if he had read the new 10 page Arizona immigration law. Holder, after spending weeks denouncing, criticizing, and demonizing the law because it “has the possibility of leading to racial profiling,” was “unfortunate,” and because he questioned whether the law was unconstitutional, answered,

If you're a parent, or you can remember back to a time when America stood for something decent this one will make you throw up in your mouth when you read it. While the school won't let its kids go to Arizona, the liberal assistant superintendent who made that call did have the kids take a Gay-Sex Class and sign an oath not to tell anyone - including their parents - This is real, you can't make this up: Suzan Hebson, assistant superintendent of Highland Park, Ill., School District 113, won’t allow teen girls to travel to Arizona but she’ll...

“Them are fightin’ words when you say a girl can’t play in the basketball tournament … for political reasons … so we are going to see about that”~Sarah Palin Sarah Palin, while visiting Barack Obama’s hometown of Chicago to help out the state GOP and speak to the people of Chicagoland, learned of a great injustice being done to the Highland Park girl’s basketball team. These girls, who have worked hard and qualified for a national tournament that will be held in Arizona, are being used as pawns by the radical left that controls Chicago schools. ....

The cactus in the photo at right planted along the Arizona border with California gives a pretty good indication of the reaction of that state to the boycott directed at them by the Los Angeles city council over the new immigration law. However, what is the opinion of folks in California? If a Los Angeles Times poll showed overwhelming support for the boycott, do you not think this would be front page news? Well, the results were overwhelming...97.6% of the respondents to this L.A. Times poll were opposed to the boycott of Arizona. The poll question: "Was the L.A. City...

Hispanic low-wage workers who have jobs in the hospitality industry such as hotels and restaurants will be the first to suffer if a boycott of Arizona is successful after the passage of the anti-illegal immigrant bill.