Pete Rose must think we’re a bunch of dumb clucks. Dumb enough, in the first place, to believe years of denials that he bet on baseball. And dumb enough now to fall for a lame apology.

At least Romney had binders. Binders full of qualified women to fill cabinet positions, that is. Democrats mercilessly pounded Romney for the binders comment he made during the 2012 presidential campaign, but I’ll bet the Obama campaign now wishes Romney had passed the binders on to Obama since it seems he’s having a hard time picking women to fill his second term cabinet positions.

WASHINGTON _ The U.S.-Mexico border is safer than it ever has been, but Arizona will remain the most-active region for border crossing even as apprehensions continue to drop, according to a report released Thursday.

A year ago the defining image of the Iraq war was that of Saddam’s statue coming down. That was supposed to bode well for world peace.

In a more fair world, Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson would be doing a perp walk. After all, the CEOs of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac committed the same white-collar crimes that brought down Enron and WorldCom, among others.

“Come election time, I think the people in the United States are intelligent enough to see what the Congress did (Thursday). They have turned their backs on military operations overseas in order to try and embarrass the president into doing something that he doesn’t want to do.”

“The people who are running Mesa are absolutely out of their mind. It’s bad enough that we don’t have bus service on Sundays ... And now they want to take away the whole weekend? What they ought to do is just ship everybody to Tempe and Phoenix, and let this town go into the piece of garbage that it’s become.”

WASHINGTON - New Chief Justice John Roberts stepped forward Wednesday as an aggressive defender of federal authority to block doctor-assisted suicide, as the Supreme Court clashed over an Oregon law that lets doctors help terminally ill patients end their lives.

WASHINGTON - Newly installed Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday sharply questioned a lawyer arguing for preservation of Oregon's physician-assisted suicide law, noting the federal government's tough regulation of addictive drugs.

October 14, 2004

PHOENIX - As estimated 44,000 screaming Bush fans, some of whom waited more than an hour to get into the Republican rally at Bank One Ballpark on Wednesday night, drowned out their hero repeatedly as he tried to thank them.

WASHINGTON - In a world "blinking red" with terrorist threats against the United States, the FBI missed a last-minute chance to detect a key al-Qaida cell and possibly disrupt the Sept. 11 attack, the commission investigating the 2001 hijackings said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON — It's code blue for the color-themed terrorism advisories.

WASHINGTON - The CIA missed the big-picture significance of "tell-tale indicators" of impending terrorist attacks, partly because of its culture of a piecemeal approach to intelligence analysis, a federal panel probing the Sept. 11 attacks said Wednesday.

Top finishers in Sunday's P.F. Chang’s Rock ’n’ Roll Arizona Marathon.

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