Yes, that is Sparky the Sun Devil and the small turd next to him is John McCain. As you may have heard, the Arizona primary was last Tuesday and McCain squeaked by the “serious challenge” of gasbag extraordinaire J.D. Hayworth. McCain beat Hayworth by 25 points; this and other news and notes from the Arizona primary election.

Congressman Raul Grijalva of Arizona appears on Countdown to address hypocrisy from John McCain, John Kyl and Jan Brewer on immigration laws.

And as the facts pile up, and Brewer potentially steps away from a fight, if the US Citizenship and Immigration Service follows through with their memo on how they can offer a path to citizenship without Congressional action, then only one side would be on the offense.

Hillary Clinton let the cat out of the bag a bit early yesterday, speaking with a TV station in Ecuador, when she said that the federal government would file suit against the state of Arizona over their draconian immigration law, SB1070. But after the Justice Department issued no comment on the matter, today a senior Administration official confirmed Clinton’s comment.

In a simply unconscionable act of pure institutionalized racism and xenophobia, Arizona is attempting to purge its school system of foreign teachers and curricula that emphasize ethnic diversity.

Arizona is a medium-sized state, and they’ll be only the first to pass their own Stupak law. It’s part of the chipping away of abortion access that was an outgrowth of the federal health care debate. Those who didn’t want the health care bill to “become an abortion bill” caused this outcome, and as a result poor women will exist on a different tier than those who can afford to choose when to have a child.

We’ve been here before in Arizona. And this could end the same way.

The law, which takes effect in 90 days, will make it a crime to be in the US without proper documentation. Anyone in Arizona can be asked by authorities to produce proof of their immigration status or citizenship—their “papers,” as it were—if they are suspected of being in the US illegally. What justifies that suspicion is, by most accounts, absurdly broad.