Is the angry man out?

   The most amazing story of Nov. 8 was how Arizonans in a heavily Republican district ousted the state’s most powerful Republican lawmaker.    Russell Pearce, president of the Senate, was replaced by a comparably conservative Republican. The key distinction, however, may be that the man who beat him wasn’t quite as angry.    …

Great Wall of Arizona

Hey, we get it. The state of Arizona pleads almost frantically on its “Build the Border Fence” web site that walls work. Take the triple-layer fence America’s tax dollars built to buffet the southern flank of Yuma, Ariz., under the Bush administration. The state calls it “extraordinarily successful,” thwarting “95 percent of illegal crossings in…