​Republican Arizona Representative Kimberly Yee has taken a page out of fagala-phobic abortion bully Trent Franks' book, and is taking it upon herself to attempt to dictate when women in Arizona can have an abortion.

Yee introduced a bill into the Arizona Legislature yesterday that would ban abortions of fetuses that are more than 20 weeks old.

Why 20 weeks? Well, because that's when Yee -- who is not a doctor -- says fetuses start feeling pain.

Yee's bill is similar to a bill that Congressman Franks introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives last month that would set similar restrictions for women in Washington D.C. -- because D.C.'s the only place where Franks, as a congressman from Arizona, has the authority to legislatively push his anti-abortion agenda.

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​"Caylee's Law," a bill inspired by the alleged murder of Caylee Anthony that would make it a felony for a parent to not report their child missing within 24 hours of his or her disappearance, was approved by the Arizona House of Representatives yesterday.

Caylee's mother, Casey Anthony, as you probably recall, was acquitted last summer of charges that she murdered her daughter.

As you also may recall, the majority of Americans seem to think Casey Anthony got away with murder -- including Arizona Senator Linda Gray, who told New Times last year that "I think [Anthony's] guilty. I think she had something to do with the death of her child."

In response to Gray's apparent lack of faith in the judicial system, she introduced "Caylee's Law."

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Steve Smith wants more of this -- several miles north of the border.

​Governor Jan Brewer signed legislation earlier this month to create a state border fence with Mexico.

The bill she penned, sponsored by Maricopa Republican state Senator Steve Smith, does not designate Arizona tax dollars for the project. Instead, it's up to Smith to raise private donations for construction.

He met with Brewer earlier this week to chat about building the fence, according to press reports, and already the project is running into several hurdles.

Most land on the border is owned by the federal government, which is unlikely to allow private contractors to begin building a fence on their property, especially since President BarackObama recently stated the border fence is "basically complete."

So now Smith wants to raise donations for a border fence several miles north of the Mexican border.

That might not even be the most cockamamie part of it.

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DREAM On.

​Illinois Senator Richard Durbin will re-introduce the DREAM Act later this morning.

Durbin's move is the second step in the Democratic Party's kabuki courtship of Latino voters ahead of the 2012 elections, which began with Barack Obama's bogus immigration speech yesterday.

The DREAM Act, if passed, would allow undocumented youth meeting certain requirements to continue their lives in the United States and begin the long process of becoming citizens. Supporters of the legislation argue it will boost America's economy and military by allowing talented -- but undocumented -- young folks to legally integrate into society. Critics claim it will inspire "chain migration" to the United States, as Texas Representative Lamar Smith recently argued in a Washington D.C. daily.

Merits aside, the bill is unlikely to pass, and its introduction isn't much more than a gesture of support from Democrats to Latinos.

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Self-promotion is the law in Steve Yarbrough's perfect world.

​Jan Brewer again rejected a bill increasing the amount of money Arizona taxpayers can write off on their tax bills and give to private-scholarship charities, denying state Senator Steve Yarbrough's second attempt to raise the amount of money each taxpayer can contribute to his side business.

In rejecting the legislation, Brewer wrote that private tuition portions of the legislation were "rushed" and would cause the state to lose revenue. She noted that the bill "stretches the limits" of what is "appropriate" in a tax-revenue bill, and added that the legislation might need to be passed in a special session to enact several important parts of the bill dealing with the Arizona Department of Revenue and Arizona Commerce Authority.

Thanks, Steve.

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This image on a license plate could cause Arizona to lose federal highway funding.

​A bill allowing the creation of license plates featuring the Gadsden Flag, the adopted symbol of the Tea party movement, is awaiting the signature of Governor Jan Brewer, and people -- a New York congressman, in particular -- aren't happy about it.

Anyone who wants a Gadsden Flag plate would have to pony up $25, $17 of which goes to "promote Tea Party governing principles" because the Tea Party is the organization that came up with the required $32,000 to create the plates.

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He doesn't know when to quit.

​State Senator Steve Yarbrough is praying for Jan Brewer to sign an amended bill benefiting his side business, which she originally rejected last week as "unbalanc[ing] the budget."

SB 1186, the "2011 tax corrections act," passed the Arizona House and Senate yesterday. It is a revised bill that would increase a current Arizona tax credit from $500 to $750 for donating to a "scholarship organization." Basically, Arizona allows you to decline to pay taxes, up to $500, if you take that money and give it to "scholarship organizations" -- like Yarbrough's Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization.

The legislation Brewer rejected was known as HB 2581.

Yarbrough's Christian School Tuition Organization reportedly is the largest such group in the state and took in $11.4 million in tax dollars during 2007, according to the Arizona Education Association. No wonder he's pushing it so hard.

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Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal

​Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal apparently is trying to steal some of Arizona's far-right-wing "birther" thunder.

 

As you've probably heard, the sudden rash of "birther" legislation is a ludicrous response to the repeatedly debunked conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama was born in Kenya, and is therefore not a U.S. citizen.

After Arizona Governor Jan Brewer vetoed the Legislature's ridiculous, conspiracy-theory-laden "Birther Bill" on Monday, Jindal let the public know that he's ready and willing to sign similar legislation in Louisiana.

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Even Jan Brewer thinks it's nuts to make a candidate provide a description of his penis to run for president in Arizona.

​It pains us, but big props must go out to Governor Jan Brewer, who today vetoed one of the most ridiculous, conspiracy-based, purely symbolic pieces of legislative garbage to pass through the Arizona Legislature: the humiliating "Birther Bill."

Check out some of the other nutty legislation the governor vetoed today here in Feathered Bastard.

The bill was Arizona's far-right-wing response to the continuously debunked conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama is not an American citizen. It required that presidential candidates prove to Arizona election officials that they were born in the United States before their name's allowed on the ballot in the Grand Canyon State -- despite it's already being a federal requirement to land the job.

Sounds ridiculous, we know -- but it gets worse.

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Kenya tell us about your penis, too?

​Pending a signature from Governor Jan Brewer, the Arizona Legislature has made it official -- show us the birth certificate.

Or your circumcision certificate, early baptismal certificate, hospital birth record, postpartum medical record, or an early census record.

That's right, the state House passedthe "Birther Bill" to the governor, just in case a real Kenyan ever tries to sneak his way into the White House.

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