Arizona immigration bills: 'Temper tantrums' or actual policy?

A recent editorial cartoon in the Arizona Daily Star depicted a tiny, portly, balding man in a suit feverishly kicking the shoe of a very tall and stately-looking Uncle Sam. The tiny man (labeled "state legislatures") was screaming, "Take that. And that. And that!"

With the multiple anti-federal government -- and anti-local government-- bills proposed th…