Former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin was in town briefly on Friday to give the keynote address at a Tea Party rally at the state capitol. That, of course, meant there were news cameras around, which usually means one thing here in the Valley: Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is…
If you need an incentive to cast a ballot, here it isArizona Attorney General Terry Goddard may not be the perfect gubernatorial candidate, but compared to his Republican rival Governor Jan Brewer, he’s a freakin’ Nobel Prize laureate. It’s a real sin that the political climate of this state is…
Since the indictment of Phoenix Police Officer Richard Chrisman on a second degree murder charge in the slaying of south Phoenix resident Daniel Rodriguez, there’s been much speculation about the so-called “Brady list” that he and hundreds of other Valley cops are on. The list is named for the 1963 U.S…
So was anyone surprised by neo-Nazi-hugging state Senator Russell Pearce’s press conference yesterday announcing that he’ll be targeting U.S. citizen children in a racist attempt to undermine the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment guarantee of birthright citizenship?Well, you might have been had you read an October 10, Associated Press piece discussing…
The first thing that sprang to mind when I got the above flier in my e-mail in-box announcing that “Bush’s Brain” Karl Rove will be speaking at the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce’s “Phoenix Forum” series, was, um, what, you mean David Duke was unavailable?Sure, that’s a slight to David Duke,…
Andrei Cherny’s ad attacking Doug Ducey has the ex-Cold Stone CEO playing defense My head’s been so buried in statistics for an upcoming feature that I missed a news conference last week for former Clinton advisor and Democratic contender for Arizona State Treasurer Andrei Cherny. In it, the Cherny camp…
I don’t want to get my hopes up, but do you think the mainstream media’s finally beginning to “get it” when it comes to our corrupt top constable, Sheriff Joe Arpaio? CNN didn’t exactly lead last night with the above piece on the federal grand jury inquiry into Arpaio, his former fellow…
A Guadalupe man run over by a Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop last year will receive $600,000 in a settlement of his lawsuit.Armando L. Nido didn’t pull over for deputy James Carey, (see our post about Nido’s notice of claim), so Carey didn’t stop for Nido. He…
Feathered Bastard will go dark for about a week as I work on a larger project that requires my undivided attention.Unless something pops up that I absolutely must blog, there will likely be no new blogs on FB until Monday, October 11. Sources are still free to contact me with info,…
Some of what Sanchez said that sunk his dinghyCNN’s firing of Rick Sanchez over some controversial comments made on a satellite radio show is asinine, short-sighted and hypocritical in the extreme.Yeah, he called The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart a “bigot,” but then he withdrew the comment later during the same…
A guy wearing nothing but pink socks was seen running towards 35th Avenue near the Durango Jail yesterday. The problem with that — aside from the guy being naked — is he was an inmate at the jail who’d just scaled five razor-wire fences and his running naked through the…
The Phoenix Police Department has finally issued a press release in the racially-motivated shooting of Kelly Jaeger, a Caucasian woman who was walking late at night in Phoenix’s Palma Park when she and her African-American friend Jeffery Wellmaker were reportedly accosted by a bald, white tattooed man. The man challenged…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office began a press release about an escaped inmate this afternoon with the comical question “Herculean inmate? Or Darwin award?” Perhaps the questions should have been “how the hell does a guy scale five razor-wire fences without anyone noticing?”Allow us to explain:This morning, around 7:30, a…
I’ve blogged till I’m blue in the face about the endless stream of whoppers concerning illegal immigration flowing from the pie-hole of racist state Senator Russell Pearce, the main sponsor of Arizona’s “breathing while brown law” SB 1070. One of Pearce’s favorite falsehoods, a phony stat he’s sputtered on numerous occasions, like he…
Watching the footage of Nogales Mayor Octavio Garcia-Von Borstel and his father Octavio Garcia Suarez dragged before a judge in shackles and prison stripes after their arrests on charges of bribery, theft, fraud and money laundering, raises a few interesting questions regarding Maricopa County’s crotchety top constable, Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The indictments of…
In my Monday blog concerning just who will pay for the cost of Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s administrative investigation into the Munnell memo alleging corruption in the command staff of the MCSO, I reported that Babeu’s flack Tim Gaffney had told me that both the MCSO and the Maricopa County…
I’m on deadline today, so I won’t have time to suss this out till later, but this CNN video of peace activist Liz Hourican being tackled by law enforcement is disturbing for a couple of reasons.The first is that, based on what’s in the video, there was no need for…
You guys call this a mosh? I’ve seen old ladies do betterSand Land continues to serve as the spot to be for neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and plain ol’ racist nativists to party down. Just check out the above video for the 2009 Oi Fest, held yearly in Tonopah, Arizona, and sponsored…
[jump] A photo of a younger Nelson Omar. The boy is now thirteen. Whether the coyote’s tale is true or not, Nelson is missing, and there is a decomposed body of a young boy at the Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office that could be him. The coroner needs photos of the boy…
Who will pick up the tab for Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s investigation into the allegations made in MCSO Deputy Chief Frank Munnell’s memo? And should Maricopa County pay for any of it, particularly considering the PCSO’s past record concerning internal investigations, specifically the mysterious “wounding” of PCSO Deputy Louie…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio spent a large portion of last week touting how his jails received high marks after a federal “audit.””The information they got … they should turn this over to DOJ. They would say, ‘Boy, this is pretty good, you did all the work for us,'” Arpaio…
If you read today’s Arizona Republic or watched Fox News last night, you might be under the mistaken impression that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s vast incarceration complex has undergone an audit from the U.S. Marshals Service and earned gold stars and smiley faces all around. Um, not exactly. Despite the hoo-ha Arpaio’s made over…
