As you may have heard, a video surfaced of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney pandering to a wealthy group of potential donors, in which he described 47 percent of Americans as people who “pay no income tax,” and are committed Obama voters addicted to the government teat.That’s good news for…
Legislative District 13 voters will be able to vote for state House candidate Darin Mitchell, despite the fact that a judge ruled he doesn’t live in the district.Mitchell, a Republican, decided to appeal the county superior court ruling ordering him off the ballot, and he ended up winning that battle.See…
Steven Briones had the cops called on him Monday morning north of Lake Havasu, because he walked into a convenience store without pants.Aside from questioning Briones about allegedly stealing a jug of milk, Mohave County Sheriff’s deputies asked him about the whole not-wearing-pants thing. According to Briones, he had not…
As the so-called “papers please” provision of Senate Bill 1070 was cleared for use yesterday, Governor Jan Brewer issued a statement reminding the public that there are also laws “barring racial profiling” practices by police.”It is not enough that SB 1070 be enforced. It must be enforced efficiently, effectively and…
U.S. District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton has lifted the injunction on Senate Bill 1070’s “papers please” provision, which allows cops to begin enforcing that section immediately.This move was pretty much expected, as Bolton signaled her intent to release the injunction a few weeks ago, as she noted that the…
UPDATE: DHS Director Will Humble drops some knowledge after the jump. Just about every legislative session, the pro-choice crowd causes a stink with all the anti-abortion bills promoted by the Center for Arizona Policy, and the lobbying organization takes credit for nine such bills being passed into law since 2010.According…
In case you just went over your article limit on the Arizona Republic’s website, azcentral.com, and you just have to read all five sentences about some guy who got kind of scared because he’s not very good at landing airplanes, we have the solution.Just as a couple of our sister…
A Republican state House Candidate has been ordered off general election ballots by a Maricopa County judge, since the candidate pretended to live in a friend’s/campaign worker’s vacant house to qualify as a resident of the district.Darin Mitchell already got enough votes in the primary to land on general election…
In case you missed ’em, Occupy Phoenix gathered yesterday for the Occupy Wall Street movement’s one-year anniversary, and some things don’t change — banks and Sheriff Joe Arpaio are still terrible.There was a new one out of at least one of the Occupy folks yesterday, though, regarding the Democratic candidate…
See also: Joe Arpaio Takes Credit for Creating Five Jobs at Mexican Restaurant Last week, Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced his newest conspiracy theory, by proclaiming that he’s a job creator.After running “employer sanctions operation”/immigrant roundup number 65, Arpaio figured that since his deputies arrested four people with jobs at a…
See also: Jhessye Shockley’s Mother Continues to Bash Glendale P.D., CPSSee also: Jhessye Shockley’s Mother Jerice Hunter Arrested for Girl’s Murder See also: Jerice Hunter Pleads Not Guilty Despite what’s previously been said by Jerice Hunter’s family, information released by Child Protective Services says it received just one report accusing…
A Glendale couple is suing the Deer Valley Unified School District, claiming staff at the boy’s elementary school fed him sugar, and often kept him in a small, windowless room due to his behavior.The boy’s parents contend that the school kept giving their boy sugar — which the boy is…
See also: Jhessye Shockley’s Mother Jerice Hunter Arrested for Girl’s MurderSee also: Jerice Hunter’s Bond Set at $500,000 Jerice Hunter’s still maintaining her innocence in the in the death of her 5-year-old daughter, Jhessye Shockley.Hunter pleaded not guilty this morning to charges of child abuse and the first-degree murder, and…
The Arizona Diamondbacks won a grand total of one game in three chances against the San Francisco Giants, which actually raised the D-backs chances of making the playoffs from about 1 percent to almost 3 percent.That said, there’s about a 97-percent chance the Diamondbacks are just playing for dignity, and…
See also: Kevin Kolb Temporarily Replaces Tim Tebow as Football Jesus Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kevin Kolb has retained his temporary title of “Football Jesus” for another week, after New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow didn’t do much of anything again, and Kolb led the Cards to a win over the…
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See also: ATF, Glendale P.D. Trying to Find Out Who Bombed a House for the Third Time Gary Vogt, 50, was arrested this morning by Glendale police and ATF agents, and is accused of being the guy who bombed the same Glendale house three times.Vogt’s possible motivation, according to documents…
UPDATE: As called, Bickley strokes “man who stands for values rarely seen in sports.” The Phoenix Coyotes announced today that captain Shane Doan signed a four-year deal with the team.Coyotes General Manager Don Maloney says in a statement that the priority was to keep Doan — the last original Coyote…
A convicted child molester filed a mostly incoherent lawsuit yesterday in U.S. District Court here, seemingly asking for DNA samples from President Obama, Osama bin Laden, and Saddam Hussein.The convicted child molester is Arnold Begay, whose lawsuit is postmarked out of a low-security federal prison in North Carolina…
See also: Kris Kobach Gets $300 Per Hour to Advise MCSOSee also: Kris Kobach’s Misleading Statements on SB 1070 Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has so much Arizona right-wing-nuttery in his blood that he ought to get tested.As one of the creators of Senate Bill 1070, he’s part Russell…
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Fellow Americans, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has announced that he is taking steps to fix this nation’s unemployment crisis, by arresting workers in high-wage fields such as Mexican restaurant dish-washing to create brand-new jobs — or so the Sheriff’s logic goes.Or, for the rest of us, that means Arpaio just pulled…
