What did Blago get from Obama? Not even a cigar after the show…It’s a tad late here at New Times’ offices, but I want you to read the following excerpts from the federal criminal complaint filed against Illinois Governor and Serbian-American wild-man Rod Blagojevich. This, of course, regards Blago’s alleged…

Ipso schmucko can’t fathom why the hoi polloi hate the photo enforcement cameras.The Arizona Republic’s smug, smarmy scribbler E.J. Montini is clueless (yet, again) as to why so many of the Republic’s online readers are so pissed off by the Department of Public Safety’s photo enforcement cameras. You can almost…

It loves the Napster a little too much…The New York Times has one thing correct. Once Janet Napolitano has boarded her flight for D.C., Hispanics in Arizona are right to be fearful of a ramped-up, czarist Russian-style pogrom, with little concern for their civil rights, be they citizens or non-citizens. In…

Embedded video from CNN VideoArpaio defending Nappy on Rick Sanchez’s CNN broadcast. Why won’t the Napster go on CNN anchor Rick Sanchez’s afternoon show? Following President elect Barack Obama’s pick of Arizona Governor Napolitano to be his administration’s Homeland Security czar, Sanchez has repeatedly invited Nappy to be on his show…

Right off the bat, I have to say that in this video Travis Munroe Townsend, 26, the alleged attacker of a Glendale photo enforcement camera (and, if guilty, an American hero, in my opinion), doesn’t look a thing like the photo of him released yesterday by DPS. In that pic,…

What will it take before the pro-immigrant crowd starts a real campaign to stop this woman? Hispanic leaders in Arizona and elsewhere need to start raising hell over the nomination of border hawk Janet Napolitano to be Obama’s Secretary of Homeland Security. And I don’t just mean giving the occasional…

Roy Warden: Este pendejo, indeed…Anti-immigrant nutjob and Mexican flag-burner Roy Warden’s coming to town Wednesday, December 10 for a “rally” to “impeach” Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Ruth McGregor. Well, supposedly. According to e-mails the wacky Warden’s sent out to the state Supreme Court and others, Warden’s been inspired by…

Maria Weeg, aka, “the Weeg-ster”: Her resemblance to erstwhile Dukakis campaign aide Susan Estrich, is striking.It’s gotta be cold comfort for Arizona Democratic Party Chairman “Dandy” Don Bivens and Executive Director Maria Weeg to be getting love from the ideological Cro-Magnons over at the Sonoran Alliance blog. After all, Bivens,…

CNN’s Campbell Brown “Cutting Through the Bull” concerning Janet. Well, not completely… So the blogging and talk radio world is all over Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell for his off-mic comment about our Governor Janet Napolitano being tapped for Homeland Security Secretary, and why she’s a solid pick, in his estimation…

Buffalo Rick Galeener, guilty of taking an illegal al fresco whiz.In a surprising turn of events in the pending bench trial of nativist wackjob and noted Yosemite Sam-lookalike Buffalo Rick Galeener, the grizzled 58 year-old entered Phoenix Municipal Court this morning, and pleaded “guilty” to one count of public urination…

  Part One of Amy Goodman’s recent Democracy Now! segment on Janet Napolitano. Part Two from the same Democracy Now! show. If you want a quick video primer on why today’s official pick of Gov. Janet Napolitano to be Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary is a disaster for those concerned about…

If there’s anything the tragedy in St. Johns should teach you, it’s that if you plan to spank your eight year old 1,000 times, you may not want to show him how to shoot a rifle. Either that, or you might want to consider the option of a “time out”…

The thing that’s annoyed me most post-November 4 is the way state Dems seem to be shrugging and taking their losses locally on the chin. Rather than being infuriated that the state Democratic Party effed up, Dems seemingly have been resigned to getting cornholed royally by Republicans, as if that’s…

An excerpt from Bill McCune’s 1991 documentary, Barry Goldwater: An American Life.Someone recently sent me this YouTube clip from Bill McCune’s excellent bio-doc Barry Goldwater: An American Life, which I first watched while researching my 2006 cover story about the ribald Goldwater we rarely see represented, Goldwater Uncut. I had…

Just a few of the folks WBC missed out on meeting Saturday night.I was expecting a hatefest, a yellathon, maybe even some fisticuffs. Instead, it turned into a love-in.I’m talking about the threatened picket of Glendale Community College by the gay-bashing Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas. WBC is a…

Hooman Karamian, the wannabe Perez Hilton… Sometimes, God sends you free room service. That’s what it felt like a couple of days ago when Hooman Karamian’s flack with the mega firm of 5W PR called me and offered him up to me on a silver platter. Hoo-da Hooman? You know…

Why worry? As The Turner Diaries reveals, ofays and guns go together like grits and runny eggs. What the hell is wrong with white people? Numerous media reports of late have detailed a run on gun stores by crazed crackers who believe the new black President-elect will take their firearms…

Freedom’s Phoenix has the scoop on the growing Post-it note rebellion against DPS’ new photo enforcement cameras. Say you wanna revolution? I know I do every time I take the 51 through town and have to run the gauntlet of the Arizona Department of Public Safety’s photo enforcement cameras. Literally,…

Get over it, nutbars. Come January 20, he’ll be the Prez, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Weird how the extremes of the far right and far left end up playing patty cake with each other in this country. Take, for example, Philadelphia lawyer Phil Berg, a former…

Jesse Curnow, organizer of the local chapter of the neo-Nazi Nationalist Coalition. Ever want to shake hands with your friendly, neighborhood neo-Nazi? Well, here’s your chance. This Saturday afternoon, November 15 at the main branch of the Mesa library, the local chapter of the neo-Nazi Nationalist Coalition will be meeting…