Jabba the Hendershott, Arpaio’s portly Dick Cheney… What I can never figure out about Maricopa County is that the public officials who by all rights should be under the freakin’ magnifying glass are in fact the ones pursuing bogus charges against their enemies. Take Joe Arpaio’s Chief Deputy David Hendershott,…

Buffalo chips, ahoy! Even Ankarlo finds this guy “icky,” and that’s saying something, coming from KTAR’s ick-meister pooh-bah… (Note the pistol, folks. Armed? Absolutely. Dangerous? Hey, no more than any other wacko with a sidearm.) En route to the Macehualli Work Center near 25th Street and Bell Road Wednesday mornin’,…

The panic! release party? It won’t be at Anderson’s… Here’s a message from the folks at panic!, which apparently had a pending club date at the now defunct Anderson’s Fifth Estate. The mass e-mail pretty much speaks for itself, especially since Tom Anderson is not returning calls. Well, at least…

Why were the nativists at the Paradise Valley Mall Saturday? “Why not?” sputtered American Freedom Riders founder Danny Smith in reply to my query. Hey, it’s still a free country, kinda-sorta. And the AFR and other anti-illegal groups wanted to get out of the Thomas Road box this weekend, seeing…

The latest issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report is out. The quarterly mag is practically a must-read for those following hate groups in AZ, the immigration issue, and how they overlap. Though the lead article “Immigration Backlash” deals directly with everyone’s favorite topic, there are three others…

Citizen Klahr, still fightin’ the good fight, in a pic from a 2002 New Times profile of Klahr. Whatever you may think of the oft-controversial and always colorful Gary Peter Klahr, civil libertarian and former Phoenix City Councilman, the lawsuit he recently filed against our Mayor Goober makes a superb…

Jeez, what fell in my eye? Did that come from The Bird!? Ah, the Christmas season, so full of joy and goodwill towards one’s fellow man. But not at the PHX Pruitt’s protests, boyo, where the Prince of Peace would certainly not be welcome by the nativists if his eyes…

Amateur Mel Tillis impersonator and furniture-peddler Roger Sensing, acting like a pinche cabron, as usual, as he talks to Salvador Reza. (Photo courtesy of Eduardo Barraza of Barriozona.com.) The more I read and learn about Roger Sensing, the more I realize the guy is one class-A S.O.B., even though he…

Tired ol’ lefty Linda Valdez of the Repugly disappoints today in her “quick hit” against Salvador Reza and the protests at Pruitt’s. I guess she got the top-down memo telling all of the Repugly’s writers that they have to tow the line on the Pruitt’s matter. Does Pruitt’s advertise with…

Salvador Reza at this Saturday’s protest on Thomas. Is the Republic’s City Hall suckup, lil’ Casey Newton, gunning for a job on Goober’s staff? He might as well be, the way he’s turned into a mouthpiece for Flipflop Phil, penning shorts like Saturday’s “Pruitt’s top foe refuses meeting,” which reads…

The Mayor’s panel, getting an earful while Hizzoner hides out… Is Mayor Phil Gordon afraid of Hispanics? You’ve gotta wonder, especially when a mostly Hispanic crowd of about 1,000 persons shows up to the auditorium at South Mountain High School to express their frustration over Da Mayor’s capitulation on the…

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Tell me about the rabbits again, George… Goofy, giraffe-necked doofus Robert Robb is easily The Arizona Republic’s most fatuous scribbler. And with competition like E.J. “Puddin’Head” Montini and Laurie “I hate drunk Mexicans” Roberts, that’s some accomplishment! Robb, though, is different from his colleagues in this respect: He really reckons…

I’m on deadline today, so I barely have time to breathe, but here are a couple of things I felt I should point you to re: everyone’s favorite topic: illegal immigration. First off, check this opinion piece and slideshow about the standoff at Pruitt’s by New York Times editor Lawrence…

The original, legal art the County Attorney’s office appropriated for its anti-truancy propaganda. “This crime sponsored by truancy”? A less-than crafty canard. A close up of the section used in the photo. Has the office of County Attorney Candy Thomas ripped off the work of a graffiti artist? That would…

Judge Baca, keepin’ the Sheriff in line: You go, girl! Poor Sheriff Joe. He claims he’s running out of money, and has to cut corners all over the place, though he still finds the moolah to chase illegal immigrants no matter what. Now Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Anna Baca…

North High student Joe Arvizu, who passed this Monday morning… Joe Arvizu’s funeral took place yesterday in a small town near the Mexican city of Agua Prieta, across the border from Douglas, Arizona. The precise cause of his death is unclear, though the teenager (some say he was 17, others…

Despite today’s analysis from Arizona Republic reporter Yvonne Wingett that “Arpaio is still a rock star as far as politicians go,” a new Rocky Mountain Poll shows that Sheriff Joe’s numbers have slipped even further than a Cronkite-Eight Poll from last month revealed. Released just before Thanksgiving, the Cronkite-Eight Poll…

Have the extremists won the the day? Almost. Only a blue-ribbon panel stands between them and total victory in this city. During his campaign for reelection, Mayor Phil Gordon correctly asserted that Phoenix is not a “sanctuary city,” despite claims that PHX Police Operations Order 1.4.3 makes it so. That’s…