Some political theorists have referred to it as “manufacturing consent.” I like to call it the propaganda of the status quo. And then there’s another, even more damning label: downright laziness. Whatever you call it, it’s often on full display on KAET Channel 8’s Horizon, hosted by the genial and…
I feel a little like the Arizona Republic’s Clay Thompson in discussing this issue, raised via e-mail by someone involved in the effort to recall state Senate President Russell Pearce. But here goes.Some have suggested that Pearce, who proclaims himself to be a great patriot, has been in violation of…
Recently obtained statistics from the Phoenix Police Department show that hate crime in Arizona’s most populous city continues its upward trend, with a 17.4 percent jump in bias incidents from 2009 to 2010.The PPD reported 115 such incidents in 2009. In 2010, there were 135.The gain is at least smaller…
Pearce Blames “Far Left Anarchists” for Recall: MyFoxPHOENIX.comAs State Senate President Russell Pearce spews falsehoods about the recall effort and throws temper tantrums on national TV, that effort grinds inexorably on toward its ultimate conclusion: a recall election in either November or March.The Arizona Secretary of State’s Office has today…
Other than a simple slate-rock sign before it that reads “Quan Yin Family,” there’s little to distinguish the one-story house from any other in this rural patch of Buckeye, where horseback riders and children on motorized mini-bikes share the area’s unpaved roads. “Quan Yin” refers to the Quan Yin method…
Russell Pearce, have a heapin’ helping of freshly baked humble pie.Citizens for a Better Arizona, the group spearheading the effort to recall the powerful state Senate President, made history today, turning in 18,315 signatures to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office, more than double the 7,756 signatures required by law…
Nonchalant menace. That’s the aura that oozed from neo-Nazi Travis Ricci as he was led into Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Connie Contes’ courtroom for a recent sentencing hearing. Powerfully built, with wide shoulders and a reputation for explosive violence, the 29-year-old racist skinhead seemed oblivious to his leg irons…
Duty calls, and I have been employed on a project by my masters, which is now monopolizing most of my free time. And no, it has nothing to do with Arpaio, thankfully.As a consequence, there will be extremely light blogging, FB-wise, for the remainder of the week. I will resume…
Recently filed court documents show that State Senate President Russell Pearce’s 30 year-old son Joshua has been sentenced to a year in the Arizona Department of Corrections for violating the conditions of his probation on a 2007 conviction for aggravated DUI. (Both Joshua’s infant son and his wife were in…
Russell Pearce: Pioneer Against Illegal Immigration or Racist?: MyFoxPHOENIX.comKudos to Fox 10 anchor John Hook and executive producer Rod Haberer for the best exposé I’ve seen another outlet do on the subject of state Senate President Russell Pearce and his relationship with Arizona neo-Nazi J.T. Ready. The piece ran during…
President Barack Obama fancies himself Samuel L. Jackson in the remake of Shaft these days, following his order to have the Navy SEALs take out 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. Though he gets some kudos for the kill, bin Laden is not the man Obama’s most afraid to go after…
Well, here’s some fresh proof that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s “Munnell memo” report is a complete whitewash, and that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was, is, and always will be in complete control of his agency. While he’s still sheriff, that is. Today Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s office…
I’m really beginning to wonder about Arizona Republic columnist Doug MacEachern’s sanity.Yesterday, I pointed out that MacEachern was regurgitating Glenn Beck’s conspiratorial leftovers, wailing like a stuck javelina that controversial former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill was present when student activists took over a Tucson Unified School District board…
He just took you for $100 million in protected taxpayer funds.You are one of the following: 1) a senile ol’ coot skerred of Messcans2) a tebagging piece of white trash with a do-rag and a Harley3) a rich Republican goober like Steve Ellmanor4) a GOP hack looking for an endorsement.Whether…
The Arizona Republic’s Doug MacEachern continues to prove himself a shrill, conspiratorial wuss, one so unoriginal, he has to ape Glenn Beck, of all people.In his latest misleading ditty about ethnic studies, MacEachern practically pops a vein informing all and sundry that Ward Churchill, the controversial former Colorado professor, who’s been pilloried for…
Courtesy of the Three Sonorans blog. Now here’s a quiz: What do all these people have in common? Just a coincidence, I’m sure…It’s the easiest thing in the world to label someone a Marxist, a commie or un-American. You don’t need any real evidence. All you need to do is…
I hate to be that guy, but we told you so. Last night Channel 12 aired news hound Joe Dana’s interview with Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Chief Financial Officer Loretta Barkell concerning the $100 million Arpaio and his upper echelon pilfered from two protected funds. The money paid for witch-hunts of Arpaio’s…
A nativist nutcase sticks Corky Gonzales quotes into the cheap blender of her brain and makes mush of it allIt’s always amazing to me the way ignorance spreads like a vicious rash through the Internet. One idiot spouts some bull that the confirms the prejudices of the far right, it…
WHITE LIES Enemies of the Tucson Unified School District’s ethnic studies program would have the public believe that a cabal of commie educators are teaching revolution in TUSD’s classrooms. The reality is not quite as sexy as this vision of young Patty Hearsts, Huey Newtons, and Bernardine Dohrns getting groomed…
Will I miss having state Senate President Russell Pearce to kick around once he’s been recalled, his career ended in disgrace?Yes and no. Of course, I want to see this menace to humanity flattened (metaphorically) like a Looney Toons character crushed by a cartoon anvil. But, I must admit that…
As I type this, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox and a number of local activist groups are having a press conference calling on Sheriff Joe Arpaio to resign and for the feds to take the sheriff’s office and the jails into receivership.Of course, I support that call, but I…
Los Lobos was never officially part of the Sound Strike, the musicians’ boycott of Arizona over Senate Bill 1070, Sand Land’s notorious breathing-while-brown law. But when the old-school Chicano rock band announced the cancellation of a gig at Scottsdale’s Talking Stick Resort in June of 2010, they earned plaudits from many in…
