Tom Horne, Andy Thomas Bloody Each Other in Horizon Debate

If you missed the “Clean Elections” Republican state Attorney General debate last night on Horizon between state schools superintendent Tom Horne and former Maricopa County Attorney Andy Thomas, it was a real cage fight. I’m surprised blood didn’t spatter the TV screen. Fortunately, if you enjoy mortal combat, you can watch…

Mexico and the ADL Each File Amicus Briefs in Anti-SB 1070 Lawsuit

Both the Anti-Defamation League and the nation of Mexico have filed separate amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs in the big anti-SB 1070 lawsuit that the ACLU, MALDEF, the NAACP and other groups filed in federal district court on May 17 against Arizona’s counties.The complaint, known as Friendly House,…

Neo-Nazi NSM Scrapbook: One Dead Body, One Live Migrant

National Socialist Movement regional director Jeff Hall has filed an “after action report” on the NSM Web site with photos and video of the dead body that Mesa swastika-licker J.T. Ready said he and fellow brownshirts (and assorted fellow travelers) came across during their recent weekend warrior-ing in the Vekol…

Joe Arpaio To Live Stream the Bull Every Wednesday at 1:30 P.M.

The MCSO’s highly-paid PR apparatchiks have just sent out an announcement on the one guy who seems to get more publicity than neo-Nazi J.T. Ready these days.I’m talking, of course, about our own geriatric, Mr. Magoo-esque gendarme, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who will begin livebroadcasting his mug Big Brother style on www.ustream.tv/channel/JMA-tv1, every Wednesday…

Obama To Sue, Terry Goddard Withdraws over SB 1070

CNN is reporting that the Obama administration plans to file a legal challenge to Arizona’s new “papers, please” legislation SB 1070 within a month. The news channel cites an unnamed “senior administration official” as its source. The Justice Department itself will only go so far as to say it is still reviewing the…

The Rio Rico Shootings, J.T. Ready, and Neo-Nazis in the Desert

I called Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada Thursday about a report I’d read on the Website of NBC affiliate KVOA Tucson concerning four border crossers fired upon by two men wearing camouflage and bearing assault rifles.One man was injured with a gunshot wound to the left forearm, the rest…

Jason Rose Defends John Huppenthal on Student’s Video of Him

Wagner’s original video of the Huppenthal interviewGOP spinmeister Jason Rose has stepped into the fray regarding a high-school student’s video report that included an interview with state Senator John Huppenthal, who is seeking to become Arizona’s schools superintendent.Rose cries foul in a news release, wherein he states that Huppenthal was never…

Russell Pearce’s Colossal Canard: Hispanics Support SB 1070

Surprise, surprise: Russell Pearce prevaricates yet againSometimes I wonder if state Senator Russell Pearce would know the truth if it bopped him upside his mutton head. Known for spewing bogus stats conflating crime with Mexican migration, he can’t seem to help himself, no matter how bogus the factoids he throws…

John Huppenthal Humiliated By High School Student Journalist’s Video

Huppenthal spanked hard by a student journalist. Is this sweet or what?No one’s ever accused Republican state Senator John Huppenthal of being the brightest bulb in the state GOP’s closet. You might think Huppenthal’s lowest moment came when he scuffled with a 78 year-old Democratic activist on election day 2008…

Kris Kobach Kicked To the Curb by County Attorney Rick Romley

Nativist attorney Kris Kobach, the man who essentially wrote Arizona’s new “papers, please” law and who had been retained by Sheriff Joe Arpaio to train his deputies on immigration matters to the tune of $300 per hour, has been cut loose by Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley, albeit in a…

Joe Arpaio Tab-Keeper Phoenix Copwatch’s Fundraiser at the Firehouse

Know that old song by Elvis Costello, “Watching the Detectives”? Well, Phoenix Copwatch does it for real. The volunteer organization monitors all cops in the area, but pays particular attention to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s boys in beige, especially when the MCSO is doing one of its notorious anti-immigrant sweeps of Hispanic communities. Copwatch…