Apocalypse Soon

December 21, 2012, is gonna be worse than your worst bad-hair day. The Earth will be engulfed by a ginormous solar flare, which will reverse the planet’s poles, causing tidal waves, earthquakes, erupting volcanoes, and a massive conflagration atop Donald Trump’s noggin. Should you get past the pole switcheroo and…

Joe Arpaio on Mexican Migrants: “They’re All Dirty”

GQ magazine just published a damning portrait of Sheriff Joe by writer Alexander Provan titled “The Vigilante,” and it couldn’t come at better time. I know from experience that way too many reporters who come through town get snowed by our irascible, bulbous-nosed sheriff. They find him colorful and often…

Terminate All Joe Arpaio’s 287(g) Power, Demands ACLU

Ramping up the pressure on ICE, the Obama administration and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the American Civil Liberties Union has just issued a press release demanding that Arpaio be stripped of all of his 287(g) authority, including that in the jails. In some ways, this is no surprise, as the ACLU is…

Joe Arpaio Apparently in Violation of ICE Agreement; New MOA Still Unsigned by ICE, Goes Before Supes Wednesday

By kvetching to the Arizona Republic and KTAR 92.3 FM’s Jay Lawrence over the weekend about his brand-spanking new, 287(g) jails contract with ICE, has Arpaio thereby violated his agreements with ICE, both old and new? In Section XVIII, paragraph two of the freshly minted Memorandum of Agreement, the recently released document, signed by Arpaio…