Alan Colmes is my new hero. Sure, he might look like E.T.’s pappy, but this dood is one sharp liberal. Just bend an ear to the audio clips of Colmes swimming logical laps round Steven L. Anderson, the Tempe pastor who wishes President Barack Obama, homosexuals, and sundry other sinners, dead. Colmes had…
GUN PUTZ More proof in my book that wackos who “open-carry” their firearms are often cowards compensating for their shortfalls in other areas: AR-15 slinger Christopher Broughton. That’s the name of the guy who caused all the hubbub recently by bringing a loaded assault rifle to greet President Barack Obama…
A just-released letter to President Barack Obama endorsed by a diverse group of 521 civil rights, legal and cultural organizations — including the ACLU, the ADL, MALDEF, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the Episcopal Church — calls on the president to “immediately terminate the 287(g) program operated by the Department of Homeland…
Remember the crazy Tempe pastor who was Tasered at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint *** back in April: Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church? The same fella that Christopher Broughton, the anti-Obama, anarchist AR-15-carrying activist, declared to be his pastor on conspiranut moonhowler Alex Jones’ radio show? Well, as…
There was so much attention paid to anarcho-libertarian AR-15 bearer Christopher Broughton in the wake of President Barack Obama’s visit to Phoenix last Monday that some of the other nuts are, I’m certain, feeling a bit neglected. So take a gander at this seriously deranged video from a nativist wackjob who…
Just when you think the nativists have sunk to a new low, they limbo right down into the gutter a little lower. In this case, it’s our old pal, Wiccan wackjob Laine Lawless (real name, Roberta Dill), known for her love of the bullwhip, her lesbian fanfiction featuring Lucy Lawless,…
It should be no surprise that a cheesy, old-man’s magazine like Soldier of Fortune would stick our septuagenarian sheriff’s mug on the cover and proceed to pucker up to him in a puff piece written by some dude with the improbable name of “Dr. Martin Brass.” But couldn’t they find a better photo of…
Pedro Ultreras’ brutal, uncompromising film 7 Soles (7 Suns), which depicts the plight of a group of migrants crossing the Sonoran desert is a must-see for all Americans if they want to understand the sheer horror some immigrants are willing to endure to come to this country. In it, director Ultreras,…
Sharing is caring. That’s why I’m posting a link to a list of the names, ranks, serial numbers, hire dates, and pay rates for Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s 287(g)-trained deputies. (You can view the list, here.) These are the deputies trained by the feds to enforce federal immigration law, and according…
According to local news reports, Arizona’s office of tourism is all worked up about Arthur Frommer’s blog comments regarding Arizona wackos carrying AR-15s outside events where the President of the United States is speaking. This is part of what Frommer had to say: “For myself, without yet suggesting that others…
So what’s this deal about hockey-stud Levi Johnston’s druggie ma having Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s pink handcuffs slapped on her in an Alaska courtroom after pleading guilty for illegally possessing OxyContin, aka, “The Rush Limbaugh Drug”?You’ll recall that Levi is the 19-year-old who impregnated Bristol Palin, Wasilla-wackjob Sarah Palin’s kid. During…
BULL CONGRESSMAN Next time Congressman John Shadegg holds a town hall meeting, remind me to clothespin my nose. What’s wafting from the Republican pol is the stench of hypocrisy. True to what you’ve been seeing nonstop on the TV news lately, his August 8 town hall on healthcare was full…
Looks like it’s splitsville for Hooman Karamian, aka Nik Richie, the gossipmonger and trash-talker behind the Web site The Dirty.com, and his wife of about four years Amanda Toney. According to court filings, Toney, who is a managing partner in the Scottsdale marketing firm The Taka Group and was once a…
As I anticipated in yesterday’s blog post, the Arizona ACLU today had a press conference at their offices with father-son Julian and Julio Mora present, announcing a lawsuit on their behalf against Sheriff Joe and other members of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. The incident at issue occurred during the…
The Arizona ACLU isn’t giving out any details, but they’ve just issued a press advisory that at noon tomorrow they will announce a lawsuit, “on behalf of two Avondale residents who were illegally arrested and detained during a worksite raid conducted by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.” Though the ACLU’s…
I don’t know if playwright James Garcia modeled the character Captain Montoya from his new play The Tears of Lives on Deputy Chief Paul Chagolla of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. But as portrayed by actor Andrew Valenzuela, Montoya is a chilling vision of Hispanic self-loathing, a man driven to…
Know how the minutemen and the nativists are always kvetching that illegal immigrants are all criminals, even though the most they’re guilty of is a federal misdemeanor, if that? Well, methinks these pseudo pay-triots kvetch too much about others, particularly in the wake of the arrest of Minuteman American Defense founder Shawna…
The billionaires join ranks with the Obama-haters in this new Dennis Gilman video. In the tradition of Michael Moore and the stunts he regularly pulled in his TV show The Awful Truth (and continues to pull in his films), come the Billionaires for Wealthcare, a crew of wannabe-Warren Buffets who crashed…
It’d do the hate-filled nativist knuckledraggers good to read the latest Cato Institute report, Restriction or Legalization? Measuring the Economic Benefits of Immigration Reform, but I can’t be sure if these pseudo-patriot pinheads can read past a third grade education. So, instead, I’m going to suggest that Homeland Security czar…
Lorena learned about her mom’s arrest during the MCSO raid at Royal Paper Converting Company in South Phoenix when her uncle called to tell her about it. Lorena’s mother had been working long hours at the plant to feed her and her two younger brothers. Lorena is 17, and she had to care for…
Mayor Phil Gordon is to be congratulated for the Elements of Hate panel discussion his office organized, which took place Wednesday at the newly-renovated AE England Building at Civic Space Park in Downtown Phoenix. The event coincided with the visit of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s representative Heidi Beirich. In…
Despite a shift by Immigration and Customs Enforcement away from indiscriminate worksite raids nationwide, and despite the fact that Sheriff Joe Arpaio continues to thumb his nose at the feds in various ways — taping conversations between ICE and MCSO employees, refusing to cooperate with a Justice Department investigation, etc…
