Well, right after we tell you about Congressman Ben Quayle not trash-talking President Obama for once, we opened an email from the Congressman’s campaign about his first TV ad for this election cycle.This advertisement features the whole Ben Quayle family, including wife Tiffany any baby Evie. (No, they’re still not…
It seems Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s not ready to give up on his theories for what happened to the five people killed in the Vekol Valley over the weekend, as the Tempe Police Department has declared it as a murder/suicide.Babeu initially declared that “[a]ll information is pointing that this…
I work construction in Texas. The mojados at work call me “Chicano” (which really angers me) to make fun of me, and I reply to them by saying, “¡México, bien por su gente!” This usually leads to debates that the Hispanic population will be the majority of the population in…
A couple of years ago, I put four white supremacists in prison. They had made the mistake of going into the Slater Slums of Huntington Beach, California, the city’s traditional barrio, to kill a random Mexican. They got as far as stabbing a man before the Slater Slums smackdown began:…
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wasn’t merely skeptical; he appeared contemptuous of the Justice Department’s argument trying to stop Arizona’s cops from deporting undocumented Mexicans. “But if, in fact, somebody who does not belong in this country is in Arizona, Arizona has no power?” asked the incredulous Scalia. “Are you…
Today in America, one in four Latino voters knows someone in deportation proceedings. The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court don’t care. What else can be concluded from their questions and comments during oral arguments over Senate Bill 1070, Arizona’s notorious stab at ethnic cleansing? And Latinos shouldn’t expect any…
Around noon on a windy fall Sunday in Florida, the motorcade began forming. Dozens of African-Americans, ages 5 to 85, poured from Orlando’s three-story New Covenant Baptist Church and into a coughing 20-year-old bus, a cramped church van, and their cars. The caravan snaked down Rio Grande Avenue, turned onto…
We had the pleasure several years ago of attending a talk in Tempe by one of our all-time favorite writers, Mr. Ray Bradbury. He was a terrific speaker, funny, topical and full of piss and vinegar about the sorry state of things in modern-day American culture. He spoke eloquently about the genesis…
Residential burglary is a slightly safer activity than Russian roulette, but sooner or later, burglars are bound to run into someone with a gun who does not take kindly to scumbags in his house. One of those types would be cops, who all have guns, and aren’t too sympathetic toward…
Of course, embattled Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s not apologizing for labeling the likely murder-suicide involving a family of five as the work of a “violent drug cartel.”In fact, Babeu’s now saying he gave “no conclusions” about the case, and is blaming everyone else for being on “their high horse.”For…
Say what you will about unorthodox parenting techniques, but Surprise police officers think discipline shouldn’t involve two “highly intoxicated” boys in their underwear crying, screaming, and vomiting.Cops say that’s the route Kristopher Harvey took on his boys Monday, and that earned him a trip to jail.According to court documents obtained…
President Barack Obama signed the Border Tunnel Prevention Act of 2012 into law yesterday, which raises the penalties for constructing tunnels from Mexico into the United States.Congressman Ben Quayle’s been pushing this bill for some time, and equally noteworthy, Quayle avoided talking smack on the president after he signed it.”I’m proud to…
An undercover video by pro-life activists released today shows clinic workers in Phoenix and Tucson agreeing to violate a year-old state law that prohibits gender-based abortions. In the video (below), an activist explains to “Barb” at the Camelback Family Planning clinic in Phoenix that she wants to terminate her…
Here’s one place you can be certain not to run into Sheriff Joe Arpaio this Thursday night: At a forum on his multifarious abuses of power, sponsored by Citizens for a Better Arizona, the group responsible for making the recall of disgraced, ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce a reality. The…
Maricopa County Judge Katherine Cooper granted a preliminary injunction on Tuesday halting contract provisions that allows Phoenix police union officials to conduct union work while they’re on the clock. “The city received the judge’s order this morning and currently is reviewing it,” spokeswoman Toni Maccarone tells New Times. The…
Steven Saldana took a plea agreement that sends him to prison for a little more than two years, stemming from the case of the 4-month-old baby found with a cigarette burn, 14 broken bones, and bruising all over her body.Angelica Jimenez — the Chandler woman designated by Child Protective Services as…
Fired Pinal County sheriff’s Deputy Louie Puroll’s closed-door attempt to win his job back continues this morning down in Florence. As we wrote yesterday afternoon, Puroll has chosen to keep the prying eyes and ears of the public out of the Merit Commission hearing room, which means we can’t tell…
Tempe police detectives are pretty sure the family of James and Yafit Butwin was killed in a murder/suicide, not “connected to the violent drug cartel,” as Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu suggests.The five charred, still-unidentified bodies were found in an SUV in the Vekol Valley this weekend, and the embattled…
The 4th Avenue Hotel (read: jail) had two visitors this weekend who just love their Valley hometowns.So much so, apparently, that they both got the cities’ respective logos tattooed on their friggin’ heads.Moses Ulloa, a fan of Glendale and “Murdercopa County,” and Vicente Valles — who’s a fan of Tempe…
I’ll give Sheriff Joe Arpaio one thing, the guy is a class-A schmoozer. The almost-octogenarian knows how to butter up his adversaries for public consumption, all while he’s plotting to have them arrested, investigated, tailed, or worse. Though Arpaio is nominally in law enforcement, this is a classic la cosa nostra…
Just back from a trip to Pinal County, where former sheriff’s Deputy Louie Puroll is seeking reinstatement to his job at a hearing of the county’s Merit Commission. Bottom line: Puroll this morning in Florence exercised his right to have the hearing closed to the public. This meant TV cameras had to…
According to the embattled sheriff, the burned bodies probably were the work of a “violent drug cartel.” Babeu added, “The border is NOT more secure than ever, Ms. Napolitano!”Tempe police have just informed us that the vehicle is registered to the address of a missing family from their city. Tempe police…
