Anyone who’s been Rick-Rolled, or I’m-Watching-Gay-Porn-ed, knows it’s easy — if not for just a split-second — to be tricked into feeling like a homosexual while watching something on the Internet (not that there’s anything wrong with that).You think you’re watching an innocent, heterosexual clip, then it happens: The clip…
In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries:…
The Phoenix woman featured in a now-viral YouTube video, in which she goes through airport security in nothing but her bra and panties, says she’ll continue to go through security checkpoints in her undies to prevent TSA inspectors from putting their hands “up there.”In fact, 52-year-old Tammi Banovac, a retired…
The numbers have been tallied. If county officials get their way, lawsuits filed against Maricopa County over alleged wrongdoing by Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former County Attorney Andrew Thomas will cost taxpayers more than $13 million.Three of the lawsuits were filed in Maricopa County Superior Court on Tuesday — two…
Arizona Cardinals quarterback Derek Anderson made a public apology yesterday for the highly publicized tirade he went on following his atrocious performance on Monday Night Football this week.In case you missed it, Anderson flipped out on Arizona Republic sports writer Kent Somers following his latest awful showing on the gridiron…
A Tempe church has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and after speaking with the church’s pastor this morning, we have a pretty good idea why.Pastor Steven Anderson, the leader of the Faithful Word Baptist Church, is no stranger to controversy. He recently made headlines…
A Mesa couple was arrested yesterday for allegedly pointing a loaded gun at a school bus full of students with special needs.The bus was taking the students home from Palm Lane Elementary School about 2:45 p.m. yesterday when it approached three people — two women and a man.Inexplicably, one of…
A Mesa high school could have been short one laptop after it was discovered a student at the school tried to steal it right out of a classroom — in the middle of the school day.Currently on probation, 19-year-old Ismael Pesqueira was arrested yesterday after school officials at Career High…
The search for missing senior Wendell Workman has been suspended for a good reason: he was found alive and well early this morning.Workman, 71, was reported missing yesterday. The last time he was seen was about 5 a.m., when his son, who was taking care of him, went to work…
Got a text message last night from a law-enforcement pal who wrote, “If I meet you at a truck stop, can I be placed on paid leave?” On a more serious note, news that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu yesterday ordered an internal investigation into troubling statements made to me…
How the not-so-mighty have fallen. According to a recent filing in his pending divorce, former minuteman leader and one-time dark horse U.S. Senate candidate Chris Simcox claims he’s eking by on $1,000 a month, and he wants his estranged wife Alena Simcox to pay him “spousal maintenance” in the amount…
In case you missed it, New Times reporter Paul Rubin was on Fox 10 last night, where he discussed the investigation into Pinal County Sheriff’s Deputy Louie Puroll — and a death threat Puroll says was made against the reporter’s life. Puroll was placed on administrative leave yesterday while the…
PUH-LEEEZE, PLEA Police union’s now an extremist group: PLEA has turned into a right-wing extremist group with Mark Spencer as its president, and this whole strategy with the Richard Chrisman case is proof of that (“PLEA Deal,” The Bird, Stephen Lemons, November 18). For heaven’s sake, this is supposed to…
This güero downloaded SB 1070, did a search on the document for “Mexicans” and did not come up with a single hit. What’s up with that? So, since you are such an acknowledged expert at pointing out Mexican-hating (your words, not mine) in the Southwest, I thought that I would…
THERE SHOULD BE BLOOD Arizona Democratic Party Chair Don Bivens needs to exit stage right, and his moronic remarks at the party’s November 20 state committee meeting, held at the Wyndham Hotel in downtown Phoenix, are a prime example of why. Faced with the stark reality of Arizona as a…
Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was dissed by Russell Pearce over Prop 200’s dismissal. In late October, days before the election, state Senator Russell Pearce directed his e-mail wrath at retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, whom he decried as an “activist judge” with a “lack of trust…
In 2007, the U.S. Senate debated the doomed McCain-Kennedy “comprehensive immigration reform” bill that aimed to secure borders, enforce workplaces, modernize the visa system, and allow non-criminal undocumented immigrants already in the country to pay a fine and stand in line for legal residency. (Under the proposed law, an immigrant…
Unauthorized immigrants make up just more than 3 percent of the U.S. population, But they’re accused of sucking up public benefits and dodging taxes. Illegal aliens are tax dodgers. That’s one of the most shocking findings of FAIR’s most recent report on the “cost of illegal immigration. “Most illegal aliens…
To FAIR patriarch John Tanton, The Camp of the Saints, a 1973 apocalyptic book by French novelist Jean Raspail, stimulates honest discussion. The graphic book tells the story of the downfall of Western civilization and the decline of the European white race at the hands of immigrant invaders. The setting…
On June 5, hundreds rallied at the Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza in Phoenix in support of SB 1070, the harshest state immigration law in the nation, which had been signed by Governor Jan Brewer six weeks earlier. The crowd of mostly middle-aged, working-class Anglos waved handmade signs blaring such things…
CHICKENS COME HOME Embattled ex-Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas’ recent, crybaby press conference on the steps of the Arizona Supreme Court offered a truly maudlin display for a public that twice elected this man to a position of authority. As part of it, Thomas dragged his wife, Ann Estrada Thomas,…
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