Eight Year Old St. Johns Boy Is Poster Kid for Gun Laws

If there’s anything the tragedy in St. Johns should teach you, it’s that if you plan to spank your eight year old 1,000 times, you may not want to show him how to shoot a rifle. Either that, or you might want to consider the option of a “time out”…

Pissed Off Arizona Democrats? It’s About Damn Time…

The thing that’s annoyed me most post-November 4 is the way state Dems seem to be shrugging and taking their losses locally on the chin. Rather than being infuriated that the state Democratic Party effed up, Dems seemingly have been resigned to getting cornholed royally by Republicans, as if that’s…

Sen. Barry Goldwater, Anchor-Grandbaby

An excerpt from Bill McCune’s 1991 documentary, Barry Goldwater: An American Life.Someone recently sent me this YouTube clip from Bill McCune’s excellent bio-doc Barry Goldwater: An American Life, which I first watched while researching my 2006 cover story about the ribald Goldwater we rarely see represented, Goldwater Uncut. I had…

Gay-Bashin’ Westboro Baptist Church Punks Out of Glendale Picket

Just a few of the folks WBC missed out on meeting Saturday night.I was expecting a hatefest, a yellathon, maybe even some fisticuffs. Instead, it turned into a love-in.I’m talking about the threatened picket of Glendale Community College by the gay-bashing Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas. WBC is a…

Fear of a Black Prez and Crazy White Folks with Guns

Why worry? As The Turner Diaries reveals, ofays and guns go together like grits and runny eggs. What the hell is wrong with white people? Numerous media reports of late have detailed a run on gun stores by crazed crackers who believe the new black President-elect will take their firearms…

Road Rage: DPS Photo Enforcement Cameras Blocked with Post-It Notes

Freedom’s Phoenix has the scoop on the growing Post-it note rebellion against DPS’ new photo enforcement cameras. Say you wanna revolution? I know I do every time I take the 51 through town and have to run the gauntlet of the Arizona Department of Public Safety’s photo enforcement cameras. Literally,…

Yeah, Obama Won, and Why This Liberal Doesn’t Give a Damn.

Sorry, B-Rock, but I ain’t feelin’ it. Democrats were understandably ecstatic last night at the Wyndham Phoenix Hotel. They chanted, “Yes We Can,” along with Barack Obama on the wall-size TV screen as he gave his acceptance speech in Chicago. Afterward, they sang and clapped along with the Stevie Wonder…

At Long Last, Joe Arpaio Debates Dan Saban…Um, Kinda-Sorta.

The Coward of the County finally goes toe-to-toe with Dan Saban — in this video, if nowhere else. Activist Dennis Gilman, the Michael Moore of the local lefty community, has made happen what no one thought was possible this election cycle: A debate between challenger Dan Saban and our cowardly,…

Sheriff Joe’s Day of the Dead.

Come as your favorite inmate murdered by Joe’s guards…There are so many to pick from. It’s Halloween, and I see dead people. In Sheriff Joe’s House of Horrors, of course. Yep, any of Joe’s gruesome gulags could double as a Haunted House of the Dead, from the Fourth Avenue Jail,…