Even though Angelica Hernandez graduated as valedictorian from Arizona State University’s mechanical engineering school this past May, she won’t be rewarded with a career or a good job. This, because she is an undocumented immigrant. However, she will be recognized in U.S. Congress for her hard work.Hernandez, along with another member of the…
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10cAliens vs. Senatorwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogThe Daily Show on FacebookAs I suspected, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart couldn’t resist slapping U.S. Senator from Arizona John McCain around for his ignorant, hillbilly-esque statements blaming Sand Land’s…
Extraditions performed by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office were “inexplicably exorbitant” but not a criminal misuse of public funds, U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke has decided. At the request of County Manager David Smith (see below), Burke’s office conducted a review of how Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s employees brought suspects to the Valley from locations all…
Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve Harrison has just confirmed that DPS computers have been hacked by the Internet pirates and keyboard anarchists of LulzSec.(Currently, AZDPS.gov is down.)LulzSec, which stands for “Lulz Security” (Lulz being a slang version of LOL, “Laughng Out Loud,” or doing something just for kicks), posted…
Filmmakers Valeria Fernandez and Dan DeVivo talk about Two AmericansWant to help tell the world what a sadistic, bigoted power-mad nut Sheriff Joe Arpaio is? Well, here’s your chance, by ponying up the dough to help local journalists/filmmakers Valeria Fernandez and Dan DeVivo complete their documentary Two Americans.The film has…
The United States Senate is at it again with immigration reform legislation, but Republicans are still unwilling to join the effort.Today, Senator Robert Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey, introduced legislation that would create a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in this country.DeeDee Blase, founder…
Guess I’ve heard the last from U.S. Senator John McCain’s haughty, over-paid flack Brooke Buchanan.Yesterday, in the midst of a PR meltdown that’s turned McCain (once again) into a political laughingstock, his office issued a statement claiming that an unnamed U.S. Forest Service official had given the Senator info prompting…
For anyone in need of a good laugh, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio issued a press release this morning with the headline “Sheriff Arpaio Says His Office Enjoying Exceptional Times.”We’ll say…2011 has proven to be quite “exceptional” for the MCSO — it’s not often a sheriff’s office costs TAXPAYERS nearly…
As the saying goes, you have to spend money to make money. In Maricopa County’s case, it has to spend money just to make sure Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio spends taxpayer cash properly.The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors adopted a $2.3 billion budget yesterday, $1.65 million of which isn’t…
When white nationalist websites and racist minutemen with erstwhile ties to child killers are championing your cause, you know you’ve made a serious error. Particularly when you’re a failed presidential candidate still desperate for the world to take you seriously.Such is the case with U.S. Senator from Arizona John McCain,…
Last week United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement honcho John Morton announced a series of “improvements” meant to keep ICE’s focus on deporting aliens with serious criminal records.In spite of these highly touted policy changes, ICE today deported a Phoenix high school cross-country coach who had done a lot of…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office can keep large portions of the Babeu report hidden until Captain Joel Fox’s disciplinary process is complete, a judge told the Arizona Republic and Channel 12 News (KPNX) today.The newspaper and TV station had sued the MCSO to force an immediate and complete disclosure of…
The effort to recall state Senate President Russell Pearce has passed another milestone: This morning, Maricopa County Elections Director Karen Osborne confirmed that the county has validated 10,089 signatures of the 16,949 forwarded to her office by the Arizona Secretary of State.Of the 16,836 signatures examined so far, 6,747 have been…
In the most disgusting, reprehensible, and irresponsible comments of his political career (and that’s saying a lot), Arizona’s senior U.S. Senator John McCain is blaming illegal immigrants for Arizona’s recent plague of wildfires, saying it’s the reason the country needs a “secure border.”As reported by CNN, the former presidential candidate…
Pro-immigrant lawyers and activists are slamming the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for recently announced policy “changes” that they say will do nothing to improve the way illegal immigrants are being deported.ICE director John Morton is saying he will give the department’s lawyers more decision-making options on what immigration…
Larry Black, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s former No. 3 man, is no longer listed on the Phoenix International Raceway’s Web site as director of security. We can only speculate that he’s lost the lucrative job he’d had since 1998 in the wake of damning allegations that caused Arpaio…
They say all politicians are by definition liars, but I’m beginning to believe state Senate President Russell Pearce could teach a college course in it.Sand Land’s Professor of Prevarication was on KAET’s Horizon Thursday to discuss the recall effort against him with host Ted Simons. Almost from jump, he began dishing falsehoods and…
A Phoenix man is suing the City of Phoenix, former Phoenix police Chief Jack Harris, and several others over a beating he says he received from two Phoenix police officers who initially mistook him for a drug dealer they’d previously arrested.According to the suit, filed in Maricopa County Superior Court…
I’ve just finished reading the Cambium report on Tucson Unified School District’s much-maligned Mexican American Studies Department. It’s a shocker.Know why? Because the report itself concludes that “no observable evidence was present to suggest that any classroom within Tucson Unified School District is in direct violation of the law [Arizona…
Most of Pearce’s 2010 donations were from outside LD18I plan to ride around town with a dead crow in my car, so the next time I see local hack Howie Fischer, he of the one-man “Capitol Media Services,” I can carve him off a slice for his dinner.See, Fischer, like…
Pro-immigrant activist Sal Reza, leader of the Phoenix human-rights group Puente, announced Tuesday that he’s suing state Senate President Russell Pearce in federal court for falsely arresting him on suspicion of trespassing and denying him access to the Senate building.In addition to Pearce, the complaint names as defendants two Arizona…
Yesterday marked Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s 79th birthday. L’chaim. Yet the aging law dog swears he plans to run for another four-year term as sheriff — laughably, he’s also not ruled out a run for the presidency.As a reader pointed out in the comment section of New Times’ official…
