Afghanistan

Flip-Flopping John McCain Is No Political Profile in Courage

Arizona Ranked Fourth in the Nation! (For "Highest Levels of Gun Violence")

Only three other states in the U.S. of A. have higher "levels of gun violence" than Arizona, according to one report.Although magazines like Guns & Ammo congratulate Arizona for being "the best" state for gun owners -- despite the fact that the magazine's former editor shot and killed a man in Arizo ... More >>

The Thrilling Manhunt of Zero Dark Thirty

10 (Okay, 11) Best First Tastes of 2012 in Greater Phoenix

Thanks to hundreds of new restaurants opening in the Valley this year -- including a cozy artisan pizza shop in Scottsdale, a vegan bakery downtown, and a trio of cuisines in East Phoenix -- there was plenty to chew on when it came to First Tastes, our column of initial impressions. See also: 9 Be ... More >>

Jan Brewer Reportedly "Slugged" Channel 3 Reporter Over Global-Warming Question

Governor Jan Brewer's brain-fart response last week to a KTVK-Channel 3 reporter's question about global warming does not appear to be the only Jan bein' Jan moment from that interview.According to a report, Brewer totally punched Channel 3 political reporter Dennis Welch.See also:-Jan Brewer Claims ... More >>

Eddie Money Talks Take Me Home Tonight

You know who had a whole boatload of hits? Brooklyn singer/songwriter Eddie Money had a whole boatload of hits. Throughout the '80s the cop-turned-rockstar was unstoppable: "Baby Hold On," "Two Tickets to Paradise," "Take Me Home Tonight," "Shaking," and more. He had the New Wave thing down putt ... More >>

Jeff Flake, U.S. Senate Candidate, Says He's Opposed to Budget Earmarks, But Looked the Other Way When it was Politically Convenient

Congressman Jeff Flake, who is running for U.S. Senate against former U.S. Surgeon General Rich Carmona, says he doesn't like earmarks, which some call "pork barrel spending." He certainly has earned a reputation for fighting against federal funding for specific projects attached to unrelated bil ... More >>

Rise Against's Tim McIlrath on SB 1070 and MTV

It's been three years since Rise Against last performed in Arizona thanks to the band's participation in The Sound Strike. The terms of the boycott have changed, so Rise Against is making its triumphant return to the valley. The line-up couldn't get much better, as Rise Against is paired with long ... More >>

Savages: Oliver Stone's Drug-Trade Drama Settles for Sensation

Arizona Guardian Political News Site Bites the Dust

The Arizona Guardian, a local political news site once held up as a possible model for a declining news industry, has gone belly-up. As of today, the Guardian's site is off the air, sounding the death knell that it has been "terminated." The site launched in January of 2009, backed financially by ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Russell Pearce-Worship, and Corrupt Proxy Voting at the County GOP

Why are non-loony Republicans always on the outs in the county and state GOP, with the insaniac Mexican-haters firmly in control?In her blog on Sunday, moderate Republican Paula Pennypacker described one of the main tactics of GOP county chairman Rob Haney's nativist cult: The gaming of the proxy sy ... More >>

Phoenix Cop/U.S. Marine Armando Ramirez Arrested For Alleged Assault on Wife

Phoenix Officer Armando Ramirez​Phoenix police confirmed this afternoon that one of its own is facing felony domestic violence charges stemming from an incident at his Casa Grande home over the weekend.In addition to being a Phoenix police officer, Armando Ramirez is a reserve in the United States ... More >>

John Sayles Brings the Philippine-American War Into the 21st Century

Afghan War Army Vet Shot Victim Because He Said Marines Were the Best. Parents Claim PTSD's to Blame

www.facebook.comJeremiah Pulaski​The Afghan war veteran fatally shot by a Glendale police officer early Saturday morning suffered from post traumatic stress disorder and alcoholism, his parents told police after the shooting, and, as an Army man, he apparently isn't too fond of the Marine Corps.Ac ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, March 10, 2011

Missing Marine Turns Self in

Sergeant Jonathan Ferguson is safe and sound -- but he might be in some trouble.​Authorities from the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma say a Marine who's been missing for nearly two weeks has returned to the base and turned himself in. The Yuma base says Sergeant Jonathan Kyle Ferguson returned to th ... More >>

Feds Debunk Another Sheriff Babeu Claim, Say Cartels Not Really Occupying "75-100" Hilltops in Pinal County

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu​ Cartel members aren't really turning Pinal County into something more like Afghanistan, despite what Sheriff Paul Babeu wrote in a letter last week to the mayors of several Arizona border cities.Ironically, the sheriff had written in response to the mayors' urg ... More >>

Marine Missing in Yuma; Last Seen Monday

Jonathan Ferguson was last seen on Monday.​Authorities continue to search for a U.S. Marine reported missing on Monday.Military officials initially thought 22-year-old Jonathan Kyle Ferguson's disappearance was an unauthorized absence, but now believe it's a missing person case.Ferguson was last s ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Church Unified Democrats and Republicans Over One Thing: Limiting Freedom of Speech

Metal Band BORG Tackles Arizona's Meth Problem One Headbanger at a Time

Morning Poll: Should Florida Preacher Go Through With Quran-Burning?

The "Reverend" Terry Jones​ Media pundits across the country chastise the Reverend Terry Jones for his planned "International Burn-a-Quran Day." Yesterday, the Obama administration had General David Petraeus weigh in on Jones' upcoming "event," with the commander of forces in Afghanistan warni ... More >>

Regarding Birthright Citizenship, What Is It About the U.S. Constitution That Nativists Don't Understand?

Pro-SB 1070 Phoenix Rising Rally: Neo-Nazis, Nativists, Crackpots, and More

A white supremacist in the nativist nut bag... A fruitcake of nativist rage and looniness baking in the Arizona sun: That's what was generally to be found at Wesley Bolin Plaza this Saturday, June 5 for the pro-SB 1070 Phoenix Rising rally, which drew around 2,000 mostly white participants to ... More >>

Ryan Gabrielson, Former Pulitzer-Prize-Winning East Valley Tribune Reporter, Gets New Gig With California Watch

Pulitzer Prize winner Ryan Gabrielson​Ryan Gabrielson, the former reporter for the East Valley Tribune who, along with Paul Giblin, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for exposing how immigration enforcement by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office undermined criminal investigations and emergency respo ... More >>

Al Sharpton Wears "Los Suns" Jersey During March to Arizona Capitol Protesting SB 1070

Rev. Sharpton (center) with county Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox (left) and Pastor Bishop Alexis A. Thomas (right)The man right-wing crackers love to hate, the Reverend Al Sharpton, preached to standing ovations from the crowd at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church Wednesday night, in an impressive show of op ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, December 3, 2009

Former Arizona Veterans' Department Director Pleads Not Guilty to Corruption Charges

Patrick Chorpenning, the former director of the Arizona Department of Veterans' Services, pleaded not guilty today to charges of fraud and misuse of public funds. The state Attorney General's office is prosecuting Chorpenning after a two-year investigation turned up a mountain of evidence that he ha ... More >>

Joe Arpaio, Soldier of Fortune Cover Boy, Channels His Inner Mr. Magoo

from SOF Does this mean we can drop him behind enemy lines in Afghanistan? Purty please...? 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 pie ... More >>

Arty Girl: Happy International Museum Day

By Head_First_Only on Flickr Creative Commons.Tickets, please...Did you know there is an International Museum Day?Well, you could have at least assumed it. I mean, if there's something as idiotic as National Star Wars Day, we had better redeem ourselves by honoring our museums, right? Mark your cale ... More >>

Phoenix Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Passing Secrets to Potential Terrorists

A former sailor and Phoenix UPS driver was sentenced to 10 years in a federal prison today for passing secrets to a Pakistan man who ran an Al-Qaeda recruitment Web site.Paul R. Hall, who has apparently changed his name to Hassan Abu-Jihaad, was arrested in Phoenix in 2007 and charged with terrorism ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals Fans, You'd Better Get Ferocious or Steeler Nation Will Eat You Alive

The Dirty on Nik Richie, Post-it Note Ninjas, and SCA-Gate — All Within This Owl’s Talons

John McCain's Fame is Based on His POW Status, But He Has Abandoned Fellow Veterans

Moolah for Mullahs

All aboard the '80s way-back machine

Automatons for the People: Captured! By Robots @ Rhythm Room on November 29

Defending Zack de la Rocha: Rage Against the Machine vs. KTAR's Darrell Ankarlo

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, March 29, 2007

Am I Blue?

Ain't nothin' but a thong

Keira Get Your Gun

The life of a model turned bounty hunter

Letters

Letters from the week of October 21, 004

Blow My Mine

Could Arizona's 80,000 working and abandoned mines be the root of all evil?

Cave Creek Carnivores

In search of the unexpected and the unusual

Good Sports, Bad Religion

Letters from the week of October 17, 2002

Performance Peace

Artist's tribute to 9-11 mixes media, emotions

Red Alert

Blues expatriate Louisiana Red finds a home, and an audience, in Germany

The Lesser of Three Evils

Mexico and U.S. authorities finally captured Arizona's leading drug kingpin. Good work, guys. Now let him go.

Hunger Strike

Can a non-9/11 benefit album make any noise?

Crushing Groove

Bionic Jive's hip-hop/metal fusion is an accident that's about to happen

Viva Sandinista!

Is the Clash still the only band that matters?