Afghanistan

Marines vs. TSA at Sky Harbor: Whose Story Are You Buyin'?

This week's everyone-hates-the-TSA story comes from Phoenix's own Sky Harbor airport, where a group of Marines claims TSA agents humiliated one of their fellow Marines.According to multiple press accounts, one Marine claims that a 22-year-old Marine, who lost his legs due to injuries sustained in Af ... More >>

Jan Brewer Times Three? Ten Reasons Jan Should Run for an Unconstitutional Third Term

Jan Brewer cannot run for governor again. There is no wiggle room in the Arizona Constitution. And if she tries, she is guaranteed to kiss the canvas with her plastic-surgery-gone-wrong gob, slapped down by the Arizona Supreme Court. See also: -Jan Brewer's Sniveling New Memoir Laughably Paints He ... More >>

Linda Brickman, Water Board Candidate, Doesn't Think All Muslims are Bad

Two years ago, a slate of five tea-party candidates ran for the non-partisan, 15-member Central Arizona Water Conservation District board with the aim of promoting limited government. Two won: Cynthia Moulton and Mark Lewis. They added to a push by conservatives begun in 2008 to add more of their n ... More >>

Red Hook Summer: Spike Lee Returns to the Brooklyn Panoramic

The Invisible War: Doc Reveals a Military That Is "Target Rich" for Sexual Predators

J.T. Ready Gilbert Massacre: Six Grenades Were Found at the Scene

At the Gilbert home where five people died yesterday in an apparent murder/suicide -- allegedly perpetrated by neo-Nazi J.T. Ready -- there was a reason the bomb squad showed up: six grenades.Gilbert police said this morning that "hazardous chemicals and military grade munitions" were found by inves ... More >>

Richard Carmona Promises AZ Dems a U.S. Senate Seat

Occupy Phoenix: Bonus Army, Redux

Part one of Gilman's report from the front lines of Occupy PhoenixMy focus is, and must remain, through November 8, the recall of state Senate President Russell Pearce in Legislative District 18. That means there's a lot going on that I won't be able to cover till after the recall election, includi ... More >>

The Mouth That Roared

Afghan War Vet Fatally Shot by Glendale Cop -- After Shooting at Female Officer

www,facebook.comJeremiah Pulaski​Jeremiah Pulaski, 24, returned to his home in Glendale from Afghanistan -- where he served in the United States Army -- in February, and it appears he's had some trouble readjusting to society.According to his latest Facebook status update, he was thinking about do ... More >>

Palin and Tea Party Rhetoric Was Not the Reason Gabrielle Giffords Was Attacked -- America's Treatment of Mental Illness Is to Blame

​The attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the incidental execution of Arizona's Chief Federal Judge, the collateral killing of five bystanders, including a child, and the deranged wounding of 14 politically curious civilians is not the result of the First Amendment's pe ... More >>

Gabrielle Giffords Shooter: Chilling YouTube Video Believed to Be Made by Suspect, 22-Year-Old Jared Loughner; Doctors "Optimistic" Congresswoman Will Survive

Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot this morning in Tucson.​Authorities confirm to New Times that the man suspected of shooting U.S. Congresswoman Gabriell Giffords and several others this morning in Tucson is 22-year-old Jared Loughner.A motive for the shooting is unknown at the ... More >>

Karl Rove, "War Criminal," Feted by Phoenix's Business Elite

Where does America go from here, Karl? Hey, maybe we could invade some Middle-Eastern country unnecessarily and kill a bunch of people. Oh, snap, we already did that.The first thing that sprang to mind when I got the above flier in my e-mail in-box announcing that "Bush's Brain" Karl Rove will be sp ... More >>

On Unpalatable Punishments for Border Crossings and Zack de la Rocha

Patrick Chorpenning, Former Arizona Veterans Services Director, Pleads Guilty to Corruption-Related Charges; Must Pay Back $451,351

Image: Arizona Attorney General's officePatrick Chorpenning ran the state Veteran's Service department like his own personal bank and work program for family members.​ Patrick Chorpenning, the former director of the Arizona Department of Veterans' Services, pleaded guilty today to two corrupti ... More >>

Barack Obama's $600 Million Border Boondoggle

Obama: $600 million-tough on landscapers and nanniesSo President Barack Obama, who still talks a good game about "comprehensive immigration reform," has now signed a supplemental border security package worth $600 million to add 1,000 Border Patrol agents, as well as hundreds of new officers for Imm ... More >>

(100) Days of Summer Films

Pat Tillman Inducted into College Football Hall of Fame

www.esquire.com Arizona football legend Pat Tillman​Former Arizona State University linebacker Pat Tillman was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame yesterday in New York, more than six years after he was tragically killed while fighting in the war in Afghanistan. ... More >>

Like a WMD, Matt Damon Blows Up America's Big Lie in The Green Zone

After Christmas Day Terror Attack, John McCain Says Janet Napolitano Can Stay -- For Now

www.moonbattery.com Janet​Janet Napolitano should get a stay of execution as chief of Homeland Security, despite countless calls for her head after the failed Christmas Day underwear-bomber fiasco, Senator John McCain says.McCain, speaking from Afghanistan, says he doesn't agree that Napoli ... More >>

Ron Paul's "Ronulans" Go Gaga Over Documentary For Liberty Tonight

from LittleGreenFootballsOne pic you won't see in the doc: Ron Paul, ex-KKK Grand Wizard Don Black, and Black's son Derek.Whenever Congressman Ron Paul shuffles off this mortal coil, he'll have no dearth of hagiographers. Indeed, he already has plenty, like the makers of the documentary For Liberty, ... More >>

Photog Sues Random House Publishing Firm Over Use of Pat Tillman Photo

www.audioeditions.com​The latest book in the "we-love-Pat-Tillman" saga, Where Men Win Glory, by John Krakauer, features a photo of the former Arizona Cardinal staring heroically into the distance while standing on top of a mountain in Afghanistan. It's enough to make any football ... More >>

Switchfoot at Martini Ranch

​It must be nice for a band like Switchfoot to play an intimate venue like Martini Ranch. The pop rock band sold out tonight's show, and the audience, which was made up of mostly 20- and 30-something's, actually sung along, danced and clapped to the music. Switchfoot released their ... More >>

Relative Discomfort

ATC’s season opener pits brother against brother

Anti-Steven Anderson Protest Sunday, September 13: Christopher Broughton Joins the Demonstrators

Sarge (right) explains King James' bisexuality to Chris "AR-15" Broughton... I've been under the gun recently, so I haven't had time to post pics and give a little report of what happened this past Sunday at Tempe's Faithful Word Baptist Church, home of the Obama-must-die pastor Stephen A ... More >>

For Canadians and Deserter Kim Rivera, Iraq Is Not Your Daddy’s Vietnam

Zack Snyder Directed Watchmen, but He Doesn’t Get It

Traitor’s Don Cheadle and co-stars can’t elevate the film past ho-hum

Kabab Palace in Tempe isn’t just the only Afghan restaurant in town; it’s delicious

Twenty years later, Rambo is still America's finest, if dumbest, killing machine

Beautician and the Beasts

How a hairdresser battled the Taliban with nail files and curlers

What's Wrong With This Picture?

Robert Redford and the American façade

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, November 1, 2007

Forget Gun Control

Who better to save American than an armed Mark Wahlberg? Seriously

Koetter Carve-Up

No, this ain't some artist's rendering of Dirk Koetter post-whacking; it's the scary new statue of Pat Tillman at You Pee Stadium

Clintonmania

Playing the Percentages

Going south in a good way

Rappin' Radical

Grime is the unholy terror of the Valley's hip-hop scene

Hope and Healing

The Valley remembers 9-11 with a host of memorials and benefits

From Bad to Worse

An Afghan girl faces the terror of life under the Taliban

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Battle Hymns

Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

Art During Wartime

A pair of ASU lectures arrive in the nick of time

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Portrait of a Young Man

Letters from the week of April 25, 2002

Liquid Purity

To protect the public's water, some Phoenix employees will have to pee in a cup

Count Down

In this Monte Cristo, revenge is a dish best served reheated

Letters

From the week of January 3, 2002

Emmy or Not to Emmy?

That's been the long, hard decision for TV academy chairman Bryce Zabel

THE PERSIAN GULP