Cable News Network LP LLLP

Grinding Justice: Operation Streamline Costs Millions, Tramples the Constitution, Treats Migrants Like Cattle, and Doesn't Work

Joe Arpaio Looks Like Rambling Bozo on Anderson Cooper 360. More of a Rambling Bozo Than Usual, That is

America's self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff"​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio apparently forgot that he's a politician during an appearance on Anderson Cooper 360 this afternoon, right before a brief "oh shit" moment when he realized that, well, he is a politician.Arpaio is a media whore and see ... More >>

U.S. Fish and Wildlife To Allow More Migrant Water Stations, and CNN Covers No More Deaths

HumaneBorders.orgU.S. Fish and Wildlife says it will allow more water stations on BANWR like this oneIn somewhat of a concession to humanitarians leaving water out in the desert for thirsty migrants, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that it will allow more water stations on the 118,0 ... More >>

Tom Horne Struggles in CNN Debate on Latino Studies With Georgetown Prof Michael Dyson

www.cnn.comTom Horne and Michael Dyson duked it out on CNN last night. TKO goes to Dyson​ Was it just us, or did Tom Horne seem out of his league last night on CNN during a debate with Georgetown Professor Michael Dyson about Arizona's new ban on public school classes that teach "ethnic ... More >>

Russell Pearce Apologist Russ Jones' CNN Commentary, My CNN Piece, and SB 1070's Fake "Civil Rights Provision"

Russ Jones: Carrying water for Russell PearceArizona state House Representative Russ Jones has penned an opinion piece for CNN, offering excuses for Russell Pearce's bigot bill SB 1070, which now sits on Governor Jan Brewer's desk awaiting action.I also penned an opinion piece for CNN on SB 107 ... More >>

Sarah Palin's Coming to Arizona to Campaign for John McCain; Should J.D. Hayworth be Worried?

The "straight talk express" will once again be rolling through Arizona come March. ​Sarah Palin, the new darling of the Conservative party, announced today that she will be making the campaign rounds for several Republican Congressional candidates, including a stop in Arizona to campaign for ... More >>

Outspoken Lefty Actor Tim Robbins Donated Money to J.D. Hayworth Campaign; WTF?

Seen here, did Tim Robbins escape from Shawshank Prison, or realize he accidentally donated money to J.D. Hayworth? You be the judge.​For anyone who has ever seen Tim Robbins talk about, well, anything political, you probably find it hard to fathom that he would donate much more than a mean- ... More >>

Sunday Service at Obama-Hater Pastor Steve Anderson’s Tempe Church, and Details of Inmate Marcia Powell’s Autopsy

Recession Causes Mexican Immigrants Here to Run for the Border, Study Shows

  www.tutor2u.netWith the current state of the United States economy being, well, horrifying, Mexican immigrants here are running for the border.  A study released Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center shows that the number of Mexican's entering the United States illegally has d ... More >>

How PHX's Musicians and DJs Reacted to Michael Jackson's Death (Including Some Exclusive Jacko Mixes)

Courtesy of Micah ElliottMicah Elliot, AZPunk.com co-founder and drummer for local punk band Gun Fuck, during his childhood.We learned about Michael Jackson's untimely passing yesterday afternoon in likely the same fashion that y'all reading this did: Twitter. In fact, as news of the King of Pop's d ... More >>

Former New Times Writer Honored

Napolitano's Homeland Security to Give Arizona $12.8M for Illegal Immigration; Once Asked for $118M for State Prisons as Guv

How times change. Four years ago, Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano sent the feds a bill for $118 million, the amount she said the state had paid to incarcerate illegal immigrant prisoners. Now, as an A-list fed herself, Napolitano expects residents of her former home to be happy with $12.8 million ... More >>

Pride vs. Power

Caucasian hip-hoppers are celebraters, not haters

Can Janet Napolitano Fail Upward to the Supreme Court?

image by Jasmine Hobeheidar Be afraid, be very afraid... Here we go again. With the announced retirement of Supreme Court Justice David Souter, the buzz is that the White House wants to pick a non-judge female to become one of the nine. So of course this means some analysts with nothing but ... More >>

Zack de la Rocha Leads a March of Thousands to Joe Arpaio's Jails, Neo-Nazis and Nativists Back Arpaio

Zack de la Rocha addresses the crowd at the end of Saturday's Walk for RespectBefore today's successful march of thousands from the Wells Fargo building in downtown Phoenix to Sheriff Joe Arpaio's gulags, many in the Phoenix activist community tried to dissuade civil rights leader and march organi ... More >>

Craig Newmark Speaks at Victim's Memorial in Wake of Craigslist Killings

Waiter Confidential: President Bush at Dick's Hideaway

Today, the torch passes to a new generation. But some will never forget certain meals enjoyed during the Bush Administration. On October 13, 2004, in an act some might consider tantamount to cannibalism (shame on you), President George Walker Bush dined on turkey-stuffed enchiladas at Dick's Hideaw ... More >>

Janet Napolitano at DHS Equals Russell Pearce with Skunk Hair and Shoulder Pads

Embedded video from CNN Video What's the difference between neo-Nazi hugger, and forwarder of white supremacist e-mail, state Senator Russell Pearce and Gov. Janet Napolitano on immigration? Well, to judge by this CNN excerpt from Nappy's DHS confirmation hearings yesterday, I'd say, not much. A lo ... More >>

Huffington Post Picks Up on Plight of Immigrant Mom Torn from Children by Joe Arpaio's Goons

When, I wonder, will Ciria Lopez-Pacheco finally be reunited with her children? The extremely well-read site Huffington Post just picked up on the plight of undocumented mom Ciria Lopez-Pacheco, who was torn from her children the evening of January 9, during Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio' ... More >>

Sarah Palin VP Pick Has Media Calling Former New Times Writer Brendan Joel Kelley

In their appeal to red-staters, Southern hip-hop and Fox News walk together

Who's creepier: Warren Jeffs or Nancy Grace? And FLDS' new Web site about YFZ's "captive children."

Cyberspace Invaders

County law enforcement's seeking more and more Web site information to mount investigations against private citizens

ADL's new report on nativist extremism is out, and the winners are...

Witnesses of Carol Anne Gotbaum's arrest allege police brutality.

Anti-Heroes

The ornery oriole chugs brews with bikers at a fundraiser for convict Ignacio Ramos, and investigates Rusty Childress' banishment from the American Freedom Riders

The Big Cheesy

The last thing poor New Orleans needs is planning tips from Phoenix

Devils in Disguise

A documentary portrait of a pedophile priest and his pious protectors

Devils in Disguise

A documentary portrait of a pedophile priest and his pious protectors

Pride vs. Power

Caucasian hip-hoppers are celebraters, not haters

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, October 6, 2005

Uncle Sam Wants Them

Military recruiters are grabbing student info from local schools without parents' permission

Jules of the Desert

How ugly ads, good beer and neurology make an artist

Browne's New Bag

Our foodie loves the vibe of Richardson Browne's Rokerij

Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers

¡Americano! (Emma Java)

Patriotic Pang

The Spike just loves a real man in uniform

Year in TV: Fear Factor

But just think, no one hates TV more than Trent Lott

He's Bat Man

When you're drinking with Doug Click, "the bat man vigilante," there's more than one kind of chaser at the bar.

Dancehall Crasher

Hip-hop may have forgotten its debt to him, but reggae toaster Yellowman still knows he's king

Pedro the Lion

Control (Jade Tree Records)

Letters

From the week of December 20, 2001

Nine One One

On the date of America's worst emergency, did the media meet the challenge?

Flashes

From the week of January 28, 1999

Private Parts

Bright Bites, Big City

Recordings

CORNED BEEF AWRY

NEW PORN DOCUDRAMA EXPLORES JOHN WAYNE BOBBITT'S SEVERANCE PACKAGE

THE BASEBALL STRIKE: AS BORING AS IT IS STUPID

GRIMACE, YOU'RE ON CARNAGE CAMERADOCUMENTARY VISITS GULF WAR'S COLLATERAL DAMAGE, UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL