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Just to be Clear: Jan Brewer Says She Was Drinking Wine Before Crashing Her Car Into a Mini-Van. Not Scotch

​Governor Jan "Drive Hammered, Get Nailed" Brewer wants to set the record straight: when she crashed her car into the back of a mini-van in 1988, she had been drinking wine -- not scotch, as was recorded in the police report."Well ya know, I've never drank scotch in my life. If I have a cocktail, ... More >>

John McCain Protester Liz Hourican Tackled by LEO in CNN Video

I'm on deadline today, so I won't have time to suss this out till later, but this CNN video of peace activist Liz Hourican being tackled by law enforcement is disturbing for a couple of reasons.The first is that, based on what's in the video, there was no need for such force, as Hourican had already ... More >>

Airport Body Scanners Catch Drugs, Not Explosives; 80-Plus People Hid Illegal Items Nationwide This Year, TSA Says

  ​The electronic strip-shows being installed at airports around the country haven't helped catch any terrorists, bombs or guns. Yet body scanners are paying off for local law enforcement: The high-tech machines excel at detecting tiny packets of illegal drugs hidden on a ... More >>

Burning Qurans, Flags, Bibles? The First Amendment Rules

~crystalina~ If the book burning was to be of Bibles instead of Qurans, would anyone have cared? All the sturm und drang of the past few days over a Florida pastor's plans to burn a pile of Qurans on September 11 may have paid off. The AP is now reporting that Pastor Terry Jon ... More >>

U.S. Department of Justice Files SB 1070 Lawsuit Against Arizona

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department filed suit over SB 1070 todayAs was anticipated, the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit today in federal district court against the state of Arizona and Governor Jan Brewer over Arizona's new "papers, please" legislation, SB 1070.In the lawsu ... More >>

Russell Pearce Speaks Spanish with a Woman's Voice

Phoenix journalist Valeria Fernandez has single-handedly emasculated neo-Nazi hugging state Senator Russell Pearce, and in Spanish no less.How she got Pearce to sit down for an interview for CNN en Espanol, I don't know. But listening to the best known Hispanic-bashing bigot in the state, and perhap ... More >>

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 >>

SB 1070 Preview: ICE Holds Puerto Rican Man They Assumed Was Mexican

View more news videos at: http://www.nbcchicago.com/video.If Sand Landers want a preview of how SB 1070 will play out on the street once it goes into effect at the end of July, they should look north to the Windy City.There, a Puerto Rican man was threatened with deportation by ICE agents after bein ... More >>

Saturday Night Live Skewers SB 1070; Al Sharpton Plans Freedom Walks in Arizona

Saturday Night LiveSNL's Weekend Update on Arizona: "It's a dry fascism"Like you need more proof that Arizona has become a national joke due to its wingnutty gun laws, its conspiranutty birther bill, and its racist new immigration law SB 1070, Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update took aim at the sta ... More >>

Olympic Cheese, Stinky Cheese and a New Home for Sahara in Today's Eater's Digest

An early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives. ​ Cheese has a new use --- at least for winter Olympian Lindsey Vann. She has been using Topfan, an Austrian cheese to reduce the inflammation in her leg. Check out the full story at CNN. Its not surprising that ... More >>

Michael Manning Won't Run for AZ Attorney General, After All

courtesy of CNN Attorney Michael C. Manning​Michael Manning, the lawyer who's made a mint suing Sheriff Joe Arpaio and other local miscreants, has decided not to run for Arizona Attorney General, after all.Turns out too many people are dependent on Manning's rainmaking skills for him to lea ... More >>

An MCSO Officer Craves an Alleged Terrorist’s John Hancock, Plus Religious Insanity at Phoenix Symphony Hall

McCain Tells Former D-Backs Pitcher Schilling to Run For Massachusetts Senate Seat

www.phoenix.fanster.com Former D-back Curt Schilling​ Arizona's very own maverick, Senator John McCain, is telling a former Arizona icon to hang up his bloody sock, and join him in the United States Senate.McCain also told Sara Palin to run for vice-president, and I think we all know how t ... More >>

Sal DiCiccio Veers Off Message -- "Worried" About Kidnapping in Phoenix

Sal DiCiccio​Phoenix city officials have been going out of the way to assure residents that the whole "kidnapping capital of the world" thing is media hype -- and that you, your family, and any tourists who want to visit town are absolutely safe here.Someone apparently forgot to get the message to ... More >>

Liberian Ambassador: Shunning of Rape Victim "Not a Manifestation of Our Culture"

  The reported shunning of an 8-year-old rape victim by her Liberian parents is "not a manifestation of our culture," the Liberian ambassador to the United States tells New Times. Some media coverage of the July 16 rape quotes experts saying this kind of thing is the norm in Liberia, a co ... More >>

Gov. Ed Rendell on Janet "No Life" Napolitano and the Assumptions That Follow

CNN's Campbell Brown "Cutting Through the Bull" concerning Janet. Well, not completely... So the blogging and talk radio world is all over Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell for his off-mic comment about our Governor Janet Napolitano being tapped for Homeland Security Secretary, and why she's a solid ... More >>

The Obama Army, Governor Janet Napolitano, and Local Democrats Take Over the Wyndham Hotel

Former Korn guitarist Brian Welch finds Jesus

The Eagles

Long Road Out of Eden
(Eagles Recording Co./Universal Music Group)

Racist Daisy-Chain

The Wild Turkey calls the guv a coward, outs Republican white supremacists, and searches for Dennis Wilenchik’s lost subpoenas

Nudist GOP camps for kids? Sure, just keep your hands off my Horst Kraus.

Nancy Grace smooches Joe Arpaio's bum on air, while Arpaio salivates for Paris Hilton

Say It With Diamonds?

Circling the industry, Zwick flick tackles nada

Soft-core Sexy Nurses

Fear of Flying

You may not want to see it, but you should

Killing Me Softly

A person's got to eat

Backhanded Slapstick

Warmed by Jim Carrey's brand of fun

Koufax

Hard Times Are In Fashion
(Doghouse)

Comp Romp

AZ's "punk-rock utopia" releases its third CD

Blessed Are the Cheesemakers

Python's Brian returns, bearing cinematic salvation

Deck Heads

The card game Yu-Gi-Oh! becomes a wild and crazy movie

Family Ties

An Israeli clan takes its Broken Wings and tries to fly again

Rocking the Casbah

The hawks and doves of the local music scene

Steve Earle

Jerusalem (Artemis/E-squared)

Fright Path

Stage play takes audience inside the black box

Photo Finish

Death Cab for Cutie sees itself as just another guitar band, but you might disagree

Rescue 9/11

This year, a handful of shows provided the healing power of laughter

Red, White and Food

A sudden hunger for good old-fashioned American comfort food

Letters

From the week of March 22, 2001

Stalking a Novelist

Lydia Millet reads from her latest novel, My Happy Life

Party All the Time

Fabricio Rodriguez, student body vice president at Mesa Community College, refused to pledge an oath that he wasn't a Communist -- because he is.

Riding the Rhythm

LTJ Bukem takes a pragmatic view of the co-opting of drum 'n' bass by corporate America

Grist for the Millennium

Y2K hucksters cash in on fear of cataclysmic calendar crash 'n' burn

To Serb With Love

Pavle Milic untangles his Balkan roots and discovers a cauldron of ancient passion and prejudice

Flashes

Joe, Jane & John

Punk Rock Grrls

Onward, Vegan Soldiers

As the newly appointed spokesband for straight-edge punk, Earth Crisis takes its militant, ecoalarmist message from the streets to the airwaves (and back again)

Dont Keep Those Cards Coming

Foundations' wish is to stop achain letter requesting business cards for dying boy

TRUTH OF DARE