International Relations

An Airplane That May Have Been Air Force One Is Sitting at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport

An airplane that may or may not have been Air Force One at one point in history is currently sitting at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport.The General Services Administration is auctioning off this plane next week (with a starting bid of $50,000) and our federal government is apparently unsure if any ... More >>

Fight And Flight

Should Foreign Hells Angels Be Allowed in the United States?

See also: Hells Angels Sue Feds Over Ban on Members Entering U.S.The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club has filed a lawsuit against several federal agency heads -- including Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton -- claiming the group's foreign members have been wrongful ... More >>

Hells Angels Sue Janet Napolitano and Hillary Clinton Over Ban on Members Entering U.S.

The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club has filed a lawsuit against several federal agency heads, claiming the group's foreign members have been wrongfully banned from entering the United States.Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and U.S. Citizen and Immigration Service ... More >>

Rose Mofford's 90th Birthday Celebration Reminds Us Fondly Of The Grand Old Girl

We were around in 1988 when Rose Mofford, Arizona's longtime Secretary of State, ascended to the Governor's office after the impeachment of Evan Mecham, a Glendale car dealer whose tenure was a (yet another) national embarassment.   Well before she became governor, we had ... More >>

Wil Cardon Seems to Have a Difficult Time Understanding Jeff Flake's Travel Habits

​Yet again, Republican Wil Cardon's U.S. Senate campaign has gone on the attack against his primary foe, Congressman Jeff Flake, over his travel habits.And yet again, Cardon appears to be confused about what Flake's actually doing.It started with an ad called "Flake Air," describing Flake as an "i ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Olivia Cortes Off The Hook in Petition Pros Scandal

Will questions about Pearce's Olivia Cortes scandal ever be answered? Not by prosecutors, it seems. Olivia Cortes, the sham candidate the Tea Party fronted in order to dilute the vote in the 2011 recall of ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce, will face no fines or orders to comply in regards to ... More >>

Radiation Therapy

Governor Jan Brewer's Spokesman Explains the Arizona Constitution Shouldn't Apply to Her in Running for Third Term

Jan Brewer: Making it up as she goes along​While Governor Jan Brewer is pretty sure she can run for a third term (which she can't), her camp is already cooking up some wild explanations to let it happen.Brewer's spokesman Matthew Benson tells New Times that folks inside the governor's office beli ... More >>

Rocky Point Warning Cites Cartel Violence of Past Year; State Department Also Refines Nogales Advisory

  ​For the first time, the U.S. State Department has specifically mentioned Rocky Point in a travel advisory, citing recent cartel violence there as the reason. The small town on the coast of the Gulf of California has long been a popular vacation spot for Arizonans -- but not so ... More >>

Jan Brewer and Tom Horne's Silly Rebuttal To the Ninth Circuit

Horne, born in Canada to Nazi-fleeing parents, knows better...or shouldGovernor Jan Brewer and Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne have issued a joint press release denouncing the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' 2-1 decision today upholding District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton's injunction of four ke ... More >>

Ask a Mexican on Imperialist Land Grabs and Exclaiming in ALL CAPS

Prop 203: Friday Deadline More a Suggestion Than Deadline. Results Not Expected Until Next Week

​If you were expecting to learn the fate Prop. 203 -- Arizona's medical marijuana initiative -- tomorrow, don't hold your breath. Election officials don't expect to be done counting ballots until next week, which violates election statute, but, as we just found out, is not that big a deal.From ... More >>

Prop 203 Spokesman: "We're Likely to Win" Based on Trend of Provisional Ballots

​ Andrew Myers, the campaign manager for Proposition 203, tells New Times tonight that he's very hopeful the medical marijuana initiative will come out on top when all the votes are in. It seems like wishful thinking, but official figures show he might be right. Myers points out that provision ... More >>

SB 1070 Field Day: Judge Susan Bolton May Enjoin Law in Part

Governor Brewer, outside federal court ThursdayIn a day filled with protests, arrests, legal arguments, an appearance by the governor, and at least one certified neo-Nazi, the most significant developments in the SB 1070 saga happened within the Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. Courthouse in Phoenix, n ... More >>

U.S. State Department Issues Updated Warning on Travel to Mexico

Nothing like a peaceful round of golf in Sonora, Mexico -- just be sure to finish up well before dark, says the State Department​ The State Department has issued an updated travel warning about Mexico, urging visiting Americans to be ultra-cautious because of all the drug-related v ... More >>

Peanut Butter Miracles: In Earthquake-Ravaged Haiti, Dr. Patricia Wolff Has Made Ending Child Malnutrition Her Life's Work

Radical Resistance: The Bird Lauds One of the Bolder Acts of Civil Disobedience Arizona's Seen Recently

J.D. Hayworth Calls on John McCain to Oppose Unlikely Hillary Clinton Supreme Court Appointment

www.punditkitchen.com​Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth is taking a stand against Senator John McCain's potential support of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's hypothetical nomination to the Supreme Court.There's only one problem: McCain has never said whether he would support her nomination and the ... More >>

Barack Obama's Bloody Hands: 85 Dead in the Arizona Desert and Counting

Not all of the water from all of the jugs placed in the desert by activists from groups like No More Deaths can wipe clean the blood of migrants from President Barack Obama's hands.What other conclusion can be drawn from the news from Tucson advocacy group Derechos Humanos that the number of remains ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, March 11, 2010

Conversation Peace

Arizona artist aims for global amity with neo-hippie art

Mexican Government Denounces Arpaio's Tent City March; Protest Filed with Supervisors

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's forced march of illegal immigrants to Tent City has drawn a stunningly sharp rebuke from the Mexican government -- with a letter arriving at the county today and more action ordered by a Mexican Senate committee if the situation doesn't change. I ... More >>

Brew Review: Rogue's Hazlenut Brown Nectar

Last weekend we invited a few dozen of ASU's finest over to our place for a party. In typical pot luck style we had a table full of goodies representing all different culinary cultures and backgrounds. There was Italian, Indian, Chinese and more. It was like the U.N. of pot lucks. Unlike the real Un ... More >>

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War Games

Playtime’s the thing for the Society for Creative Anachronism

Tool

Everything looks like a nail

Lost in Translation

All talk, little action, no sense

Top 10 selling CDs at Circles Records & Tapes (800 North Central Avenue) for December 6 through 12

Top 10 selling CDs at Zia Record Exchange (1904 West Indian School Road) for November 22 through 28

Renaissance Woman

Hazel paints from the past

Barry Bad

Sonnenfeld's comic caper is no Trouble at all

Hell Hole

Two soldiers are stranded in No Man's Land, where no one wins

Hold On a Minute!

Ecologists are still trying to spin their phony 'Save the Whale' campaign

Crying Whale

Environmental groups sent out a worldwide call to save the gray whale from a Mexican salt plant. They got millions of dollars and thousands of new members. But scientists found no threat to the whales.

The Unlikely Environmentalists

Mexican officials were quite capable of stopping one of the world's largest corporations on their own

Best Classical Radio Station

KBAQ-FM 89.5

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Pop Culture Classics

Stalk-Forrest Group, Blue Öyster Cult

St.Ceilia: The Elektra Recordings (Rhino Handmade),Blue Öyster Cult Tranny and Mutation Secret Treaties Agents of Fortune (Columbia/Legacy), Curse of the Hidden Mirror (CMC International)

Resurrection

After a 70-year hiatus and a confrontation with the world, the Makah tribe resumes its communion with the gray whale

First Lady of the Theater

A Proposition 200 Close-Up

Letters

Bedtime for Gonzo

The last Ted Nugent interview you'll ever have to read

UP AND ATOM

INTERSTATE HIGH JINKS

LAND BATTLE PITS REP. JON KYL (R-DEL WEBB CORP.) AGAINST REP. JIM BILBRAY (D-SUMMA CORP.)

LOST IN THE TRANSLATIONTHE SPANISH VERSION OF THE STATE DRIVER'S MANUAL IS DOWNRIGHT LAUGHABLE

AND THE WINNERS ARE. . .

LUCK HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THESE RECIPIENTS OF STATE LOTTERY MONEY

Howlin' Globetrotter

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown sings the blues around the world