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Ask A Mexican on Illegal Immigrants' Cost to U.S. Society

Glendale Sub's Class was Urged to "Thank" Lawmaker in Lesson Plan, as Sub Claimed

​ The lesson plan for the class taught by Glendale substitute teacher Tony Hill urges eighth-grade students to "thank" a Democratic lawmaker, as Hill claimed. And the kids really were reading Mark Twain. "The letters to (state Senator Steve Gallardo) are to thank him or ask him to change his ... More >>

Glendale Eighth-Graders in Sub's Class Weren't "Perfectly Behaved," But Weren't Anti-American, Either, District Says

​ Glendale eighth-graders who were the subject of a controversial letter written by a substitute teacher were not "perfectly behaved" in the sub's class, a school district official admits. But after interviewing the students, district officials don't believe the class expressed any s ... More >>

Lindsey Graham Gay? William Gheen, ALIPAC Founder and J.D. Hayworth Supporter, Seems to think So

ALIPAC founder William Gheen thinks Senator Lindsey Graham is gay.​William Gheen, founder of the anti-illegal immigration group Americans for Legal Immigration-PAC, who once told this reporter to only submit questions to him via-email so he could "shove them up [my] ass," is making some outrageous ... More >>

On the Census and Making Up a Race

On Cutting Hair and Killing Gringos

November 12 In Blogs: Lou Dobbs, Kanye West, Draft Magazine, and Mike Tyson

​In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Lou Dobbs Delivers His Head to Hispanics, But That's Not Necessarily a Good Thing Up on the ... More >>

On Irritating Laughter and Confidence Building

November 2 In Blogs: Lou Dobbs, Phish, Tammie Coe, and East Valley Tribune

​​​In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Lou Dobbs' Account of Gunfire Incident "Chuckled" at by New Jersey Police Spokesman Up ... More >>

Lou Dobbs' Account of Gunfire Incident "Chuckled" at by New Jersey Police Spokesman

CNN screenshotBlue Lou: Many believe Dobbs' house got hit by a hunter's errant bulletAlterNet scribe Isabel Macdonald's scored again. You'll recall her as the Brooklyn-based journalist who along with cameraman Mark Read captured Arpaio losing it a few months back. This, during an interview with our ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Cries Wolf, Links Self to Lou Dobbs Threat, Slanders Activists

Is Sheriff Joe "America's Toughest Sheriff," or "America's Biggest Wimp"? That's what I can't help wondering as I read this latest press release from his PR staff. It lamely attempts to link the folks who protest Joe almost daily outside downtown Phoenix's Wells Fargo Building -- where Arpaio keeps ... More >>

The Anti-Lou Dobbs Effort, and Why I'm Hesitant to Support It

Cool video in favor of the "Basta Dobbs" campaign, even though I can't support it As much as I'd personally like to see CNN's Lou Dobbs put out to pasture, I can't totally get behind this new effort by Latino groups asking CNN to boot him. True, he is an embarrassment for CNN, he's a repulsiv ... More >>

October 13 In Blogs: Lou Dobbs, Nick Cave, Lola Tapas, and Arizona Democrats

​​In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Salvador Reza Calls for Anti-Joe Arpaio March This Friday, October 16 The Anti-Lou Dobbs ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Calls Out Janet Napolitano on 287(g); Supervisor Wilcox Says She's Voting No on Jails Agreement

Looks like the journos at today's Joe Arpaio presser practically had to jump out of the way of the spittle flying forth from the sheriff's kisser. As I suspected it would be, the whole show was an excuse for a tirade on the part of our spoiled lawman, a fit thrown by a puerile 77 year ... More >>

On Easily Understood Hand Gestures, Large Sums of Money, and Cultural Acceptance

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 >>

Al Sharpton Whups Sheriff Joe, and Courtney Bisbee’s Innocence Claim Is Shot Down by a Judge

Al Sharpton Rocks Phoenix, from Pilgrim Rest, to El Portal, to Wells Fargo and Finally, Lou Dobbs

Rev. Sharpton at Pilgrim Rest, early Friday morning Today the Reverend Al Sharpton achieved what no one else has achieved before in Arizona's civil rights struggle for the undocumented: the bringing together of African Americans and Latinos on the issues of racial profiling, immigration r ... More >>

Al Sharpton Does Phoenix This Friday, June 19th, According to Arizona ACORN

by David Shankbone Get your game face on, Joe, Rev. Al's ready to rumble...I've just received confirmation from Monica Sandschafer, ACORN's lead organizer in Arizona, that the Rev. Al Sharpton will be in Phoenix this Friday, June 19th. For those unaware of it, that date is known as Juneteenth ... More >>

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 >>

On Swine Flu and Having the Scars to Prove It

On the Lack of Latino Panhandlers, and Those Famous Mexican Words

Lou Dobbs Battles Al Sharpton and ACORN's Bertha Lewis, Gets His Lunch Eaten

Part one of Sharpton and Lewis vs. TV minuteman Lou Dobbs I don't know what CNN's resident nativist Lou Dobbs thought he was doing when he invited the Rev. Al Sharpton and ACORN's Bertha Lewis on his program yesterday. But suffice it to say that the bottle-blond senior citizen got owned on his own s ... More >>

Live from D.C.: The House/Arpaio 287(g) Hearings, Starting About 7 a.m. Phoenix Time

Stepping off the plane in Washington D.C. this afternoon was like my first trip to New York many moons ago. The cab driver is Russian. The hotel front desk guy is from someplace in Africa. The room service waiter is from El Salvador. In other words, D.C. shows us to be a nation of immigrants. The na ... More >>

Sheriff Joe Offers Hispanics an Olive Branch, Kinda-Sorta, on Barriozona.com.

On Homophobia y Tú

Joe Arpaio Visits the Wells Fargo Protesters, Suffers a Senior Moment.

On illegal immigrants agitating to improve their citizenship status and legal immigrants growing complacent

The big leprosy lie, as repeated by KTAR's morning wing-nut Darrell Ankarlo.

Not just for conspiracy theorists, anymore: Jay Johnson-Castro and Operation ENDGAME.

Ask a Mexican rides off into the sunset

Ask a Mexican breaks into your house to talk border control and illegal immigration

Ask a Mexican on "playing the padrino card" and accepting lower salaries

After just one year, ASU junked its scholarship program for illegal immigrants. Sarah Fenske wonders who will step up for them now

Strange but true: Legal immigrants are known to rat out their undocumented countrymen

Caste of Whiners

WHERE WAS GOOBER? Mayor Phil Gordon weenies out yet again, skips Town Hall Meeting at South Mountain High.

Jokes you won't hear at the Joe Arpaio roast...

Oh, Beautiful, for Spacious ERs

If you aren't part of the solution, you're 80% of the problem

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

Lard of the Fries

Defending beans and settling hash

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

Is the Repugnant's Laurie Roberts an anti-Mexican bigot?

Heard Mentality

From jeer to depravity

Jumping to Confusion

If illegal perks are so great, why crave citizenship?

Jibes Sans Frontiers

In which you are sent away to bordering school

Three-Question Especiál

If there were a wall, we'd just get it dirty

School Daze

Bully takes you back to the battlefield of high school

Baile of Rights

A free press and inalienable booty-shaking

Flame-out

Challenger – now that was a real national tragedy