Terrorism

Laquint Cherry Arrested for Tweet Saying He Planted IEDs in Jodi Arias Courtroom

An 18-year-old man was arrested by Maricopa County Sheriff's Office deputies after tweeting that he planted improvised explosive devices in Jodi Arias' courtroom.Laquint Cherry, whose Twitter account indicates a severe lack of common sense, was ratted out by local TV news station ABC 15, the station ... More >>

Tempe Teen Joshua Prater Busted With an IED Thanks to Cleaning Lady, Cops Say

A woman cleaning a house in Tempe stumbled upon a teenager's improvised explosive device yesterday.Joshua Prater, an 18-year-old senior at Marcos de Niza High School, told police yesterday that he built the device when he was 10 years old, and said he didn't know it was filled with explosive powder, ... More >>

The Company You Keep: Redford and Gang Face the '60s -- in Their 70s

When John McClane Lost His Family, the Movies Lost Much of John McClane

Gary Vogt Identified as Glendale House Bomber; He Was Angry With School District, Feds Say

See also: ATF, Glendale P.D. Trying to Find Out Who Bombed a House for the Third TimeGary Vogt, 50, was arrested this morning by Glendale police and ATF agents, and is accused of being the guy who bombed the same Glendale house three times.Vogt's possible motivation, according to documents filed in ... More >>

Flashlight Bomber Possibly Responsible for Third Device, Donated to Phoenix Salvation Army

The dolt dropping off improvised explosive devices around Glendale in the form of flashlights may have delivered his third yesterday -- this time in Phoenix.Someone dropped a flashlight in the donations at a Salvation Army in Phoenix yesterday, and when an employee clicked it on, it blew up.Phoenix ... More >>

Peoria Kid Plants a Flashlight Near School, Tells Fellow Seventh-Graders It's Probably a Bomb

A Peoria seventh-grader earned a trip to a juvie facility yesterday for telling his classmates the flashlight he planted near the school was probably a bomb, police say.Flashlights, as you may recall, are a hot topic on the west side these days, as someone turned a couple of them into improvised exp ... More >>

Why Authorities Could've Prevented J.T. Ready's Murder Spree

Jan Brewer Vetoes Bill That Would Have Forced Feds to Warn Joe Arpaio (and Other Sheriffs) When They're Doing Their Jobs

It looks like Governor Jan Brewer's only taking her battle against the federal government so far.Brewer vetoed House Bill 2434 yesterday, which would have required federal law-enforcement officers to notify county sheriffs "before taking any official law enforcement action."If that federal officer f ... More >>

Steve Gallardo Drops Repeal SB 1070 Bill, Nativists Counter-Rally

Down at the state Capitol today, it was like a little bit of 2010, all over again.Grizzled nativists toting "I love SB 1070 signs," with pistols on their hips. Pro-immigration activists in droves denouncing the two-year old breathing-while-brown statute. And Arizona Department of Public Safety offic ... More >>

Karina Longworth Looks Ahead to the Most Anticipated Films of 2012

Nine Films to Anticipate in 2012

American Beauties

Arizona Republic: Osama bin Laden "Unharmed" When Shot in Face by U.S. Special Forces. Oops

​As a certain editor at the Arizona Republic knows, we often let many of the paper's small screw-ups slide. Rather than call the Repub out for a minor typo in a headline, we'll send a friendly e-mail alerting him to the problem. We're not gonna do that today -- today's "oops" moment from Arizona's ... More >>

Osama bin Laden Live Tweeting From Hell (Sorta) -- Which Could be Funny, But it's Not

Badop-ching!​As the U.S. government weighs whether to release photos of Osama bin Laden's bullet-riddled corpse to appease the conspiracy theorists who are doubting his death is legit, the now-former public enemy number one is having a great time in hell -- at least that's what an uber-lame Twitte ... More >>

Osama bin Laden Dead: Debbie Schlussel Calls for Killing 1.8 Billion Muslims; Let the Crackpot Raving Begin!

Who do the wingnuts hate more, Osama or Obama? That's easy, Obama!In the wake of President Barack Obama's announcement that terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden has been killed by American forces during a firefight in Pakistan, I have a few predictions.The first is a given: traitorous right-wing nut ... More >>

Greek Squad

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 >>

9/11 "Troofers" Return! "4409" Burns a Library Book, Guess Which One?

Jason Shelton lights one up. Too bad it ain't a doobie They're baaaaaack. Yep, like a rash of bed bugs you thought the exterminator had smoked out, the "troofers," those nutty guys and gals who believe 9/11 was an "inside job" by the Bush administration will be active once again come this ninth ann ... More >>

LifeLock Adds Tom Ridge, Former Homeland Security Boss, to Board of Directors

Image: www.harvard.eduTom Ridge, former Homeland Security chief, joins LifeLock's board of directors.​Tempe-based LifeLock, Inc. has put former U.S. Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge on its board of directors as it tries to recover from a $12 million punishment from the Federal Trade Commission.R ... More >>

Wacky Goings-On Today At Downtown Phoenix County Courthouse

We were on our way around noon on this beautiful Phoenix day to meet a few Superior Court judges for lunch at a downtown Chinese restaurant.  As usual, we decided to stop by for a moment to say hello to Ed "The Hotdogger" Haramina, the longtime purveyor of delicious (if you like dolled- ... More >>

Napolitano Giving Speech on Homeland Security Issues Next Week

  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano plans to give a major public speech about terrorism and other security issues next week in New York City, a tipster told Foreign Policy magazine. According to an article on the magazine's Web site, Napolitano give the speech at the corporation-ri ... More >>

Ghost World

New Latina/o artists hijack Phoenix Art Museum

The Face of Terror

House of Sand and Fog author explores the September 10 mentality

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3: In This Subway Series, the Original Pelham Wins

"Beth Ames Swartz: The Word in Paint"

Joe Crummey, KTAR's L.A. Wing-Nut, and What the MCSO and Al-Qaeda Have in Common

www.ktar.com KTAR's Joe Crummey (in what must be a very old photo), still phoning it in after all these years... Is there a lip-flapper at the Mormon Church-owned, right-wing talk radio station KTAR 92.3 FM that doesn't have his lips surgically connected to Joe Arpaio's flaccid penis? Excludi ... More >>

Text Messaging

Artist mixes hidden meanings in her paint

Hot Links: Scottsdale's Used Motor Mile; Sick Puppies Thrown in Trash; California Facing Debt Meltdown

Scottsdale's Motor Mile ain't what it used to be: They're ripping up old new car dealerships and putting in new old car dealerships. How'd you like to go the rest of the life with the label, "Puppy Abuser?" That could be the case for a Maricopa County court employee accused of throwing sick puppies ... More >>

Media Weighs in on Napolitano's Appointment to Homeland Security

Barack Obama has named Arizona's governor Janet Napolitano as the nation's Homeland Security secretary. This is Janet's biggest spotlight ever, and the country is being hit with a flurry of news stories about her. Obama made it official this morning during a news conference in Chicago. A ... More >>

Charlie Gibson Proves It: Sarah Palin Is George W. Bush in Pumps.

Man on Wire: Philippe Petit's World Trade Center tightrope walk was made for the movies

Sundance 2008 leaves just a handful of buzz-worthy movies in its wake

Shoot 'Em Up

Fighting the enemy over there

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, August 30, 2007

Why David Ray Griffin is full of merde, Part I.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Review Critique for Newspapers

87 minutes of pure art, with fries

The Algiers Connection

Sofaine Laimeche's long friendship with a 9/11 suspect has put his future in America in doubt

9/11 Deniers' Conference, Part Deux: In Irvine, this time...

9/11 South Park: Who dropped a deuce in the urinal?

Obama, No Osama: New York Times readers not interested in terrorism...

An Albatross

Loud, with scattered nudity and unconsciousness

Dirty Dozen

An evening of feel-bad music

Gross Encounters

Good and gory

Paris

Sonic Jihad (Guerrilla Funk/Groove Attack)

BEST PAINTBALL PARK

Swat City

Ground Zero Hour

A man's last day of freedom becomes Spike's meditation on 9/11

Klahr v. The Bar

Letters from the week of July 11, 2002

Peacenik Nazis

Radical right capitalizes on September 11 fears

Flying Fish

Fresh seafood doesn't swim to Phoenix