The Taliban

Daryl Raetz's Body Circled by Nativist Buzzards

The nativists are a parasitic lot. They gloat when someone is murdered by an "illegal immigrant," or any kind of immigrant, actually. In the Boston bombings, they made a feast of the two brothers, the alleged terrorists: one a naturalized U.S. citizen, the other granted asylum. See also: -Jesus M ... More >>

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 >>

FBI: Red Mountain High School Graduate Tried to Bomb Bank; Thought He Had Connection to Taliban

A graduate of Red Mountain High School in Mesa is accused of trying to bomb a bank in Oakland, California, but his purportedly Taliban-connected partner was an undercover FBI agent.According to the FBI, 28-year-old Matthew Aaron Llaneza, now a resident of San Jose, California, wanted to make it look ... More >>

Jan Brewer Times Three? Ten Reasons Jan Should Run for an Unconstitutional Third Term

Jan Brewer cannot run for governor again. There is no wiggle room in the Arizona Constitution. And if she tries, she is guaranteed to kiss the canvas with her plastic-surgery-gone-wrong gob, slapped down by the Arizona Supreme Court. See also: -Jan Brewer's Sniveling New Memoir Laughably Paints He ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Taliban, Nativist Steve Camarota, and More Problems for the MCSO

See also: MCSO Sergeant Says Main Goal Is to Catch Illegal Immigrants, Contradicting Deputy Chief Brian Sands' Testimony See also: Joe Arpaio Struggles in Racial-Profiling Trial See also: Joe Arpaio Looks Like Tired, Old Racist on Stand During Racial-Profiling Trial See also: Joe Arpaio's (ahem) Leg ... More >>

Q&A: Toby Keith Reacts to the Death of Osama Bin Laden

Toby Keith​Two pretty big events have happened in recent hours -- events that will forever change the course of American history. First off, the obvious -- it was confirmed late last night that Osama Bin Laden was killed by close-range firefight by Navy Seals. Secondly, and maybe just as important ... More >>

Missing Reaction: An Arizona Soldier Goes AWOL, and the Army Doesn't Tell Anyone Until It's Too Late

Palin and Tea Party Rhetoric Was Not the Reason Gabrielle Giffords Was Attacked -- America's Treatment of Mental Illness Is to Blame

​The attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the incidental execution of Arizona's Chief Federal Judge, the collateral killing of five bystanders, including a child, and the deranged wounding of 14 politically curious civilians is not the result of the First Amendment's pe ... More >>

Toronto International Film Festival: There Is No One Definitive Festival Experience -- Here's One

The Tillman Story Sets the Record Straight

Arty Girl: "Afghan Star" at Phoenix Art Museum

​A little over a month ago, I had a night out at the movies. It was great. Especially because I didn't have to buy a ticket or endure an annoying shopping center to get to the theater.That's because I went to the Phoenix Art Museum for my cinema experience.And tonight, the good folks there (specif ... More >>

Author of Muslim Mafia, Endorsed By John Shadegg, Uses Fort Hood Tragedy to Rally "Backlash Against the Muslim Community"

​The author of the book Muslim Mafia, which received a glowing endorsement from Arizona Congressman John Shadegg (pictured), is using the tragedy at Fort Hood, Texas, last week as a battle cry for a "backlash against the Muslim community and its leaders."Hold on -- that's just the beginning.

Arizona Theater Company’s The Kite Runner Is a High-Flying Version of Khaled Hosseini’s Novel

Conversation Peace

Arizona artist aims for global amity with neo-hippie art

Guantánamo’s Final Days: America Prepares to Shutter the Infamous Prison Camp, and Jihad Looms

Sean Hannity, Oliver North, Charlie Daniels and Assorted Redneck Musicians Invade Glendale

BYOPOC: Bring Your Own Plug o' ChawA dental student's worst nightmare. That's what you can expect come August in Glendale as a snaggle-toothed horde of trailer park refugees descends on the Jobing.com Arena for Freedom Concert '09, a benefit show sponsored by Fox News wing-nut poster boy Sean Hannit ... More >>

Janet Napolitano Leaps to Sarah Palin's Defense, and I Think I'm Going to Puke.

9/11 troofers take to the skies; an anti-troofer's genius video punking Blair Gadsby; the New York D.A.'s criminal complaint against German Talis; and a response to Enrique.

Beautician and the Beasts

How a hairdresser battled the Taliban with nail files and curlers

Support Group

The year's best characters

Grounded

Controversy aside, this just won't fly

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, November 1, 2007

The Office Meets Deliverance

Satire and horror make for bad synergy

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, March 29, 2007

Jibes Sans Frontiers

In which you are sent away to bordering school

Darrell Ankar-low Brow

Soft-core Sexy Nurses

The view from Nixon's

Da Mayor's Debacle

The foul fowl crows over Scottsdale's vote-down of the anti-lap-dance prop, a major slap-down of Mayor Mary Manross

London Fog

Woody Allen's second straight English excursion is a failed return to comedy

Juelz Santana

What the Game's Been Missing!
(Def Jam)

Toby Keith

Still ready for prime time

Raging Bull

Kerry's a wuss. Dubya's a doof. How can anybody vote for either of these clowns?

Steve Earle

The Revolution Starts Now
(Artemus)

From Bad to Worse

An Afghan girl faces the terror of life under the Taliban

Toby Keith

Shock'n Y'all (DreamWorks)

Habitat for Inhumanity

The "asylums" depicted in The Magdalene Sisters undermine both the Catholic Church and the popular image of Ireland

Letters

Letters from the week of August 7, 2003

Art During Wartime

A pair of ASU lectures arrive in the nick of time

Steve Earle

Jerusalem (Artemis/E-squared)

Jello Biafra

The Big Ka-Boom, Part One (Alternative Tentacles)

Getting down--and dirty--at Nita's Hideaway

Letters from the week of June 13, 2002

Portrait of a Young Man

Letters from the week of April 25, 2002

Arabian Nightmare

A road through hell paved with good intentions points the way to Kandahar

White Men Can't Rap

But they talked your ear off about war, morality and patriotism in the '60s. Is Young America again ready for More Talk, Less Music?

Just Plain Cuckoo

What was the Audubon Society thinking when it named a pro-development Republican to head its new statewide effort?

War on War Books

Donald Miller has rewritten one of the best books on World War II, but will anyone care?

Letters

From the week of October 25-31, 2001

Letters

From the week of October 4-10, 2001

Letters

From the week of March 29, 2001