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Janet Napolitano for President: Yay or Nay?

For some reason, the word on the street is that former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano is "considering" a run for president.The Washington Post reported earlier this week that Napolitano, Obama's Homeland Security Secretary, might be likely to give it a shot if Hillary Clinton doesn't.See also:-Ja ... More >>

Janet Napolitano "Considering" Run for President, According to Washington Post

Former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano is considering a run for President of the United States, if a Washington Post report is to be trusted.According to the article, it seems that Napolitano, the current Homeland Security Secretary, is more likely to run if Hillary Clinton doesn't.See also:-Janet ... More >>

Jon Kyl Accuses Obama Administration of Apologizing to Embassy Protesters, Goes Straight for the Rape Analogy

See also: Jon Kyl's Lies "Not Intended to be Factual Statement"Attention Senator Jon Kyl's press secretary: please re-send the statement clarifying that the senator's words are "not intended to be a factual statement." Kyl's getting attention now because he told a group of reporters that a press rel ... More >>

Kirk Adams Gets the Nod From Sarah Palin, Which Actually Tends to Be a Good Thing

Former Arizona House Speaker Kirk Adams -- who's facing off against fellow Republican Matt Salmon in Arizona's Fifth Congressional District primary -- got the stamp of approval from former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.A nod from Palin might scare the neighborhood liberals, but if history tells us any ... More >>

Swedish Public School Lunches Make Us Feel Bad, Unless You Don't Like Gravy

See Also: 9-Year-Old School Lunch Blogger 1, Council Censors 0 See Also: Three Ignite Phoenix Videos That Rocked Our World See Also: Beaver Choice Serves Up Swedish Fare That's Too Good to Keep Secret The debate over school lunches has is no stranger to news coverage. We've talked about the 9-year- ... More >>

Russell Pearce, Serial Liar, Endorses Mitt Romney, Tells the Truth for Once

According to a recent item in the Washington Post's Election 2012 Blog, recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce has endorsed Mitt Romney in the Republican presidential primary, more than a month after Romney won Sand Land's GOP contest. As a result, Romney immediately called a press ... More >>

Victoria Jackson Goes From Comedy Heights to Being the Tea Party's Princess

Congressman Trent Franks on Newt Gingrich's Marital "Issues": "Jesus is Not On the Ballot"

​Fagala-phobic Arizona Congressman Trent Franks is obnoxiously conservative. Aside from thinking race/gender-based abortions are a legitimate problem in the United States (which it's not), he thinks letting gay people tie the knot "literally is a threat to the nation's survival" because it threate ... More >>

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter Outs Himself as Illegal Immigrant, Details Underground Network That Supported Him

New York Times "We're not always who you think we are," Vargas writes of illegal immigrants. "Some pick your strawberries...[others] write news articles you might read." ​An illegal immigrant on the Washington Post reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Virginia ... More >>

James Beard Award Food Blog Nominees On Twitter

It's that time again. We've compiled a small but meaningful list of great Twitter accounts for any Phoenix foodie to follow. This week, we wanted to highlight the 2011 James Beard Foundation Book, Broadcast & Journalism Awards finalists in the "individual food blog" category. Naturally, these bl ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, April 14, 2011

Women's Funding Network Sex Trafficking Study Is Junk Science

Schapiro Group data wasn't questioned by mainstream media

Washington Post Plagiarist Suspended for Ripping Of Arizona Republic

www.washingtonpost.comSari Horwitz, plagiarist, was slapped on the wrist for ripping off the Arizona Republic's work.​Despite what your journalistic ethics professor may tell you in J-school, plagiarizing won't get you fired from a newspaper -- as long as you work at the Washington Post, anyway.Ye ... More >>

Fourteenth Amendment Challenged by Racist Wackjobs in D.C.

Pity poor state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce.He couldn't be there for all the fun today in D.C. as a passel of his moonhowlin' racist buds -- including nativist poster-boy Kris Kobach, now Secretary of State from Kansas, Pearce's primary flunky Arizona Representative John Kavanagh, and fell ... More >>

"Lone Wolf," Glendale Gun Store, Tops in Firearms Recovered at Mexico Crimes Scenes, Newspaper Reports

Image: http://lonewolftradingco.net/splash.html​Lone Wolf Trading Company, a Glendale gun store, leads a top-12 list by the Washington Post of traced crime-scene guns recovered in Mexico. The Post conducted its own Wikileaks-like expose, apparently, defying a 2003 federal law that's ... More >>

Lester Pearce, New Presiding Judge of Justice Courts, Takes Bible-Based Views of U.S. Constitution on the Road

Lester Pearce​ Lester Pearce, the Justice of the Peace for the North Mesa precinct (and brother of State Senator Russell Pearce), has a lot of interesting ideas about the U.S. Constitution. And the former lawmaker, who's poised to become the next presiding judge of the justice c ... More >>

9th Circuit Court Mulls SB1070 Following Hearing; Judges' Questions Analyzed by Media

​ An hour-long hearing at the U.S. 9th Circuit Court in San Francisco signals a mixed bag for both supporters and opponents of Arizona's harsh anti-illegal-immigrant law. A story in the Washington Post claims that "deep skepticism" by one judge about the Obama Adminstration's ch ... More >>

Cornel West Addresses Hundreds of Pinkos and Hippies at Anti-SB1070 Rally in Phoenix

Elaine MulliganPrinceton professor and lauded lefty author Cornel West brings the funk to North High School on Saturday, October 2.​We're not the only ones to have noticed that progressives, Democrats, and their ilk don't currently have a central charismatic leader whose every utterance is sociopo ... More >>

Sam Crump Goes Mano a Mano with Dennis Gilman on Terrorists Crossing Southern Border

Gilman and Crump go at it in Gilman's latestIn this latest video from Dennis Gilman, the feisty videographer goes at it with GOP candidate for Congress Sam Crump. Crump asserts that there have been documented cases of terrorists attempting to cross the Arizona-Mexico border, and Gilman confronts him ... More >>

Bob Log III, Adam Arcuragi, Sticky Fingers' Michael Jackson Tribute, and More

The ladies love Bob Log III, who's scheduled to perform at Chopper John's on Saturday Night.​Although downtown may or may not be ovah (depending on the particular mood of our fair editor Martin Cizmar), but in the meantime, East Phoenix might just be coming alive when it comes to live music. In a ... More >>

Summertime Detox Tips

Spring Eselgroth Heat got you down? Drink more water. Even more than that. And if you're really serious about feeling better, we've got some tips for a summer detox that will having you feeling better long before temperatures dip back below 100 degrees.  

Culinary Dropout, Mabel's on Main, and Mad Chef Keep You Moving on a Gastropub Crawl

Barack Obama's Quota on Non-Criminal Aliens: 400,000 Per Year, Get Them Where You Can

Gilman's latest on Obama's hypocrisyYou might as well put a bounty on their heads. The undocumented, I mean. Though Barack Obama came to power dismissing as ludicrous the idea that we can "deport 'em all," ICE's Office of Detention and Removal Operations continues to demand just that with a quo ... More >>

Cronkite Night at the Movies: All the President's Men

Janet Napolitano Delays Immigration Raids, But Where's the Movement on 287(g)?

Like a rock in the desert sun, she will not move unless you push her.I just saw this report in the Washington Post indicating that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has put the brakes on some pending ICE raids, as part of a new policy that will supposedly target employers more than worker ... More >>

Minor Violations? Sheriff Joe Arpaio's 287(g)-Trained Deputies Sometimes Bust Mexicans Who Commit No Violations

The Government Accountability Office's report on a program that gives local cops federal immigration powers tells Valley residents something they already knew: Some local law enforcement departments are using their 287(g) powers to bust illegal immigrants suspected of minor infractions instead ... More >>

Below the Beltway

New novel paints corruption with a Capitol “C”

Heartland Payment Systems Waits Till Inauguration Day to Release News on Massive Data Breach

A New Jersey company that processes payments for tens of thousands of American restaurants and other small businesses had its electronic pockets picked in a data breach that may be the country's largest ever.And it waited until Inauguration Day to let us know about it.A Washington Post article by ... More >>

Leonard Downie Jr.

Silent Witness Program Now Making Videos For YouTube

Hi, Robot

Watergate journalist takes on America's Iron Lady

Tattle Tale

L.A. Theatre Works rats on the gov

An Inconvenient Untruth

BTT play will make you squirm -- and that's no lie

Pass the Arroz, Chely

Rice paddy is just short for Rice Patrick

Beat on the Brat

How to program your baby's musical tastes and pretend not to be trying

Pervgate

The congressional page scandal's proving the straw that breaks the elephant's back, and Congressman Jim Kolbe's got explaining to do

Everything a Gabacho Needs to Know

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Sex, Thugs and Rock 'n' Roll

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National awards for New Times report

Power Tulle

Flashes

What's $2.995 Million Between Former Enemies?

Stunning settlement frees cult deprogrammer Rick Ross from almost all of $3 million judgment

Attention, Choppers!

FLASHES 8/24

FREON EASY

ARIZONA'S REPUBLICAN LEADERS WANT THE STATE TO BUCK FEDERAL LAWS ON CFC PRODUCTION. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WEIRD SCIENCE MIXES WITH WACKY POLITICS.

THE BEST OF FIFE

HE BROUGHT US AN RTC LAWSUIT, A GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION AND A "CAR OF THE PEOPLE." NOT TO MENTION GEORGE LECKIE AND ANNETTE ALVAREZ. OH, WHAT THE HECK, WE'LL MENTION THEM.

KING OF THE MUCK RAKERS

GO AHEAD. THROW AWAY YOUR FUTURE. GARBOLOGIST BILL RATHJE WILL BE HAPPY.

THE GOVERNOR'S 800-POUND GORILLA