U.S. History

Second Amendment Follies at Sand Land's Capitol, Courtesy of Dennis Gilman

Gilman and I get to know some of our fellow Sand Land-ers and reconnect with old pals like Buffalo Rick... There's nothing more fun on a mild, sunny day in Arizona than getting out and about and talkin' to ordinary folks. See also: -Jim Carrey, Right on Gun Nuts, Fox News, Emma Stone... -Arizona G ... More >>

Men of War Find Redemption in The Whipping Man

Joe Arpaio's Top Ten Reasons for Wanting to Be a Neo-Confederate

Sheriff Joe Arpaio thinks it's an honor to be called KKK, remember? So why is anyone surprised that in 2011 he accepted the Sons of Confederate Veterans' J. Edgar Hoover Law and Order Award, apparently for all that hard work he did in ignoring hundreds of sex crimes cases around the county. See a ... More >>

Flashback Forum

Lincoln: Daniel Day-Lewis and Steven Spielberg Ably Fill the Hat

Bead Cool

Design Within Reach

Free Way

Love the Beans, Hate the Beaner

Glenn Spencer's Lawyer John Munger Calls Me a "Wacko" as He Mainstreams a Racist Anti-Semite

You'd think a practicing lawyer, former president of the Arizona Board of Regents, and erstwhile GOP gubernatorial candidate would possess a lick of sense. But Tucson attorney John Munger is proof positive that possession of a swell resume is no guarantee of intelligence.Munger is the fella who rece ... More >>

Ethnic Studies Revolt: Banned Book Caravan To Barnstorm Tucson

Tony Diaz, dropping some knowledge with the Libro-Traficante caravanArizona's ethnic studies ban has resulted in the eradication of the successful and popular Mexican American Studies program in the Tucson Unified School District, and a backward edict banning certain supposedly "dangerous" books by ... More >>

Birthday Love

President Obama's Sexy Al Green Croon, Plus Four Other Presidents That Won Over the Country With Music

Like him or hate him -- and God knows our commenters are divided -- but you can't deny President Obama's ability to speak. His 2012 Campaign Kickoff State of the Union address on Tuesday night was yet another example of the man's public command, but to be honest, we couldn't really concentrate on wh ... More >>

Map Quest

Congressional Candidate Kirk Adams: I'm "the Youngest Speaker in Arizona History." Not Quite *UPDATED*

Kirk Adams: not the youngest House speaker in Arizona history.​UPDATE: See Adams' response to House Speaker Age-Gate here.Former Arizona House Speaker and current Congressional candidate Kirk Adams issued a press release recently claiming he was "the youngest speaker in Arizona history."The releas ... More >>

Freedom Party

Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party Is as Bad as It Sounds

Presidents Gay

Ethnic Studies: Doug MacEachern's Anti-Intellectual Quackery

Courtesy of the Three Sonorans blog. Now here's a quiz: What do all these people have in common? Just a coincidence, I'm sure...It's the easiest thing in the world to label someone a Marxist, a commie or un-American. You don't need any real evidence. All you need to do is show that someone read the ... More >>

Soul Sister

Desert Dance celebrates Black History Month

The 15 Best Songs About U.S. Presidents

We at Up on the Sun, like Clinton himself, feel your pain. Every year Presidents Day rolls around and you're struggling to plant that cherry tree and buy all the stovepipe hats you can, all so that you can have the best damn Presidents Day party possible. (C'mon, we can't be the only ones.)So to ea ... More >>

Soul Sister

Desert Dance celebrates Black History Month

Back in Black

Celebrate African-American culture and more at Civic Space Park

Russell Pearce and the Neo-Confederate Cause

democraticunderground The new Republican "neo-Cons," are neo-Confederates, led by Russell Pearce Having recently returned from spending Christmas in my native North Carolina, an obviously older state than the almost-but-not-yet-100-year-old state of Arizona, I was struck by a sense of history ... More >>

Jewell Parker Rhodes @ Carnegie Center

Late Registration

Valley celebrates African-American history and heritage

Yuma Mayor Finally Apologizes for Calling Gays "Lacy-Drawered" and "Limp-Wristed"

Yuma Mayor Al Krieger​As vehemently as he defended his anti-gay comments last week -- in one case even referencing George Washington and Abraham Lincoln -- we figured it would be only a matter of time before Yuma Mayor Al Krieger broke down and apologized.We were right.

Yuma Mayor Al Krieger Calls Gays "Lacy-Drawered, Limp-Wristed People"

Yuma Mayor Al Krieger​You can add Yuma Mayor Al Krieger to the long list of Arizona politicians intent on embarassing the hell out of this state.According to this clip from KYMA Channel 11, Krieger used a Memorial Day speech to criticize congressional plans to repeal "Don't Ask Don't Tell" - ... More >>

Skinhead Deep

Ex neo-Nazie writes his way to redemption

"Declare Your Independence with Ernie Hancock" Features Yours Truly as Guest

Think Ernie's got an ego? Nah...I took up Phoenix libertarian Ernie Hancock's invite to be on his Webcast Wednesday morning, after much prodding from Hancock and his supporters. Alas, I couldn't make it into the studio. (Sorry, Ernie, I've never been an a.m. person.) Still, we s ... More >>

Arty Girl: Robert Colescott, African American Artist, Dies in Tucson

By Bromirski from Flickr Creative Commons"George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page From an American History Textbook" by Robert Colescott. Much like the death of Michael Jackson overshadowed the loss of Farrah Fawcett, Bisbee, AZ artist Rose Johnson's untimely and tragic demise diverted ... More >>

Arizona Aloha Festival

Sister Moses: The Story of Harriet Tubman

Julie Rivett

Bill McKibben at Changing Hands Bookstore

Smog Alert

Voodoo Gurus

Three Bad Jacks cast a spell at the Rhythm Room

Die Laughing

A Chicken in Every Pot of Gold

Hombres verdes, unite!

Hayworth Hoo-Ha

The Bird defends J.D. Hayworth, of all people, and sticks its beak into the mystery of Gary Tupper's hacked Web site

Cage Death Match

Pyramid scheme

Black 47

New York Town (Gadfly)

Spleen Man

No guts, no glory for over-the-top PR guy

He Got Rhythm

Ken Burns wants you to know why Jazz is America's music

Rebel Rouser

When Photo Was King

Images from the Deep South take viewers on a walk through the civil rights era

Mr. Tea

Letters

The Museum That Couldn't Think Straight

It's named after Kemper Marley, the apparent inspiration for the murder of newsman Don Bolles. It's full of inaccuracies, racism, Chamber of Commerce blather and third-rate gimmickry.

WILL THE REAL TEDDY ROOSEVELT PLEASE STAND UP?

ACTUALLY, WE'D SETTLE FOR WAYNE DELLINGER