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Carl Seel, House Republican, Hates Agenda 21, but Doesn't Know What He's Talking About

Republican State Representative Carl Seel just detests the United Nations' Agenda 21 -- he and his pal, Senator Judy Burges, have been trying to prevent part of that agenda, the Rio Declaration, from being used in Arizona.On the House floor yesterday, however, Seel was unable to produce the reasonin ... More >>

Parenthetical Girls Aren't Lacking for Kinks

Flashback: John McCain Calling John Kerry "Mr. Secretary"

In a move that wasn't exactly unexpected, President Obama nominated Senator John Kerry for the secretary of state post to replace Hillary Clinton.That reminds us of the moment earlier this month when Senator John McCain -- who essentially forced out Obama's original pick for the spot, U.N. Ambassado ... More >>

John McCain's Getting Clowned for His Latest Complaint About the Benghazi Situation

It's been a while since Senator John McCain has talked about a White House "coverup" of details in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya -- although his spokesman wouldn't tell us if he's given up on that theory -- but McCain still has complaints.One of these new complaints has been de ... More >>

John McCain Has Officially Made President Obama Angry Over the Benghazi Ordeal

Senator John McCain -- who's been barking about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, for quite some time now -- has officially upset the president over the matter.McCain has insisted that there's either a coverup or incompetence coming from the Obama administration over its response ... More >>

Golden Valley: From Uzbekistan, With Love

Marley: Beyond the Mascot, New Documentary Stirs it Up

Russell Pearce and Other Illegal-Immigration Populists Rely on Misleading, Right-Wing Reports to Scapegoat Immigrants and to Terrify Penny-Pinched Americans

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 >>

Joe Arpaio on Nightline: Mexicans Bring Disease Into the U.S. (Ahem, Not), and Probably Built His House

Tonight on ABC's Nightline: Joe spouts more bigoted blather Nightline's piece on our corrupt top constable runs tonight -- you know, the one ABC was working on when they sent Nightline talking head Martin Bashir to Phoenix to cover one of Arpaio's anti-immigrant sweeps last ... More >>

Friday Night Frights: Carl Hayden High Football Players Have More to Worry About Than Winning Games

For Canadians and Deserter Kim Rivera, Iraq Is Not Your Daddy’s Vietnam

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

Steven Soderbergh’s Two Che Guevara Films in One Four-Hour Sitting Make for a One-Ton Guerrilla

Vampire Weekend

No one is saying you should waste water, but in Phoenix it's hard to come up with a reason not to

Thrill of the Hunt

Two hardened journalists and a newbie go after a war criminal

Xtreme Cuisine

Arizona's cunning culinary wizard Chef Kaz Yamamoto prepares taboo illegal moveable feasts for the elite and über-rich

Postcards From the Edge

Hi, Mom! I'm crossing the border!

Letters

Letters from the week of October 21, 004

Sacred Orgasm

The followers of Harley Swift Deer Reagan call him a lot of things – a sex guru, a shaman, a Cherokee, a patriot. His critics have more colorful names for him.

Hold On a Minute!

Ecologists are still trying to spin their phony 'Save the Whale' campaign

Crying Whale

Environmental groups sent out a worldwide call to save the gray whale from a Mexican salt plant. They got millions of dollars and thousands of new members. But scientists found no threat to the whales.

Dirty Deeds

AC/DC tribute band TNT squeezes extra mileage out of the highway to hell

Grave Undertaking

Horrors of El Salvador massacre are exhumed in award-winning local documentary

Casing the Joint

Grist for the Millennium

Y2K hucksters cash in on fear of cataclysmic calendar crash 'n' burn

Turret Attraction

At the Valley's quirkiest apartment complex, a man's home really is his castle . . . or his hacienda . . . or his palazzo

Second Coming

Sunny Day Real Estate reunites to find that its myth has grown exponentially

Modern Maturity

Gallant Effort

Anti-Peace Pipes

Traditional Hopi are resisting a new sewer system in an old village, saying it violates federal law--and blocks spiritual communication that could doom the planet

Jingo All the Way

Outside groups leading the anti-immigration campaign in Arizona are trying to distance themselves from their own bigoted pasts.

In the Belly of the Beast

It may be a dark, dank dive. But rockers, skaters and skinheads call it home. Now, the last real bar in downtown Tempe is on the eve of destruction.

Flashes

Flashes

Why, Spy

It's no secret--Austin Powers is one swingin' mess

Barbarism As a Public Relations Strategy

Letters

A Quiet Voice Against the Death Penalty

Amnesty International's Dr. Daniel Georges-Abeyie coolly argues the case against capital punishment in our hang-'em-high state

His Master's Voice

The Center of the Warm

Nationally renowned ASU scientist Robert Balling thinks environmentalists have exaggerated the threat of global warming. He knows politicians and the press have distorted the climate debate.

Strange Interlude

THE STEALTH IRAQI

JAWAD HASHIM CLAIMS HE'S A BANKRUPT VICTIM OF A VENDETTA BY HIS FORMER BOSS--IRAQ'S FEARED PRESIDENT, SADDAM HUSSEIN. A WEALTH OF EVIDENCE SUGGESTS HASHIM'S JUST ANOTHER SCAM ARTIST WHO WOUND UP IN SCOTTSDALE.

RAFFI COME HOME

RAFFI'S FIRST CHILDREN'S ALBUM IN AGES PROVES HE'S STILL TOP BANANA IN THE BUNCH

FIFE'S DOUBLE TALK ON EDUCATIONGOVERNOR SYMINGTON'S SCHOOL-VOUCHER PLAN IS A GIFT FOR CONSERVATIVES--NOT THE POOR

DEFT IN VENICE

THIS AND THAT

MIA: Truth

L'AFFAIRE FRAVCHENKO

THEIR FATHER DEFECTED IN 1944. BROTHERS ANDREW AND VALENTIN WERE BROUGHT TOGETHER THIS YEAR TRYING TO FIND OUT WHY.