(NOTE: Please see below for update and mugshot of the mother.)This disturbing video was taken last night by Phoenix civil rights activist Sal Reza during Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s latest anti-immigrant sweep in the West Valley, which is ongoing as I type. Reza witnessed two MCSO deputies, at least one of…

“Every life is precious,” Joe kept saying of murder victims. Who is he tryin’ to kid?The citizens of Buckeye and Avondale can rest easy tonight knowing that sheriff’s deputies with assault rifles, body armor, and ski masks are busy pulling over old ladies and Hispanics with expired tags. This was…

  As I noted back on December 12, and as you can see from the photo above, numerous sheriff’s deputies were involved in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s star turn on the three episode Fox Reality pilot, Smile…You’re Under Arrest! So on December 12, I sent a formal public records request to the…

Arpayaso harasses brown folk again, this time near Buckeye. Hot off his trip to NYC where he made an ass of himself on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s starting his first Hispanic-hunting foray of the season, as you can see from the press release below. The anti-brown dragnet…

Fortunately, things didn’t get quite this bad. At least they kept their clothes on…UPDATE 1/9/09: If you missed it, and are a glutton for punishment, you can watch Arpaio’s appearance on O’Brien’s show, here. Arpaio’s segment starts about 28:38 in, or if you hit the “Chapters” button below the video,…

Has the Town of Guadalupe cut a deal with Sheriff Joe Arpaio? And is another anti-immigrant sweep of the city coming down the pike? Could be, on both counts. According to court records, as of January 5, 2009, the Town of Guadalupe ended its federal law suit against the MCSO,…

Wanna see Triumph poop on Sheriff Joe, or are you just pissed Conan’s gonna blow the geriatric gendarme? Call NBC and tell them how you feel at (212) 664-4444.  As disgusting as this sounds, it’s apparently true that Wednesday night NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien will feature a visit…

MCSA’s rally following the short BOS meeting today… Aside from the tragicomic funeral for the “Death of Democracy” that was held outside by members of ACORN and Maricopa Citizens for Safety and Accountability, today’s Board of Supervisors meeting was relatively uneventful, civil even. There were no arrests, for applauding or anything…

I’m on the run this a.m., but I would be remiss if I did not point your attention to this excellent article by David Carr in Sunday’s New York Times online concerning our clown of a sheriff, “A Star Turn for a Sheriff on Fox TV.” Unlike a lot of…

There’s a new sheriff in Pinal County, and he’s ridin’ Redflex out on a hot rail… CameraFraud.com’s reporting that Pinal County’s newly elected Sheriff Paul Babeu has ended Pinal’s photo enforcement contract with Redflex, the Australian firm responsible for so many of those mechanical Orwellian shutterbugs plaguing motorists throughout the…

Joe and the nativists, the love that never dies… You judge a man, sometimes, by the company he keeps. So what does it say of Sheriff Joe that he recently spoke at the Arizona American Italian Club to a group of notorious nativists, including minuteman honcho Chris Simcox, and alleged…

Mirror, mirror on the wall…who’s the worst sheriff of them all? Snort.Though this will come as no shock to denizens of cactus country, The New York Times’ editorial blog — The Board — today dubbed our corrupt top constable, “America’s Worst Sheriff.” Noting Joe Arpaio’s recent foray in to trash…

Demonstrators marching at Thomas and Central in Phoenix. When I got word that End the War Coalition, Code Pink, Women in Black, and other lefty, peacenik groups would be holding a vigil at Thomas and Central calling for an end to Israel’s attack on Hamas in Gaza, I was skeptical…

If these two were around today in P-town, the knuckledraggin’ KTAR-types’d shoot ’em on sight: Keith Haring (above) and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Ah, let the provincialism roll like a mighty wave of something brown through our benighted Valley, where every time someone hacks a loogie or lets fly an air biscuit…

Separated at birth? According to economist Paul Krugman, it’s possible. Will soon-to-be Arizona Governor Jan Brewer repeat the mistakes of Republicans in the midst of the Great Depression, specifically those of President Herbert Hoover?It seems likely. With a GOP-led legislature intent on “starving the beast,” as they call state government,…

Is Barack really “the magic negro”? Considering the state of the economy, let’s hope so. The liberal political correctness posse over at the Huffington Post is doing backflips of fake outrage over RNC Chairman hopeful Chip Saltsman’s sending out a humor CD to Republican committee members — one that included…

Banish this conservanut harpy from NBC? Nay, I cry, nay! This a.m. I was greeted by an e-mail in my in box from the tres lefty org Media Matters asking me to join its campaign to keep wingnut pin-up girl Ann Coulter from appearing on the January 6, 2009 Today…

Though I won’t be holding my breath for a snappy response from the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, the Arizona Civil Rights Advisory Board — which is made up of volunteers appointed by the Governor — has written BOS Chairman Andy Kunasek, asking that the Supervisors consider the immediate revocation…

Will the AZ Dems learn from defeat? God, I hope so. This mass e-mail below from Arizona Democratic Party Chair Don Bivens announcing his intention to continue as State Chair “through the next election cycle,” reminds me of a classic scene from Animal House: The one where Otter offers Flounder…

Yours truly is unavoidably engrossed in Christmas obligations at present, but here are two new Dennis Gilman videos on the arrests of MCSA/ACORN activists for applauding at a public meeting. Enjoy, and Merry Christmas, folks! That includes Todd Stallion, as well. Expect light blogging for the next couple of days,…

This is the best Xmas gift ever! This video is tailor made for the holiday blues: A secretive cadre of Kris Kringles who’ve labeled themselves “Santas Against 1984,” are seen here “wrapping” photo enforcement cameras in Tempe. Waving to passing cars as they go, they hit a photo enforcement camera at Rio Salado…