Hot Links: Taxpayers shell out 11K-plus for Darrell Ankarlo book tour, Dan Saban on Bruce Jacobs show, D-Backs spank San Diego, and more.

By Stephen Lemons Ankarlo book tour fiasco costs taxpayers $11,500. Dan Saban dodges verbal knives, kicks butt on KFYI 550 AM Bruce Jacobs’s morning show. Arizona’s modern-day version of the Trail of Tears. Channel 12’s Joe Dana reports some more on Honduras-gate. MCSO denies racial profiling. (Pause for laughter.) Female…

Hot Links: Board of Supes, John McCain, American Idol, Honduras-gate

By Stephen Lemons The Republic smooches BOS butt in reporting yesterday’s protest. Joe Dana updates Honduras-gate while Hendershott’s on vacay. (Beijing, maybe?) Cubs clobber D-backs, while Dockett and Boldin make Cards camp. Young Republicans say McCain’s lame. (Who knew?) American Idol auditions tomorrow. Serial predator details, speed cameras, right wing-nuts,…

Did state Representative Russell Pearce ever beat his wife LuAnne?

Russell Pearce “is possessed of a violent temper,” according to a 1980 court document signed by his wife LuAnne. That old example of a loaded question, “So, when did you stop beating your wife?” seems weirdly applicable in Valley political circles these days. First, there’s the June 26 incident involving…