Michael Israel’s Lady Liberty, painted live on the premises. “So where are the slaves and the dead Indians?” That was my first thought on arrival at Mesquite High School this Saturday evening for Gilbert’s 6th annual Constitution Week Fair, an event celebrating America’s founding document, with George and Martha Washington…
Jeez, dudes, get a room! J.T. Ready and Russell Pearce snuggling at an anti-immigrant rally in June. Have you seen Russell Pearce’s new toupee? Pearce sports his new rug on his Pearce for Congress Exploratory Committee Web site. He also loses the glasses in an obvious attempt to look younger…
Elissa Wall, age 14, in a photo released by her lawyers. As the jury in the rape-as-accomplice trial of FLDS leader Warren Jeffs recessed for the weekend, attorneys for his accuser revealed her name, Elissa Wall. They also provided a photo of Wall at age 14, one just published in…
Who gets the blame for Officer Erfle’s murder? According to nativist wing-nut logic, they do! I’ve heard the anonymous voice before. The cowardly creep has called in to my phone mail previously to tell me why the Holocaust never happened, why Hitler wasn’t such a bad guy after all, why…
Look at this incompetent putz. No wonder our cops are getting killed right and left. They say Nero fiddled while Rome burned, and Phil “Goober” Gordon suns himself in the tropics and passes the buck as PHX cops are boldly shot down during daylight in the center of the city…
Know what Phoenix Police Chief Jack Harris has in common with Joe Arpaio henchman David Hendershott and County Attorney lapdog Barnett Lotstein? Nah, they’re not subscribers to Cosmo, though that was this mischievous mallard’s first guess, too. Give up? They’ve all figured out how to increase their salaries by doing…
It doesn’t have quite the same ring as “Banned in Boston,” but Phoenix New Times could be “Banned in the Chandler Library” if this dip Larry Edwards gets his way. Edwards is reportedly the prig who complained to the Chandler Library about New Times being on the shelves of the…
Slain PHX Police Officer Nick Erfle. Like you needed more proof we live in the Wild Wild West: PHX Police Officer Nick Erfle was shot dead Tuesday morning in Central Phoenix, during rush hour, after stopping a man for jaywalking, and attempting to arrest him for priors. This was near…
Supporters of convicted Border Patrol Agents Ignacio “Nacho” Ramos and Jose Compean often tout the case as a miscarriage of justice, an instance where two true-blue BPAs ended up the victims of an overzealous prosecutor. As I stated in my recent Bird column “Anti-Heroes,” it’s obvious from the transcripts of…
El Diablo… Still wicked… The true victim… Is Laurie Roberts trying to sprout a conscience? Does she no longer wish to be the Repugnant’s soccer-momish Queen of Mean? On Wednesday, she was decrying ASU Prez Michael Crow for using private donations to fund undocumented students. She claimed Crow was thumbing…
Fred Goldman on Oprah: If you spot him in the men’s section at Nordstrom, don’t ask to try on the size 12 Bruno Maglis… Anyone catch the Valley’s most famous Nordstrom employee on Oprah yesterday? I’m talking about the silver-mustachioed Fred Goldman, father of O.J. Simpson-victim Ron. See, Goldman, who…
Dean Martin’s new song: Everybody hates somebody sometime… Immediately after AZ State Treasurer Dean Martin was informed by The Arizona Republic that ASU’s Michael Crow was helping undocumented students with private funds, ya know what he said? “Taxpayers should not have to foot the bill for them, and this is…
Is it possible this nutty nightingale actually had fun at a nativist hoedown? Specifically one where half the crowd would’ve loved to tear this toucan a new one? What can The Bird say? It was a hoot crossing swords with all the anti-illegal immigrant types present at a recent fundraiser…
Go back to Mexico, honors students! And take your little dog, Toto, too… I could envision Arizona Republic columnist Laurie Roberts turning over Jews to the Gestapo. This is assuming she jumped in the way-back machine and time-traveled to Hitler’s Germany. After all, that was the law back then, right?…
Give ’em hell, Yoda… Just listened to the Yoda of 9/11, aka Pat Curley, on The World Tonight with Rob Breakenridge, an excellent radio talk-show out of Calgary. The subject, of course, is those wacky troofers, and Breakenridge and Curley get into some interesting areas during the hour-long segment. Of…
I love these guys. Need a break from all the anti-immigrant hate-mongers out there, the Terry Andersons, Lou Dobbses, Michael Savages and so on who make their livings spewing forth venom and bile onto the poorest, meekest members of our society? Then check out this episode of the Penn and…
From the Omaha Nazi rally, J.T.’s the second from the right. The Ernst Roehm of East Valley, former Mesa City Council candidate J.T. Ready has been lying low for a while, at least since I saw him arm-in-arm with AZ state Rep. Russell Pearce, after his rabble-rousing speech at the…
Virginia’s North High School yearbook photo. Another yearbook photo, with Virginia on the left. A stunning development regarding the case of deported teen Virginia Gutierrez: Twelve days after Gutierrez signed voluntary deportation papers and was placed on a bus bound for Nogales, a bench warrant was issued for Gutierrez’s arrest…
Two supporters of Virginia Gutierrez, shortly after Wednesday’s rally. A peaceful rally on behalf of deported teen Virginia Gutierrez was disrupted Wednesday at the state capitol by an ugly mob of bigoted rednecks shouting inanities about the Iraq War and mocking speakers with sarcastic “Boo-hoos.” The counterdemonstrators appeared towards the…
Ipso Schmucko: The Repugnant’s Muttonhead Montini, menace to local journalism. See the front page of The Arizona Republic today? The article titled Feds Helping police nab more migrants, with the subhead, Policy shift: ICE now responds to every Valley call ? The piece features a photo of Immigration and Customs…
Kid (right) with Ruben (left) and LL Cool J (center). ***UPDATED WITH COMMENT FROM POWER VP NAT GALVIN BELOW*** Hip-hop radio employees slipping on KKK hoods to pay a visit to their rivals? As incredible as it sounds, that’s the tale told by a lawsuit filed August 21 by 101.5…
A photo of Virginia Gutierrez from her supporters. Just received the following announcement of a rally at the State Capitol this Wednesday on behalf of recently deported 18-year-old Virginia Gutierrez. The above photo came with it, the first glimpse so far of the former North High School Student who I…
