Adherents of Islam have a long and varied history in the United States, despite their being a tiny minority of the total population. Here are some intriguing facts about the world’s fastest growing religion and those who practice it in this country. 10.Muslims were in America prior to the Declaration…
Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy,. has called for a “jihad against jihad,” meaning an all-out fight against the extremist ideology that has become identified with the term jihad, an Arabic word that can apply broadly to a personal spiritual struggle on one end…
Two days after the mass shooting in San Bernardino at an office Christmas party that left 14 dead and 21 wounded, about a dozen Muslims held a press conference in Washington, D.C. to announce their prescription for the radical Islamist ideology that reportedly inspired the slaughter. Authorities say Syed Rizwan…
If former Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon is the Democratic alternative to Sheriff Joe in 2016, I will vote for Arpaio. Laughable? Of course, I would never do that. But any vote for “Sheriff Phil” also would be ridiculous. Gordon for sheriff ain’t gonna happen. No way, no how, regardless…
With the Arizona Supreme Court refusing to intervene in the case, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Jose Padilla on Wednesday set a start date of April 4 for the trial of former minuteman and accused child molester Chris Simcox. “We need to get this to trial,” Padilla said during a…
Journalists are a notoriously cynical bunch. So when a politician up and does the right thing, especially in a one-party state rife with corruption, the knee-jerk reaction is: What are you doing for an encore? Thus it was with Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s post-Thanksgiving press conference, where he carved up…
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced during a press conference this morning that his office had filed a petition with the Arizona Supreme Court to remove the embattled Arizona Corporation Commission Chair Susan Bitter Smith from office for alleged conflicts of interests. In strident language, Brnovich said his fellow Republican…
How’s this for irony? One month before Governor Doug Ducey issued a statement calling for a halt to the placement of Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Arizona, the Arizona State Transportation Board voted in favor of spending about $367,000 in public funds to honor a Syrian Muslim immigrant. The mostly-federal…
Convicted child-rapist Adrian Cruz is back in Phoenix, following a six-year vacation from his lifetime sentence behind bars, a vacation he owes to the negligence of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s boys and girls in beige. Cruz, who escaped from MCSO custody in 2009, was arrested in April by Mexican police, after…
A bag containing $7,000 in cash. A self-made billionaire code-named “Cabo.” A media-hog sheriff obsessed with a wack investigation of President Obama’s birth certificate. A supposed CIA database of illegally harvested data. And a Seattle-based computer guru, code-named “Oz.” These are a few of the speakers and subjects found in…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s lead attorney John Masterson had just begun to argue why the court should pay no heed to the MCSO’ so-called Seattle investigation, when federal Judge G. Murray Snow, standing rather than sitting for most Friday’s final arguments in the sheriff’s contempt trial, interrupted him. The jurist stated…
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson recently promised Arizonans during a tele-town hall that, if elected, he could get a double-fenced, 2,000 mile wall built on the U.S.-Mexico border within a year. One of his rivals for the GOP nomination, billionaire Donald Trump, would like a wall, too, and he also…
One of the more insightful passages in former MCSO Executive Chief Brian Sands’ book about his old boss, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, deals with Joe’s long-fostered image as an avuncular Dr. Dolittle with a badge. Whether its ginning up bogus animal-cruelty cases against Maricopa County residents or taking celebrity Pam Anderson…
Did Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s infamous Seattle investigation begin with a billionaire intent on revenge against his ex-wife? And was this wealthy individual drawn to Arpaio as part of the paranoid atmosphere that swirled around Arpaio’s investigation of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate? To judge from audio files recently entered into…
As testimony in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s contempt trial wrapped up Friday morning in federal court, Judge G. Murray Snow offered an ominous warning for those not named as defendants in the civil case. Arpaio, his Chief Deputy and three other current and former Arpaio henchmen face allegations of civil contempt…
Will the real Mike Zullo please stand up? By noon Thursday, Zullo had invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination nearly 220 times while being questioned by plaintiffs counsel Stanley Young, during Day 19 of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s seemingly never-ending contempt trial. Through much of it, Zullo looked perturbed, angry…
Someone call Guinness Book of World Records: Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse commander Mike Zullo may have a claim. In federal court Tuesday, during what likely is the last week of testimony in Arpaio’s civil contempt trial before U.S. District Court Judge G. Murray Snow, Zullo invoked his Fifth Amendment…
A Montana billionaire secreting thumb drives of sensitive info through airport security in his socks. Handwritten receipts for cash payments to MCSO confidential informant # 1437, aka, Dennis Montgomery, whose e-mail alias, “David Webb,” is also fictional super-spy Jason Bourne’s birth-name. And multiple timelines’ tying together former Phoenix Mayor Phil…
Federal Judge G. Murray Snow on Friday denied a motion from Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse commander, Mike Zullo, for a protective order on 87 disputed items of evidence in Arpaio’s ongoing contempt trial. Snow instructed defense counsel to produce the documents, which are related to the MCSO’s controversial…
A conservative non-profit group that helped drive former Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne from office today called on the U.S. Attorney for Arizona to investigate Arizona Corporation Commission Chair Susan Bitter Smith for possible federal crimes. In a press conference held outside the U.S. Attorney’s office in downtown Phoenix, Tyler…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s birther-prober Mike Zullo attended a telephonic hearing before federal Judge G. Murray Snow on Tuesday, phoning in to a nearly-deserted courtroom to discuss pending issues in Arpaio’s ongoing contempt trial. Zullo was on the line with about 16 or so attorneys for the various parties in the…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse commander Mike Zullo is madder than Donald Trump at a mariachi convention. Zullo’s latest, hot-headed filing in Arpaio’s contempt case before federal Judge G. Murray Snow takes at aim at Snow, the ACLU, the law firm of Covington and Burling, and former Assistant U.S. Attorney…
