Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve Harrison has just confirmed that DPS computers have been hacked by the Internet pirates and keyboard anarchists of LulzSec.(Currently, AZDPS.gov is down.)LulzSec, which stands for “Lulz Security” (Lulz being a slang version of LOL, “Laughng Out Loud,” or doing something just for kicks), posted…

Filmmakers Valeria Fernandez and Dan DeVivo talk about Two AmericansWant to help tell the world what a sadistic, bigoted power-mad nut Sheriff Joe Arpaio is? Well, here’s your chance, by ponying up the dough to help local journalists/filmmakers Valeria Fernandez and Dan DeVivo complete their documentary Two Americans.The film has…

Guess I’ve heard the last from U.S. Senator John McCain’s haughty, over-paid flack Brooke Buchanan.Yesterday, in the midst of a PR meltdown that’s turned McCain (once again) into a political laughingstock, his office issued a statement claiming that an unnamed U.S. Forest Service official had given the Senator info prompting…

When white nationalist websites and racist minutemen with erstwhile ties to child killers are championing your cause, you know you’ve made a serious error. Particularly when you’re a failed presidential candidate still desperate for the world to take you seriously.Such is the case with U.S. Senator from Arizona John McCain,…

The effort to recall state Senate President Russell Pearce has passed another milestone: This morning, Maricopa County Elections Director Karen Osborne confirmed that the county has validated 10,089 signatures of the 16,949 forwarded to her office by the Arizona Secretary of State.Of the 16,836 signatures examined so far, 6,747 have been…

In the most disgusting, reprehensible, and irresponsible comments of his political career (and that’s saying a lot), Arizona’s senior U.S. Senator John McCain is blaming illegal immigrants for Arizona’s recent plague of wildfires, saying it’s the reason the country needs a “secure border.”As reported by CNN, the former presidential candidate…

They say all politicians are by definition liars, but I’m beginning to believe state Senate President Russell Pearce could teach a college course in it.Sand Land’s Professor of Prevarication was on KAET’s Horizon Thursday to discuss the recall effort against him with host Ted Simons. Almost from jump, he began dishing falsehoods and…

I’ve just finished reading the Cambium report on Tucson Unified School District’s much-maligned Mexican American Studies Department. It’s a shocker.Know why? Because the report itself concludes that “no observable evidence was present to suggest that any classroom within Tucson Unified School District is in direct violation of the law [Arizona…

Most of Pearce’s 2010 donations were from outside LD18I plan to ride around town with a dead crow in my car, so the next time I see local hack Howie Fischer, he of the one-man “Capitol Media Services,” I can carve him off a slice for his dinner.See, Fischer, like…

Even though I’m on deadline for this week’s column, I couldn’t miss today’s action by the Russell Pearce-recall group Citizens for a Better Arizona, during which organizer Randy Parraz attempted to deliver to the state Senate President his first ever (to my knowledge) unemployment “check” dated December 5, 2011. That…

The state Legislature recessed indefinitely today from its special session without making a minor change in state law that would allow some 45,000 jobless Arizonans to continue receiving unemployment checks.Around 15,000 out-of-work Sand Landers will receive a check this week, and then no more. The Arizona Department of Economic Security…

State Senate President Russell Pearce and the Republican-controlled Legislature couldn’t be bothered today to change one word in state law to extend unemployment benefits to 15,000 out-of-work Arizonans.But Pearce has had the copious free time to compose a lengthy, five page letter to Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne arguing that…

Extending unemployment benefits to around 15,000 Arizonans still looking for work should be a no-brainer, assuming the wingnuts at the state Capitol had a pound of gray matter among ’em.It’s federal money that’s pumped into the state’s struggling economy, which according to the most recent numbers still suffers a 9.3…

I feel a little like the Arizona Republic’s Clay Thompson in discussing this issue, raised via e-mail by someone involved in the effort to recall state Senate President Russell Pearce. But here goes.Some have suggested that Pearce, who proclaims himself to be a great patriot, has been in violation of…

Recently obtained statistics from the Phoenix Police Department show that hate crime in Arizona’s most populous city continues its upward trend, with a 17.4 percent jump in bias incidents from 2009 to 2010.The PPD reported 115 such incidents in 2009. In 2010, there were 135.The gain is at least smaller…

Pearce Blames “Far Left Anarchists” for Recall: MyFoxPHOENIX.comAs State Senate President Russell Pearce spews falsehoods about the recall effort and throws temper tantrums on national TV, that effort grinds inexorably on toward its ultimate conclusion: a recall election in either November or March.The Arizona Secretary of State’s Office has today…

Russell Pearce, have a heapin’ helping of freshly baked humble pie.Citizens for a Better Arizona, the group spearheading the effort to recall the powerful state Senate President, made history today, turning in 18,315 signatures to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office, more than double the 7,756 signatures required by law…