Weirdness of weirdness. I was only hoping to do one blog post today, but fate took another turn. I ended back up in Tempe, thinking protest organizer Leonard Clark might be doing another anti-Steven Anderson action for Anderson’s 6:30 p.m. service. When I got there, Clark was being interviewed by ABC…
It was love vs. hate, round one, down at the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe this morn, as about 125 soldiers of love, led by local progressive activist Leonard Clark, took on the Pastor of Hate, aka, Obama-despiser Steven Anderson, who was preaching to his tiny flock during the…
With mariachis, dancing, ice cream cake, and even a brief appearance by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Phoenix civil rights leader Salvador Reza and fellow activists celebrated one year of near-daily protests at the Wells Fargo Building downtown, where Arpaio’s MCSO keeps two floors of pricey executive offices, paid for by county…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio may be considering a run for Governor of Arizona, according to Phoenix Business Journal reporter Mike Sunnucks. If he does so, Chief Deputy David Hendershott might be considering self-imposed exile in Honduras. Or maybe Shanghai. For Captain Joel Fox, center of the SCA scandal and G. Gordon Liddy-wannabe, there’s always harakiri. This…
Pedro Ultreras’ stark, uncompromising film 7 Soles (7 Suns) may be the most timely film out now. The movie depicts a band of Mexican migrants enduring a living nightmare to cross the Sonoran desert in the hopes of reaching Phoenix. Your last chance to see it any time soon will…
Watch this, and tell me truthfully, who do you feel for, these two guys, or the nudnik operating the camera? Look, I’m no fan of the U.S. Border Patrol. Or of checkpoints. Or of police power in general. I think anyone familiar with this blog knows that. But it’s a…
CORPUS DELICTI We already know the real cause of death of Marcia Powell, the 48-year-old inmate at Goodyear’s Perryville Prison who collapsed after being left in a shadeless cage for at least four hours in the pitiless Arizona sun: Department of Corrections honcho Charles Ryan ordered her plug pulled on…
Like you needed more proof that white supremacists are lame and talentless Are you painfully white, and hate Jews, diversity, Mexicans, and black folk (though not necessarily in that order)? Do you find yourself googly-eyed whenever Adolf Hitler is on the History Channel, or end up salivating over documentaries concerning the 1995 Oklahoma City…
Well, at least they weren’t using old bedsheets this time around Normally, I could give a flip if someone hangs a banner off a freeway overpass. But these Ron Paul-worshipping hosers so annoy me with their conspiracy-a-minute mills and their wack, home-made signs spouting the nonsense that “vaccines equal poison”…
The Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office has released the autopsy report and toxicology results for Marcia Powell, the 48-year-old woman who died May 20 after being confined to a human cage at Perryville Prison in Goodyear for some four hours in the blazing Arizona sun. The conclusion of Medical Examiner Mark…
Before I hit you with my account of this Sunday’s evening service at Tempe’s Faithful Word Baptist Church — home to Obama-death-wish preacher Steven Anderson, and his spritual follower, AR-15-toter and Obama-hater Christopher Broughton — I should run down some significant points picked up during my post-service chats with both. First off,…
Embedded video from CNN VideoOn Friday, CNN’s Rick Sanchez took on the subject of Tempe pastor Steven Anderson, the kooky, Obama-bashing preacher, now infamous for praying for the president’s demise, and for being the pastor to Christopher Broughton, the AR-15 totin’ anarchist/libertarian who showed up outside President Obama’s address to the…
Why anyone buys any of the shameless bull that flows forth from the MCSO’s PR team like a mighty river of bunk is beyond me. Take this latest, bogus claim from the sheriff of a legal victory in the big ACLU racial profiling lawsuit, Melendres v. Arpaio: “SHERIFF WINS IMPORTANT…
An opinion piece published yesterday on National Public Radio’s Web site, written by Hector Sanchez, Director of Policy and Research for the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, calls Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio “a pernicious person,” a macho champion of “denigration and mental abuse,” and a “torturer on U.S. soil.”…
Radio personality Carlos Galindo gets the MCSO treatment Thursday Above is a video sent to me by activists out monitoring MCSO activity in Maryvale yesterday. According to the activists and others I spoke with, there were about 50 or so MCSO deputies gathered at the John F. Long Community Center at…
Alan Colmes is my new hero. Sure, he might look like E.T.’s pappy, but this dood is one sharp liberal. Just bend an ear to the audio clips of Colmes swimming logical laps round Steven L. Anderson, the Tempe pastor who wishes President Barack Obama, homosexuals, and sundry other sinners, dead. Colmes had…
GUN PUTZ More proof in my book that wackos who “open-carry” their firearms are often cowards compensating for their shortfalls in other areas: AR-15 slinger Christopher Broughton. That’s the name of the guy who caused all the hubbub recently by bringing a loaded assault rifle to greet President Barack Obama…
A just-released letter to President Barack Obama endorsed by a diverse group of 521 civil rights, legal and cultural organizations — including the ACLU, the ADL, MALDEF, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the Episcopal Church — calls on the president to “immediately terminate the 287(g) program operated by the Department of Homeland…
Remember the crazy Tempe pastor who was Tasered at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint *** back in April: Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church? The same fella that Christopher Broughton, the anti-Obama, anarchist AR-15-carrying activist, declared to be his pastor on conspiranut moonhowler Alex Jones’ radio show? Well, as…
There was so much attention paid to anarcho-libertarian AR-15 bearer Christopher Broughton in the wake of President Barack Obama’s visit to Phoenix last Monday that some of the other nuts are, I’m certain, feeling a bit neglected. So take a gander at this seriously deranged video from a nativist wackjob who…
Just when you think the nativists have sunk to a new low, they limbo right down into the gutter a little lower. In this case, it’s our old pal, Wiccan wackjob Laine Lawless (real name, Roberta Dill), known for her love of the bullwhip, her lesbian fanfiction featuring Lucy Lawless,…
It should be no surprise that a cheesy, old-man’s magazine like Soldier of Fortune would stick our septuagenarian sheriff’s mug on the cover and proceed to pucker up to him in a puff piece written by some dude with the improbable name of “Dr. Martin Brass.” But couldn’t they find a better photo of…
