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…
A gabacho in the local daily suggested that some of our prisons be outsourced to Mexico to save us some money. What are your thoughts? Would wabs make for good guards looking after homies and white-trash inmates? Have a chew on that taco. Mike the Mick from Missouri My thoughts?…
HEALTHY DOSE DOSE deserves to be singled out: Loved the story on DOSE. He’s a street artist unparalleled in PHX. It’s past time that he got his museum show and the recognition he deserves. People who do not consider graffiti writers like Dose to be great artists are sick in…
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…
In near-endless posts on our Web site, Captain Joel Fox has waxed on about the media, about his career as a SWAT team commander, and even about the nature of truth. But when we contacted Fox Monday to question him about some shocking new information we had just confirmed —…
Shortly before Phoenix Fire Department investigators arrested Michael Marin for allegedly torching his plush Biltmore Estates mansion, he spoke about the fire he says almost stole his life. “Here’s the unvarnished version from the horse’s mouth,” Marin told New Times in the living room of his other home, a more…
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…
In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries: Feathered Bastard: Christopher Broughton’s Pastor Steven Anderson Prays for President Barack Obama’s Death Up on the Sun:…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office will be training “dozens” of Canadian Royal Mounted Police on drug detection techniques this week in the county jail. A few Mounties came to Phoenix earlier this year for the same thing, apparently funded by the Canadian government. Canada’s legendary police force may be able…
The cybersphere has been flooded in recent days with “news” about vodka-soaked tampons and anal beer bongs. Much of this chatter apparently comes from an August 16 Channel 15 (KNXV-TV) interview with drug-treatment-facility spokeswoman Stephanie Siete, who listed “snorting vodka shots” and the tampon-and-beer-bong activities as things “teens are doing” these…
Paul Charlton, former U.S. Attorney in Arizona and lawyer for indicted County Supervisor Don Stapley, says Andrew Thomas has only one person to blame — himself — for the embarrassing dismissal of 51 of 117 criminal counts against Stapley. As our follow-up post last night related, Thomas, the county attorney, claims that Stapley was…
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…
We were amused by Andrew Thomas’s pissy little press release last night, in which the Maricopa County Attorney threw a pity party over the fact that nearly half the charges against Supervisor Don Stapley have been thrown out.Thomas, of course, runs the agency that originally indicted Stapley on 118 criminal…
It’s apparently not bad enough that Arizona is being portrayed as the home to gun-toting extremists and that Arthur Frommer is canceling his vacation plans.Now New Times’ sister paper in Ft. Lauderdale, New Times Broward-Palm Beach, has published a story about zoophilia — a.k.a. people who are attracted to animals. We’re…
he Pat Tillman Foundation is putting on a benefit on October 3 featuring author Jon Krakauer, who’s got a new book out on the former Cardinals’ player. Krakauer is perhaps best known for his gripping account of tragedy on Mount Everest in 1996, Into Thin Air. As awesome as…
Robbing a Circle K — how unoriginal. The alleged bandit in this photo waltzed into the store at 1262 West Chandler Boulevard, waving his gun around and demanding cash, Chandler cops say…
When we read the following blurb from our friend, esteemed (now retired) ASU law professor Gary Lowenthal, about the book Jingle Jangle, we knew we had follow-up and read it. So we did and, as advertised, it was a solid, often troubling read about an infamous Phoenix murder case in which Phoenix police…
To boil down the Arizona Diamondbacks’ series in San Francisco (which commenced last night), it’s basically this: The Giants have mucho to play for and the D-Backs ain’t got jack. Because SF is chasing Colorado for the National League Wild Card, they are a bit more motivated each game compared…
While delivering a lecture about education to students at Martin Luther King Jr. elementary school, Phoenix Suns star Amar’e Stoudemire indicated he may only be in Phoenix one more year. Stoudemire, who underwent surgery on his retina in July, could opt-out of his final contract year and become a free…
In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries: Feathered Bastard: Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready, Republican Mike Harris, Nativist Craig Tillman, and Scores More Nuts Star in…
Governor Jan Brewer is taking a few minutes to forget about the complex task of forging a state budget and focusing on something more fun: Christmas. Brewer is set to announce a statewide project on Thursday to have children across the state make 6,000 handcrafted ornaments for the U.S. Capitol Christmas…
It was a given that Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas was going to be miffed by the recent ruling on Don Stapley’s case by Superior Court Judge Kenneth Fields. Thomas has been saying for months that Fields is biased against him and he tried to get the judge kicked off…
