By John Dickerson It’s all about perspective. Some voters see Arizona U.S. Senator John McCain’s torture in a Viet Cong prisoner-of-war camp as a badge of honor. Others claim the years of agony made him lose his mind. Still others, even in his home state, don’t even know he was…
Brandy au naturel, from her Web site brandysmassage.com. I’ll be out of pocket for the next couple of days, and so will not be able to blog as normal. There will be some catching up to do Monday, on the new Cave Creek raid and the series on Joe in…
What’s the fascination Mexicans have with Elvis? Good Roceando Tonight Your question is spot-on, but it’s taken a while for Elvis to achieve icon status amongst Mexicans. As recounted in Eric Zolov’s 1999 book, Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture, the King largely sparked the roots of rock…
BUZZ-WORTHY It’s no coke: Your recent article on Agwa de Bolivia (“Liquid Blow?” Niki D’Andrea, June 26) was interesting and funny. I went out and bought a couple of bottles of the stuff, downed it all, and I can attest that it has no relation to the high you get…
Two drivers stopped at a red light one night in April 2007. One driver was drunk — and not just a little drunk. Jonathan Hernandez was a convicted felon on probation, with enough alcohol in his blood to qualify for an extreme DUI. The other driver, 19-year-old Jacob Ritter-Clark, had…
The police chief had stolen the spotlight, and the sheriff was furious. It was a scorching hot day in late June, and dozens of demonstrators had turned up at a Maricopa County services complex in Mesa to protest the sheriff’s immigration-enforcement tactics. Dozens more Mesa police officers monitored the situation,…
By Sarah Fenske Six months ago, I wrote my first column about a Valley motorist who found his life turned upside down when he collided with a drunk driver. Bryant Wilkerson was arrested and charged with a host of felonies, including manslaughter, while the teenage girl he collided with –…
Will J.T. be at the big debate Thursday? And more importantly, will he be in uniform? The call’s gone out from ex-KIA peddler Rusty Childress’ United for a Sovereign America, the most militant outfit of racist knuckledraggers in the Valley: Their old buddy state Rep. Russell Pearce, aka, Mr. Ethnic…
Bruce Starr at the Super Bowl. The image is from the Honduras radio personality’s February report on his trip in Honduras This Week Online. Let’s return to Honduras for a moment and check in with Sheriff’s office pal “Roatan Bruce” Starr, a radio-personality in the Bay Islands, Honduras who also…
By Jonathan McNamara You’re stuffed full of grilled meats and your clothes still smell like fireworks, but alas, the weekend has drawn to a close. Before you head back to the grind stone, take a gander at these weekend activities. Did you hit them all or did you miss out?…
Senator Jesse Helms, no-longer-living evidence that the good die young… The caustic sensation of hatred and bile inching up the back of my throat: It’s the same feeling I used to get as a teenager in North Carolina, as I watched Republican Senator Jesse Helms play the race card over…
By Jonathan McNamara In a move that’s sure to bring a smile to John Walsh’s trademark serious mug, the Peoria Police Department has gone Web 2.0 by posting its top-10 most-wanted criminals on its their Web site similar to America’s Most Wanted Dirty Dozen. Have you seen these people? The…
Blair Parker has escaped the 30-year minimum mandatory sentence his wife received last year for starving their three children on a strict “vegan” diet.
Buffalo Rick, just outside the Macehualli Work Center, nearby where he’s alleged to have taken an illegal public piss. Local anti-immigrant activist and alleged public urinator Buffalo Rick Galeener inched a tad closer to trial today on a March 8 incident in which Galeener stands accused of taking an al…
Whenever I have an immigration debate with my Chicano hermanos who support open borders and get angry at any type of immigration control, they don’t seem to understand the basic laws of economics, such as the fact that migrant workers who pick fruit, work in construction, and do other blue-collar…
Hugh Hallman and Sandra Day O’Connor are dancing. It is not exactly elegant — not yet. This is only their first rehearsal, and song-and-dance routines do not come together without sweat. And both Hallman and O’Connor are clearly sweating this. It is not every day that a guy gets to…
RAY OF HOPE Who else can they victimize?: New Times’ coverage of this latest public-records outrage by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his goons is full-of-irony great! As is the bravery of “140-pound” pit bull reporter Ray Stern. Sarah Fenske’s column got it right about Nazi-thug deputies who think…
MR. PITIFUL Why, The Bird’s never seen Sheriff Joe Arpaio lookin’ so used up and beat as he appeared at the Barnes & Noble in Surprise during a recent Saturday-afternoon book-signing for Joe’s Law, which was ripped a new one by the Taloned One’s stenographer the other day (“America’s Meanest…
By Paul Rubin Abigail Rose Minor was just 34 months old when–according to police, prosecutors and a trial jury–her father locked her into a tox box, where she suffocated after apparently struggling to free herself for minutes. The investigation into little Abbey’s horrific death became part of our 2006 series,…
By Ray Stern Gerald Richard, Democratic candidate for Maricopa County Attorney (pictured), today released a list of people endorsing him that included Paul Charlton, former U.S. Attorney in Arizona. Charlton was famously fired by the Bush Administration in 2006 along with several other top federal prosecutors in what appeared a…
Jeez, Joe, take a nap, will ya? You’re too old to keep up this pace… Ancient oldsters being wheeled around by their 70-year-old “children.” Blue-hairs lugging about their own oxygen tanks. A withered old crone with literally one tooth in her mouth, eager to get her book signed. The occasional…
By Ray Stern Blogs are buzzing about the Bush Administration’s faux pax in hiring scandal-plagued former NAU president Owen Cargol as the first chancellor of the American University in Iraq. According to this article on www.insidehighered.com, nobody appears to have performed a Google search on Cargol when he was hired…
