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UP IN SMOKE Time to legalize: With regard to Ray Stern’s story about expensive bongs (“The Bong Show,” August 16), it was recently reported by the U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime that 12.6 percent of all Americans between the ages of 15 and 64 admitted to using pot at…

Dear Readers: It’s not just questions and racist rants that invade the Mexican’s mailbox — your feedback sneaks under my digital fence, tambin. Let’s start with Lean Like a K Street Chola, a gangbanger-turned-lobbyist who wrote in a couple of weeks back wondering how she could explain to quizzical pals…

Last spring, family and friends gathered at a service for Jana Van Voorhis, a 58-year-old Phoenix woman who recently had died at her home. The memorial took place outside at the Greenwood Memory Lawn and Mortuary on West Van Buren, where Jana’s mother, Mary Jane, had been laid to rest…

For Wesley Smith, author of Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder, the circumstances surrounding the death of Jana Van Voorhis provide a chilling example of a movement running amuck. “This is the secret that a lot of media has not reported much on,” says Smith,…

Sheriff Joe in Klansmen’s gear? Hey, if the sheet fits. That was the first thought this nutcracker had upon seeing the now-infamous Photoshopped pic of “Nickel Bag” Joe Arpaio in KKK garb about to lynch a Latino. The photo’s made the rounds of late under the slug, “cosas curiosas en…

As far as whoppers go, Congressman Ed Pastor’s explanation was right up there with “the check’s in the mail” and “I’ll call you tomorrow.” When asked earlier this month whether he was using his influence to raise money for his daughter’s Phoenix City Council campaign, the congressman shrugged. “I don’t…

I had a heated discussion in my vanpool with a couple of gringos in which they made a comment that immigration (both legal and illegal) needs to stop. I replied jokingly, “Then who will take our orders at McDonalds or work in the fields?” They had the nerve to tell…

BUS FOLLY A real “no-brainer”: Regarding buses . . . Let’s see, who were those other contractors bidding on the contracts (“Taken for a (Bus) Ride,” Sarah Fenske, August 9)? Where were the quotes from those contractors who felt “cheated” that they did not get the contract? The mayor did…

Aside from rumors of the dodo’s demise during his time spent writing last week’s cover story, “The Yoda of 9/11,” the most rib-ticklin’ this rooster’s received of late has been from observing Sand Land’s liberal elites fall over themselves to offer Zonies a tranny in every bog, a chick with…

After the tragic highway collapse in Minneapolis two weeks ago, Governor Janet Napolitano assigned the Arizona Department of Transportation to inspect every highway bridge in Arizona. Of course, there was no real worry, she said, but she wanted to make an “extra effort” to ensure our safety. Exactly seven days…

The glass glows dull red, like a campfire ember, above the gas torch. The young artist, sitting on a stool in front of a wooden bench with a metal top, works with confident, quick motions, creating a tube by fusing white glass sticks together around a one-inch-thick cylinder of graphite…