Sheriff Arpaio’s Most Ridiculous Moments of 2012 (Thus Far)

From an authoritative book review on a book he never actually read to backlash from a cockfight with Steven Seagal, it’s been a busy first six months of 2012 for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. With the Fourth of July upon us, it’s only right that we honor this self-anointed…

John McCain High-Fives Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexico’s President-Elect

See also: Arizonans Cast Ballots in Mexican Elections, from ArizonaU.S. Senator John McCain sent his congratulations via Twitter to Mexico’s president-elect, soap-opera-actress lover  Enrique Pena Nieto on a historic win bringing back to power the PRI, a once authoritarian political party, from a 12-year hiatus.According to preliminary results announced by Mexico’s…

Arizonans Cast Ballots in Mexican Elections, from Arizona

When Mexico’s Congress allowed its country’s citizens to vote from abroad for the first time in 2006, local immigrant-rights activist Carmen Cornejo leapt at the chance to cast her ballot for President Felipe Calderon.With the 2012 Mexican presidential elections scheduled for Sunday, Cornejo, a naturalized United States citizen born in…

Joe Arpaio Owned by the Infamous Duke St. Rollins

Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s the Rodney Dangerfield of Sand Land politics these days. He just don’t get no respect. Thing is, in his case, he deserves no respect, whereas Dangerfield’s self-pity was a shtick. People actually liked him. They despise Joe. At least those with half a brain or more.Because of this,…

Russell Pearce’s Rival Bob Worsley Scores Phoenix Chamber Endorsement

Things are not going well for disgraced, recalled former state Senate President Russell Pearce, the marble-mouthed Mesa mook who’s attempting a comeback with a Legislative District 25 run for state Senate.In spite of Pearce’s half-hearted claims of a “huge win” in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-3 decision on his baby,…

Jan Brewer Hysterical Over Homeland Security’s 287(g) Move

Governor Jan Brewer is in the throes of a full-on hissy fit in response to the news that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is yanking its 287(g) agreements with Arizona law enforcement agencies, supposedly in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision earlier today to uphold the “papers please” section…

Joe Arpaio’s Gulags on Lockdown for Candlelight Vigil

Yep, you read the headline right. Because a group of interfaith leaders and activists plan a candlelight vigil near Tent City on Saturday, June 23, starting at 8 p.m., “America’s toughest most cowardly sheriff” will be placing his vast incarceration complex on lockdown for the day, preventing inmates from receiving…

Joe Arpaio Hides as Randy Parraz and CBAers Pizza Party It Up

Randy Parraz and his merry band of activists from Citizens for a Better Arizona celebrated their success at Wednesday’s Maricopa County Board of Supervisors meeting with a pizza party…at Sheriff Joe’s place.By Joe’s place, I mean Arpaio’s executive suite of offices on the 19th Floor of the Wells Fargo Building…

Joe Arpaio Denied Birther Donations, Randy Parraz Blasts Andy Kunasek

Parraz skewers Kunasek like an Easter lambAll I’ve got to say is, “Wow.” Check out this YouTube video from Santiago James Chavez of Citizens for a Better Arizona’s Randy Parraz going mano-a-mano today with Maricopa County Supervisor Andrew Kunasek. This, over a proposal to accept donations to pay for Sheriff…

Ken Bennett Courts Ridicule with More Birther Nonsense

The fun begins around 6:55 inWhat in tarnation is wrong with Ken Bennett? Before he drank the birther Kool-Aid, then publicly spat it up, Arizona’s Secretary of State was regarded as a moderate Republican with a lick of common sense.But a month after the flap over Bennett’s asking the state of Hawaii to…

SB 1070 Decision: Why Local Talking Heads Don’t Know Squat

Anyone, and I mean anyone, who tells you with certainty the precise day that the U.S. Supreme Court will issue its opinion on Arizona’s breathing-while-brown statute Senate Bill 1070, is full of something that rhymes with the word “twit.”I wish I had a dime for every journo, TV talking head…

Joe Arpaio and MCSO Did Not Arrest a 6-Year-Old

Despite what you may have heard — and how Joe Arpaio-ish it sounds — Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies did not arrest a 6-year-old on Friday.MCSO spokesman Chris Hegstrom tells New Times deputies arrested 16 people during a human-smuggling operation, but the 6-year-old found in the van wasn’t one of them.”We’re…

Obama Blocks DREAMers’ Deportations, Outflanks GOP

Republicans are stumbling all over themselves to denounce President Barack Obama’s executive action today to block the deportation of students who would benefit from the proposed DREAM Act. And in doing so, they’re bumbling right into the trap the White House has laid for them. Obama’s move, initially announced with…