Arizona Politics

For whom do the bells toll? In Phoenix they toll for the death of freedom —and the rise of whiny Americans , hypocrisy , and the ascendancy of the Nanny State . A Phoenix judge has ordered the bells of Christ the King Cathedral shut down, and sentenced Bishop Rick Painter to three years of probation, and a suspended ten day jail sentence for violating the Phoenix noise ordinance. Even though separate investigations found that the bells were no louder than a conversation or traffic noise—many...Read Full Story

I didn't vote for the guy, but I sure wish I had--- Paul Babeu , the newly elected Sheriff of Pinal County , Arizona . To our north, in Arizona's most populous area, Maricopa County , Nicklebag Joe Arpaio has morphed from being an Internationally Celebrated Blowhard into the most dangerous sheriff in America . Along with his toady partner in demagoguery, County Attorney Andrew Thomas , they are now running the county like a Banana Republic ---public officials who they disagree with are...Read Full Story

Santa Claus is not exactly a libertarian icon. How could he be? It's pretty obvious what the guy is all about. He dresses all in red, and every year gives away billions of dollars of stuff, manufactured in his workers' commune , using forced elf labor , located in an area that is in suspicious proximity to the old Soviet Union . And now St. Nick is joining with every other corporation in asking Congress for a bailout : But this week Santa did bring a small gift to libertarians , fiscal...Read Full Story

Politicians are constitutionally unable to admit they fucked up. So when things aren't working out all that well, they hem and haw, and quietly back away from their fuck up—all the time never acknowledging that they ever did fuck up. For the past five years Arizona has enjoyed one of the most vibrant economies in the nation. Taxes were rolling in, and they were used to fund all kinds of idiotic legislative projects. With pork so abundant the solons had no problem letting people like Sheriff...Read Full Story

Nicklebag Joe Arpaio was just glowing, as he stood beside his miniature pinture, Maricopa County District Attorney Andrew Thomas . The show was adorned with a huge flow chart of mug shots, all the dots connected through the intensive investigative work of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department . They were announcing the indictment of thirty-six persons resulting from an online gambling bust in Arizona last April: Sheriff Joe thinks the folks depicted in his flow chart are connected with the...Read Full Story