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 of the grown up babies in the neighborhood felt like they were “captives in our own homes.” If ... 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 indicted , opposing newspaper editors arrested , and there is the ongoing investigation of the Arizona Attorney General (who it ... 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 conservatives , small business owners and Arizona taxpayers . The Arizona Court ... Read Full Story

Until fairly recently I don't think anyone but myself , a few of my degenerate friends, and a guy who calls himself Feathered Bastard , and writes for the Phoenix New Times , have been talking about Arizona State Representative Russell Pearce , and his close association with fascism . And by calling it "fascism," I am not engaging in the usual historically retarded hyperbole of muddleheaded leftists, who call anyone to the right of Ted Kennedy a fascist —believe it or not, from time to time, commentators on this blog, have called your favorite libertarian desert tomboy a “fascist.” No, this is the ... 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 Joe Arpaio , Arizona's version of Bull Connor , take the lead in formulating economic policy . So ... Read Full Story