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...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...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

For the time being, the Know Nothing Party doesn't have the national stage.Hannity, O'Reilly, Coutler, et al are more concerned about a black preacher in Chicago, and Limbaugh's hysterical stab at Ohio election-tampering martyrdom.Besides, for the most part, America is more distressed about losing their jobs, homes and life savings.But down here in Arizona, broken borders are still a cause celebre. This is partly because the state is inhabited by more dumbasses per capita than it really...Read Full Story

Child psychologists almost uniformly agree it is not a good idea to heap rewards on children to make them behave. This never works, especially when the kid is a Tinsel Town Brat keeping Mom and Dad in the high life.However, our various governments have no problem taking away our money, and then doling it out in ways designed to make us behave.For the most part they use the Internal Revenue Code. For example, the Congress wants you to buy fuel efficient cars. So you used to be able to get a...Read Full Story

This week's Evil Twit heralds from Gilbert, Arizona.It is probably unfair, but when I think of Gilbert, Arizona, the image of the Beverly Hillbillies glued to the 700 Club comes to mind.As you may recall, the moral sensibilities of the Phoenix bedroom community have recently been shaken by Victoria's Secret posters at the mall, and an immoral cheerleading high school teacher.Cristina Mallon is a humanities teacher,and the cheerleading coach, at Williams Field High School in Gilbert, Arizona...Read Full Story

After successfully taking on a cheerleading teacher, a few of Gilbert, Arizona's more enlightened citizens have become emboldened. They are now targeting Victoria's Secret.The new SanTan Village mall opened in Gilbert last weekend.In the past in Gilbert, women's underwear has been sold from behind the counter, and came discreetly wrapped in brown paper bags. So the very fact they are joining every other mall in America in having a Victoria's Secret is rather bold.But the lingerie chain just...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...Read Full Story