Start Making Sense

March, 2009

ITS EASY TO PLAY TO THE NATIVIST CROWD. TO ADVOCATE FOR POLICIES THAT ARE GOOD FOR AMERICAF rained by red. white and blue balloons, Joe Arpaio, the incendiary 76-year-old sheriff of Arizona's Mari-copa County, leans into the podium as he speaks to a well-lubricated crowd at the annual Lincoln Day Republican dinner in Lake Havasu City, a Colorado River party town on a man-made lake in the Mojave Desert. Dressed this February evening in aviator glasses, a navy-blue suit and a bur­gundy tie with a...