Arizona’s Split Personality

On Tuesday, Arizona voters fired the Republican Party. Then, on the very same ballot, a few inches further down, they voted like conservatives. Both results are real. Both are blowouts in their own lanes. Anyone who reads only one half of this ballot understands...
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Two Rules. He Broke Both.

I have been voting since 1992 and paying close attention since long before that. What happened on Tuesday was...

Violent Populism Runs on Permission

Political violence in America rarely starts with the person who pulls the trigger. It starts earlier, and higher up, with the slow construction of a permission structure: the set...

Pat McAfee Needed FBI Snipers to Talk About Football

Pat McAfee talks about sports for a living. That is the whole job. And by his own account, here is how a sports talk host ends up needing FBI...

His Signature Is the Receipt: The Evidence Tying Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood

Strip away the campaign rhetoric from both sides and examine the documents, and a...

Dead Men Can’t Sue: The Business of Outing Lindsey Graham

On Tuesday, Cenk Uygur, founder of The Young Turks, teased a bombshell. His network...

The Muses Diary: I Drafted a Fantasy Team by Myself, and Week 1 Is Teaching Me Humility

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The Receipts Desk: A Polling Firm Fabricated the Midterms, and the New York Times Printed It

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Was Frank Sloup Fired?

A few months back I posted Friday’s With ‘Fired’ Frank after a number of my former colleague at Scottsdale and a couple of guys I knew at the Maricopa County’s Sheriff’s Office forwarded me the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office...

Fridays With “Fired” Frank

Someone will occasionally tell me something that is so ridiculous that it cannot possibly be true.  That's what happened this past weekend when a former coworker informed me that a police officer we used to work with at Scottsdale...

His Signature Is the Receipt: The Evidence Tying Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood

Strip away the campaign rhetoric from both sides and examine the documents, and a hard claim survives: Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has a paper trail connecting him to the Muslim Brotherhood. The evidence does not prove that he...

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Law Enforcement

SPD Raised Pay, Kinda | Servitude Update

The Scottsdale Police Department has announced a pay increase for their officers, but how will it really work?

Commitments, Reimbursements and Servitude

To stop the exodus of police officers from Scottsdale to other agencies, they are now fining those officers up to $4,685 for violating their "commitment" to the Chief.

No Badge For You, Traitor!

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Steve Gesell is Running for Office

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997 French Police Injured in a Single Day of Riots

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NYPD Grand Central Machete Shooting: Why Deadly Force Was Justified

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Was Frank Sloup Fired?

A few months back I posted Friday’s With ‘Fired’ Frank after a number of...

Fridays With “Fired” Frank

Someone will occasionally tell me something that is so ridiculous that it cannot possibly...

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The two most-read posts on this site, by a wide margin, are the ones...

A Home for Wayward Cops

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Lack of Ethics on Display, Again – Carrie Candler

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Former Mesa Officer Travis Gribble on PTS

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Google Fitbit Air Review: The $99 Screenless Tracker That Changes the Wearable Game

Google has done something the fitness tracker market hasn’t seen in years: a product that forces a real conversation. The Fitbit Air — launching May 26, 2026 at $99 — is a completely screenless biometric band designed to go head-to-head with WHOOP, and it does so without requiring a subscription to unlock its core functionality.

Exposing the Red Flags: China’s Swimmers and the Doping Debate

The Olympics and the doping allegations surrounding Chinese swimmers have sparked much debate. Yet,...
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Epic or Fraud

The smashing of the Men's 100m Freestyle World Record by Pan Zhanle of almost...

What Researchers Found After Studying 10 Million Marathon Finishers

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The Two Best Ways to Build Endurance as Fast as Possible

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Elden Ring: Hard, Rewarding, Great

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Arc Raiders – The Chillest Apocalyptic Party on PC

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