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Wardogs Season 2 Is Fun Again... Until Tier 4 Shows Up

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Politics

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 of signals from politicians, media figures, and movements that tells the unstable people at the...

October 30, 2026 0

Politics

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...

October 29, 2026

Law Enforcement

Frank Sloup Now: Still a Deputy, Still on Camera, Bigger Than Ever

The two most-read posts on this site, by a wide margin, are the ones I wrote about Frank Sloup in 2023. Readers land on them every day from Google,...

October 27, 2026 0

Sports

Three Games In, the Suns Are Worse, and the Box Scores Prove It

Three games into the season, the Phoenix Suns are 1-2, scoring 109.3 points a game and giving up 123.7. That is a point differential of minus-14.4, and it is...

October 27, 2026 0

Politics

Receipts Desk: A Shell Casing Is Not a Murder Case

October 26, 2026

Politics

Fan Appreciation Night: Portland Thanked Its Fans by Having Security Drag Them Out

October 24, 2026

Sports

Bad Again: The Blackhawks Are Selling Hope and Calling It a Plan

October 23, 2026

Politics

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

October 22, 2026

Politics

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

October 22, 2026

Sports

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

Some context before the confession. This site's owner also owns a fantasy basketball team...

October 22, 2026

Politics

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

Welcome to the Receipts Desk, where the numbers everyone is sharing get checked against...

October 22, 2026

Politics

A Red Carpet Is Not a Confession

George Grenchik, writing in the Northwest Indiana Times on October 4 in a column...

October 22, 2026

Politics

A Speed Limit in the Sky: The Starshield Story Is Not About Elon Musk

On the night of October 13, Ukrainian military terminals on the Starshield network picked...

October 22, 2026

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...

September 6, 2023 30

Law Enforcement

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...

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Politics

Receipts Desk: A Shell Casing Is Not a Murder Case

On October 26, 2026, Tucker Carlson released a nearly two hour interview with Matt Cubbler under the title "Murder, Drugs and Cover-Ups: Military Insider Exposes the Criminal Cartel Within the US Navy SEALs." The title is the verdict. The...

October 26, 2026 0

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SPD

SPD Raised Pay, Kinda | Servitude Update

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

September 1, 2022

Law Enforcement

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.

August 22, 2022

Law Enforcement

No Badge For You, Traitor!

I've been accused more than once of being an "apologist" for law enforcement, for...

August 20, 2022

Podcasts

Rick Bucher, Rural/Metro Firefighter on Cleared Hot

Rick Bucher was raised in Scottsdale, AZ, a Rural/Metro firefighter and elite cyclist who...

August 8, 2022

SPD

Chief Talk Breakdown – Jan 2022

Every month when the Chief releases his "Chief Talk" video I get a number...

February 17, 2022

Politics

Steve Gesell is Running for Office

I worked with and for Steve Gesell. Let me be as clear as I...

January 21, 2022

Law Enforcement

Frank Sloup Now: Still a Deputy, Still on Camera, Bigger Than Ever

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

October 27, 2026

Law Enforcement

997 French Police Injured in a Single Day of Riots

997. That's not a typo, and it's not a month. That's how many police officers...

October 21, 2026

Law Enforcement

NYPD Grand Central Machete Shooting: Why Deadly Force Was Justified

The NYPD body-camera footage from the Grand Central machete attack raises a blunt question:...

May 21, 2026

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Was Frank Sloup Fired?

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

September 6, 2023

Law Enforcement

Fridays With “Fired” Frank

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

April 25, 2023

Law Enforcement

Frank Sloup Now: Still a Deputy, Still on Camera, Bigger Than Ever

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

October 27, 2026

Law Enforcement

A Home for Wayward Cops

Two of my posts have garnered a lot of attention. Between Friday’s With “Fired”...

May 2, 2024

Law Enforcement

False Promises: The Possible Grift of a LE Non-Profit?

Grifted; grifts (transitive verb): to obtain (money or property) illicitly (as in a confidence...

April 27, 2023

Law Enforcement

Lack of Ethics on Display, Again – Carrie Candler

I'm hearing lots of stories and rumors coming out of Gilbert PD in regards...

May 14, 2019

Fitness

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, few have delved deeply into the case as I have over the years, scrutinizing publicly available documents. Even fewer understand the facts, so let’s begin by laying those out. The most...

August 8, 2024