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  • The Castle is Cracking Says Bombadiko

    The Castle is Cracking Says Bombadiko

    Abbas Bombadiko warned the football aristocracy that the old map was burning. Now Brazil is gone, Egypt is gone, and Morocco stands alone as Africa’s last surviving World Cup flag. Norway’s 2-1 Round of 16 shocker over Brazil was more than an upset. It was a Viking raid on the sport’s sacred museum. Erling Haaland…

  • Empire State of Decay

    Empire State of Decay

    New York does not fall in one day. Neither did Rome. Civilizations decay first in the daily habits of public life, when laws become optional, authority becomes theatrical, and spectacle gets rewarded faster than responsibility. The Empire State Building stunt by Russian daredevils Angela Nikolau and Ivan Kuznetsov, also known as Vanya Beerkus, was sold…

  • Lions At The Gate: Bombadiko

    Lions At The Gate: Bombadiko

    Morocco is not asking for respect anymore. After beating Canada 3-0 in Houston and reaching the World Cup quarterfinals for the second straight tournament, the Atlas Lions have turned Abbas Bombadiko’s long warning into hard evidence. This is no fairy tale, no lucky run, no polite African football footnote. Morocco reached the 2022 semifinals, won…

  • Bombadiko’s Boys Have Arrived! ROAR!

    Bombadiko’s Boys Have Arrived! ROAR!

    African football is not knocking politely anymore. It is kicking the door off the hinges. Cape Verde dragged defending champion Argentina into an extra-time knife fight. Egypt marched into the Round of 16. Morocco, the Atlas Lions, just flattened Canada 3-0 and stormed into the World Cup quarterfinals. Abbas Bombadiko saw this coming: the old…

  • Eric Sanders Ducks His Record

    Eric Sanders Ducks His Record

    Eric Sanders finally responded to the reporting on his troubled record. He just did not answer the questions. The self-styled civil-rights lawyer representing Quathisha Epps in the Jeffrey Maddrey scandal attacked Richard Luthmann, one contributor to the article, while ducking the Mary Rocco pregnancy-discrimination and retaliation matter, the reported $175,000 award, the bankruptcy fight, civil…

  • Maddrey Accuser’s Lawyer Exposed

    Maddrey Accuser’s Lawyer Exposed

    The Jeffrey Maddrey scandal is not the clean NYPD morality play the media wants to sell. Former Lt. Quathisha Epps, the administrative officer who became the department’s highest-paid employee, sits under a massive overtime cloud while accusing Maddrey of coercion and retaliation. Her lawyer, Eric Sanders, is now driving the public narrative — but Sanders…

  • Morocco Owns The Moment: Bombadiko

    Morocco Owns The Moment: Bombadiko

    Morocco is no longer asking world football for permission. After stunning the Netherlands in a Round of 32 penalty shootout, the Atlas Lions are no longer the sentimental underdog, the beautiful tourist postcard, or the polite African side waiting for applause from FIFA’s old aristocracy. Morocco has become something harder, sharper, and more dangerous: a…

  • Cult Cop Comes For MAGA

    Cult Cop Comes For MAGA

    Steven Hassan built a career telling people they were trapped in cults. Frank Parlato says the problem is no longer Hassan’s opinion. The problem is that federal law enforcement has started treating Hassan’s theory like doctrine. In the OneTaste prosecution, Parlato argues, the government won a forced-labor conspiracy conviction without proving traditional forced labor —…

  • NYPD’s Two-Tier Justice

    NYPD’s Two-Tier Justice

    Outside the NYPD Community Center at 127 Penn, Brian Adams’ supporters sent a blunt message: hands off the community champion. But Adams’ firing has now become bigger than one civilian director, one time probe, or one department vehicle. It has opened a dangerous window into NYPD’s discipline machine, where Black civilian leadership appears to face…

  • Bombadiko: Morocco Gets No Respect

    Bombadiko: Morocco Gets No Respect

    Morocco has done everything the football establishment demanded — and still the respect does not come. The Atlas Lions battled Brazil to a 1-1 draw, beat Scotland 1-0, then fought back to defeat Haiti 4-2 and advance to the knockout round. That should end the argument. It won’t. The old football class keeps treating Morocco…

Richard Luthmann

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Modern Thomas Nast

Boss Tweed was just the beginning. Operating in the shadows to expose the shady.

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Rick LaRivière

“Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.”

—Susan L. Taylor

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Frankie Pressman

Frankie Pressman has many interests. None are WOKE.

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Dick LaFontaine

Veteran journalist Dick LaFontaine chases gripping, thorny, and precarious stories as a contributor to various publications.

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Greg Maresca
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Greg Maresca

Maresca is a longtime columnist and satirist who is a New York City native and a Marine Corps veteran living in Flyover, Pennsylvania.

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Matt “Sully” Sullivan

American patriot, believer in small-government federalism, warrior for judicial integrity, & advocate for a one-tiered, FAFO justice system.

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