Arizona National Guard sends truck unit to fire area
An Arizona National Guard cargo truck unit is shifting its summer training site to an armory in eastern Arizona so it can be readily available if needed for missions related with the Wallow fire.
Brewer in eastern Arizona for fire tour, meetings
Gov. Jan Brewer is in eastern Arizona for a second visit to the area of the Wallow fire.
Giffords story: A lesson in leaping to conclusions
The rapidly replicated false report that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had died after being shot in the head provided media outlets another lesson this weekend in the danger of leaping to conclusions.
Not the Common Sense News Network
Apparently, common sense isn’t required to be CNN’s senior political editor, as Mark Preston, the man who holds that title, fell hook, line and sinker for Joe Arpaio’s hype machine […]
Robo-polls cheap and untrustworthy
Robo-polls such as Rasmussen and SurveyUSA have proliferated because they are absolutely free to conduct. You throw a bunch of phone numbers into a database and have a large volume of robo-calls made over an IP telephone, and you can conduct the entire survey at virtually zero cost in three or four hours.