The federal government has alleged that because I once co-owned a classified website, Backpage.com, I “facilitated prostitution” and then laundered money when I bought a home. This charge is based upon classified ads posted by our readers. The FBI arrested…
Meghan McCain must be immune to irony, because her recent diatribe against President Trump from her perch as a panelist on the ABC gabfest The View was chock-full of it, yet she bloviated her way through it with no ill…
The Thanksgiving leftovers barely had time to cool before Major League Baseball’s commissioner quietly tiptoed into the national political fray. Two days later, Rob Manfred’s office was forced to very publicly scramble out of said swamp. On Friday, November 23,…
“We are like the French troops in Russia when the snow started falling. The difference is we have winter coats and better lawyers.” –Michael Lacey, Backpage defendant, veteran newspaperman, and First Amendment stalwart A federal judge in Phoenix has rejected…
Located a scant few miles south of the Wisconsin Dells theme-park mecca, the town of Baraboo takes its name from a river that meanders through the adjacent countryside. Prior to this past week, Baraboo’s chief claim to fame was its…
If you’re like most Americans, the holiday you most closely associate with the end of October is Halloween. Not so the purity-minded folks at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, who faithfully commemorate Pornography Awareness Week. And this year, the…
The FBI agent put a gun on me. He wore a flak jacket more appropriate to a raid on a terrorist’s bomb factory than on my suburban Phoenix home. He stood at the glass door to my office on the…
Maggie McNeill possesses an intellect as acerbic as a vat of hydrochloric acid. Watching as it devours the objects of her scorn is one of the great pleasures of reading her blog, The Honest Courtesan, which she takes to daily…
