Ruling strictly on procedural grounds, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently dismissed a challenge to the federal government’s seizure of millions of dollars in assets belonging to longtime publishers and journalists Michael Lacey and Jim…
I quickly left a storage room attached to my garage thinking only one thought: How did a prepubescent Italian choir find my garage? When I ducked through the door, there was my cat, “Abu . . . the Abyssinian assassin”…
Libertarians have stones the size of Mount Rushmore when it comes to championing civil liberties, challenging police power and battling government overreach. Such subjects used to be the purview of true-blue liberals, but too often these days, social justice warrior-ing…
In the early morning hours of October 19, 2007, Michael Lacey, then-executive editor of the Village Voice Media chain of alternative newsweeklies, stood outside Maricopa County’s Fourth Avenue Jail, addressing a scrum of reporters as he hitched his belt through…
