How did Phoenix’s paper of record, the Arizona Republic, get so many things wrong about the Super Bowl/sex trafficking panic in its recent reporting on the topic? In the days leading up to Super Bowl LVII, the paper casually conflated…
If you think humanity is far from the days of burning witches and examining animal innards for omens, check out the Jan. 14 edition of cable news show Dan Abrams Live, in which veteran TV reporter Dan Abrams interviews former California…
Nothing quite makes the point about “fake news” like the MSM’s recent eruption over a crudely-crafted parody video showing President Trump on a bloody rampage against various media outlets and political enemies. Everyone from the president of the White House…
Cindy McCain, the widow of the late Arizona Senator John McCain and now board chair of the McCain Institute for International Leadership, recently claimed she’d intervened in a human-trafficking incident at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The Phoenix Police Department promptly…
Harder to kill than Jason Voorhees. More persistent than the Babadook. It is the lie that will not die, one that’s awakened each year at this time by activists, law enforcement, and the gullible journalists who hang on their every…
Calling b.s. on fake news stories that hype the nonexistent epidemic of sex trafficking may be like shooting fish in a barrel. But sometimes those scaly swimmers need to be shot. Take “Holiday shopping is prime time for human trafficking…
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 recent publication of a hyperbolic study that purported to show an “astronomical” level of demand for sex workers in the Hawaii was punctuated by an odd incident that prompted two law-enforcement agencies to investigate. On Friday, September 21, officers…
He came, he triggered, he tussled. So went Lucian Wintrich’s evening at the University of Connecticut on Tuesday, where campus cops handcuffed and arrested him after a melee broke out during a speech he was attempting to deliver. The UConn College Republicans…
Comedian and hoaxster extraordinaire Paul Horner earned international infamy for churning out fake news items on sites he created, including SuperOfficialNews.com, NationalReport.net, and NewsExaminer.net. Horner’s tall tales bamboozled so many people over the years that mainstream news outlets initially were reluctant…
