Was Pol Pot unavailable? That’s the first thought that comes to mind upon learning that former Secretary of State and alleged “war criminal” Henry Kissinger will be a featured speaker at the McCain Institute’s 2021 Sedona Forum, the organization’s signature…
Seated on a royal blue couch in her $3 million home in Phoenix’s tony North Central Corridor during a recent interview with “CBS Sunday Morning,” Cindy Lou Hensley McCain might as well have been auditioning for the role of ambassador…
On Saturday, August 29, the Los Angeles Press Club honored video journalist Paul Detrick of Reason magazine for his brilliant, 2019 documentary, The War on Backpage.com Is a War on Sex Workers, awarding it second place for best investigative journalism…
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…
Since its founding in 2012, the McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University, has proved an endless font of hero-worship and hypocrisy, spewing forth a never-ending stream of bilge about the legacy of the politician whose name it…
Multimillionaire beer heiress Cindy McCain doesn’t have to work for a living, leaving her plenty of time to travel the world spreading misinformation and hysteria about human trafficking. The latest stop on Cindy’s Moral Panic Express? Salt Lake City, for…
Give Arizona’s brewski queen her due, Cindy McCain knows how to goose a yarn, even when the tale’s taller than the Philadephia ’76ers’ Serbian center Boban Marjanovic. During an interview with Washington Post reporter Roxanne Roberts for a glowing profile…
Mother McCain is loose again. And, in her own words, she is “rescuing toddlers.” Her word: toddlers. In Cindy McCain’s worldview, legions of men are molesting toddlers. At the airport terminal named for her husband, Warmonger International (a.k.a. Phoenix Sky…
There was Cindy Lou McCain inside the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix, draped over her husband’s casket. Her coifed head, a mother-of-pearl orb, rested, momentarily, upon the weeping box’s lid. My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar. The…
Meghan McCain seldom misses an opportunity to remind everyone who her father was, and when the co-host of ABC’s The View saw a chance to buff the family image during the January 15 episode of the popular daytime TV talk show, she…
