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 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…
Michael Lacey has spent his entire professional life in the newspaper business. With his business partner, Jim Larkin, Lacey cofounded Phoenix New Times during the Vietnam War. The two men would go on to build Village Voice Media, a chain of weeklies…
In light of the disappearance and increasingly apparent ghastly murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of a Saudi hit squad, will the McCain Institute for International Leadership cut its ties with Saudi Arabia and divest itself of…
Introduction: April 2018 — The FBI Seizes Backpage.com, and the McCains Rejoice Hours after news broke on April 6, 2018, that the FBI had seized the online listings giant Backpage.com and arrested seven current and former executives of the company,…
The mainstream media’s orgy of pious public bereavement for the late U.S. Sen. John McCain having culminated in the Arizona Republican’s September 2 internment at the U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery in Annapolis, it’s fair to ask: Why the unprecedented overkill?…
In an in-depth profile by Elizabeth Nolan Brown published this week on the website Reason.com, veteran newspaper publishers and former Backpage.com co-owners Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin spoke out candidly about their arrests on federal charges of money laundering, conspiracy,…
The Fourth Estate and the liberal elite in this country have yet to demand that John McCain’s grimacing mug be blasted into the side of Mount Rushmore. But give them time. Meanwhile, in response to negative comments uttered recently about…
Has anyone in modern U.S. history hyped their own demise like John McCain? The senior senator from Arizona has not been in Washington, D.C., since returning home to his Sedona ranch in December to fight a deadly form of brain…
