During a recent status conference in Phoenix’s federal court in the Lacey/Larkin case, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Rapp, the lead attorney for the government, made an assertion nearly as absurd as the poofy, Liberace-style hairdo that he regularly sports. As…
Federal prosecutors have failed, for now, in their most repugnant smear tactic to date in the case involving veteran journalists and onetime Backpage.com owners, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin. In a ruling issued May 7 from Phoenix’s federal court, Judge…
Unless you’ve been languishing in a vegetative state for the past week, you’ve likely seen Cindy McCain pimping her new memoir, Stronger: Courage, Hope and Humor in My Life with John McCain, in interviews with such outlets as The Washington…
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…
The Eternal City. Roman legions. Caesar. the Colosseum. The birthplace of Sophia Loren. And now President Biden is sending Cindy Lou Hensley McCain to Rome to solve world hunger. Cindy endorsed Biden, an old family friend, over Orange Julius in…
In a four-page ruling issued on April 5, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected a defense petition that the court order federal Judge Susan Brnovich’s recusal from the Lacey/Larkin case. Attorneys for award-winning newspaperman…
Riffing off an old chestnut, the inimitable Maggie McNeill once wrote that there are “lies, damn lies and sex trafficking statistics.” Now 60 Minutes+, a streaming version of the venerable news program, is helping to make McNeill’s point by highlighting…
It’s an oft-repeated refrain that journalists are supposed to comfort the afflicted, but The New York Times recently abandoned that principle in a March 18 article about the recent slayings of eight persons at three “Asian” spas in the Atlanta…
Many Democrats and progressives have so embraced cancel culture and illiberalism that one could be excused for thinking that the left currently has a lock on censorship. Whether it’s Pepe Le Pew getting the axe, Abraham Lincoln being jerked from…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) — which covers Manhattan and is arguably the most prestigious prosecutor’s office in the nation — recently got caught with its britches down, first trying to “bury” exculpatory…
