With a mixture of gallows humor and outright defiance, veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin captivated the 100-plus libertarians who gathered in Phoenix on Friday, March 8, for the Reason Foundation’s annual Reason Weekend. Joining a panel at the…
It’s the hypocrisy, stupid. That’s what pundits from The Nation to the Washington Post fail to grasp about the onetime romance between former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and California Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris. Harris’s apologists would have…
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…
On January 8, 2019, in a court decision that could double as the film treatment for a remake of National Lampoon’s Animal House, a New York judge upheld Syracuse University’s suspension of ten members of the Theta Tau fraternity who had taken…
You can roll the silkscreens on those “Kamala in 2020” T-shirts now. The first-term U.S. senator from California made it official on January 21, 2019: She will seek the Democratic Party’s nomination for the presidency. The announcement was equal parts…
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…
Aiming to land a haymaker straight to the kisser of wanton indecency, a student group at the University of Notre Dame has called on university officials to institute a campus-wide Wi-Fi block on online porn. To make its case, the group,…
Come fire or flood (or wall), the federal government never seems to run out of money to throw at its war on sex workers. On Tuesday, January 8, 2019, President Donald Trump signed the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization…
No one ever accused Saudi Arabia’s ruthless rulers of possessing a sense of humor. So it should arch nary an eyebrow that they object to an episode of the comedy series Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj that’s critical of the kingdom’s notorious young…
