It should be ironic enough that the ADL chose to honor Sacha Baron Cohen, a comic infamous for exploiting anti-Semitic tropes, with the organization’s International Leadership Award at a recent summit on anti-Semitism and hate in New York City. However,…
An October 25 evidentiary hearing in Phoenix federal court before U.S. District Court Judge Susan Brnovich offered additional proof of the government’s bad faith in its prosecution of Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, the erstwhile owners of the online classifieds…
Like Athena springing fully formed from the head of Zeus, Titania McGrath, the “radical intersectionalist poet” leapt to life on Twitter sometime in April 2018 to become the satirical apotheosis of woke culture, the politically-correct tyranny of our age. Since…
In a 22-page order filed in federal court in Phoenix on October 24, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Brnovich denied a defense motion to dismiss the 100-count indictment in the Lacey and Larkin case. The judge found that, given the…
A powerful new defense motion in the ongoing criminal case involving longtime Phoenix newspapermen and former Backpage.com owners Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin contends that federal prosecutors poisoned the grand jury process, obtaining indictments against the two men and their…
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…
During a grueling, day-long evidentiary hearing on Oct. 3 at the Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Courthouse in downtown Phoenix, government witnesses testified that the FBI botched the seizure of the ex-listings behemoth, Backpage.com, by failing to maintain the databases on…
According to a September 15 article byWall Street Journal reporter Lalita Clozel, the U.S. government is targeting three websites that it claims now dominate the market for adult ads in America: Rubmaps.ch, EroticMonkey.ch and Eros.com, all of them located in…
Tucson-based director Juliana Piccillo’s engrossing new documentary Whores on Film wrapped long before the flashy, female-dominant crime drama Hustlers hit the screen. Still, the latter’s gangbuster box office success — which includes critics’ raves and a first weekend gross of…
With nary a black cat in sight, Friday, September 13 still proved unfortunate for government attorneys in the Lacey and Larkin case. During a pre-trial hearing in federal court in Phoenix, prosecutors sought to continue stonewalling defense counsel on access…
