The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

#Gosnell Convicted: Quick Reactions

You probably have to remember the “Doonesbury” cartoon during the Watergate investigation to appreciate the headline here: GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! viralread.com/2013/05/13/ver… GOSNELL CONVICTED ON 3 MURDER COUNTS – via @viralread #tcot #prolife — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 13, 2013 CNN headline: Doctor found guilty of first-degree murder in Philadelphia abortion case Memeorandum thread, and […]

As a ‘Christofascist Godbag,’ I Need Some Civility Lessons From Melissa McEwan

Let me begin this response to Melissa McEwan by citing Ann Coulter, not because she is a woman — certainly not one of those “liberal women constantly talking about their vaginas suddenly pretending to be offended by the word ‘slut’” — but because Coulter dared to tell the truth about Max Cleland’s Vietnam war injuries. […]

Hope and Chains: #WarOnWomen Kidnapper Is Cuyahoga County Democrat

Amanda Berry (left); Ariel Castro (center); Gina DeJesus (right) “If any of the brothers were a Republican, this news would have been trumpeted by the mainstream media as tangible proof of the Republican War on Women — a narrative invented by Democrat strategists and maintained by the media in a successful effort to defeat Republican […]

Monsters Could Face Death Penalty in Cleveland ‘House of Horror’ Kidnappings

Legal expert Ace of Spades* has consulted his esteemed colleague Allahpundit, as well as a guy on Twitter and it looks like, if Ariel Castro and/or his brothers did what they are reported to have done — inducing abortions in their pregnant victims through beatings — they could be eligible for the death penalty. Alternatively, cops […]

Cleveland ‘House of Horror’ Neighbors Called 911; Police ‘Didn’t Take It Seriously’

Cleveland kidnap suspects Ariel Castro, 52, Onil Castro, 50, and Pedro Castro, 54 The first reports about the rescue of three Cleveland kidnap victims suggested that nobody in the West Side neighborhood ever saw anything out of the ordinary at 2207 Seymour Avenue. Wow "neighbors reported seeing naked women on leashes crawling on all fours […]

‘House of Horrors’: Kidnapped Sex Slaves Held in Chains by School Bus Driver

Amanda Berry (left); Ariel Castro (center); Gina DeJesus (right) Emerging details about what happened at 2207 Seymour Avenue in the West Side home of Cleveland kidnap suspect Ariel Castro: “I’m not the only one on the block that feels ashamed to know that we didn’t notice anything,” neighbor Juan Perez told Cleveland ABC-TV affiliate News […]

To Quote Inspector Harry Callahan …

“Well, I’m all broken up about that man’s rights.” Mississippi is set to execute a man Tuesday night without testing available DNA evidence from a hair sample in his case. ThinkProgress reported last week that a 5-4 court upheld the decision not to test the evidence, in spite of a prosecutor’s inconclusive logic linking the […]

Death by Heartbreak: TV Psychic Told Mom Her Missing Daughter Was Dead

The dramatic rescue of three missing women in Cleveland is all over the news this morning, but amid the joy that they have been found alive, there is a heartbreaking loss to be remembered: The cases of the missing Cleveland girls took heartbreaking turns over the years. In 2004, Amanda’s mother Louwana Miller went on […]

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