The Other McCain

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

‘I Know This All Sounds Crazy, But …’

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION The title quote is from Patterico’s post noting the one-year anniversary of his SWATting, as he was handcuffed and talking to police: I said something like this: “Look. This is a hoax. I think I know what’s going on here. I’m a blogger. I’m also a Deputy D.A., but I don’t […]

Criminal Insanity as a Career Qualification

A man who panhandles in New York while dressed as the Sesame Street character Elmo — occasionally erupting in obscene rants about “the international Jew” — was apprehended earlier this week and briefly institutionalized for psychiatric evaluation. Parents everywhere will be glad to know that Crazy Jew-Hating Panhandler Elmo has been released from custody and is […]

Obama Has Learned Nothing

“The slow-rising central horror of ‘Watergate’ is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something […]

Two French Female Police Officers Murdered by Adbdallah Boumezr

A 30-year-old North African immigrant is under arrest after French authorities say he confessed to shooting two policewomen, Alicia Champion and Audrey Berthaut. Bare Naked Islam offers this translation of a French news article: The policewomen were responding to a call about an Arab who had robbed a purse from a female neighbor. Abdallah . […]

Of Course, He’s Canadian

Police say that Canadian gay porn star Luka Magnotta murdered his Chinese lover, Lin Jun, dismembered the corpse and ate part of it, mailed parts of Lin’s body to Canada’s leading political parties, and posted video of his gruesome crime on the Internet. There is now an international manhunt for Magnotta, who is believed to have fled to — […]

ERICK ERICKSON GETS SWATTED

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION The news reached me by phone tonight, just as I was trying to get to sleep: Someone has targeted Red State’s Erick Erickson with the same dangerous hoax that had previously been used against Patterico. UPDATE: Erickson writes at Red State: Last week we spent a lot of time writing about […]

Brett Kimberlin’s Heiress Aunt Helping Fund His Tax-Exempt Harassment

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION Convicted felon Brett Kimberlin is the nephew of a wealthy Maryland woman who has contributed to a foundation that helped fund a 501(c)3 organization of which Kimberlin is the director. Kimberlin’s activities have recently attracted widespread attention because of his attempts to intimidate and harass bloggers who wrote about his criminal history. Harriet Crosby, 66, reportedly […]

Kimberlin v. Walker Hearing Scheduled: 8:30 a.m. Tuesday in Rockville, Maryland

When terrorist Brett Kimberlin was convicted of multiple felonies in 1981, he could have been sentenced to 230 years in federal prison. Convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin’s failed attempt to silence bloggers who tell the truth about Kimberlin’s criminality will be the subject of a court hearing Tuesday morning in Montgomery County, Maryland. Kimberlin, who in 1981 […]

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