The Other McCain

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

California Babylon: Teen Girls Lie About Sleepover, Caught Pole-Dancing in Bar

Welcome to the 21st century, where parents have more reasons than ever to worry about their kids: MODESTO — A Modesto bar could face fines and loss of its liquor license after police say they found underage pole dancers and drinkers along with other illegal activity at the establishment. Acting on complaints, police and officers […]

New Motherf–g Tone: Wisconsin Woman Arrested for Death Threats to Republicans

Who knew “civility” was a felony in Wisconsin? A 26-year-old woman was charged Thursday with two felony counts and two misdemeanor counts for allegedly making email threats against Wisconsin lawmakers during the height of the battle over Gov. Scott Walker’s budget-repair bill. Katherine R. Windels of Cross Plains was named in a criminal complaint filed […]

New York Times Tries Again

The first time the New York Times tried to report on the case of an 11-year-old girl gang-raped in Texas, they provoked a feminist firestorm because elements of their story appeared to blame the victim. Now they have tried again and (as even Echidne of the Snakes admits) managed to avoid the most egregious problems […]

‘Three 12-Year-Old French Girls Were Delivered to Him as a Birthday Present’

Because when you’re a hedge-fund billionaire, two 12-year-old French girls just wouldn’t be enough: It is proving difficult for hedge fund manager and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to avoid the glare of media scrutiny – British tabloids most recently cried foul over the shabby royal comportment of Prince Andrew in agreeing to be the […]

True Crime

During my two-day illness, in waking moments in between Nyquil-induced sleep, I watched re-runs of The First 48 on A&E. The “true crime” genre has been one of my favorites since childhood. Perhaps this reflects the influence of my mother, who was a big fan of TV detective dramas like Columbo and The Rockford Files. When […]

LT: Hall of Fame Sex Offender

  When this story first caught my attention last spring, I wrote: Wait a minute. You’re Lawrence Taylor, considered by many football commentators to be the greatest linebacker in the history of the game, and you’re meeting a pimp named Rasheed at a Holiday Inn to pay $300 for a hooker from the Bronx? Taylor […]

Stuff the NY Times Doesn’t Mention

Who promotes racism today? The freaking media, that’s who. It’s their tiptoe-around-unfortunate-facts attitude — this politically-correct worldview whose peculiar biases are never explicitly admitted, but which we must instead attempt to infer by occasional clues — that creates a distinct species of suspicion, because there’s this cone of silence surrounding things people know but can never say out […]

Nigerian Internet Scammers Now Impersonating FBI Director Mueller

Went to my e-mail spam box today looking to see if an important message had gotten misdirected, as sometimes happens. Among the spams I had received (from bbc2010@reagan.com) was this e-mail: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Counter-terrorism Division and Cyber Crime Division J. Edgar. Hoover Building Washington DC Attention: Beneficiary, Records show that […]

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