The Other McCain

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

Murder City, USA: Chicago Ends 2016 With Nearly 800 Homicides for Year

  The city’s gun-control laws are so effective: An argument between two men at an Uptown bar in the early hours of Jan. 1 ended with the two shooting at one another, leaving both dead. Their deaths ushered in the new year, marking the first and second homicides of 2017 and keeping up 2016’s pace […]

2016: The Year in Dog Sex

  Jesus Gutierrez, 39, lived with his 43-year-old girlfriend and her pet Maltese dog, Princess, in a New York City apartment. One day in April, when the girlfriend left for work, she set up a video camera to record what was going on in the apartment during her absence. She was certainly correct in suspecting […]

Another Hate Hoax?

A week before Election Day, there was a fire at a black church in Mississippi which was spray-painted with the words, “Vote Trump.” And now police have arrested a suspect who they say perpetrated this notorious crime — a black man who is a member of the congregation: Andrew McClinton, 45, of Leland, Mississippi, is […]

‘Male Feminist,’ a Predictable Breed

  You probably never heard of self-described “comedian” Mo Fathelbab, who has never done anything successfully, and you never would have heard of him had he not (a) started an “experimental” comedy club in New York, (b) created some kind of weird hoax feud with Trump supporters, and (c) date-raped a woman — allegedly, I […]

Notoriously Crazy Felon Barrett Brown Has Been Released From Federal Prison

September 2012: Barrett Brown calmly explains his intent to ‘destroy’ an FBI agent “You don’t need a lawyer, Barrett. You need a psychiatrist, or perhaps a priest to exorcise your demons. You are traveling a road to destruction, as harmful to yourself as to any of your chosen enemies. Get help.” — me, to Barrett […]

Rape Hoax at University of Alabama

  Feminists keep telling us college girls never lie about rape: A University of Alabama student who claimed to have been raped [Nov. 13] by two men was not attacked, authorities said [Nov. 18]. The student, 18-year-old Emma Mannion, made up the incident and now is under arrest, said Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Capt. Gary […]

#NotMyPresident Protests and Talk of Secession After Democrats Lose Election

  Yes, they call themselves the Democratic Party, but they don’t actually seem to believe in democracy, do they? The New York Times reports: Thousands of people across the country marched, shut down highways, burned effigies and shouted angry slogans on Wednesday night to protest the election of Donald J. Trump as president. The demonstrations, […]

$3,000,000: Federal Jury Punishes Rolling Stone for UVA Rape Hoax Story

Journalistic malpractice with “actual malice”: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A federal jury on Monday ordered Rolling Stone and one of its writers to pay $3 million in damages to a University of Virginia administrator over a discredited article two years ago about a supposed gang rape at the university. The jury in Charlottesville, Va., had already […]

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