The Other McCain

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

Internet Douchebag Patrol

Look, it’s not as if there were a shortage of actual news for me to blog about today. For example, my friend Shaun McCutcheon won a landmark Supreme Court decision today, and there’s all kinds of commentary about McCutcheon v. FEC. Here is a guy from Alabama who has bought me beers whose name is […]

Voodoo and Welfare: $2 Million Methamphetamine Bust in Florida

Florida: The Crazy State!™ LAKELAND — Nearly $2 million worth of methamphetamine was seized and 13 people arrested in what Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd is calling one of the biggest meth busts they’ve had in recent years. In a press conference Wednesday, Judd laid out the details of the bust, known as Operation Hoodoo Voodoo, […]

The Good Samaritan’s Pistol

Jazz Shaw at Hot Air highlighted this cheerful story Sunday: A gunman walked into a Dollar General store in Orrville, Alabama, and “began shouting and waving a gun around, herding customers and an employee into a back room.” But the story had a happy ending because a customer named Marlo Ellis is a concealed carry […]

‘Hundreds of Thousands of Deportable Aliens’ Released Under Obama Policy

This is truly outrageous: A review of internal ICE metrics for 2013 reveals that hundreds of thousands of deportable aliens who were identified in the interior of the country were released instead of removed under the administration’s sweeping “prosecutorial discretion” guidelines. In 2013, ICE reported 722,000 encounters with potentially deportable aliens, most of whom came […]

Immigration Horror Stories: How Do You Say ‘Rape Culture’ in Spanish?

Smugglers who don’t respect U.S. borders and U.S. laws also don’t respect the basic humanity of their Mexican victims: Faced with the prospect that they may be raped by their guides — also called ‘coyotes’ — or fellow travelers as they cross border and travel through the desert, women crossing illegally into the United States […]

Sexual Equality, Sexual Decadence: The Emerging Menace of Female Predators

Christy Smith had sex with a 15-year-old boy. “A jury has found a former Lancaster County teacher guilty of having sex with a 15-year-old student in 2008. “It took less than an hour for the jury to return with the verdict Wednesday against 35-year-old Christy Smith. “The jury convicted her of four counts including sexual […]

Perjurer … Pedophile … Lawsuit

What are the elements of a great news story? Well, President Clinton is a perjurer who lied under oath in the Paula Jones lawsuit. Billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein is reportedly a pedophile who had sex with underage prostitutes. And a lawsuit has brought out new details of the friendship between Clinton and Epstein: A new lawsuit […]

Hey, Stop Raping Fat Chicks!

Peter Paul Rubens, Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (1618) This public service announcement should not be necessary, but unfortunately there seems to be some confusion on the subject: Rape culture is prevalent, insidious, and normalized in our culture. . . Fat women face an extra special facet of rape culture though — the fact […]

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